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  • Drugs awarded to Peshawar cops for good performance

    Drugs awarded to Peshawar cops for good performance

    The higher police officials in Peshawar have been alleged to have distributed drugs among the police constables as a gift for good performance.

    According to a recent newspaper clipping, the Peshawar police constables performed quite well over the past 6 months and managed to recover heavy amount of drugs from various places.

    So, in order to appreciate the raid team involved in recovering those drugs, the higher police officials distributed around “1-kilo drugs” (packets) to each of the raid team constables.

    However, CCPO (Capital City Police Officer) Karim Khan has directed SSP Coordination Sarfaraz Ali Shah to perform an inquiry on the matter and ordered a severe punishment for all those involved.

    Speaking on the matter SSP said, “we have visited all the areas specified in the news and have tried to gather evidence from people and police constables”, adding that we have not found any solid proof as of yet and the news seems fake.

    While talking on the morning show “Geo Pakistan” SSP Shah has requested the newspaper which published the story to provide any evidence (if they have any) on the matter and has asked them to help the authorities.

    “In case we found the news story to be fake or propaganda against the police, we will take strict action against the newspaper involved”, Shah added.

  • India irked by Pakistani writer of Bernie Sanders’ fiery Kashmir speech

    A Pakistani-American speechwriter Faiz Shakir, is said to be the author of Bernie Sanders’ fiery speech on Sunday, The Print has reported.

    Democratic presidential candidate for the US Elections 2020 Bernie Sanders in his speech expressed deep concerns over India’s “unacceptable” seizure of Kashmir and called the United States (US) to intervene for a peaceful resolution of the dispute.

    According to the reports, many believe that Bernie’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, is the one who actually wrote Sanders’ Kashmir speech.

    Born to Pakistani immigrants in the US, Shakir has been deeply immersed in the world of activism and has managed to cultivate several important connections in the Democratic Party.

    He went on to study at Harvard and Georgetown Universities, and over the past decade, Shakir has developed a stellar resume by working with some of the biggest Democratic legislators and top-notch think tanks and civil liberties advocacy groups.

    After completing his education at prolific institutions, Shakir began working as a legislative aide to former Florida governor, Bob Graham. He then went to work as a junior staffer in the 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign.

    Following Kerry’s campaign, Shakir joined the liberal think-tank and advocacy group Centre for American Progress (CAP) in 2005 and worked there as a policy advisor.

    Later that year, Shakir helped CAP launch a news website called ThinkProgress, and worked there as the website’s editor-in-chief between 2007 and 2012. He helped turn it into a platform that garnered a lot of acclaim for its reporting on climate change.

    After his stint at CAP and ThinkProgress, Shakir joined prominent Democratic legislator Nancy Pelosi’s team as the “director, new media”. Pelosi is currently the majority leader of the US House of Representatives (lower chamber).

    After his stint with Pelosi, Shakir went on to work with esteemed Democratic Senator Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader between 2007 and 2015.

    In 2016 when Shakir joined Sanders’ presidential campaign team, he drew a lot of anger from his former boss Podesta, who was then managing Clinton’s campaign.

    After Sanders failed to win the Democratic primaries, Shakir joined civil rights advocacy group American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as its political director.

    Over the past two years, ACLU has been at the helm of legal and political resistance against the United States President Donald Trump’s policies, especially the “Muslim immigration ban”. ACLU is a major advocacy group and has over 12,00,000 members and more than $100 million at its disposal.

    Following Trump’s immigration ban, ACLU helped raise $24 million and Shakir played a big part in it. ACLU had also filed a lawsuit against Trump’s executive order, which led to a temporary stay on Trump’s immigration ban.

  • Meet social media stars of Chohan’s TikTok video fame

    Meet social media stars of Chohan’s TikTok video fame

    A TikTok video of Punjab government’s spokesperson and ex-information minister Fayyazul Hasan Chohan went viral on social media, showing him and two girls laughing while asking him a question.

    Since then, people had been asking who the two girls were as the video was followed by their pictures with Pakistan Terheek-e-Insaf (PTI) stalwarts, including Jehangir Tareen, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and even Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan.

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    To address netizens’ curiosity, Hareem Shah and Sundal Khattak were invited by a private media outlet, speaking to which they shared how they were big fans of the PTI, how they had gone to meet Chohan for an official concern and then recorded the video.

    They also shared how they want to meet Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and record a TikTok video with him as well.

  • India sets up Hindu lord Ganesha’s military avatar amid tensions with Pakistan

    India sets up Hindu lord Ganesha’s military avatar amid tensions with Pakistan

    As tensions between Pakistan and India heighten following the latter’s revocation of Article 370 to rob occupied Kashmir of its autonomy, Hindu lord Ganesha has sported an army look on his birthday — Ganesha Chaturthi.

    Ganesha, a Hindu lord, is worshipped in the religion for several of his attributes, including the remover of obstacles. He is the patron of arts and sciences and the lord of intellect and wisdom. As the god of beginnings, he is honoured at the start of rites and ceremonies.

    With Hindu devotees time and again erecting mighty statues of Ganesha sporting various looks across India, one that shows him in an Indian army uniform and holding a gun has garnered immense attention.

    While the move appears to be an attempt to boost the morale of Indian soldiers amid cross-border tensions and skirmishes across the Line of Control (LoC), it has not been very well received by netizens.

    Statues of Ganesha donning cricket jerseys during the ICC World Cup or other important tournaments is also a common sight in India.

  • PCB appoints Misbah as head coach, Waqar as bowling coach

    PCB appoints Misbah as head coach, Waqar as bowling coach

    The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed Misbahul Haq as the head coach of the men’s national team while Waqar Younis has been given the responsibility of bowling coach.

    According to details, the governing body will issue a press release to formally announce the names of the selected candidates and media talks will be held afterward.

    Misbah had earlier stepped down from the PCB Cricket Committee after expressing interest in applying for the role of the national cricket team’s head coach.

    A five-member panel – comprising former captain Intikhab Alam, ex-international cricketer Bazid Khan, Board of Governors (BoG) member Asad Ali Khan, PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan and Director International Cricket Zakir Khan – had earlier interviewed the candidates.

  • Rana Sanaullah case: Shehryar Afridi backtracks on video claims

    Minister for Narcotics Control Shehryar Afridi has backtracked on his claims of having a video of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah’s arrest and the contraband recovered from his vehicle.

    Speaking to a private media outlet, Afridi said that a team of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) followed Sanaullah for three weeks and “were not making a movie [that they’d have a video] when they arrested Rana Sanaullah”.

    The statement comes as a shock to many since the minister had earlier claimed that ANF had sufficient evidence against the PML-N lawmaker.

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    But when asked about the video of the arrest, Afridi replied, “We have presented all the evidence and relevant details in the court”.

    The blunder isn’t the first of its kind, as previously, in a challan submitted before the court, ANF had claimed Sanaullah’s confession to involvement in drug smuggling.

    “I have been associated with drugs/narcotics smuggling for years. My expenditures swelled up soon after I entered into politics, but my income was not much. I developed links with drug smugglers after entering into politics, particularly after becoming Law Minister in the Punjab cabinet,” the PML-N leader was quoted as saying by the ANF.

    However, Sanaullah had denied all claims saying that he had not given any statement of confession to the ANF.

    “They took me to jail after arrest and not a single person spoke to me,” he had said.

  • British tourist bites a chicken seller in Morocco; video goes viral

    British tourist bites a chicken seller in Morocco; video goes viral

    A video of a British tourist harassing a chicken seller for keeping chickens in a cage has sparked outrage in Morocco.

    The tourist was caught on camera yelling and biting a chicken vendor in Morocco, sparking a debate about local customs and privileged tourists.

    The minute-long clip was taken in a marketplace in Tangier and shows a woman with a British accent surrounded by locals as they try to stop her breaking the seller’s cages with chickens in it. The woman launched a foul-mouthed rant while pushing and shoving at locals. After calling the locals illiterate, she climbed on top of the plastic chicken cage and tried to wrench it open, before biting a trader’s hand.

    In a second video, the woman tries to punch the chicken seller in the face before trying to grab at the cages again. She thrashes at anyone trying to stop her before the video cuts off.

    Following a lengthy struggle, she was eventually detained by the crowd and handed over to the police, who reportedly took her to a hospital to be treated for ‘hysteria’ rather than arrest her.

    The incident has caused outrage in Morocco, with some accusing the woman of a contemptuous attitude to the local culture.

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  • PIA announces 10% discount on defence day

    PIA announces 10% discount on defence day

    Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced a 10 percent discount on its tickets on the occasion of Defence Day. This concession will remain in effect for three days, from 6th to 9th September 2019.

    As per reports, the discounted fares will be available on all of its domestic routes. Moreover, the expats traveling to Pakistan from foreign countries can also avail this offer.

    However, it is not valid for travelers coming from Saudi Arabia.

  • Mohsin Abbas Haider expresses joy after Fatima Sohail files for khula

    Mohsin Abbas Haider expresses joy after Fatima Sohail files for khula

    After a long battle on social media, Fatima Sohail, the estranged wife of actor-singer Mohsin Abbas Haider has filed for khula in a family court in Lahore.

    According to reports, Fatima made her case on grounds of domestic abuse and infidelity. Fatima requested to the court to approve her plea for khula and issue a decree in the matter.

    Meanwhile, Mohsin took to social media to express his joy on this development.

    In an explosive account posted to social media on July 21 Fatema had come forward with accusations of cheating and domestic abuse against the actor-singer. Fatema alleged that in November 2018, she caught Mohsin cheating on her and when she confronted him, “instead of being embarrassed he started beating” her even though she was pregnant at that time. Luckily her child survived and Fatema said that she moved past the incident for the sake of her child. She continued that her childbirth was a complicated process but Mohsin never supported her and was instead, busy having an affair with an emerging model, Nazish Jahangir.

    On August 28, a lower court in Lahore found Mohsin guilty of threatening his wife.

  • ‘Nawaz, Zardari ready for plea bargain if Imran quits politics’

    ‘Nawaz, Zardari ready for plea bargain if Imran quits politics’

    Former jailed prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari are ready to strike a deal for their release on the condition that PM Imran Khan leaves politics, senior journalist Dr Moeed Pirzada has said.

    Sharing a “theory doing rounds in political quarters”, while hosting “Hard Talk Pakistan” television programme on a private media outlet Monday night, the journalist said that the two incarcerated leaders were ready to pay even more than $10 billion, but do not want to plead guilty.

    “They are seeking plea bargains and might pay up to $20 billion, but are not ready to confess. They’re ready to leave the country but want a future for their children in politics,” he said.

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    Rumours are rife for the past few days as several journalists claim an underhand deal allegedly being negotiated between political leaders jailed over corruption charges and the PM Imran-led government.

    No official statements have made headlines as of yet.