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  • You will not believe how many hours Ayeza Khan sleeps

    You will not believe how many hours Ayeza Khan sleeps

    Not that we didn’t know but it is not easy being Ayeza Khan.

    Ayeza, who is blowing everyone away with her phenomenal performance as Mehwish in Meray Paas Tum Ho, is a recent Instagram post gave her fans an insight into what her daily routine looks like and we have to say we’re very impressed.

    The actor revealed that she wakes up at 7 am and gets her daughter Hoorain ready for school. After dropping her off to school, she comes home and wakes up her younger one Rayyan and feeds him before dropping him off at her mother’s house. She then has breakfast with her husband Danish Taimoor after which she leaves for work.

    Ayeza & Danish with their children

    Ayeza shared that she monitors her kids activities all day on the phone and even tries to go home in between shoots whenever she can. Her evenings are spent “feeding, bathing, choosing the princess or batman night-suit every night and listening to Hoorain’s bedtime stories.”

    The final part of her day is dedicated to a “dinner date with my favorite person [Danish]” before finally hitting the bed at 3 am.

    The next morning she’s up at 7 am again. How she manages to survive on only four hours of sleep is beyond us.

    Ending her note, Ayeza said that though the routine gets “difficult to manage,” the amount of love she has received from her fans “has made me the super woman and given me the power to work, to dream and to make all of you proud.”

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B4-tj6UBOhS/

    Meanwhile when a fan asked her how she manages to stay fit with such a tough routine, Ayeza replied,”Wait for the next post.”

  • VIDEO: Viral rendition of poem slammed as being too ‘elitist’

    VIDEO: Viral rendition of poem slammed as being too ‘elitist’

    A performance of a poem at the Faiz International Festival in 2019 has gone viral on social media.

    The poem, ‘Sarfarsohi Ki Tamanna’ by Bismil Azimabadi was performed by a woman to a charged audience and has been posted multiple times on Twitter. The words are patriotic, written by Azimabadi in 1921 as a war cry for freedom during the British Raj.

    The video went viral on social media

    The poem started trending on social media with the hastag #StudentSolidarityMarch, with students and activists mobilizing people to join the student march on November 29th.

    But not everyone was moved by the performance – or the people supporting its cause.

    Activist Gulalai Ismail, who fled the country first tweeted that “Cool log hain yar! Bas entertainment tak Mehdood kar dia hai inqilab ko,” and then deleted her tweet, clarifying that:

    Gulalai deleted the tweet (above), tweeting an apology later (below)

    Others also called the students “maraasis” and were defended.

    From maarasis to entertainment, the protesters were also seen as being elitist.

    Which led activist Ammar Ali Jan to tweet out in support for the students.

    For the older generation of activists, it was a reminder of their old and golden days. Senior Journalist Iftikhar Ahmad remembered protesting on the streets of Mall Road, Lahore.

    The Student Solidarity March is being held on November 29th.

    Follow The Current for its coverage of the events leading up to the Student Solidarity March, their demands and the March itself.

  • Indian police raids Amnesty International’s offices to quash reporting on Kashmir

    Indian police raids Amnesty International’s offices to quash reporting on Kashmir

    Indian officials have raided the offices of renowned human
    rights group Amnesty International (AI) on trumped up charges of foreign
    funding from the United Kingdom that violate local law, Geo News reported.

    According to the details, it is widely believed that the
    investigation into the funding sources of the respected human rights group is a
    pressure tactic being employed by the government of Indian Prime Minister (PM)
    Narendra Modi to stop the group from highlighting grave human rights violations
    in Indian held Kashmir (IoK).

    Reports revals that officials from the Central Bureau of
    Investigation (CBI) raided the offices of AI India in Bengaluru and New Delhi
    after direct complaints from the home affairs ministry. Amnesty was accused of
    the same offence last year.

    The Amnesty group in a statement said, “Over the past
    year, a pattern of harassment has emerged every time Amnesty International
    India stands up and speaks out against human rights violations in India”, referring
    to their campaigns for IoK. 

    Back in September, Amnesty International had launched the “LetKashmirSpeak”
    campaign and called on Indian PM Modi to lift the inhumane military curfew in held
    Kashmir that has crippled the lives of millions of Muslims since August.

    New Delhi had earlier revoked the constitutional autonomy of
    IoK on August 5 this year and imposed a military curfew in the area,
    imprisoning millions of people. Thousands of ordinary citizens were detained
    after the move.

    The detained included former chief ministers and the mayor
    of Srinagar. Widespread allegations of torture and abuse of these detainees by
    the Indian security forces were published by the international media in the
    following weeks, as India showed no signs of easing restrictions.

  • In Pictures: Animals walk the ramp at Rajan festival

    In Pictures: Animals walk the ramp at Rajan festival

    Horses and camels dancing on the music were the most interesting part of an animal festival in Rajanpur. 

    People from across the country took their animals to the festival and showed them off. Camels, sheep, horses, cows, buffaloes were seen walking the ramp with their owners as the crowd clapped and hooted for them cheerfully. It was a three-day festival that ended on Saturday.

    Communications Director Dr. Asif said
    that such festivals are an opportunity for people to show different breeds of
    domestic animals.

    While the owners said that they look forward to attending the festival and meeting up with people who love animals as much as them.

  • DG ISPR thanks Lala for praising his efforts for Pakistan

    DG ISPR thanks Lala for praising his efforts for Pakistan

    Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) took to social media to thank Shahid Khan Afridi aka lala for praising his efforts for Pakistan.

    In a recent interview with The Current, the interviewer asked Shahid Afridi ‘one word for DG ISPR’, to which lala replied “My relation with Asif Ghafoor is quite old and Asif bhai is doing a great job MashaAllah. He is a patriotic man. There should be people like him. And i think it is a good thing how he interacts with the public. I think it is a good thing”

    https://twitter.com/peaceforchange/status/1195043876467290112

    Watch the complete interview here:

  • Abrar ul Haq’s appointment as PRCS chairman suspended

    Abrar ul Haq’s appointment as PRCS chairman suspended

    The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suspended the notification which appointed Abrar ul Haq as the chairman of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

    According to reports, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah suspended the notification issued last week as he was hearing a petition filed by outgoing PRCS Chairman Dr Saeed Elahi against Haq’s appointment.

    Elahi was appointed as the PRCS chairman in 2014 by the PML-N government and granted an extension for another term in 2017. He was removed last week by President Alvi, who is the patron of PRCS.

    PTI officials reveal that Elahi was removed for openly criticising the government, adding that he had been accused of corruption and nepotism during his two tenures.

    Meanwhile, Elahi says that his removal was illegal because he had neither completed his tenure nor was there any logical reason to remove him from the position. Elahi explained that under the rules of PRCS, only the management body had the power to make appointments. He said that the chairman of PRCS can only be removed before the completion of the term if they submit their resignation to the president, adding that his removal was also in violation of the fundamental rights provided in the Constitution, according to which “no one can be condemned unheard”.

    He challenged Haq’s appointment in the court on November 16 on the grounds of conflict of interest and nepotism. Elahi asserted that Haq had a conflict of interest with the organisation as the singer-turned-politician not only runs a hospital and private college but also collects donations for his non-government organisation Sahara Trust.

    The court suspended the notification of Haq’s appointment and issued notices to President Arif Alvi, secretary cabinet division, secretary national health service and Haq, all of whom have been named as respondents, and demanded a written response. The hearing was adjourned until November 29.

  • Asad Umar returns to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cabinet

    Asad Umar returns to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cabinet

    Former federal minister for finance Asad Umar, who was sacked for poor performance, on Monday was re-inducted to Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s cabinet as the minister for planning, development and reforms.

    According to Special Assistant to the PM for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Khusro Bakhtiar was handed the petroleum portfolio instead, which was earlier held by Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan.

    “A notification, in this regard, will soon be issued,” she tweeted.

    In April this year, hours after Umar was shown the door, the former finance minister had said that he was removed by the premier because of his “performance” at the post in the last eight months.

    The ex-federal finance minister, who is a close aide of PM Imran, had also said that he wasn’t disappointed over the decision. “Since taking the job, I’ve worked my socks off, even my family says I’m burn out.”

    Umar had further said that as soon as he was told to leave his post his stress levels nose-dived. “You can’t imagined how relaxed I am right now.”

    On another query that if his stint as the finance minister would be deemed a failure, Umar had said he would leave that for time to decide. He was replaced by Adviser to the PM on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh.

  • ‘I am a dharna expert’: Prime minister belittles Fazl’s Azadi March

    ‘I am a dharna expert’: Prime minister belittles Fazl’s Azadi March

    Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Monday called himself a “dharna [sit-in] expert” as he boasted of his 126-day lockdown of the federal capital from 2014 and belittled that of Maulana Fazlur Rehman-led Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) which ended within two weeks.

    Addressing the groundbreaking of the Hazara Motorway Phase II in Havelian, the premier called JUI-F’s 14-day sit-in a “circus” and added that the protesters could not even stay for a month in the capital.

    He reiterated that would not spare “a single corrupt person” in the country no matter how they tried to “blackmail” the government and added that he “did not care about votes, but feared God and the hereafter”. “My message [to all my opponents] is that my God has trained me for challenges. I know how to win and how to face defeat. And I know how to stand back up after I have been defeated.”

    Warning opposition leaders against ganging up on him, the premier also trained guns at his political nemeses, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.

    While PM Imran said that Shehbaz was “trying to be Nelson Mandela” — former South African president and peace activist who spent 27 years in prison due to his political struggle — he also mimicked Bilawal in an attempt to troll the PPP chief for his rainwater gaffe.

    “When it rains, water pours down. When it rains more, more water pours down.”

    WATCH VIDEO:

    “Bilawal’s theory shocked even the most remarkable scientists like Einstein,” the premier said further and assereted that the PPP chairman claimed to be a liberal “but he was liberally corrupt”.

    BILAWAL STRIKES BACK:

    It wasn’t later that Bilawal reacted to PM Imran’s remarks in a tweet.

    He said that he was neither liberal nor corrupt or a hypocrite. “I am a visionary and progressionist who has been in politics for more than a year,” he said, adding that the premier was a 70-year-old who had been exercising “selected” politics for more than 20 years.

    “Imran Khan’s identity by U-turns, hypocrisy and being a puppet,” Bilawal wrote.

  • Asim Raza celebrates 100 days of ‘Parey Hut Love’ with BTS shots

    Asim Raza celebrates 100 days of ‘Parey Hut Love’ with BTS shots

    Asim Raza’s second film Parey Hut Love featuring Sheheryar Munawar, Maya Ali, Zara Noor Abbas and Ahmed Ali Butt in the lead has completed 100 days in the cinemas and is still running strong.

    To commemorate the occasion, Asim took to Instagram to share some of his “most favourite shots” from the shoots clicked by photographer Kuki.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B4_Jc9invdA/

    Parey Hut Love, which released on Eid ul Azha, was this year’s highest-grossing Pakistani film. Catch The Current‘s review of the film in this video:

  • ‘Imran’s best interests at heart,’ says Elahi amid Punjab chief ministership rumours

    ‘Imran’s best interests at heart,’ says Elahi amid Punjab chief ministership rumours

    Amid rumours that Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader and Punjab Assembly speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi “will soon be replacing Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar” as the provincial cheif executive, the former has clarified his statements that made headlines for criticising Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan.

    During an interview, Elahi had last week said that PM Imran should let former premier Nawaz Sharif fly out of the country since he was gravely ill. His remarks had come while the Imran-led government, before the Lahore High Court (LHC) ruling that allowed Nawaz to travel abroad, had decided to not let the former premier travel abroad without paying a whopping Rs7 billion in indemnity bonds.

    “Whatever I said about Nawaz was for Imran Khan’s own good,” Elahi said Monday as he clarified that no one could create a misunderstanding between his party and the government.

    Elahi also said that he had contacted Maulana Fazlur Rehman to save the country from descending into political chaos.

    He was part of the government’s negotiating committee that held talks with Fazl when the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief brought thousands of protesters to the H-9 venue in Islamabad and demanded PM Imran’s resignation.

    Though Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak was heading the committee, Elahi and his cousin, Chaudhry Shujaat, held talks with the JUI-F chief during the protest to present the government’s demands.