Actor Fawad Khan, who captured Bollywood’s heart with his debut in ‘Khoobsurat’ (2014) and ‘Kapoor & Sons’ (2016), is finally making a highly-anticipated return to Indian cinema films after a break of eight years.
As per filmfare sources, Fawad has been cast alongside Vaani Kapoor in an upcoming project. The pre-production is complete while the shoot will start in London.
A 17-year-old Chinese badminton player died of a heart attack while playing during the Asian Badminton Tournament in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Zhang Zhi suddenly fell down in the middle of the match against Japan’s Kazuma Kawano last Sunday.
A video of the last moments of the player has emerged on social media. He was taken to the hospital after collapsing, where his death was confirmed. Zhang Zhi won many championships during his short career.
The bodies of a six-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother were recovered, along with their mother’s, from a drain near their home in Mauripur, Karachi.
The children were subjected to sexual assault before being killed, an investigation into the matter has revealed.
The bodies of the missing 25-year-old woman, her six-year-old daughter and two-year-old son were found in a drain close to their home in Sher Muhammad Village, Mauripur, on Saturday, June 29.
The father of the children, the complainant, told the police that his wife and two children went out of the home to meet Mehran Bibi for ‘religious and spiritual treatment’ on June 28 but disappeared for more than 24 hours and were found dead inside a drain.
Dawn’s Imtiaz Ali reported that Police Surgeon Summaiya Syed, after a post-mortem examination, ‘confirmed’ that both the minor girl and her brother were raped, adding that the girl was subjected to a ‘brutal’ sexual assault.
She also asserted that they had not ruled out the possibility of the mother being raped till the receipt of chemical reports, etc.
The police surgeon also ensured that it was not a natural death, but the exact cause of death had been reserved till receipt of reports.
However, DIG South Syed Asad Raza told Dawn that the case had been registered even though it appeared that the woman’s husband was not ‘interested’ in pursuing the murder case of his wife and children seriously.
He seemed ‘aware’ of something but was hiding it from the investigators. Thus, the police were interrogating him, his cousin and other relatives to get clues about the real culprits but so far, no one has been formally arrested.
A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, police said Wednesday, the second python killing in the province in a month.
Siriati, 36, had gone missing after she left her house Tuesday morning to buy medicine for her sick child, police said, prompting relatives to launch a search.
Her husband Adiansa, 30, found her slippers and pants on the ground about 500 metres (yards) from their house in Siteba village, South Sulawesi province.
“Shortly after that, he spotted a snake, about 10 metres from the path. The snake was still alive,” local police chief Idul, who like many Indonesians has one name, told AFP.
Village secretary Iyang told AFP that Adiansa became suspicious after he noticed the python’s “very large” belly. He called the villagers to help cut open its stomach, where they found her body.
Such incidents are considered extremely rare, but several people have been swallowed by pythons in recent years.
A woman was found dead last month inside the belly of a reticulated python in another district of South Sulawesi.
Last year residents in the province killed an eight-metre python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.
A 54-year-old woman was found dead in 2018 inside a seven-metre python in Southeast Sulawesi’s Muna town.
And the year before, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found being swallowed by a four-metre python at a palm oil plantation.
The wait is finally over. The talented duo from Mere Humsafar, Farhan Saeed and Hania Aamir, are reuniting on screen again, bringing back the magic of their unforgettable chemistry.
The duo are coming together for a thriller web series on Express TV, alongside Kinza Hashmi, directed Wajahat Rauf and written by Asma Nabeel.
Hania is currently starring in ‘Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum’ alongside Fahad Mustafa on ARY Digital, while Farhan Saeed’s last drama was ‘Jhok Sarkar’.
A case has been registered against a married man who pretended to be single to remarry at the request of his wife.
The second wife of the accused, Wajid Mansoor, filed a case at Sadiqabad police station in Rawalpindi, alleging that he is already married and the father of a daughter.
The suspect reportedly entered into a second marriage to pursue his vested interests through lies, fraud, and deception. Mansoor has also been accused of stealing sixteen tolas of gold from his second wife.
Self-exiled journalist Moeed Pirzada strongly criticised YouTuber Imran Riaz Khan for his silence on Moeed and other journalists’ alleged sufferings, saying, “People consider Imran Riaz very brave, but he didn’t even upload a single Vlog when fake cases were made against us.”
Wajahat S. Khan, who is currently in the United States, hosted a YouTube show named Gang of 4 Debate comprising Sabir Shakir, Moeed Pirzada, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Shahbaz Gill and himself. Gill pointed out that “Nobody in Pakistan spoke for us when cases were registered against us and the last time someone did it was by Pakistan Press Foundation in June 16, 2023.”
“I did more than 10 Vlogs for Imran Riaz, took Riaz’s case [when he disappeared] to then Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandial, gathered the media for him when nobody dared to speak; Imran Riaz was released before Eid because of me,” Pirzada exclaimed in a state of intense frustration.
Pirzada spoke vehemently against the “Pakistani Vloggers”, saying that he knew their reality.
In June 2023, Islamabad police filed sedition charges against two anchorpersons – Sabir Shakir and Moeed Pirzada – for their alleged involvement in May 9 violence incidents. While cases were filed against Wajahat Saeed Khan for “abetting mutiny” related to the same incident.
Meta Platforms have announced that they will lift its blanket ban on the word shaheed after a year-long review by its oversight board. The social media giant found out that its approach was “overboard”.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been criticised for years over its handling of content involving the Middle East. A 2021 study Meta itself commissioned said that its approach had an “adverse human rights impact” on Palestinians and other Arabic-speaking users of its services.
Those criticisms have escalated since October 7.
Meta funded the oversight board, but it works independently. It started its review last year because the word accounted for more content removals on the company’s platforms than any other single word or phrase.
Islamabad Police conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) overnight in the Sangjani area last night, recovering a significant amount of weapons and explosives, including hand grenades, a suicide jacket, and an AK-47 rifle, potentially thwarting a major terrorism incident ahead of Muharram processions.
An exchange of fire between the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and the suspects ended when they managed to flee the scene.
The area was quickly secured, and a comprehensive search operation is underway with increased personnel strength.
Authorities have initiated an FIR at the CTD police station, and special teams have been mobilised to track down the absconding suspects.
The federal government has established targets to reduce population growth as part of its five-year plan. According to sources, the goal is to decrease the annual population growth rate to 1.1 percent by 2030.
Sources within the Ministry of Planning indicate that the population growth rate was 2.55 percent according to the 2023 census. The new target aims to lower the total fertility rate to 2.2 percent by 2030.
In the fiscal year 2024, the total fertility rate was reported at 3.32 percent, as stated by Ministry of Planning sources.
Additionally, Ministry of Planning sources report that the adoption rate of modern contraceptive methods was 39.36 percent in fiscal year 2024. The target is to increase this rate to 60 percent by 2030.
It’s reported that 2.5 million intentional abortions in Pakistan annually result from the lack of adoption of modern contraceptive methods.
According to the 2023 census, Pakistan’s population reached 24,149,000. The Prime Minister approved the Ministry of Planning’s plan during the NEC meeting.