A man in Karachi was robbed after being hypnotised in Saadi Town area.
The victim’s brother said that the accused claimed that his card was stuck in the ATM, after which his brother put his card and password in the machine in front of him at his request.
The accused fraudulently took his brother’s ATM card and fled in a car.
The suspect is said to have withdrawn Rs 40,000 from the ATM on Jinnah Avenue, and blocked the brother’s card.
The mandatory minimum fee of 1.5 per cent that banks were required to charge merchants on financial transactions made with debit and credit cards has been eliminated by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), and financial institutions are now permitted to charge even less than that amount to encourage the use of digital banking.
According to a notification released on Friday, the central bank has kept the fee’s upper ceiling at 2.5 per cent.
Also, the SBP mandated that all online merchants and payment recipients in Pakistan begin taking card payments no later than June 30, 2023.
Before, petrol outlets stopped taking payments made with debit and credit cards and asked that the 1.5 per cent fee be eliminated.
The elimination of the minimal fee has long been demanded.
Eliminating the minimal fee is a good thing for digital transactions, according to experts. The State Bank’s plan to boost the use of digital cards includes this, as this decision would also improve the documentation of the economy and help decrease cash-based transactions.
Across the nation, there are about 45 million debit and credit cards. Nonetheless, the majority of cardholders use their cards to make ATM withdrawals. Just 5–10 per cent of POS users utilise cards.
Claim: Image shows an ATM machine broken and destroyed by PTI supporters, with money stolen by them from a Transact ATM in Islamabad
Fact: The image is from Chicago and was taken in 2020
On May 26, several Twitter users began sharing an image of a broken ATM with a Transact board, destroyed and money removed from the inside, claiming that this was done by PTI supporters who got violent while protesting in Islamabad.
Coupled with recent images of Islamabad burning and large unmanageable crowds of people attacking the police, this becomes a very believable image. Several PMLN senior leaders have been sharing this image as well.
However, with a Reverse Image search we discovered that this image has been posted online before. On the website of WTTW News, an article titled “Crain’s Headlines: Mag Mile Tax Proposal Fails”, the picture also clearly shows the name of labels, “Transact” and “7 Eleven”, which is a chain of Japanese convenience stores which has 11,800 stores in the US and none in Pakistan. Trans@ct is a mobile prepaid service offered by 7 Eleven.
This image couldn’t have possibly been from Pakistan and has been used out of context to imply that PTI supporters in Islamabad violently broke into an ATM and stole money, which even if they did, is definitely not proven by this image.
Verdict: FALSE
Former central information secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Ahmad Jawad on Sunday announced that he will file a lawsuit against the party for terminating his membership.
The ruling PTI had expelled Jawad from the party for “violating the party’s constitution” on social media and “slandering” senior leadership.
Talking to Geo News, Jawad said that his termination from the party’s membership is “illegal”, adding that, “PTI voters and workers have seen the true colours of Imran Khan now.”
The ex-PTI member said that in the last 74 years, “No one ha deceived the nation like PTI did, while overseas Pakistanis were used like Automated Teller Machines (ATM).”
Taking to his Twitter, Ahmad said, “Imran Niazi Sahib your assumption will be proved wrong. The nation will not be fooled again, your container role will never be successful again in this country.”
According to a statement issued by the PTI’s Standing Committee on Accountability and Discipline (SCAD) on January 12, a show-cause notice was served to Ahmad Jawad, asking him to explain his position within seven days of the receipt of the notice but the disgruntled leader did not respond to the notice.
” A House of garbage which started as an ideology of Change A deception which wasted two decades of this nation You can walk on toughest path with open eyes, but you will fall on a flat path with closed eyes,” tweeted Ahmad to the accusations written in the show-cause notice.
Sun Yaara actor Ghana Ali, who tied the knot with businessman Umair Gulzar, has responded to mean comments of a netizen who claimed that she married him for his wealth.
She mentioned that he is not a billionaire and that she didn’t marry him because of his wealth. The Dilruba star added that such speculation is fabricated and it affected their mental health.
She revealed his profession too.
On the work front, the Dilruba diva will be seen next in a Pak-Turk film, Gawah Rehna alongside Emmad Irfani.
A drunk thief in India’s Tamil Nadu got stuck behind an automated teller machine (ATM) while he was trying to steal money.
The police arrested the thief identified as Upendra Roy. The police first rescued the thief and then detained him.
As per reports, Roy in his drunk state, removed the plywood on the wall behind the ATM and managed to reach the back of the machine.
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Nearby residents informed the authorities when they heard strange sounds coming from the ATM. The police reached the spot and arrested the thief.
A woman received a misprinted currency note of Rs1,000 from an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in Karachi’s Landhi area on Saturday.
As per reports, the woman withdrew a note of Rs 1,000, which had two pictures of Quaid-e-Azam. However, the serial number was properly written on the note. The woman said that she was afraid to use that note as people might think that she was the one who prints fake notes.
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) spokesperson, in a statement, asked the woman to submit the misprinted note to the SBP.
He said that an inquiry is under way and strict action will be taken against the bank, if found guilty.
People are receiving an alleged message from the State Bank of Pakistan about restrictions on ATM cash withdrawals till the end of the month.
The peculiar message that you may receive from ‘8182’ or ‘8832’ will read: “Dear Customer, as per State Bank of Pakistan directions, ATM cash withdrawal limit is restricted to 1000 PKR ” till Jan 31.
However, the central bank has distanced itself from these messages. It said the decision to set withdrawal limit is taken by the banks, not the SBP.
Meanwhile, the SBP also sent a message to the banks, asking them to “send appropriately worded messages” to their consumers to curb the flow of misinformation.
In a the message to the banks, the SBP said that it has received “multiple reports…that customers are receiving messages with the context that SBP has put some kind of restrictions on ATM cash withdrawals”.
“The SBP has not given any such instructions to the financial institutions,” the statement clarified.
“In this regard, kindly make sure to send appropriately worded messages to your customers on urgent basis, reassuring them regarding this false spread of messages,” the SBP clarification read.
From wearing masks to cleaning hands with soap and water or sanitiser every hour, people are trying every possible way to protect themselves from falling sick amid the coronavirus outbreak.
With this leading to a shortage of sanitisers not just in Pakistan but also across the globe, videos showing rather desperate attempts by people to stay healthy in time of COVID-19, have started doing rounds over the internet.
One such video was recently shared by journalist Naila Inayat, who wrote, “When you think no one is watching you.”
The 32-second clip is a CCTV footage from March 27 of an ATM. The video shows a man taking out money from the machine. As soon as he puts the money in his pocket, he spots the bottle of hand sanitiser. Instead of pumping it in his hands, he puts the entire bottle inside his jacket and walks out of the vestibule.
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It, however, wasn’t the only video of its sort.
Here’s another video shared by a user on Facebook last week.
Meanwhile, similar videos have gone viral from across the border too.
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The Punjab police arrested four people, including a couple, for hacking into an ATM in Jhelum’s Dina.
According to reports, the police were able to arrest the suspects with the help of CCTV camera footage. A case has also been filed.
The hackers would use a skimming device to hack into the machine and record the data of people who came and used the ATM. Jhelum DPO Hamid Abid said the group put the device in the morning and took it out at night. He said “The Dina SHO searched for the group for several hours and then finally caught them red-handed when they came to remove the device at night.”
The suspects are reportedly from Lahore.