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  • WhatsApp bans 2.4 million Indian accounts due to violations

    WhatsApp bans 2.4 million Indian accounts due to violations

    WhatsApp banned 2.39 million Indian accounts in July, the most this year, according to a monthly report released by the Meta-owned popular instant messaging platform.

    Owing to the Asian country’s tighter IT legislation, huge internet platforms are required to produce compliance reports every month.

    According to Reuters, draft guidelines issued in June recommended establishing a panel to review user appeals and stated that major social media messaging platforms must allow identity of the primary creator of material if ordered to do so by courts.

    1.42 million accounts were “proactively blocked” before any reports from users.

    According to the social media platform, some accounts were blocked based on complaints received through the company’s grievances channel and the techniques and resources it utilises to detect such infractions. WhatsApp received a total of 574 complaints in July.

    The messaging app, which has previously been chastised for spreading false news and hate speech in India and throughout the world, deactivated 2.21 million accounts in India in June.

  • PM Khan informed about a serious rift in his cabinet

    PM Khan informed about a serious rift in his cabinet

    Serious disagreements between cabinet members have led to problems at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has been informed about the current rift, reports The News.

    Important facts were brought to light in Geo News Programme, ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’. According to reports, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum is worried about the interference of Asad Umar and Ali Zaidi.

    Asad Umar, Minister of Planning Commission and Special Initiatives heads the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCOE), and Ali Zaidi, Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs, is its member.

    Reportedly, Special Assistant to PM Khan Tabish Gauhar has lodged a complaint with the premier, pleading that the two cabinet members were interfering in the affairs of the Ministry of Energy.

    Sources say that Hammad and Tabish are in favour of using the full capacity of the existing terminals. However, they are being pressured in the cabinet to sign the Sui South gas pipeline agreement with the new terminals rather than the old Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals.

    Asad Umar gave a tough time to the Energy Ministry for arranging LNG at a higher cost and for the dry docking of the Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) at the Engro Terminal. 

    The decisions forced the country to face a gas-electricity crisis, subjected the government to the wrath of the Opposition, and triggered a backlash from the masses.

    In the CCOE meeting, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, along with Umar and Zaidi, objected to the delayed dry-docking from June 29 to July 5 and why it wasn’t done earlier in 2019. Tarin wanted an inquiry in this regard and ordered Railway Minister Azam Swati to lead the inquiry. Sources have revealed that Tabish was trying to put an end to the inquiry.

    However, Gauhar is currently not attending the CCOE meetings. Sources said that despite protests from Gauhar, the inquiry will go ahead since it is part of the written procedures of the CCOE and has been ratified by the federal government.

    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Case filed against organisers for partying at tourist destination Hunza
    
			
    Case filed against organisers for partying at tourist destination Hunza
    
			
    A case has been filed against the people who organised a music and dance event in Hunza’s Gojal for spreading obscenity, reports Samaa.
    

    The organisers were berated after videos and pictures of the event went viral.
    

    A youth organisation had filed a complaint against the organisers at the Gulmit police station on June 16. The complainants said that the event was held in Passu from June 12 to June 15. People from across the country attended it.
    

    They said that tourists used drugs during the event, adding that some women were seen in “inappropriate” clothes and that is against the traditions and norms of Hunza. The event organisers disrespected the culture of the region.
    

    A case has been registered against Farhan Bhatti and his friends under section 294 (obscene acts and songs) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Those convicted under the law can be sentenced to jail for a maximum of one year and carries a fine of Rs100,000.
    

    Following the controversial event, the district administration has decided to ban all music and cultural programmes in Hunza.
    

    Gilgit-Baltistan Tourism Minister Raja Nasir Ali Khan said that the government wants to bring more tourists to the region and promote its tourist industry.
    

    “We will provide them all kinds of assistance but tourists must respect the culture and traditions of the region.”
    

    Prior to this, a Canadian traveller Rosie Gabrielle, who has been exploring the northern areas of Pakistan, took to social media to call out the local tourists for ‘destroying Hunza’s beauty’ and ‘spreading vulgarity’ in the area.