Unidentified men shot down a Sikh hakeem near Charsadda Bus Stand on Thursday, Dawnreported.
The police identified the deceased as hakeem Satnam Singh who was murdered in his clinic in the limits of Faqirabad police station.
A police official told Dawn that unknown attackers opened fire on Satnam Singh and escaped the scene.
A brother of the victim told the local police that Satnam Singh had gone from his home in Mohallah Jogan Shah to his clinic where he was murdered. He said that he had no enmity with anyone.
Faqirabad SHO Ejaz Nabi said that an investigation is underway. He said it was not clear at this moment whether this was a case of targeted killing or had some other motive.
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan strongly condemned the murder of the Sikh hakeem.
CM Khan asked the city police to immediately find and arrest the criminals. He also condoled with the victim’s family and said the killers would be behind bars soon.
US-based Pakistani origin physician, Dr Omar Atiq has been nominated unanimously and will be the first Pakistani origin doctor to be the next president of the prestigious American College of Physicians (ACP).
Atiq, who founded the Arkansas Cancer Clinic in 1991, is the only candidate for the post and the elections will be held in January next year.
Pakistan’s US envoy Asad Majeed Khan announced in a tweet: “Dr. Omar Atiq becomes the first ever Physician of Pakistani descent & only the second international medical graduate to be elected as President of American College of Physicians.”
Dr. Omar Atiq becomes the first ever Physcian of Pakistani descent & only the second international medical graduate to be elected as President of American College of Physicians. A proud and historic moment for Pakistani American Community. Congratulations Dr Atiq. @PakinUSAhttps://t.co/TyMZTrv8ke
Dr Atiq, a professor of medicine and otolaryngology is based in Arkansas and had been a fellow of ACP for almost three decades. In 2019, he wiped away $650,000 in debt for nearly 200 of his patients with cancer, reports Dawn.
The physician earned his medical degree from the Khyber Medical College, University of Peshawar.
The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organisation in the United States with members in more than 145 countries worldwide.
The restoration and renovation work of Bollywood legends Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor’s ancestral homes in Peshawar has started after the government got possession of the properties.
Raj Kapoor’s ancestral home, known as Kapoor Haveli, and Dilip Kumar’s ancestral residence are situated in the Qissa Khwani Bazaar area of Peshawar.
As per Geo News, the government is planning to restore the homes to their original state.
Initially, the debris from both houses was removed to begin the restoration work.
Meanwhile, Dilip Kumar’s nephew Fawad Ishaq lauded the government’s decision to restore his uncle and Raj Kapoor’s ancestral home.
He further said Dilip Kumar’s attachment to Peshawar never diminished.
The veteran Bollywood actor died of long ailment in July 2020. After his death, his wife Saira Banu, 77, has been diagnosed with a heart problem, termed as acute coronary syndrome.
An inquiry was registered upon information received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States of America (USA), via Child Pornography Cell of Cybercrime wing Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), about a person residing in Hayatabad, Peshawar. As per the complaint, he was blackmailing and sexually extorting a minor female child in Virginia, USA.
Imagine, a young man has been arrested for ‘sextortion’ from Hayatabad, Peshawar on complaint of the FBI. The boy hacked into the Snapchat account of a minor girl from Virginia where he found her nude pictures and he used the pictures to blackmail her. He’s even confessed to it.
A raid was conducted and the alleged culprit, Anas Farooq s/o Farooq Ahmad, was arrested and their mobile phones were seized.
The accused was interrogated and he admitted that he had got illegal access to the minor victim’s Snapchat account and later found her nude picture in her compromised Snapchat account.
He further admitted that he used the explicit pictures to blackmail her and was involved in sextortion.
Pictures of three physically challenged Pakistani friends on a tour to Egypt are doing the rounds on social media. The three women are Tanzeela, Afshan and Zarghona. Tanzeela is from Lahore, Afshan hails from Peshawar and Zarghona lives in Quetta.
Talking to BBC Urdu, Tanzeela said that she is physically challenged since her childhood. She says, “I have no legs below the knees and I have been in a wheelchair all my life,” but so far she has travelled 20 countries in a wheelchair.
“I wanted to prove that a disabled girl doesn’t need anyone, she can be independent, she can make her own decisions,” she said talking about travelling alone.
Tanzeela said, “Allah has created us all independent, but in our country, a differently-abled person is made dependant on others and he cannot go anywhere without the help of anyone, from restaurants to public washrooms.” She added that there are no facilities for physically challenged persons to go anywhere alone. They have to ask for someone’s help to go to the restaurants or public washrooms. There is no privacy and if there is no privacy, then your self-confidence is completely destroyed.
“I thought I would take a step forward and set an example for other people.”
The other friend, Afshan told BBC Urdu that 75 per cent of her body was paralysed because she was not vaccinated against polio when she was a child. Physiotherapy has made her healthy enough that she can now sit in a wheelchair.
Sharing her feelings about travelling alone, she said that women with disabilities are often looked upon with pity. “It is a common notion about them that they cannot go anywhere so I decided to show the world that when you have the courage, then nothing is impossible.”
Afshan said that we used to see girls travelling outside Pakistan but never saw anybody mentioning facilities provided to the physically challenged people who want to travel to other countries. “Nobody mentioned whether the conditions are the same in foreign countries as in Pakistan or better for people like us.”
Zarghona was seven months old when she contracted polio and was unable to walk.
“I have never travelled from Quetta to Islamabad or Karachi alone before this and I used to have some attendant with me. Even if I go somewhere in Quetta, I have to take someone with me,” she said.
This is her first trip alone. She has previously travelled with different groups to three countries. “I was very excited to see Tanzeela and Afshan and I dared to travel alone,” she added. “If they can travel alone, why can’t I?”
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, penned down a heartfelt piece reminding the world of her dreadful experience nine years ago, when she was shot by the Taliban for raising her voice for girl’s education.
“In October 2012, a member of the Pakistani Taliban boarded my school bus and shot one bullet into my left temple. The bullet grazed my left eye, skull, and brain – lacerating my facial nerve, shattering my eardrum and breaking my jaw,” wrote Malala.
“The emergency surgeons in Peshawar, Pakistan removed my left temporal skull bone to create space for my brain to swell in response to the injury. Their quick action saved my life.”
Malala at the hospital post her surgery in 2012
“Days later I still couldn’t speak, but I started to write things in a notebook and show them to everyone who came to my room. I had questions: What happened to me? Where is my father? Who is going to pay for this treatment? We don’t have money.”
Remembering her experience nine years ago, Malala wrote, “I tried to stay calm. I told myself, When they discharge me, I will find a job, earn some money, buy a phone, call my family, and work until I pay all the bills I owe to the hospital.”
“I touched my abdomen; it felt hard and stiff. I asked the nurse if there was a problem with my stomach. She informed me that when the Pakistani surgeons removed part of my skull bone, they relocated it in my stomach and that, one day, I would have another surgery to put it back in my head.”
“But the UK doctors eventually decided to fit a titanium plate where my skull bone had been, reducing the risk of infection, in a procedure called a cranioplasty. They took the piece of my skull out of my stomach. Today it sits on my bookshelf,” wrote Malala.
Malala’s skull bone, residing on her bookshelf
“A few months after the nerve surgery and with regular facial massage, my symmetry and movement had improved a little. If I smiled with my lips closed, I could almost see my old face. I covered my mouth with my hands when I laughed – so people wouldn’t see that one side didn’t work as well as the other. I avoided staring in the mirror or watching myself on video. In my own mind, I thought I looked fine. I accepted the reality and was happy with myself,” says Malala.
“On August 9 in Boston, I woke up at 5:00am to go to the hospital for my latest surgery and saw the news that the Taliban had taken Kunduz, the first major city to fall in Afghanistan. Over the next few days, with ice packs and a bandage wrapped around my head, I watched as province after province fell to men with guns, loaded with bullets like the one that shot me,” wrote the activist.
Malala after her recent surgery in Boston
“As soon as I could sit up again, I was making phone calls, writing letters to heads of state around the world, and speaking with women’s rights activists still in Afghanistan. In the last two weeks, we’ve been able to help several of them and their families get to a safe place. But I know we can’t save everyone,” writes Malala.
“Nine years later, I am still recovering from just one bullet. The people of Afghanistan have taken millions of bullets over the last four decades. My heart breaks for those whose names we will forget or never even know, whose cries for help will go unanswered,” wrote Malala Yousafzai.
Police have arrested a man for wearing a costume mask and frightening citizens.
The Yakatoot police received complaints about a motorcyclist riding around the streets with a scary mask to frighten pedestrians. The police traced and detained the man after complaints
Naila Inayat, a journalist, shared a video of the man behind the bars. “This guy arrested in Peshawar had plans to celebrate Independence Day by scaring people. Apparently, the police wasn’t much impressed. He was caught in his scary mask,” she wrote in a tweet.
This guy arrested in Peshawar, had plans to celebrate independence day by scaring people. Apparently, the police wasn’t much impressed, he was caught in his scary mask. pic.twitter.com/eYEe5YIaQE
Journalist Iftikhar Firdous tweeted, “Peshawar police and masks don’t get along.”
Peshawar police and masks don’t get along. This guy was scaring people on a motorbike in the city. He’s been rounded up now. pic.twitter.com/yVdqE4Cc8Y
Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar has passed away at the age of 98. His family friend Faisal Farooqui announced the same on Twitter, “With a heavy heart and profound grief, I announce the passing away of our beloved Dilip Saab, few minutes ago. We are from God and to Him we return”.
Many Bollywood celebrities have arrived at Late Dilip Kumar’s residence to express their grief, Jab Tak Hai Jaan actor Shah Rukh Khan came to the funeral and also consoled a crying and devastated Saira Bano.
Dilip Kumar’s last on-screen appearance was in 1998 in the Umesh Mehra directorial Qila.
Two men were arrested by the Peshawar Police on Saturday for viciously beating their sister with a hammer and a helmet over a property dispute.
As per reports, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have confirmed their arrest. They were arrested by the Capital City Police from Amin Colony in Peshawar.
During interrogation, both men confessed to torturing their sister Masmaat for demanding a share in the ancestral house.
The video on Twitter was posted by the victim’s son, demanding action against his maternal uncles. He tweeted: “Today my maternal uncles attacked my mother when I and my brother were not home.”
Right after this, Peshawar Deputy Inspector General Abbas Ahsan responded saying, “Action taken, both of them have been arrested and the case being registered.”
@AbbasAhsan I never imagined I will do this. I am uploading this video in position of very helplessness. Today my three maternal uncle attacked my mother when I and my brother were not home. They attacked and badly beat my mother and grandmother#HelpArsalanFamily Helpthisfamily pic.twitter.com/Bf5C9V67cO
Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi said that Peshawar Zalmi is the strongest team of the tournament, while talking to Arab News.
“I believe if Multan Sultans continues with its [current] form, it can win,” Afridi told the news media publication. “But the combination of Peshawar is excellent when we see their bowling and batting. So in my view, the strongest team [in this tournament] is Peshawar.”
Afridi said it was a matter of happiness that his team, Multan Sultans, has qualified for the finals. “I extend congratulations to the entire squad, especially [captain Muhammad] Rizwan.”
The final of the sixth season of the PSL will be played today between Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi.
