Former supermodel Zainab Qayyum, more popularly known as ZQ, took a dig at Samina Peerzada for asking an improper question about her father’s death experience and her show and how she felt about it.
Samina’s show, Rewind with Samina Peerzada is a web tv talk show in which she talks to celebrities about their struggles, journey and the challenges they faced. But more than her guests, Samina ends up being in the limelight for asking inappropriate questions which is why she has been a subject of many hilarious memes.
Responding to one of those memes, ZQ brought up her own experience on the show.
aap kay vaalid ki death hui toh kaisa feel kiya? royee? legit question she asked me on heart to heart with simi garewal oops with samina peerzada #Qasmay
Naimal Khawar, aka Mrs Hamza Ali Abbasi, savagely shut down trolls who criticised her marriage to Hamza Ali Abbasi.
Now that the wedding festivities are done and dusted, Naimal took to Twitter and thanked everyone for the good wishes before going on to say that she “would like to address a few things.”
Thank you so much everyone for the wonderful wishes and prayers for me and hamza as we embark on this new journey in our lives. Now that the wedding is over, I would like to address a few things
In a series of tweet, Naimal said that she is “consenting adult woman capable of making my own decisions,” and that she “left acting 9 months ago” and the decision to do that was entirely her’s.
Apart from this, Naimal also shared a lovely black and white picture of herself and her husband.
Marvel Studios has finally announced Ms Marvel. The studio’s first Muslim superhero will debut soon on the highly awaited streaming platform Disney+, which will launch internationally on November 12.
As per reports, the studio is developing Ms Marvel with Kamala Khan, the first Muslim-American superhero taking the lead to headline her own solo Marvel project. The project will be helmed by Bisha K. Ali.
In the comics, Kamala Khan is a Muslim, Pakistani American teenager from Jersey City who one day discovers that she has gained superpowers. She takes over the mantle of Ms. Marvel after Carol Danvers becomes Captain Marvel and works to keep her Jersey neighborhood safe.
Ms. Marvel series will also revolve around the life of the same teenager Kamala Khan who can stretch and change shape. The project is in early development and no timeline or cast has been set.
Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari has written to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore regarding the Priyanka Chopra controversy.
As per the details, Dr Mazari has asked Fore to remove the Indian actor as UN’s Goodwill Ambassador for Peace as she has “made a mockery of the title” by supporting the Modi government’s unlawful actions in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK), besides “supporting a nuclear war”.
Sent letter to UNICEF chief regarding UN Goodwill Ambassador for Peace Ms Chopra pic.twitter.com/PQ3vwYjTVz
Chopra had come under fire for her patronising and dismissive comments when asked by a Pakistani-American activist Ayesha Malik about her support for war with Pakistan.
The much-awaited second season of Netflix’s Sacred Games was
dropped on Indian Independence Day, and if you want us to save you some time…
we’re disappointed.
It isn’t easy to be divided between watching Ganesh Gaitonde
(Nawazuddin Siddiqui) back in action and sticking to the idea of shunning Indian
productions at a time when Pakistan and India aren’t the best of friends.
However, having watched the eight-episode series, we can
guarantee that you won’t miss out on anything as great as the first season, in
case you’re planning not to watch it.
Expanding beyond the novel by Vikram Chandra, the second season has left us disillusioned of Anurag Kashyap and co.’s ability to do wonders.
To quickly recap the first season, because Netflix won’t, Sacred Games is one drawn-out game of cat-and-mouse between notorious Mumbai gangster Gaitonde and his chosen police mark, Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan), trying to figure out the former’s dastardly (and as-yet-unknown) plans set in motion.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
The second picks up halfway through the 25 days left to save
Mumbai from uncertain calamity. Singh dives back into the investigation,
following a trail that points to nuclear weapons, terrorism and Gaitonde’s link
to Khanna Guruji (Pankaj Tripathi).
Gaitonde, still narrating to Singh but actually to us, calls Guruji his third father, to whom he and so many others are drawn like moths to a flame.
But, as one could’ve imagined (keeping in view flashbacks and
those mysterious mandalas from the first season), the ashram is actually a cult
and its leaders the liaisons between Gaitonde’s drug trade and the weapons
Singh suspects will be used to attack Mumbai over a decade later.
Just after the new twists are registered – and half the season is gone – one starts waiting for things to get as interesting as promised by cast members time and again. You start looking forward to something big enough for the season to beat its predecessor… and in all honesty, to make sense.
It isn’t later you realise that Sacred Games has successfully
pulled a Game of Thrones and disappointed you more than Gaitonde was upon realising
how Guruji deceived him as a pawn, for his own plans to create a “new world”.
All this remains the tip of a story lost somewhere between
juggling too many balls – crowing Singh as the hero, unnecessary exaggeration,
Pakistan being portrayed as the villain, gang wars, Soviet-Afghan War, 9/11 and
26/11 attacks and so much more.
Without spoiling the not-so-much a cliffhanger finale, it’s safe to say that both Gaitonde and the show might have lost the legacy which followers strived to honour after the first season (and we don’t really mind).
After India revoked Article 370 which granted special status to Indian occupied Kashmir, tensions between the two neighbouring countries reached an all-time high. Following that the Government of Pakistan announced that they will cut all ties with India effective immediately. Bollywood films have been banned in Pakistani cinemas for a while now.
Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor who has a wide fanbase in Pakistan and has shared the screen with Pakistan heartthrob Fawad Khan spoke at length about the unrest in the IoK and said that she is very disturbed with all that’s happening.
Talking to the BBC Asian Network, Kapoor said, “It’s heartbreaking to see where the situation has landed right now but I’m very patriotic. So I think for me now it’s better to keep quiet and let this pass because even this too should pass. Our countries were one country like 70 years ago and the fact that there is so much divisive politics at play is really heartbreaking.”
Sonam continued that she is very upset about the ban on Bollywood in Pakistan because “as an artist, you want to be represented everywhere and you want your work to be shown everywhere,” adding that she was heartbroken when her film Neerja wasn’t allowed to be screened in Pakistan.
“I have a huge Pakistani following and my two best friends are Muslims and half Pakistanis,” Sonam said.
On her thoughts on the Kashmir conflict, Sonam remarked, “I think it’s very complicated and I don’t understand it as much because there is so much contrasting news everywhere so I don’t really know what the truth is.”
“I
believe in having a peaceful discourse and understanding what’s going on. So
when I have the complete information is when I think I can give an opinion.”
The Kapoors have been very open about their roots on this side of the border.
“I am half Sindhi and half Peshawari. It’s heartbreaking to see that part of my culture is something that I can’t explore as well because of that,” Sonam said.
The Kashmir situation on the Indian-administered side continues to divide people, including in Bollywood.
Actress Sonam Kapoor has been speaking to us about it and says it’s upsetting because of her family’s links to the region. pic.twitter.com/Uz5Leujiaz
Sonam shared that her parents named her when they visited the valley and that she hopes peace would return to the picturesque valley soon so she can also go and visit it one day.
“I hope there is a peaceful way of working things out. I don’t know how that’s possible but I think there should be because it’s a beautiful place but I think it’s been under so much duress and I don’t think anybody knows who’s right now,” Sonam finished.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson recently made a Pakistani fan’s day.
Ali Faraz had tweeted to Johnson praising his new movie Hobbs and Shaw and guess what? Wrestler turned actor Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock replied to his tweet and thanked him for the love.
Wow – this is huge / thank you Pakistan for the love and enjoy @HobbsAndShaw
Hobbs & Shaw‘s revolves around sworn enemies Hobbs (Johnson), a US Diplomatic Security Service agent and ex-British military operative Shaw (Jason Statham) being forced to partner up to fight Brixton, a rebel played by Idris Elba.
Nasir Khan Jan is not only famous for his video content and unabashed style but also how he takes criticism and negative comments. Nasir Khan Jan has lately started becoming active on Twitter and has been winning hearts with his tweets. He proved that he has a strong tweet game when he clapped back at model Rabia Butt after she attempted to troll him.
Nisar Khan Jan recently posted a picture of himself on Twitter with the caption “Cheat your boyfriend and propose me”.
To which NKJ responded, “Log naam kama gaye mujhe badnaam kartay kartay.” Following NKJ’s tweet, Rabia played it safe and tweeted:
Tum nei kuch din pehlay Twitter par kaha tha kei hum dost hein, so I just cracked a joke using that liberty. infact what I meant was, you are such a hot shot that girls and boys both are wooed by you and want to spend their life with you Yeh dunia to nadaan hai* https://t.co/IsU3jSOsuG
Rabia’s comments didn’t sit well with NKJ’s fans who started schooling Rabia. To them, the model tweeted:
O thali kei baingano kal tak to tum log galian deitay thay nasir ko,aaj woh tum logon ka qibla ban gya hai.Wah bhayi girgat bhi tum logon sei classes Laina chahta hai.Keisay kar leitay ho yeh sab? Simple sa rule hai, if you can’t take the joke then don’t do it in the first place.
Extremism is no joke. Pakistan has suffered for the larger part of its history because of extremists. It’s something every single Pakistani is aware of and it’s nothing new. But using it as a casual term in a soft drink advertisement is.
On July 28, after the Ad was released in a big social media and television campaign, singer and politician Jawad Ahmad tweeted: “The new #Coke Ad is an ugly interpretation of the word ‘Extremism’. It shows how low can marketing of a brand stoop to, just to make more money.
It is dumb & immature of marketing team of Coke to use such a highly socially sensitive word so non-seriously just to sell their bottles.”
The new #Coke Ad is an ugly interpretation of the word ‘Extremism’.It shows how low can marketing of a brand stoop to,just to make more money. It is dumb & immature of marketing team of Coke to use such a highly socially sensitive word so non-seriously just to sell their bottles. pic.twitter.com/FLh0oP4DTn
Pakistan’s Electronic Media Regulatory Authority also found the advertisement to be problematic and has ordered that the Ad not be run on television or the radio until they review it. The Authority stated in their notice that they had gotten many complaints against the Ad and that, “the content of the advertisement is not only offensive but also tantamount to demeaning Pakistanis, as a nation.”
PEMRA’s notice available on @ReportPEMRA ‘s twitter feed PEMRA’s notice available on @ReportPEMRA ‘s twitter feed
It’s not clear what clause PEMRA has used to ban the Ad. The Authority will make it clear when the Ad is reviewed and the controversial content is omitted (which might be difficult in this case). Until then, judge for yourself.
Shehryar Munawar may be doing a film with Maya Ali, but it appears that his favourite co-star will always be Mahira Khan.
In a note posted to social media, Sheheryar expressed his love for Mahira and called her his “super nova.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ip5SfnN5P/
Here’s what Mahira had to say:
We’re not saying that they aren’t best friends but it looks like there’s more to than what meets the eye because this is not the first time, Sheheryar has expressed his love for Mahira.
On the Lux Style Awards Red Carpet, Sheheryar was caught on camera giving Mahira a kiss.
