Meera Jee is on an Instagram and travelling spree and since this morning she has posted more than 30 videos and pictures from different countries including Maldives and USA on her Instagram. However, we still haven’t figured out where exactly she is.
While Meera’s marital status is still a mystery, just like her age, the actor was spotted vacationing with alleged husband Captain Naveed.
Meera and Captain Naveed in the Maldives
“I am here in Maldives at the Paradise Island Resort, see,” Meera says in the video below as she points towards the fresh, blue waters of the Indian Ocean.
“Lots of fun, beautiful weather and I am having so much fun,” Meera added.
In this video, Capt Naveed shares that the two will go swimming the serene ocean.
Meera even wished her beau a happy birthday with a video of him in the Maldives.
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“Happy birthday Nav,” she wrote under another picture of him.
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Meera also shared pictures of the two having a great time in New York with their friends.
Islamabad’s famous Monal Restaurant is built on military land in the Margalla Hills that the army now wants back, a Capital Development Authority (CDA) official has reportedly told a parliamentary committee.
According to Dawn, Dr Shahid Mahmood on Wednesday told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change that 15 years ago, the CDA “did not know it was building the restaurant on military grasslands until the army started claiming it”.
The committee was told that the 22,000 acres of land — that are now a part of the Margalla Hills National Park — were actually owned by the Punjab government.
Around 5,500 acres of the said land was allocated to the army, he said, although the exact year the allocation was made, was not stated. The CDA now owns 16,500 acres.
The latest survey conducted by the authority revealed that the land allotted to the army is right in the centre of the national park, and Monal has been built on it.
Monal Restaurant was built in 2005 and was a CDA property. The operation of the restaurant was leased for a 10 year period, Dr Mahmood told the committee, adding that the space was now being vacated and handed over to the army.
However, Committee Chairperson Munaza Hassan was more interested in finding out who had permitted the construction of a large restaurant inside the national park protected by the law to conserve its natural environment and wildlife.
Dr Mahmood said the CDA board at the time had permitted the restaurant’s construction, offering to share the board decision with the committee. He said several inquiries were undertaken to hold officials accountable for allowing the restaurant to be built, but none had been successful.
The committee chair then demanded that CDA shared information regarding the construction of Monal Restaurant on protected land.
Climate Change Joint Secretary Suleman Warraich said the government was unable to implement environment protection laws due to confusion over the demarcation of state land overlapping with private property. “Margalla Hills National Park was last mapped in the 1960s,” he said.
Billboards in the city are illegal and have been installed without permission, said Karachi Commissioner Iftikhar Shalwani, vowing to remove all of them across the city in 24 hours.
He said this in a meeting with the local government and local administrators.
The Supreme Court had passed an order to remove the billboards from all public properties last month. Despite the order the billboards have resurfaced in the city and the commissioner has ordered that they be removed as soon as possible.
Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda and Shehbaz Sharif’s daughter in law are exchanging responses on Twitter after the minister posted a picture of former premier Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz among others playing Roulette in a casino.
Faisal Vawda on Wednesday posted this picture on his Twitter handle and wrote, “Alhamdolilah with every scheme thrown at the govt by all champions IK stands out as a winner in exposing Sharifs politics. If it’s life & death for NS then why denying surety bonds. For criminals it’s MONEY FIRST. I thank PM for giving us a chance to expose them yet again”.
Replying to this tweet Zi Suleman Sharif from her Twitter handle wrote, “Faisal Vawda a pathetic cartoon himself, You are exposing yourselves not anyone — lagay raho”.
Game changer with looted money won’t let you gain respect. You were a beggar then and begging even now. Bhagoray jokers!!! C category k D grade loag. https://t.co/jVWwXZjXAH
Ladies an gentleman. @PTIofficial minister (office holder) language and way of talking. I am an ordinary citizen. But sadly only respectable people only know how to respect. Footnote: how vaila (free) this minister is https://t.co/ovkpVZwdE6
In the end, the minister wrote, “Don’t talk too much, ask your wanted family members to return stolen public money and submit surety bond, Where’s your husband Mr. TT??”.
Batain kam. Apnay bhagoray Ishtihari khandaan say kaho qaum k chori k paisay ka surety bond jama karwaye. Where’s your husband Mr. TT?? https://t.co/KvK6rzLBTd
Following the drama of a leaked video, Rabi Pirzada on Thursday released a video statement asserted that she has bid goodbye to the entertainment industry in order to focus on her religious obligations.
According to Geo News, the singer in a video statement apologised to her fans for her past behaviour and shared details of her new spiritual journey. The video is reportedly her first appearance since an explicit video of her went viral on social media a few weeks ago.
Clad in a black dress and a headscarf, Rabi said, “My mistakes are between myself and my Creator, the One who knows what is in the hearts of the people. He is the All-Forgiving and the Most Merciful.”
Throughout the video, released privately to the media, Pirzada quoted religious texts extensively and shared that she had found her true calling in religion.
“I realised that even after I run away from the world, I cannot run away from my Lord. That is when I realised that whenever a woman is dragged into the public debate, so many things go wrong,” Rabi said.
Talking about her leaked video, Pirzada revealed that soon after the video went viral, she was approached for films, television commercials, concerts and other private events. She detailed how people had ridiculed her and accused her of seeking cheap popularity.
“Some said it was a punishment for speaking against Modi or PM Imran,” Rabi said while crying. The singer broke into sobs more than once during the video.
At the same time, “a lot of women also offered to support and protect me, assuring me that no one would be able to raise a finger against me. These included those affiliated with #MeToo and #MeraJismMeriMarzi.”
Rabi also warned those who were sharing the leaked video saying that they would be apprehended.
“I think I have been given a new life, and the meaning of my life is now only religion,” she concluded.
The Faiz International Festival is in its 5th year and like previous years, celebrities are flocking to the event. The three-day festival will take place at Alhamra in Lahore.
Mahira Khan at the Faiz International Festival in 2016
The event will kick off on Friday with a performance by Ali Sethi and a play dedicated to Asma Jehangir by Ajoka Theatre. There will also be an exhibition of History and Contemporary Sikh Art as part of Guru Nanak’s 550th birth anniversary celebrations.
Celebrities like Mahira Khan, Ahsan Khan, Eman Suleman and Nimra Bucha will be part of sessions as will be journalists Hamid Mir, Nasim Zehra and Wusutullah Khan. Politicians like PTI’s Asad Umar and Yasmin Rashid and PPP’s Shazia Marri and Raza Rabbani will also be attending.
The sessions The Current is looking forward to are:
Stardom with Responsibility with Mahira Khan, Sarmat Khoosat and Mira Hashmi on Sunday at 3PM
Siyasi Pabandion Kay Door Mai Azad Sahafat with Hamid Mir, Nasim Zehra, Wusutullah Khan and Wajahat Masood on Saturday at 3 PM
Using Media to address Social Issues with Ahsan Khan, Roshanah Zafar and Seemi Raheel on Saturday at 1 PM
Pakistan: The Way Forward with Dr Yasmin Rashid, Raza Rabbani, Nafisa Shah, Dr. Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, Afrasiab Khattak and Dr Malik Baloch on Sunday at 2 PM
The sessions are all free except for Zia Mohyeddin, Ali Sethi, Adeel Hashmi and Farah Yasmeen’s performances.
The shocking news about a man from Rawalpindi raping and molesting 30 children left everyone stunned.
According to reports, the suspect, identified as Sohail Ayaz was arrested after a woman filed a case against him for kidnapping her 13-year-old son, drugging him and then raping him for four days. The man even recorded videos of the children and blackmailed to release them if they exposed him.
It is pertinent to mention here that the 46-year-old man is a chartered accountant by profession and worked at a government department in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to the police.
He has also been imprisoned for raping children in the United Kingdom and Italy. He was then deported from both the countries after he completed his prison sentences.
Among those who spoke up against the heinous act were actors Mehwish Hayat, Mansha Pasha and Sanam Saeed, who expressed their disgust on Twitter.
Mehwish called for a “shut down [of] all the networks and mafias exploiting our children in this way.”
Child abuse is the most heinous of crimes. Let’s use this arrest – horrific as it is – to shut down all the networks and mafias exploiting our children in this way. Perverts like this have no place in any civilised society @mohrpakistan@MOIofficialPkhttps://t.co/7Hd2tq9tpe
https://t.co/yJIDWdHKmz. May these families have the strength to testify against this man and get justice. We must provide counseling to the surviors. The whole lot must be caught,they roo must go through rehabilitation and counselling to get to the root cause of this illness.
They dont check luggage and blame passengers when a fire erupts leading to the death of so many. They didnt check their advisor’s criminal record leading to continued abuse and rape of so many young boys. Are they going to blame the boys and their parents now? https://t.co/p8SKhfXQ3e
Leading mobile phone manufacturing company Motorola released the first look of their upgraded and revamped iconic Motorola Razr and let’s just say, it flipped us.
The new Razr is an Android smartphone with a large touch screen that folds in half. It keeps the same general form factor but replaces the T9 keypad and a small LCD with a foldable plastic OLED panel. The screen measures 6.2 inches on the diagonal – about the same size as an iPhone 11 – and shuts to be about half as tall. Though it’s wider than the original, The Washington Post reports that the new Razr is, “impressively, just as thin.”
However, on the other hand, the Razr has a small battery at 2,510mAh and runs the older Android 9 Pie operating system on Qualcomm’s sub-flagship Snapdragon 710 chip. It lacks the 5G option and expansive memory of its rivals.
Nonetheless, the Razr will be the first device of its kind on the market. Samsung had previously introduced a flip phone, the Galaxy Fold but that had issues with air bubbles popping up beneath the display and tiny particles getting trapped under the screen. The device’s design chief Ruben Castano said that the Razr will have none of these issues.
Image Courtesy Bloomberg
The price of the phone will possibly make you do a double flip considering it is priced at $1,499.
The popular Motorola Razr smartphone, launched in 2004, went on to become an iconic device, even popularized by Hollywood, until the iPhone was launched in 2007.
Original vs New
Paris Hilton posing with her Motorola Razr
The new Motorola Razr will be available for pre-orders in the United States in December this year before retailing worldwide in January 2020.
At least 100 provincial lawmakers of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday submitted their resignations from standing committees of the Punjab Assembly to register their protest against non-acceptance of their demands.
According to sources, the PML-N lawmakers submitted their resignations to the secretariat of the provincial house for not appointing Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and not issuing production orders for jailed party leaders, including Khawaja Saad Rafique.
As many as 97 members of the standing committees out of 100 had on Wednesday submitted their resignations to the party leadership.
“It is a black day in the history of the Punjab Assembly when over a hundred members have tendered their resignations from the standing committees,” PML-N leader Malik Nadeem Kamran said.
He trained guns at the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for not issuing Hamza Shehbaz’s production orders and said that the government had backtracked on its promise of appointing Hamza as the PAC chairman.
“Now, the standing committees will not have any political or moral status for legislation and circumstances called for such extreme measures.”
A day earlier, an accountability court in Lahore extended Hamza’s judicial remand till November 28 in the assets beyond means case.
During the hearing, Presiding Judge Amjad Nazeer expressed resentment at the PML-N leader for not maintaining the decorum of the court and instructed him to come to the rostrum and stay quiet.
Hamza also exchanged harsh words with the judge and explained that the people interacting with him had come to the court on their own. “Next time, you will come straight to the rostrum,” the judge directed Hamza.
The defence counsel sought exemption from personal appearance for Shehbaz Sharif, saying he had to appear before the federal cabinet in Islamabad.
The salaries across Pakistan are expected to record a substantial decrease this year due to rising inflation and depreciation of the Pakistani rupee, according to a report released on Tuesday by mobility consultancy ECA International.
According to the details, the Salary Trend Report published by the group contends that the average real salary increase in Pakistan is expected to be negative, and employees will likely be worse off than they were last year. Lee Quane, Regional Director Asia at ECA International, has surmised these trends.
Lee explained, “The average real salary increase in Pakistan is forecast to be -3.0%, meaning that employees will be worse off than they were last year. Despite the nominal increase staying at a relatively high 10.0%, inflation has shot up as the rupee has depreciated.”
He also said that the Inflation in Pakistan is forecast to reach 13.0% in 2020, exceeding the nominal increase and leaving workers out of pocket compared to 2019.
However, the same is not true for other Asia-Pacific countries, especially neighbor and arch-rival India.
According to the report, India topped the table for average real salary increases in Asia, but now also tops the table globally for 2020. The average real salary increase is set to be 5.4% for workers in India, which is four times the rise expected in Hong Kong.
“Salaries in India are set to rise significantly, with the 5.4% increase almost four times as high as the expected increase in Hong Kong. Despite inflation rising slightly from 2019 and the economy slowing slightly, though workers can still expect more increases” said Quane.
Workers in China are set to see a real salary increase of 3.6% in 2020, while UK workers will receive a lower real salary increase in 2020 as compared to the previous year.
Overall, the global average salary increase stands at 1.4% and the Asia-Pacific average increase is 3.2%.
