Cricketer Ahmad Shahzad recently indulged in a conversation with anchor Syed Yahya Hussaini on his show. When Yahya asked him that which actor does he wants to play his role in his biopic, the 30-year-old athlete replied that he wants Hollywood legend Brad Pitt to essay him on the big screen.
Following the good news, friends and fans extended their best wishes to Shahzad. Former Pakistan captains Shahid Afridi and Sarfaraz Ahmed congratulated Shahzad.
Eid Mubarak everyone! This Eid is all about having good food, but having food in large quantities can affect our health. To avoid getting sick this Eid, it is important to be mindful of what you are eating. Here are five tips you can follow to stay healthy on Eid.
Eat meat, but don’t overeat!
Eid is all about sharing feasts with your loved ones. Although there is nothing wrong with eating your favourite meat dishes, it is still crucial to keep your intake in check. Eating a lot can upset your stomach and you may regret being sick for the entire Eid holidays. On a day like Eid-ul-Azha, it can be a little frustrating to hold oneself back. After all, everyone is permitted to have cheat days. So, do not deprive yourself but rather indulge in a little bit of everything.
Add vegetables to your diet:
If you want to stay healthy during Eid-ul-Azha, then you should not restrict your diet to only proteins. Prepare stir-fried vegetables, grill or broil some alongside the meat. By consuming these wholesome vegetables with the meat, you will supply your body with the fiber it needs. Fiber also helps avoid heartburn and constipation.
Stay away from fried food:
During the Eid celebrations, you might be tempted to eat fried foods. As if eating meat is not enough, frying it makes it even heavier due to the added fat. Therefore, it is more difficult for your body to process it. So avoid fried food.
Avoid soft drinks:
Soft drinks are tempting, especially in this hot weather. Furthermore, we might not be aware of how much of the fattening soft drinks we actually consume because they are frequently served at Eid gatherings. Try replacing soft drinks with water.
Take a walk:
After eating, remember to take a walk. It is important to digest what you eat. Heavy meals require over six hours to digest. It would help if you walked regularly after every meal to make your immune system healthy and active.
These tips will help you stay healthy this Eid. In addition, don’t forget to share your food!
With Eid-ul-Azha tomorrow, Muslims all around the globe will be sacrificing animals to remember the practice of Prophet Ibrahim (A.S). Meat lovers usually crave meat but on Eid-ul-Azha, seeing meat all around diminishes the craving and sometimes, develops an urge to eat vegetarian food. Moreover, vegetarians also wonder what to eat on Eid. In this article, we will go over easy and delicious vegan food that you can make on this Eid.
1- Bhindi Pyaz (Okra or Ladyfinger)
Pakistani star vegan food, bhindi, can be prepared by stir-frying bhindi with onion, garlic, tomatoes and a few other everyday masala. Quantities of masala may vary depending on your taste in food. It is best served with chapati. You can also fry bhindi filled with chat masala and serve it to guests as an alternative to crispy meat.
2- Lobia ka Salan
Lobia ka salan is another Pakistani traditional food that is famous because of its fulfilling taste. It is prepared with Lobia in onion tomato gravy base and can be served in a bowl with chapati. It tastes equally well with boiled rice, which is a cherry on top.
3- Matar Pulao
Matar pulao is yet another famous dish among Pakistanis. It is prepared with rice, green peas and blend of other spices. It is usually served with sliced cucumber salad to add to its flavour. It is one of the best vegan food that could be served to vegetarian guests visiting your place.
4- Alo Kabab
When it comes to vegetarian food, it will not be fair to not mention aaloo kababs. Mashed potato mixed with sliced cauliflower, green capsicum and masala depending on your taste serves as best and quick dish that you can have at Eid. Its appetising smell and circular crispy shape can bring water to anyone’s mouth.
5- Mixed vegetables
Last but not the least, another vegetarian and gluten-free dish that you can eat during this meaty Eid is mixed sabzi. If you are a veggie lover, then it is a must try. It can give you plenty of vegetables in one dish. You can even purchase frozen mixed vegetable packs from any super market. There is no need to spend time on slicing different vegetables. All you need is to follow the instructions given on the pack and you are good to go.
We often get confused how to wish our loved ones on Eid, and don’t find the right words. Here are some heartfelt and cool Eid greetings and messages that you can share with your family and friends to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha.
Eid-ul-Azha Mubarak.
May the magic of this Eid bring more happiness in your life and may you enjoy it with all your close friends and may it fill your heart with surprises. Eid Mubarak!
May the plate of your life always be full of juicy kababs and tikas, loaded with delicious sauce. Happy Eid!
Be a reason someone smiles today. Eid Mubarak.
Best day of the year has arrived, it’s meat time, let your mouths be filled with juicy kababs today. Eid Mubarak!
Chaanp, Raan, Kababs, and Barbeque are here to announce Eid-ul-Azha. Adorn your most favourite attire and get ready to eat meat. Eid Mubarak!
May Allah accept all your sacrifices on the occasion of Bakra Eid and may Allah accept all your prayers. Happy Eid-ul-Azha!
May the sacrifice and abundance of food this Eid remind us to practice gratitude.
May Allah sends His blessings of our feast on every family with goodness, compassion, and tolerance.
Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif decided to resign from his position on May 27 due to the tough conditions set up by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reports Noor Aftab for The News.
“Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was not ready to fulfill conditions of the IMF that was mounting pressure on the government to increase prices of the petroleum products to an unprecedented level.”
It has been reported that at the time PM Shehbaz and the former finance minister Ishaq Dar were supporting the proposal to dissolve the National Assembly and hold fresh elections instead of accepting IMF’s demands.
However, later Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) realised that if PM Shehbaz resigned, it would be a loss for the PML-N. The party then decided that the coalition government would continue to work and they also needed a finance minister to deal with the economic issues.
Shahid Khaqan says Dar isn’t coming back
Former PM and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that Dar is not coming back to Pakistan “in the near future”.
“I don’t think former finance minister Ishaq Dar will return to Pakistan in near future. All decisions are taken by the party leadership in consultation with the senior party members”, said Shahid Khaqan, adding that Finance Minister Miftah Ismail would continue his work in the future as he has been doing exceptional work to restore Pakistan’s fractured economy.
Now, the development has sparked a debate that whether PML-N leaders are divided into two groups over the selection of a finance minister.
Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique showed his support to Dar while Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and Abbasi are in favour of Miftah Ismail.
برادرم اسحاق ڈار دور اندیش تجربہ کار معیشت قانون سازی اور گورننس امورکے ماھر نہایت دیانتدار قابل اور انتہائ محنتی شخصیت ھیں
انکے بغیر pmln کی ٹیم نامکمل ھے ھم انکی پاکستان واپسی کے شدت سے منتظر ھیں ڈار صاحب کی راھنمائ پیچیدہ حکومتی امور کے حل کیلئے تریاق ثابت ھو گی انشا اللّٰہ
— Khawaja Saad Rafique (@KhSaad_Rafique) July 6, 2022
Miftah Ismail’s knowledge of economics and the Pakistan economy is without parallel in Pakistan politics today. He is one of the most effective members of PM’s cabinet .He has played a crucial role in saving Pakistan from default and in implementing PMLN’s economic reform agenda.
— Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (@SKhaqanAbbasi) July 2, 2022
Meanwhile, according to The Express Tribune, Miftah said that though he has support from the federal cabinet and the PML-N, there are a few party members who are criticising and opposing him.
Morning show host Nida Yasir recently revealed her fitness on Good Morning Pakistan. The veteran presenter consumes a special vegetable soup on a regular basis to stay fit and lose weight.
The Nadaniyaan diva also responded to a netizen on Instagram in which she revealed her latest diet regime.
Nida also stated that when asked on Momina’s Mixed Plate that her complexion looked different as in old photos she did not use sunblock and had a lot of sun exposure.
She also never took care of skin and looks. Now, she has started taking care of herself and she has also taken glutathione injections which have improved her skin.
has commented in regards to some recent media coverage by various portals, she stated that her statements have been taken out of context.
The Nadaaniyaan diva commented under actor Muneeb Butt’s post who issued a clarification regarding a viral video.
The Kathputli star recently opened up about the ‘Formula 1’ parody video made by her husband Yasir Nawaz. Actors Junaid Khan and Hiba Bukhari appeared on the show to promote their forthcoming drama Berukhi, while discussing social media, Junaid asked Nida about her response to the parody video.
He also asked, ‘Yasir ko apne kuch kaha to nahi?” The Nadaniyaan diva revealed that more members of the family, including her own children were involved in the process and they helped him record the parody video which she wasn’t very happy about.
Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal was harassed by a group of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters on Friday when he went to a restaurant.
Video of the incident took social media by storm where a pro-PTI family could be seen hurling ‘chor chor’ at Iqbal.
Taking to Twitter, Iqbal wrote: “Today, a family — who apparently considered themselves elites and supported PTI — clashed with me.”
آج بھیرہ میکڈونلڈ میں ایک یوتھین فیملی سے مڈبھیڑ ہوئی جو بظاہر خود کو ایلیٹ سمجھتی ہے مگر مکالمہ کی بجائے جاہلوں کی طرح نعرہ بازی شروع کر دی۔جب یہ نعرہ بازی سے باز نہ آئی تو لوگوں نے بھی نعرے لگا دئیے “گوگی پیرنی کا حساب دو” جیسا جاہل اور پاگل خود ویسے ہی پیروکار پیدا کر رہا ہے۔
“Instead of holding a dialogue with me they started chanting slogans,” he wrote, adding that other people present at the restaurant also started chanting slogans against the PTI.
Criticising the PTI Chairman Imran Khan for instilling hatred, Iqbal wrote: “Just like their ignorant leader, his supporters are following suit.”
Responding to the video, PTI senior leader Fawad Chaudhry negated Iqbal’s claims that other people present at the restaurant chanted slogans against the PTI.
“Sir, in this video, only your disrespect could be seen. Stop lying,” he wrote on Twitter, advising Iqbal to “go in public wearing a burqa”.
سر ویڈیو میں تو صرف آپ کی بے عزتی نظر آئ ہے، آپ جھوٹ بولنا بند کریں اور لوگوں میں برقع پہن کر جایا کریں https://t.co/aEuXDcwdCh
Twitterati reacted to the incident and called out the pro-PTI family’s behaviour.
نفرت کی کوئی حد نہیں ہوتی۔ اس کلپ کو دیکھ کر بڑوں کے کردار پر حیرت نہیں ہوئی۔ یہ کمینی حرکت پہلی دفعہ نہیں ہوئی۔ البتہ کم عمر بچوں کو اس زلالت کا حصہ بنتے اور بناتے دیکھ کر بہت دکھ ہوا۔ نفرتوں کے سوداگروں کو مبارک۔ لیکن اس کی قیمت وہ بھی ادا کریں گے۔ https://t.co/4Ox6PM1UOY
What he has been subjected to in McDonald’s last night is outright harassment and breach of personal space. Being a woman doesn’t give us the pass to mistreat men just because we do not agree with them. Had he replied back in the same tone, this could have taken another turn.(3)
That McInquilabis video is so depressing: the family genuinely thought it was doing something radical. When really all they did was show to the world just how terribly far they’ve been from any kind of tameez. Dumb and badtehzeeb: the orcy nature of this one cult.
Twitter has decided to sue Elon Musk after he wrote a letter to the company saying that he wants to cancel his $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter.
In response to the letter by Musk’s lawyer, the chair of Twitter’s board, Bret Taylor, tweeted that the board is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon” with Musk and “plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”
The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
According to a letter by a lawyer on behalf of billionaire Elon Musk addressed to Twitter’s top legal officer on Friday, Musk notified the company that he wants to cancel his $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter.
“Mr Musk is terminating the merger agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that agreement, appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement, and is likely to suffer a Company Material Adverse Effect.”
He also claimed Twitter breached its obligations under the agreement to get Musk’s consent before changing its ordinary course of business, pointing to recent layoffs at the company.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, agreed to buy Twitter in April. Then in June, Twitter’s board of directors agreed on a $44 billion deal with Musk.
Two minor girls were allegedly raped in separate incidents in Rawalpindi areas, Naseerabad and Kallar Syedan. One of them is a seven-year-old girl.
The seven-year-old girl was playing with her brother on the rooftop of her house when a neighbour took her to his house where he raped her, the survivor’s father told the police.
According to the Investigating Officer (IO), after the incident, the girl was taken to the hospital where her condition worsened as a result of trauma.
A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered and the search for the suspect is underway.
In the second incident, a young girl was allegedly raped by a member of her own family who had come to stay at her house. Following the incident, her mother informed the police and a case was registered.
Eid is just around the corner and if you have not decided what to wear this Eid, you can take some inspiration from our politicians. While politicians are often busy with different things, some of them take their style very seriously and make sure to level up their dressing game before stepping out in public.
The Current has compiled a list of politicians who we think are great inspirations for your Eid look.
Maryam Nawaz
Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s looks at her son Junaid Safdar’s wedding were the talk of the town for an entire week. This one specific look of Maryam from 2020, when she met Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the All Parties Conference (APC), can be a perfect summer eid look. The shoes she is wearing are complimenting the solid green dress and will be heavy on our pockets, but similar copies of them are easily available in local markets.
Muhammad Jibran Nasir
You must be wondering why Jibran made our list of politicians? Well, Jibran is a politician and he contested the 2018 general elections from Karachi as an independent candidate. Jibran is usually seen wearing a simple Shalwar Kurta. However, his eid look from last year is a total inspiration. A black waistcoat paired with a white shalwar kameez, is the safest choice.
PPP’s Sharmila Faruqi always makes sure to put effort into the way she looks and because of her unique sense of style.
She recently posted a photo of herself from a Ramzan transmission, and her black embroidered dress is giving us all Eid vibes, and it can be a perfect option for your Eid.
Our favourite Usman Buzdar, former Chief Minister of Punjab’s look in Sindhi Ajrak is so stylish, it is making us want to advise him to choose modeling as an alternative career option. Pairing an Ajrak with a shalwar kurta of your choice will make you stand out on Eid. Our diloun Kay Wazir-e-Ala is a total style icon!
Hina Pervaiz Butt
PML-N’s Hina Pervaiz Butt is also a style icon in Punjab. They say orange is the new black, but we think green is the new orange, and we love this green minimalistic dress Hina is wearing. If you are looking to wear something simple with a touch of glitter, you can consider wearing something similar.
Sherry is elegantly flawless, and there is no doubt about it. She is often seen carrying a minimalistic look. This sky blue dress of hers, paired with silver ethnic earrings, can be a perfect choice for a summer Eid look.
Moonis Elahi:
When in doubt, wear black. If you are still not sure what to wear this Eid, you can take some style inspiration from PMLQ’S Moonis Elahi, and go for a black shalwar kurta.
Hina Rabbani Khar, is mostly seen in straight cuts and in plain clothes. Hina pairs her plain dresses almost always with pearl jewellery. As the temperature is going to be really high this Eid, you can go for a minimal look like Hina and can pair your solid colour Eid dress with statement pearl earrings.
Zartaj Gul
Pink, in any shade promises to brighten your day, and what better occasion to wear bright clothes other than Eid? PTI’s Zartaj Gul, who gives happy go lucky vibes, is often spotted wearing bright shades.
