Governor State Bank of Pakistan, Reza Baqir, while talking to the media in the United Kingdom (UK) said that the increasing value of the dollar benefits overseas Pakistanis and we should not forget those who benefit from this increase.
“Rising dollar benefits some people and harms others. Overseas Pakistanis benefit because the money they send to their loved ones has more value. We should not forget those who benefit,” he said.
Twitter users were quick to react to his statement.
Pakistan lost the second warm-up match against South Africa on Monday after Hassan Ali could not defend 19 runs in the last over.
Pakistan had the upper hand, with South Africa needing 47 off the last three, but 18 and 22-run overs on either side of Shaheen Afridi’s 10-run 19th over proved costly.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan were put into bat and they made the most of the opportunity as they posted a sizeable total of 186 runs on the board after Fakhar hit five sixes and two fours on his way to 52 off 28 balls before retiring out as Pakistan managed to score 120 off their last 10 overs.
It looked like Pakistan were on a roll with the ball as well but then came a storm named Rassie van der Dussen, who single-handedly took the game away from them. In the end, South Africa ended up winning a thriller of a match on the final delivery by Hassan. Hassan’s expensive 52-4 spell was highly criticised by the fans.
On the other hand, Pakistan’s arch-rivals Indian cricket team comfortably beat Australia by nine wickets.
Pakistan and India are set to play on October 24.
Actor Ahsan Mohsin Ikram’s father and entrepreneur Mohsin Ikram has responded to social media trolls for inappropriate and personal questions regarding the women of his family. His son married Minal Khan in September 2021.
He clapped back to netizens on his official Instagram account.
Earlier this month he responded to a troll on his Instagram handle. The netizen commented that Minal’s sister Aiman Khan gifted the newly-weds free tickets to Turkey.
He also challenged him to come up with proof.
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Social media platform Facebook has reportedly planned to rebrand itself with a new name to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users, reported The Verge.
The announcement is likely to take place at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th.
“The metaverse is going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Facebook Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg told The Verge.
The Verge stated a possible name for the company could have something to do with Horizon. Recently, Facebook renamed its in-development Virtual Reality (VR) gaming platform named “Horizon” to “Horizon Worlds”.
Since July, Zuckerberg has been talking about the metaverse.
Earlier this week, the social media company also announced plans to create 10,000 jobs in Europe over the next five years to help build this metaverse.
Facebook isn’t the first tech company to change its company name as in 2015 Google entirely reorganized under a holding company called Alphabet.
Actor Mansha Pasha ringed in her 34th Birthday in Karachi and the pictures from the bash have went viral on social media.
The Laal Kabootar diva’s birthday was made special by her husband Jibran Nasir. Taking to his official Instagram handle he penned down a lovely birthday wish for his wife on her birthday. “Happy Birthday my love. To being young and growing old together. May you have a happy, healthy and successful year.”
The Mohabbat Tujhe Alvida star also thanked her fans and followers for the “wonderful” birthday wishes.
Fellow actress Zhalay Sarhadi also attended the event.
Let’s have a look on some of the pictures from Mansha’s birthday celebration.
Pakistan celebrated Eid Milad-un-Nabi on October 19 and Pakistani celebrities also took to their social media to wish their fans on this auspicious occasion.
Check out some of the posts of Pakistani celebrities:
“May Allah give us the courage, strength and ability to follow in the footsteps of our beloved prophet Muhammad ﷺ,” wrote Humayun Saeed on his Twitter account.
Alishba Mohsin has made history by becoming the first Pakistani female apprentice jockey at the age of 18. She participated in the Imtiaz Memorial Cup in Lahore and got the sixth position.
Alishba was trained by Mohammad Kamal in the Imtiaz Memorial Cup race.
The race was won by Zaman Sahib during Sunday’s (October 10) Lahore Winter Meeting action at the Racecourse Club.
Lahore Race Club chairman, Makhdum Syed Ahmad Mahmud, lauded Alishba for her participation in the race and awarded her with a cash prize of Rs 30,000.
The guests and the members gave the young girl a standing ovation for her amazing strength and effort.
Alishba joined the Lahore Race Club at the age of 13. She had to stop her participation due to her studies. The young jockey later rejoined the Race Club after four years and now she plans to become a professional jockey.
Netflix’s Squid Game is the talk of the town these days and there is one more thing about it which has grabbed the attention of people, especially Pakistanis and that is the Pakistani migrant Ali Abdul, originally played by Anupam Tripathi, based in South Korea is from Delhi, India.
Tripathi was born in New Delhi on November 2, 1988, where he played a slave in a stage production of Spartacus. From 2006 to 2010, Anupam engaged himself doing theatre in New Delhi itself. He started his training in singing and acting in the year 2006.
He actually wanted to join the National School of Drama in New Delhi. However, he then moved to South Korea in 2010 to be part of the Korea National University of Arts after he received the Arts Major Asian scholarship.
Although initially, he had to face a few difficulties adjusting to the cultural and language differences of South Korea, over time he learned Korean and even became fluent in the language in a span of 2 years.
The 32-year-old actor made his acting debut with the South Korean film Ode To My Father in 2014. And the movie happened to be the fourth highest-grossing film in the South Korean cinema ever.
He was also seen in numerous Korean TV shows and films such as Descendants of the Sun, Hospital Playlist and the last one before Squid Game was the 2021 film Space Sweepers.
The turning point in the career of Anupam Tripathi is certainly his appearance on Netflix’s biggest debut series.
Anupam, who was overwhelmed with the name and fame he has been receiving after playing Ali in the Korean series, took to his Instagram handle recently and shared his gratitude.
He wrote, “It feels like a dream “, No words to express my gratitude to the people all over the world, who all are loving and blessing Ali and Squidgame. Thank you to all. Keep watching and keep blessing.”
His mother and brothers are proud of his success but but Tripathi could not share his success with his father, who passed away in 2017.
Meanwhile, Tripathi will be completing his post graduation degree in acting at the Korea National University of Arts by 2021.
Squid Game which was released on September 17 on Netflix and has become the biggest original debut series on Netflix. It has recently achieved the feat of topping the list of Netflix’s Top 10 shows in 94 countries worldwide.
A-list actresses Minal Khan and Saboor Aly indulged in a fun banter over weight loss on social media. The friend duo shared each other’s weight loss plans and target. The Jalan star also expressed her concern on how will she eventually manage to lose 5 Kgs.
Both appeared together on Ahsan Khan’s chat show and revealed that they are very close as friends and trust each other with personal life’s information.
On the work front, Saboor is currently starring opposite Imran Abbas in ARY’s Amanat, whereas Minal was last seen in Ishq Hai opposite Danish Taimoor.
Ahsan Mohsin Ikram and Minal are off to another international destination after Maldives and Dubai.
Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari’s daughter, Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in a tweet earlier today.
“If the country was to be run by magic, then why is the money of this nation being wasted on such a large cabinet,” Imaan tweeted.
“The country is being ridiculed due to witchcraft and you don’t want people to talk about those who practice magic. This will not happen,” she added.
Shireen Mazari responded to her daughter’s tweet for criticising the government without any proof. “I am ashamed you would resort to such low personalised unsubstantiated attacks esp since as a lawyer u shd know without any proof hurling such accusations is defamation. When all substantive issue-based criticism fails this level of a base personal attack is plain shameful,” the minister tweeted.
Last week, Maryam Nawaz had also mentioned the use of “magic”.
“If your magic is so successful, then why don’t you use it for the good of the people?”