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  • Filmmaker Jami says he was raped by an influential media tycoon

    Filmmaker Jami says he was raped by an influential media tycoon

    Renowned Pakistani filmmaker Jami has come forward to reveal that he was also a victim of a sex crime. In a series of posts on twitter, Jami revealed that he was raped by a dominant media tycoon 13 years ago.

    Jami wrote that he also told some of his close friends but no one took the incident seriously.

    The filmmaker said he spent six months in a hospital in Karachi for therapy and he also went abroad to get over the incident.

    Talking about a recent case of a college professor committing suicide on alleged claims of harassment, Jami wrote that one wrongful death did not mean all victims were fake and liars.

    The director even said that he knew the consequences of his revelations but it was very important for him to reveal his story since the legitimacy of the movement was being questioned.

  • Plastic eggs confiscated in Karachi by food authority

    Plastic eggs confiscated in Karachi by food authority

    Sindh Food Authority (SFA) conducted raid at a shop with police in Karachi after a family complained about the selling of artificial plastic eggs for food consumption.

    As per reports, SFA staff recovered two crates of the eggs allegedly
    made of plastic. Initial inspection suggests that the eggs recovered from the
    shop were made from a plastic material. The confiscated eggs have been sent to
    a laboratory for further tests.

    The authority’s staff
    has also recovered more than 100 crates of eggs from the supply van. Police
    have arrested four persons including two wholesalers and one retailer.

    According to police
    eggs were also kept in a truck along with genuine chicken eggs. The eggs were
    being supplied to Karachi from Gharo, arrested suspects told police in their
    statement.

  • Misbah announces T20 squad for Australia tour

    Misbah announces T20 squad for Australia tour

    Chief Selector and Head Coach Misbah-ul-Haq has announced the T20 squad for the cricket team’s upcoming tour to Australia.

    As per details, Musa Khan has been included in the T20I side along with uncapped middle-order batsman Khushdil Shah and wrist spinner Usman Qadir, and lanky fast bowler Mohammad Irfan made a comeback as well.

    Hasan Ali was ruled out of the tour due to back injury while Shaheen Shah Afridi named only for Tests after injury comeback.

    Here is a quick look at the T20 squad:

    T20 squad:

    Babar Azam (captain), Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Sohail, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Muhhamad Amir, Muhammad Hasnain, Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Rizwan, Musa Khan, Shadab Khan, Usman Qadir, and Wahab Riaz.

  • Gautam Gambhir helps Pakistani kid get Indian visa for treatment

    Gautam Gambhir helps Pakistani kid get Indian visa for treatment

    Cricketer-turned-politician, Gautam Gambhir of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has helped an ailing Pakistani minor get a visa for treatment in India, Times of India reported.

    According to reports, Gambhir wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs, requesting help for seven-year-old Omaima Ali with congenital heart disease.

    In a letter to the former cricketer, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that he had directed the Indian high commissioner in Islamabad to grant the necessary visa to the minor girl and her parents.

    Gambhir was quoted as saying that he had learnt about the girl’s condition through a phone call to his office by former Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Yousuf. Following this, the now lawmaker wrote to the ministry on October 1, seeking help for the child.

    “I have asked our high commissioner in Islamabad to issue appropriate visas to Omaima Ali and her parents,” the minister wrote back to Gambhir in his letter dated October 9.

    Sharing the letter on Twitter, Gambhir wrote a poetic tweet in Hindi, “A little heart knocked from the other side and the heart this side removed all the boundaries. A sweet breeze has wafted through with those little feet, it seems sometimes like a daughter has come home.”

    Meanwhile, Omaima’s maternal uncle from Karachi thanked Gautam and said that they would be travelling to India soon.

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    Best moments of the Royal Couple

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  • Azadi March: Govt’s move to seal twin cities to cost taxpayers over Rs3.3 million a day

    Azadi March: Govt’s move to seal twin cities to cost taxpayers over Rs3.3 million a day

    With the government planning to put in place hundreds of shipping containers to seal the twin cities and block the forthcoming long march of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), reports have revealed that the move will be costing taxpayers millions of rupees a day.

    JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has announced leading an anti-government long march to Islamabad via Rawalpindi with plans of a lockdown. While the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has invited opposition parties for a dialogue to call off the protest, it is also preparing for the worst.

    The capital will likely be sealed from October 31 onwards by either the police or the JUI-F as preparations on both sides for the Azadi March gain momentum. According to Dawn, the Islamabad police have demanded more than 550 shipping containers to intercept the march before it enters the city.

    The containers include 250 for City Zone and 100 each for Saddar, Industrial Area and Rural zones, while the logistics department of the police has ordered a vendor to arrange 450 containers.

    The Rawalpindi police, on the other hand, have prepared a contingency plan under which 120 freight containers will be used to seal the garrison city by blocking all roads leading to Islamabad.

    According to officials, each container being procured for both the cities, costs more than Rs5,000 a day to rent, which puts the total cost of 670 containers at Rs3.3 million (Rs3,350,000) a day.

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    Royals in Lahore – Chasing Kate

  • MAO College professor commits suicide over “false” harassment allegations

    MAO College professor commits suicide over “false” harassment allegations

    An English language
    professor at Government MAO College allegedly committed suicide after being
    accused of harassment by one of his female students.

    As per reports, Professor Afzal Mehmood took his life after his wife left him and the college administration did not issue a clearance certificate to him even after harassment allegations were proven false.

    Afzal left a suicide note
    in which he wrote that he had left the matter in the court of Allah and that he
    did not want the police to investigate his death and bother anybody over it.
    The professor reportedly died by consuming poison

    After legal proceedings,
    the police handed over the body to the deceased family without conducting a
    postmortem.

    A day before his death,
    the professor had written a letter to his senior colleague, Dr. Aaliyah Rehman,
    who was leading the committee that was inspecting the harassment charges.

    In his letter to Dr. Aaliyah, he complained that he had not been informed of the decision made by the committee in writing, even though he had been innocent of the charge. Afzal also expressed that the matter had damaged his image.

    https://twitter.com/DrMuneerHassan/status/1185540590068555776

    As per reports, a female student initially complained that Prof Afzal used to stare at girls. The student changed her statement during the inquiry and said that the professor used to deduct students’ marks because of low attendance.

    She revealed that after
    completing the inquiry, the student wrote in the report that Prof Afzal is
    innocent and false accusations were made against him. As a result, the report
    recommended a warning to be issued against the student.

    The student sent the
    letter to the principal three months ago. In the next step, the principal had
    to issue a clearance letter to Prof Afzal, in which it should be written that
    he is innocent and the allegations against him were false.

    MAO College Principal
    Farhan Ibadat responded that Prof Afzal never came to him, otherwise, he would
    have issued him the letter.

  • ‘If we were still together’: Reham speaks about ‘puppet’ Imran

    ‘If we were still together’: Reham speaks about ‘puppet’ Imran

    Reham Khan, former wife of Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, has once again managed to make headlines by saying that she would not have “let herself and Imran be a puppet had the two still been together”.

    Reham’s statement came as a reply to a follower’s tweet that said, “Had Reham been here, the government wouldn’t have seen such days.”

    PM’s former wife is rather infamous for her statements hitting out at PM Imran and his ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Twitter as well as her personal Youtube channel.

    Just last week, Reham had accused the premier of being involved in illegal transactions of foreign funds and “moral corruption for hiding accounts from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)”.