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Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday.

The anti-graft watchdog had earlier summoned Iqbal for recording his statement in a multi-billion-rupee case pertaining to the controversial Sports City Project in Narowal.

It was the second time in two months that NAB had summoned the PML-N leader to seek details of his income and expenditures.

According to Dawn, the opposition leader, who is accused of using funds of the federal government and the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for the sports city, had already replied to a questionnaire given to him by the bureau in connection with the same case.

The PML-N leader had said he had submitted documents related to his income and expenditures to NAB Rawalpindi.

He claimed that he had nothing to do with the case as the project had been launched in 2009 during the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government when he was not a federal minister.

He said that before Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) came to power, the project was 90 per cent complete, but the present government had turned it into ruins.

“In fact NAB should take those people to task who are responsible for the destruction of a national asset,” he added.

The PML-N leader said that when he became a federal minister, the NSC project was in the doldrums and like many other stalled projects, the PML-N government revived it and took it to near completion.

Meanwhile, analysts have expressed concern over the arrest, saying that Iqbal was the sole PML-N leader commenting on former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf’s death sentence in the high treason case.

The Daft Draft on Instagram has over 7,000 followers, many of whom are influencers. The appeal: taking on societal stereotypes, illustrating them in pop culture graphics and making us all question the method of our societal madness.

We spoke with the person behind the instagram account and found that that she, (it is a woman), knew how to use photoshop but learnt how to use illustrator by watching YouTube videos.

Two years ago, “a traumatic incident regarding a family member being unwell put me through a very rough phase in my life,” she says. After the incident, she decided not to be defined by misfortune but decided to use her humour to give her the power to come back, “stronger, happier and in my case, funnier”.

She learnt how to use illustrator four months ago, “because I had all these ideas and no way of communicating them in an interesting way,” and she feels that not only does she get her message across, she is also setting, “an appropriate tone”.

“I also love knowing that I can make people laugh, it makes me feel like I’m contributing something good to society”. Her account has become very popular in a short amount of time and she now is also running a website where you can buy the designs.

For her innovative way of poking fun at society, and pushing through life’s difficult times to come out stronger, The Daft Draft, is this week’s Sunday Superstar.

A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted Islamabad and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as well as Punjab on Friday evening.

According to initial reports, tremors were felt in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Sialkot, Chiniot, Murree, Jhelum, Hafizabad, Peshawar, Parachinar, Abbottabad, Haripur, Kohat and Lower Dir among other cities. Parts of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) were also jolted.

The epicenter of the quake was Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan, 210 kilometres below the earth’s crust, geological wing of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said.

People of the areas where the quake was felt rushed out of their homes and other buildings in panic reciting verses from Holy Quran. The epicenter of the quake has not yet been determined.

“India has turned into the rape capital of the world. The international community looks down upon us. Modi sarkar (Modi government) falsely claims that they are protecting women of India day and night.” said Rahul Gandhi in many of his speeches in 2019. 

Today, Smriti Irani, BJP’s politician, and former TV star outrageously demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi in the parliament of India.

She said, “For the first time in India, the member of the Gandhi family is saying, the women of India should be raped. He made fun out of this heinous crime.”

Rahul Gandhi denied and accused smirtin Irani of twisting the facts smirti Irani of twisting the facts.

Furthermore, while answering the accusation, he tweeted a video clip of Modi and captioned it, “Modi should apologize for burning the north, for destroying India’s economy, and for the speech which I am attaching.”

It
is true that Indian is one of the most unsafe countries in the world for women,
however, such insensitive comments should be avoided in public spheres. 

At least four patients lost their lives after hundreds of lawyers on Wednesday ransacked Lahore’s Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), Dawn reported.

After hours of continued violence, police arrested more than a dozen lawyers and unblocked Jail Road.

The lawyers were protesting against a video that went viral on social media Tuesday, in which a doctor was seen narrating an encounter with some lawyers in front of a group.

According to the doctor in the video, a group of lawyers had gone to the Punjab inspector general (IG) and told him to charge “two doctors” under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ACT). He was seen narrating that the IG had refused while the lawyers had urged him to press charges, saying “they could save face” that way.

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The United States (US) has threatened Indian government officials with sanctions for failing to list Muslims among ‘persecuted’ minorities, RT reported.

According to the details, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has claimed that it was “deeply troubled” by the citizenship bill, which passed the Indian parliament’s lower house, the Lok Sabha, in a 311-80 vote, calling it nothing short of a “religious test for Indian citizenship” which “excludes Muslims.”

The commission said, “The United States government should consider sanctions against the home minister and other principal leadership if the bill passes”, insisting that it knows how Indian internal politics works best.

Dubbed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, the new law will fast-track Indian citizenship for immigrants facing religious discrimination in several neighboring countries.

The bill provides that Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians fleeing persecution in Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan can be granted citizenship of India but there are no similar provisions for Muslim refugees.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, who introduced the law, has rejected the US butting into India’s internal affairs, insisting the bill is solely intended to protect those facing persecution.

The bill also has backing from Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, who, like Shah, belongs to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Meanwhile, PM Imran Khan has strongly condemned controversial legislation passed by the Indian Parliament, terming the move as “part of the RSS Hindu Rashtra design of expansionism propagated by the fascist Modi government.”.

“We strongly condemn Indian Lok Sabha citizenship legislation which violates all norms of international human rights law and bilateral agreements with Pakistan,” PM Imran tweeted on Monday.

The USCIRF was earlier established in 1998 to monitor and evaluate religious freedoms in other countries and to make policy recommendations to the US president, the State Department and the House of Representatives – routinely calling for sanctions against those countries who don’t live up to American standards.

The commission had earlier placed India on a “watch list” in 2009 over what it said were “largely inadequate” protections for minorities.

Did you know that a dairy farm in Russia uses VR glasses to make cows give more milk? Yes, we were equally surprised when we got to know this. In RusMoloko dairy, farm cows wear specially designed VR headsets for improved milk productivity.

In their glasses, the cows see sun-filled views of green grazing fields. This helps the cows relax which is directly linked to their milk-productivity.

The summer field views were designed after studying cows’ response to different tones of colors – the cows showed signs of improvement in their mood and decreased anxiety.

The VR headsets were specially adapted to fit cows’ heads.

Experts in the field of technology and dairy farming have collaborated to find a solution to the problem of milk production. They had the solution of perfect-fit VR goggles as a solution to offer a restful atmosphere in addition to fulfilling the cows’ physical needs. However, more studies are underway to study the impact of VR goggles in terms of milk productivity.