Former Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Sardar Tanveer Ilyas was arrested by the Islamabad police on Sunday night.
The arrest came about in connection with an FIR lodged by a member of the former premier’s family for “forceful entry and firing in [the] family property”.
According to the FIR, Mr Ilyas, Aneel Sultan, Muhammad Ali and 25 others broke into the office of Pak Gulf Construction company situated in Centaurus Mall.
Mr Ilyas was shifted to the Margalla Police Station. His spokesperson said police jumped the walls of the former PM’s house to arrest him.
An Islamabad police spokesperson said all formalities were fulfilled before making the arrest.
Muhammad Shiraz, the rising child social media star from Gilgit Baltistan, has become incredibly popular worldwide with his charming village vlogs.
Shiraz has recently announced that he is quitting daily vlogging, after which his father received numerous messages and requests from people asking him to reconsider Shiraz’s decision to quit vlogging. In a recent vlog, Shiraz’s father (Muhammad Taqi) addressed all these questions.
Explaining why Shiraz quit vlogging, his father said, “Shiraz became famous and loved for his vlogs, but he lost his personality, charm, and obedience. I noticed that fame changed his attitude towards his friends, so I decided to keep him away from vlogging.”
He also said, “The second reason he quit vlogging was because of his studies. He was making vlogs, and we even created his Twitter account, but his studies were suffering due to daily vlogging.” Fans continue to believe Shiraz should keep up his vlogging. Meanwhile some fans believe he need to concentrate on studying as well. Here are the comments:
The show ‘DigiTales’ invited everyone’s favourite actor Marina Khan on to the show. Among other things, the power house actress discussed her and husband Jalil Akhtar’s choice not to have children. Marina talked about her marriage to Jalil, a well-known producer, and the shared decisions that have kept their relationship strong.
During the interview, the star, who affectionately calls her husband “Kuchu,” revealed that their decision not to have children wasn’t planned but happened naturally over time. “So Kuchu and I never said that we were never going to have kids,” she said. Talking about their early experiences with their nephews and nieces, she added, “When his brothers had kids, we loved them, played with them, and then we’d just hand them back and come home and say, ‘Nah, that’s too much.’”
Marina talked about how their growing careers in television influenced their decision. “I think our journey in television also started at that time, so it was tough to raise a child. I was never in favour of having a child. I always thought, if anything, I’d adopt a child,” she explained.
Marina and Jalil often worked together on many projects. “When we started in television, we just never looked back. That allowed us to work together. Even now, if I had a choice, I’d continue working with him,” she shared, highlighting their strong partnership. “He has a more logical brain; I’m a little scattered. But now we don’t do dramas anymore. I think the last thing we, as a company, did together was the remake of ‘Tanhaiyaan.’ He was the producer; I was directing it.”
Marina said that not having children has given them special freedom and strengthened their bond. “I feel very comfortable being with him, and that has enabled us to go wherever we want to together because we don’t have a child to tend to,” she said.
Actor-singer Aagha Ali called himself a ‘fantastic guy’ while talking about how people see him and the label ‘ red flag’.
In a new interview, Aagha talked about the wrong idea people have of him as a ‘red flag’ in relationships and how it has affected him over the years. “I was affected by what people said after COVID. I couldn’t eat for three days,” Ali recalled. “There were a lot of controversies about me, and publications wrote all sorts of things, which impacted me. I would think that these people don’t know anything, and I can’t show my entire life to them because there is another person involved whom I can’t and didn’t want to harm.”
The actor from ‘Mere Bewafa’ continued, “There was this stuff on the internet where people began to say I’m a red flag. I guess they meant I’m not good at relationships. That made me feel”
“Because I know I’m a fantastic guy, and I’m saying this because Allah knows who I am,” he said. “I love my fans so I won’t explain much. But I started from nothing, with no support or connections in the industry. I’m also unlucky in that way because I couldn’t be friends with people or get close to them—for various reasons—but still, I survived for 10 years and acted as the main character in over 90 TV series, which is a lot,” Ali concluded.
As a stifling heatwave gains strength across Pakistan, the Punjab government has decided to shut down all schools across the province for a week while Sindh has decided to postpone matric exams.
A notification issued by the Government of Punjab states that due to the heat wave, a seven-day-long holiday has been announced in schools. Therefore, schools will remain closed from May 25 to May 31. However, schools that are carrying out exams will be allowed to continue.
PDMA Punjab had issued alerts earlier that the heat wave will span across Punjab from May 21 to 27.
Karachi
Class 9th and 10th exams have been postponed in Karachi due to a possible heat wave.
The Board of Secondary Education has announced that there will be no matriculation board papers between May 21 and 27.
On the orders of the Minister for Education Boards and Universities, the Matriculation Board Karachi exams have been postponed and now the Matriculation Board exams will be held from May 28 as per the schedule.
Although the Intermediate exams were postponed earlier, now the Inter exams will start from May 27 instead of May 22.
The plains of Punjab and Sindh are in the grip of intense heat and a heatwave alert has also been issued by the Meteorological Department.
Senior analyst and journalist Suhail Warraich recently revealed on Geo’s Report Card that ex-Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa, “created a false case against Nawaz Sharif.”
Warraich stated, “Marriyum Aurangzeb was one hundred percent correct about Justice Khosa that he made a frivolous case which was already dismissed by the previous CJP, gave the case legal cover and then guided Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on how to proceed with the case.”
He stated that a “PTI member himself told me this at that time that they [PTI] didn’t know how to deal with the case and it was Justice Khosa that told them how to deal with it.”
“Maybe Justice Khosa had some personal problem with them [Nawaz Sharif] and Justice Azmat Saeed was also involved. These two were the main characters and another current serving Supreme Court judge was also involved in this,” said Warraich.
Over 350 Pakistani students have landed in Lahore and Islamabad from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Two of the three special flights landed at the Islamabad and Lahore airports on Sunday night, with 180 students on board each plane. The third plane was also expected to land later in the night.
At the Islamabad airport, the students who arrived were welcomed by federal minister Musadik Malik while in Lahore, the students were greeted by Information Minister Attaullah Tarar.
The Civil Aviation Authority had set up an immigration desk and provided transport to the students on arrival.
As per the instructions of the PM, the federal government will bear the expenses for these special flights.
Ishaq Dar downplayed mob violence
Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar — who put off his trip to Kyrgyzstan — downplayed the mob violence saying the situation in Bishkek was normal and there was no need to panic.
According to Ishaq Dar, 16 foreign students, including “four or five” Pakistanis, were injured in the violence.
FM Dar said that the government would cover the expenses of Pakistani students wishing to return home as 540 students would take three flights to return on Sunday. He said as many as 11,000 Pakistani students were studying in Bishkek, and those returning would be fully facilitated.
He quoted the Kyrgyz foreign minister as saying that the incident in Bishkek was due to a “misunderstanding”.
Students say all is not well
Many students on social media said that the embassy was not providing any help and that the situation in Bishkek was still bad. They said that the foreign students were attacked by Kyrgyz students and locals, adding that they were not even safe on the roads.
Balochistan students ‘ignored’
In Balochistan, Sajid Hussain, an educationist, claimed that the government had taken no steps to bring back at least 300 students from Balochistan stranded in Bishkek.
“Over 300 students from Balochistan are also studying in Kyrgyzstan but they have not been brought back,” Mr Hussain said.
His son and daughter are studying at the Asian International University in Kyrgyzstan along with five other students enrolled there.“I am in contact with my children,” he said, adding that no steps had been taken for the return of Baloch students.
He claimed that the federal government was repatriating students from other provinces and that parents of students from Balochistan were being asked to pay Rs100,000 for each student.
He appealed to Balochistan’s government officials to take notice of the situation and make special arrangements for the province’s students. CM Bugti has reportedly established a special desk in this regard, reported Dawn.
“To reach the students, the foreign ministry is in contact with the embassy of Kyrgyzstan,” the CM said, assuring “every possible assistance” for the students.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared a day of mourning after Iranian media reported that president Ebrahim Raisi had died in a helicopter crash.
“Pakistan will observe a day of mourning and the flag will fly at half mast as a mark of respect for President Raisi and his companions and in solidarity with Brotherly Iran,” Shehbaz posted on X, formerly Twitter.
“I along with the government and people of Pakistan extend our deepest condolences and sympathies to the Iranian nation on this terrible loss,” he added.
“The great Iranian nation will overcome this tragedy with customary courage.”
The Pakistani leader hosted Raisi in Islamabad for a three-day visit in April in a bid to mend ties between the neighbours after they traded deadly strikes earlier this year.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on May 19 condemned a political party, a thinly veiled reference to PTI, for spreading disinformation and negative propaganda online regarding the Kyrgyzstan incident in which mobs attacked Pakistani students.
The minister exclaimed that “wrong news” was being spread on social media by a single political party to “humiliate the government” and it is utterly condemnable.
It should be noted that social media was flooded with news of deaths and rapes of Pakistani students which has turned out to be not true.
“I believe that such shameful act should not be done in politics,” he stressed.
Tarar said there was a clash between local students and Arab students, after which this incident took place. He added that the government is helping the students who want to come back.
“Kyrgyz foreign minister has said that no deaths have occurred in the incident and that the situation is peaceful,” said Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar during a press conference.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, and his foreign minister Hossein Amr-Abdollahian, have been killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday night in the north of the country near the border with Azerbaijan, State Television has confirmed.
Rescue teams finally reached the site of the helicopter crash where dense fog and adverse weather conditions impeded rescue and recovery efforts.
“Upon finding the helicopter, there was no sign of the helicopter passengers being alive as of yet,” state TV reported. The helicopter carrying the head of the state crashed during President Raisi’s return flight to Tabriz after he and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated the Qiz Qalasi Dam on the border.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged calm and assured his people that there would be no disruption in the country’s governance.
Vice President Mohammad Mokhbar is expected to become the new President now, Al Jazeera has reported.
