Tag: Tiktok Pakistan

  • Is Britney Spears hooked to Pasoori? Celebrities react

    Is Britney Spears hooked to Pasoori? Celebrities react

    Singer Britney Spears took to Instagram and shared a reel of a button-dosa preparation with the song Pasoori playing in the background. 

    Celebrated singer Britney Spears made Desi followers blissful when she shared an Instagram reel of a button dosa preparation made by an influencer. The video had the favored music Pasoori within the background. Followers have been overjoyed to see the put up and flooded the video with feedback, saying that it was ‘satisfying to observe’. The music Pasoori has been sung by Ali Sethi and Shae Gill.

    Zulfiqar Jabbar a.k.a Xulfi expressed his gratitude on the transnational popularity of his song as he is heading the coke studio 14 this year.

    Indian Comedian Varun Grover took to Instagram and shared the video on his Tales with the caption, “Britney Spears making Button dosa to the music of Pasoori is the type of international citizen liberals need.”

    READ MORE: Pasoori’: What do the lyrics of the Coke Studio song mean?

  • Fact Check: TikTokers are not banned in public parks

    Fact Check: TikTokers are not banned in public parks

    Claim: TikTokers are banned from public parks in Pakistan

    Fact: A fake notification by the Parks and Horticulture Authority claimed TikTokers have been banned in public parks

    Media outlets reported on Sunday, August 22nd, 2021 that the Punjab Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has officially banned TikTokers in all public parks. A document was also circulated, stating that ‘we are a responsible authority expect responsible attitude from the public too…[Youtubers and TikTokers] will be taking permission and sharing the content of the video prior to any shoot from now onwards.”

    However Azhar Mashwani, Focal Person of Digital Media to the Chief Minister of Punjab has clarified this statement, in a tweet. He, while calling the news a fake one said that “no such decision taken so far by Govt Currently TikTok is banned in Pakistan.”

    The Current spoke to Mashwani and asked him about the official notification related to the ban which is circulating.

    He stated that it is merely a suggestion by the Vice Chairman of PHA and it requires a lot of approval from the other high officials. We even asked him that if we go to a public park right now and make a TikTok video there would the authorities there allow us? He responded with a yes.

    The notice has been making rounds on social media platforms since yesterday following the Minar-e-Pakistan incident in which Ayesha Akram, a TikToker survived a mass sexual assault on August 14.

    No other official from PHA or Punjab Government has commented so far on the matter.

    VERDICT: FALSE

  • Justice Athar Minallah expresses anger over TikTok ban, asks PTA for justification

    Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Athar Minallah expressed anger over the fourth ban on video-sharing app TikTok by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and has asked the authority for justification regarding the ban.

    Chief Justice IHC was hearing a citizen’s petition against ban. During the hearing, CJ IHC remarked: “Why has TikTok been banned? If banning TikTok is the only solution, then Google should also be banned.”

    The PTA lawyer said that the ban was imposed under PECA in light of the orders of the Sindh and Peshawar High Courts. Chief Justice IHC Athar Minallah directed the PTA counsel to read out both the judgements and remarked that neither of the courts had asked for a complete closure of TikTok, but had rather asked to create a mechanism.

    TikTok was banned for the fourth time in Pakistan on July 21, 2021 for its failure to take down “inappropriate content”. Days before the ban, President Arif Alvi had joined TikTok to “spread the message of positivity & motivation for the youth of Pakistan“.

    For this first time, Pakistan blocked the video-sharing app on October 9, 2020. However, the ban was lifted after the TikTok management assured the Pakistani authorities that it will block all accounts repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality

  • Aijaz, Faysal and Faizan recreate the viral slapping video on Naveed Raza’s birthday

    Actor Naveed Raza recently celebrated his birthday with his industry friends Aijaz Aslam, Faysal Quershi, Nabeel Zafar and Faizan Sheikh. The group of friends recreated the viral slapping video from Faysal’s game show and posted it on Instagram.

    Naveed also shared glimpses from his birthday celebration with his family.

    A clip from Faysal’s show on a local TV channel went viral on social media recently in which the Fitoor star lost his temper on a contestant’s misconduct during live recording.

    During the show a female contestant started hitting her fellow contestant in a frank capacity, on which the Qaid-e-Tanhai actor got angry and lashed out on the makers of the show for hiring such contestants for the game show.