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  • Emmy nominees in key categories

    Emmy nominees in key categories

    Here is a list of the nominees in key categories for the 76th Emmy Awards, which will be handed out in Los Angeles on September 15.

    FX’s epic Japanese drama “Shogun” topped the nominations list with 25, followed by two comedies — FX’s “The Bear” at 23 and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building at 21.

    “True Detective: Night Country” led the nominees in the limited or anthology series categories at 19.

    OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

    “The Crown”

    “Fallout”

    “The Gilded Age”

    “The Morning Show”

    “Mr & Mrs Smith”

    “Shogun”

    “Slow Horses”

    “3 Body Problem”

    OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

    “Abbott Elementary”

    “The Bear”

    “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

    “Hacks”

    “Only Murders in the Building”

    “Palm Royale”

    “Reservation Dogs”

    “What We Do in the Shadows”

    OUTSTANDING LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES

    “Baby Reindeer”

    “Fargo”

    “Lessons in Chemistry”

    “Ripley”

    “True Detective: Night Country”

    LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA

    Idris Elba, “Hijack”

    Donald Glover, “Mr & Mrs Smith”

    Walton Goggins, “Fallout”

    Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”

    Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shogun”

    Dominic West, “The Crown”

    LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA

    Jennifer Aniston, “The Morning Show”

    Carrie Coon, “The Gilded Age”

    Maya Erskine, “Mr & Mrs Smith”

    Anna Sawai, “Shogun”

    Imelda Staunton, “The Crown”

    Reese Witherspoon, “The Morning Show”

    LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY

    Matt Berry, “What We Do in the Shadows”

    Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

    Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”

    Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”

    Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”

    D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai, “Reservation Dogs”

    LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY

    Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”

    Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”

    Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”

    Maya Rudolph, “Loot”

    Jean Smart, “Hacks”

    Kristen Wiig, “Palm Royale”

    LEAD ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE

    Matt Bomer, “Fellow Travelers”

    Richard Gadd, “Baby Reindeer”

    Jon Hamm, “Fargo”

    Tom Hollander, “Feud: Capote vs the Swans”

    Andrew Scott, “Ripley”

    LEAD ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE

    Jodie Foster, “True Detective: Night Country”

    Brie Larson, “Lessons in Chemistry”

    Juno Temple, “Fargo”

    Sofia Vergara, “Griselda”

    Naomi Watts, “Feud: Capote vs the Swans”

    SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA

    Tadanobu Asano, “Shogun”

    Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”

    Mark Duplass, “The Morning Show”

    Jon Hamm, “The Morning Show”

    Takehiro Hira, “Shogun”

    Jack Lowden, “Slow Horses”

    Jonathan Pryce, “The Crown”

    SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA

    Christine Baranski, “The Gilded Age”

    Nicole Beharie, “The Morning Show”

    Elizabeth Debicki, “The Crown”

    Greta Lee, “The Morning Show”

    Lesley Manville, “The Crown”

    Karen Pittman, “The Morning Show”

    Holland Taylor, “The Morning Show”

    SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY

    Lionel Boyce, “The Bear”

    Paul W. Downs, “Hacks”

    Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Bear”

    Paul Rudd, “Only Murders in the Building”

    Tyler James Williams, “Abbott Elementary”

    Bowen Yang, “Saturday Night Live”

    SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY

    Carol Burnett, “Palm Royale”

    Liza Colon-Zayas, “The Bear”

    Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”

    Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”

    Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary”

    Meryl Streep, “Only Murders in the Building”

    SUPPORTING ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE

    Jonathan Bailey, “Fellow Travelers”

    Robert Downey Jr., “The Sympathizer”

    Tom Goodman-Hill, “Baby Reindeer”

    John Hawkes, “True Detective: Night Country”

    Lamorne Morris, “Fargo”

    Lewis Pullman, “Lessons in Chemistry”

    Treat Williams, “Feud: Capote vs the Swans”

    SUPPORTING ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE

    Dakota Fanning, “Ripley”

    Lily Gladstone, “Under the Bridge”

    Jessica Gunning, “Baby Reindeer”

    Aja Naomi King, “Lessons in Chemistry”

    Diane Lane, “Feud: Capote vs the Swans”

    Nava Mau, “Baby Reindeer”

    Kali Reis, “True Detective: Night Country”

    Programs with most overall nominations:

    “Shogun” – 25

    “The Bear” – 23

    “Only Murders in the Building” – 21

    “True Detective: Night Country” – 19

    “The Crown” – 18

    “Saturday Night Live” – 17

  • ‘Barzakh’ leaves Fawad Khan emotionally shaken

    ‘Barzakh’ leaves Fawad Khan emotionally shaken

    How happy are we that superstar Fawad Khan is out and about promoting a new project? Very very happy!

    The former rock star and now famous actor is always in the spotlight. His new supernatural web series, ‘Barzakh,’ will be released online on July 19. In an interview with Pinkvilla, Fawad discussed his latest project and the special appeal of Pakistani dramas.

    Fawad said he knew ‘Barzakh’ was a great project after reading the script. “When I read the script, I was sold,” he shared. “The script, the team, and especially the director, Asim Abbasi, were amazing. I’ve seen his earlier work, and he is a fantastic director.”

    Fawad recalled shooting for his role and laughed about how “unhinged” his character, Sheheryar the psychiatrist, becomes as the show goes on. “He’s a candidate for therapy himself! I’m laughing about it now, but shooting it was emotionally disturbing on many levels.”

    After their successful show ‘Zindagi Gulzar Hai,’ Fawad was excited to work with Sanam Saeed again. “She is an incredible actor,” he said warmly. “I feel very comfortable working with her. As actors, our job is about reacting to each other, and she makes it so much easier.”

  • Sanam Javaid’s ‘inappropriate’ language shocks IHC judge

    Sanam Javaid’s ‘inappropriate’ language shocks IHC judge

    Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb on Thursday emphasised the “inappropriate language” used by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) activist Sanam Javaid.

    “[I] saw [Sanam] Javaid using inappropriate language on the internet,” Justice Aurangzeb stated while hearing the PTI activist’s plea seeking her release.

    During the plea hearing against her arrest today, the PTI activist’s lawyer assured the court that his client would not indulge in improper use of language in future.

    The authorities had imprisoned Sanam Javaid in multiple cases related to May 9 violence – triggered by the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan last year.

    She currently faces twelve cases, out of which she’s been acquitted in four while successfully getting bail in the remaining eight cases, Geo News reported.

    On Monday, she secured significant relief after the high court ordered her release and prevented the police and other law enforcement agencies from arresting her till Thursday (today).

    The Court has disposed the plea and declared her recent arrest “illegal”.

  • Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza says if Imran Khan gets out, there would be no stability in the country

    Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza says if Imran Khan gets out, there would be no stability in the country

    Renowned Islamic scholar and YouTuber Muhammad Ali Mirza has stated that if former Prime Minister Imran Khan were to get out of prison, “there would be no stability in the country.”
    Talking on a podcast with Talha Ahad on his YouTube channel, Mirza said, “The army knows about this and wants a guarantee for his behaviour, but there is nobody to do that.”

    Mirza is known for lectures on his interpretation of the Quran, religious debates, and focus on sectarianism within Islam. He commands a wide following within the country.

    “For them [Army], they know things will be uncontrollable if he gets out of prison or goes abroad because he can create such instability sitting in the prison,” said Mirza.

  • UAE Princess Shaikha Mahra divorces husband in Instagram post

    UAE Princess Shaikha Mahra divorces husband in Instagram post

    Princess Shaikha Mahra of Dubai announced her divorce from Sheikh Mana on Instagram. The couple had a daughter just two months ago.
    Shaikha Mahra (Princess) posted a picture with the caption, “Dear Husband, As you are occupied with other companions, I hereby declare our divorce. I divorce you, I divorce you, and I Divorce You. Take care. Your ex-wife.”

    Social media response to her announcement was divided; some praised her choice, others believed it should remain secret. The princess is the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.
     
    Sheikh Mana and Princess Shaikha Mahra tied the knot on May 28, 2023. The princess has unfollowed her ex-husband on Instagram and deleted some of their shared photos.

  • Khan not getting out of prison soon, coalition govt may last only 18 months: Fitch report

    Khan not getting out of prison soon, coalition govt may last only 18 months: Fitch report

    Update

    The Defence Minister of Pakistan has stated that there is a danger of constitutional meltdown in the country and agreed with the recent Fitch report about the collapse of the current government in 18 months. He said, “People are ready to join the technocratic government now.”

    Previous

    BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, has forecast an unstable economic-political situation in Pakistan with its prediction that Imran Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), is unlikely to get out of prison soon.

    “We expect that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led government will remain in power over the coming 18 months and will succeed in pushing through with International Monetary Fund (IMF) mandated fiscal reforms,” predicted BMI, in its Pakistan Country Risk Report for the fourth quarter of the calendar year 2024.

    Interestingly, the Fitch Solutions company also predicted that “in the unlikely event that the government is replaced, the most likely alternative is a technocratic administration rather than fresh elections.”

    Regarding the country’s economic situation, it stated that negative events or factors affecting future growth are more likely than positive ones.

    “Given that 40% of Pakistanis work in agriculture, another flood or drought would pose a significant risk to the economy. The country’s fragile political situation could also derail the recovery,” the risk evaluator said.

  • Six killed, hundreds injured as student protests rage across Bangladesh

    Six killed, hundreds injured as student protests rage across Bangladesh

    Bangladesh ordered schools across the country on Tue­sday to close indefinitely after six students were killed as protests over quotas for coveted government jobs turned into deadly clas­hes, prompting the mobilisation of paramilitaries to keep order.

    Following escalating demonstrations against civil service hiring policies, every high school, Islamic seminary, and vocational education institute in the country was told to remain shut until further notice.

    Tuesday saw a significant escalation in violence as protesters and pro-government student groups attacked each other with hurled bricks and bamboo rods, and police dispersed rallies with tear gas and rubber bullets. Demonstrators mobilised in cities, defying earlier calls by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Supreme Court to return to class.

    Three died in Chittagong and had signs of “bullet injuries”, hospital director Mohammad Taslimuddin said, adding that another 35 had been injured during clashes in the port city.

    Border security force deployed in Dhaka, Chittagong and three other cities as protesting students demand end to job quota system

    Another two died in Dhaka, where rival student groups threw bricks at each other and blocked roads in several key locations that ground traffic to a halt in the megacity of 20 million.

    Police inspector Bacchu Mia confirmed the deaths to AFP, saying one had succumbed to head injuries, while at least 60 people were also injured.

    In the northern city of Rangpur, police commissioner Mohammad Moniruzzaman said a student had been killed in clashes there. He did not give details as to how the student died, but said police had fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters.

    Rangpur Medical College hospital director Yunus Ali said the “student was brought dead to the hospital by other students”.

    Tauhidul Haque Siam from Rokeya University told AFP that ruling party supporters had attacked anti-quota protesters, while police fired rubber pellets from shotguns. “Police opened fire from their shotguns on the protesters,” Siam said, adding he had been injured.

    He said the dead student had been “killed in the firing”. But it was not possible to independently verify his account.

    As the day wore on and with some key highways around the country blocked by the protesters, authorities deployed the paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) force in five major cities, including Dhaka and Chittagong.

    They had been tasked with controlling “the law and order situation in view of the quota protests”, a BGB spokesman said.

    ‘Violence against peaceful protesters’

    Tuesday clashes came a day after confrontations between anti-quota demonstrators and members of the ruling Awami League’s student wing that left over 400 people injured in Dhaka.

    “We are not here to do violence,” said a protester in Dhaka who declined to give their name for fear of reprisal. “We simply want our rights. But the ruling party goons are attacking our peaceful protests.”

    Near-daily marches this month have demanded an end to a quota system that reserves more than half of civil service posts for specific groups.

    Critics say the scheme benefits children of pro-government groups that back PM Hasina, 76, who won her fourth consecutive election in January after a vote “without genuine opposition”.

    Amnesty International afterwards urged Bangladesh to “immediately guarantee the safety of all peaceful protesters”.

    US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller also denounced the “violence against peaceful protesters”, prompting a rebuke from Bangladesh’s foreign ministry.

  • Israel bombs Gaza after US criticises high civilian toll

    Israel bombs Gaza after US criticises high civilian toll

    Authorities in Gaza said dozens of Palestinians were killed in three separate strikes, as Israel pounded the territory despite renewed US criticism of the high civilian toll.

    Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the three air strikes killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens within an hour across the war-torn Palestinian territory. Israel confirmed it carried out two of the strikes.

    The health ministry said a strike on a fuel station in Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza killed 17 people, and the Palestinian Red Crescent said a separate strike almost simultaneously hit the UN-run Al-Razi School in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing five people.

    The civil defence agency said the third strike was on a gathering of people near a roundabout in northern Gaza, but did not provide a breakdown of casualties.

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier conveyed Washington’s “serious concern” to two senior Israeli officials regarding deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza, his spokesman said.

    “We have seen civilian casualties come down from the high points of the conflict… but they still remain unacceptably high,” spokesman Matthew Miller said after Blinken met Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi.

    Washington has been pushing for a truce between Israel and Hamas.

    A senior Hamas official said Sunday the group was pulling out of indirect talks for a deal in protest at Israeli “massacres”, including a major strike that Gaza’s health ministry said killed at least 92 people on that day.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a commemoration ceremony for soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza war at the Memorial Hall on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 16, 2024

    Hamas was ready to return to the indirect talks once Israel “demonstrates seriousness in reaching a ceasefire agreement and a prisoner exchange deal”, he said.

    On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ramp up pressure on Hamas.

    “This is exactly the time to increase the pressure even more, to bring home all the hostages -– the living and the dead –- and to achieve all the war objectives,” he said.

    Prisoner abuse allegations

    Israel’s military said aircraft struck about “40 terror targets” in Gaza, including “sniping posts, observation posts, Hamas military structures, terror infrastructure, and buildings rigged with explosives”.

    This picture released by the Israeli army shows a soldier taking part in military operations in an unspecified area of Gaza

    It said troops were continuing targeted raids in the southern city of Rafah and in central Gaza.

    The UN humanitarian office OCHA said multiple strikes across Gaza on Tuesday killed and wounded dozens.

    Hamas seized 251 hostages after October 7, 116 of whom are still in Gaza including 42 the Israeli military says are dead.

    Israel has killed at least 38,713 people, also mostly civilians, according to figures from the Gaza health ministry.

    The Palestine Red Crescent said they had retrieved the bodies of five people after Israeli air strikes in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza

    Israel’s military has also detained scores of Gazans, who have made allegations of torture, rape and other abuses in custody that Israeli authorities have denied.

    Palestinian lawyer Khaled Mahajna said Monday that prisoners had recounted guards using “electric prods” on inmates.

    In one prisoner’s case, a “fire extinguisher tube was inserted into his buttocks and the fire extinguisher was turned on,” Mahajna said after visiting detained Palestinian journalists.

    Mass displacement

    Indirect talks on ending the devastating war have been brokered by Qatar and Egypt, with US support, but months of negotiations have failed to bring a breakthrough.

    Palestinians survey the damage following Israeli bombardment of a UN-run school in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp

    At the end of May, US President Joe Biden outlined a ceasefire roadmap he said had been drawn up by Israel that triggered an intensification of the talks.

    But despite meetings in both Cairo and Doha, there has been no sign of progress on how this might be implemented.

    Critics in Israel, including tens of thousands of demonstrators demanding a deal to bring home the hostages, have accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war.

    The conflict has forced 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.4 million people to flee their homes. Many have sought refuge in UN-run schools, seven of which have been hit by Israeli strikes since July 6.

    “Why do they target us when we are innocent people?” asked Umm Mohammed al-Hasanat, sheltering with her family at a UN-run school in Nuseirat, which was among those hit.

    “We do not carry weapons but are just sitting and trying to find safety for ourselves and our children.”

    The war has also sparked near-daily exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, which says it is acting in support of Hamas.

    Lebanese official media said Israeli strikes Tuesday on southern Lebanon killed five people, including three Syrian children, with Hezbollah announcing rocket fire at Israel in retaliation.

    Meanwhile near Tel Aviv ultra-orthodox Jewish protesters fought police, hours after the Israeli military said it would begin issuing draft notices for men in the community from Sunday.

    Historically exempt from compulsory military service, ultra-Orthodox seminary students are being called up as the Gaza war and potential conflict with Hezbollah sap resources and fuel resentment against those who do not have to serve.

  • Gandapur defiant: ‘No one can dare to ban PTI’

    Gandapur defiant: ‘No one can dare to ban PTI’

    As the federal government finds little support amongst allies for its recent controversial move to ban the single largest party in the National Assembly by number of seats, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur clapped back at the government saying, “No one can dare to ban the PTI.”

    The statement was said in a press conference in Peshawar yesterday while visiting the supreme Command Post Kohati Gate with the Peshawar commissioner, the KP Assembly speaker, the CCPO, and others to review security arrangements for Muharram processions.

    Gandpur remarked that the current rulers “stole the mandate” to get into power referring to the ruling coalition federal government.

    “They are talking about banning a political party [PTI] that secured the highest number of votes,” said the Chief Minsiter criticising the government.

  • Faith-healer arrested for raping teenaged girl

    Faith-healer arrested for raping teenaged girl

    Faisalabad’s Chak Jhumra police on Monday arrested a so-called faith healer who allegedly raped the 16-year-old daughter of his disciple. The girl was reportedly working at his residence.

    A city police spokesperson said a police team arrested the suspect in a raid on a place in Faisalabad where he was hiding.

    Police say that the girl, the daughter of a follower of the suspect, was left at his house to work as a house-help.

    The victim told the police that the suspect had been raping her for the last four months.

    Her medical examination also revealed that she was pregnant.

    Dawn reports that Punjab Women Protection Authority (PWPA) chairperson Hina Pervez Butt visited the survivor on behalf of the chief minister.