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  • Video: Sarwat Gillani celebrates Raksha Bandhan with her cook Ghanaish

    Video: Sarwat Gillani celebrates Raksha Bandhan with her cook Ghanaish

    Actor Sarwat Gillani celebrated the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan with her cook Ghanaish. The Ahista Ahista star took to her Instagram stories to share the video of her celebrating the festival which is traditionally celebrated by siblings. She mentioned that she wants minority members to feel welcomed and empowered in Pakistan.

    The Churails star is known to empower the minority communities of Pakistan as she played the female lead in the drama serial Seeta Bagri, which was based on the Hindu community of Pakistan. The drama showed Hindus in a positive light and endorsed the idea of them being patriotic Pakistanis.

    TV One Seeta Bagri: Same Old Indian Soap Or Not? [Review] - VeryFilmi

    The Jawani Phir Nahi Aani star recently also expressed her stance on the problematic statements of the senior journalist, with a comment, “When ‘educated’ people make such statements you know the state of affairs and state of mind both are in the wrong place.”

    “What about the murderer, follow some rules and do not kill people,” she stated in another comment.

  • Influencer calls out ‘HKKST’ for showcasing ‘child domestic labour’, gets polarizing response

    Influencer calls out ‘HKKST’ for showcasing ‘child domestic labour’, gets polarizing response

    Influencer Kanwal Ahmed has called out drama serial Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay for featuring characters endorsing child domestic labour. The hit play features superstar Mahira Khan, Kubra Khan and Usman Mukhtar as the lead trio.

    Actor Zainab Qayoom responded her under the tweet and stated that initially it was a concern that was raised by her fellow colleagues and herself but the character is pivotal to the plot of the drama.

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    Netizens remained divided as some believed that it just depicts the reality which a drama is supposed to while others stated that a drama featuring such big stars shouldn’t endorse the concept of domestic child labour.

    So far only four episodes have been released and the story is yet to unfold further which will provide more clarity on the matter.

  • People congratulate Ramiz Raja on becoming Chairman PCB

    People congratulate Ramiz Raja on becoming Chairman PCB

    Pakistani Twitterati is congratulating former cricketer-turned commentator Ramiz Raja on becoming Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman. Raja is in the running for PCB’s top slot but there is no confirmation yet if he will indeed be appointed or not.

    Journalist Ejaz Wasim Bakhri turned to Twitter and shared a video of Raja’s car entering Prime Minister Imran Khan’s office to meet him.

    https://twitter.com/ejazwasim/status/1429748505908846593?s=20

    While people can be heard saying that look the new chairman is going.

    Taking to Twitter, Fakhar-e-Alam congratulated the former cricketer.

    Many tweeted that he has already become the PCB Chairman.

    https://twitter.com/MalikZamad_/status/1429758835258916874?s=20

    On the other hand, Journalist Shahid Hashmi claimed that Mani will continue as the Board’s chairman.

    In another tweet, Shahid Hashmi said: “As per PCB constitution Mani’s second tenure will be three years but since he doesn’t want to serve the full term a new chairman can come next year.”

    Journalist Absa Komal also shared on Twitter that PM Khan has “selected Ramiz Raja as Chairman PCB.”

    https://twitter.com/AbsaKomal/status/1429796388007780355?s=19

    Meanwhile, it has been reported that members of the PCB’s Board of Governors (BoG) will give votes to the nominated members and the new chairman will be elected. Raja will serve as a board member and then the Chairman will be selected after re-election.

    Ex-Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal has backed Ramiz Raja. Here’s what he said: “He hasn’t been going for commentary duties in the last couple of series and that gave us some signals for the future. A cricketer coming in as a chairman would benefit domestic cricket. It will bring in money.”

    People also shared jokes and memes after this news.

  • Get rid of Chairman Senate, we will topple Buzdar govt: PML-N tells PPP

    Get rid of Chairman Senate, we will topple Buzdar govt: PML-N tells PPP

    The Pakistan Mus­lim League-Nawaz (PML-N) says it is ready to support a no-confidence motion to overthrow the government provided the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) comes up with a workable proposal.

    “We’re ready to support the PPP’s idea for dislodging the PTI government through a no-confidence motion but it should put forward a workable proposal for this purpose,” said PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal, reported Dawn.

    If PPP brought a successful no-trust motion against the Senate chairman, then the PML-N would follow suit by moving a no-confidence motion in the Punjab Assembly, where the PPP has only six seats, said Iqbal.

    Iqbal said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman was “dancing to the tune of the government” because the latter had some (objectionable) video clips of the NAB chief.

    He challenged the NAB chairman to ask retired general Asim Saleem Bajwa as to how he had gathered assets worth millions of dollars through his salary.

    Regarding Prime Minister Imran Khan’s image of “Mr Clean”, the PML-N leader said he was living in a one kanal rented house and was paying more income tax than the premier who lives in a 300-plus kanal palace.

    Iqbal asked PTI supporters to explain this oddity to the masses.

  • Real insights into Junaid Safdar, Ayesha Saif’s royal Nikkah ceremony in London

    Real insights into Junaid Safdar, Ayesha Saif’s royal Nikkah ceremony in London

    PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, and Captain Muhammad Safdar Awan’s son Junaid Safdar married Ayesha Saif Khan in London on Sunday in a lavish ceremony. The duo tied the knot at The Lanesborough, a 5-star hotel in Knightsbridge.

    The beautiful bride donned India’s most sought after designer, Sabyasachi’s luxury collection at her Nikkah ceremony.

    Sabyasachi's
    Photo: Courtesy Zehra Photography
    Photo: Dawn
    Photo: Zayd Hussain Nawaz/Instagram
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    The photography has been done by Zehra Jagani, who managed to shoot the entire ceremony and décor with interesting camera angles. She was named amongst UK’s TOP 50 Wedding Photographers in 2020.

    The make-up and grooming of the bride has been done by a make-up artist and columnist Nikki Wolff who has worked with Hollywood biggies like Salma Hayek.

    Salma Hayek - IMDb

    The elegant floral décor has been done by acclaimed artist Tony Marklew.

    Ali Dar, son of Ishaq Dar and uncle to Junaid, posted “Here’s to an eternally blissful life ahead”.

    The soothing Harps were performed by Harpists Catrin and Isabella Asbjornsesn.

    The desserts were prepared by talented chefs Kevin and Maria.

    Read More: Ayesha Saif Khan donned Indian designer Sabyasachi’s luxury bridal collection at her royal Nikkah ceremony

  • Ayeza, Danish pay tribute to Deepika-Shahid by recreating their iconic look from ‘Padmaavat’

    Ayeza, Danish pay tribute to Deepika-Shahid by recreating their iconic look from ‘Padmaavat’

    Celebrity couple, Ayeza Khan and Danish Taimoor have recreated Deepika Padukone and Shahid Kapoor’s iconic pose from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat. The duo shot together for a clothing brand’s promotional photoshoot.

    The Meray Paas Tum Ho star recently paid tribute to transnational female superstars.

    The Meherposh duo recently celebrated their daughter, Hoorain’s birthday and her tooth falling in multiple lavish ceremonies.

    Ayeza Khan, Danish Taimoor celebrate their Eid with family

    On the work front, Danish is currently featuring in Ishq Hai co-starring Minal Khan whereas Ayeza is starring in Laapata opposite Ali Rehman Khan.

  • Ayesha Saif Khan donned Indian designer Sabyasachi’s luxury bridal collection at her royal Nikkah ceremony

    Ayesha Saif Khan donned Indian designer Sabyasachi’s luxury bridal collection at her royal Nikkah ceremony

    PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, and Captain Muhammad Safdar Awan’s son Junaid Safdar married Ayesha Saif Khan in London on Sunday in a lavish ceremony. The duo tied the knot at The Lanesborough, a 5-star hotel in Knightsbridge.

    The beautiful bride donned India’s most sought after designer, Sabyasachi’s luxury collection at her Nikkah ceremony.

    Photo: Courtesy Zehra Photography

    Maryam Nawaz took to her twitter handle to post her blessings for the newly-weds.

    Photo: Dawn

  • Pakistan’s Syed Imaad Ali wins World Youth Scrabble Championship

    Pakistan’s Syed Imaad Ali wins World Youth Scrabble Championship

    Pakistan’s Syed Imaad Ali won the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Karachi on Sunday, reported Dawn.

    The 15-year-old player defeated his opponent in nine out of 13 games in Sunday’s finals as Pakistan finished first in the tournament, with Hasham Hadi Khan — another Pakistani — to qualify for the final with 26 wins, coming in fourth after winning in seven games.

    Two more Pakistani players, Ali Salman and Usman Shaukat, remained in the top 10 till the last round of the championship’s group stage but were unlucky to miss out narrowly after losing their last games.

    Syed Imaad Ali opened up an early lead in the tournament and had soared to the top position with 11 wins and one tie by the completion of the first 12 rounds.

    After this success, he is now the first and only scrabble player to win the World Youth title twice. He previously won the 2018 championship in Dubai, clinched the Junior World Scrabble Championship in Torquay, England, in November 2019, and was also the youngest player to do so.

    Pakistan was awarded the rights to hold the World English Scrabble Players Association (WESPA) Youth Cup for the second year running.

    The championship has been played annually since 2006 in different parts of the world but could not be played after 2019 due to the pandemic outbreak.

  • چیختے چلاتے مرد اور ان کی انا کا برج خلیفہ

    چیختے چلاتے مرد اور ان کی انا کا برج خلیفہ

    میرے خیال سے دو مہینے  ہو گئے ہیں ۔ میں روز جاگتی ہوں ،روز ایک عورت سے متعلق دل دہلا دینے والی خبر ہوتی ہے  ۔ میں اس خبر کے خوف میں رہتی ہوں ، واویلا مچتا ہے  ، بحث ہوتی ہے ، گرفتاری ہوتی ہے ، اور  اس کے ساتھ ہی سارا الزام عورت پر ہی  لگ جاتا ہے  ۔ اس پوری روٹین میں ایک دن بھی فرق نہیں  آیا ۔ میں اس پورے سلسلے میں ایک ہی چیز پر حیران ہوتی ہوں اور وہ ہے مرد کا چیخنا چلانا ۔  مطلب تشدد بھی عورت پر ہوا ، قتل بھی عورت ہوئی ، عزت بھی  عورت  کی لٹی ، لیکن واویلا صرف مرد مچا رہے ہوتے ہیں ۔ عورتوں کو ایک عورت کے بارے میں ہی بات کرنے کی اجازت نہیں کیونکہ وہ اجازت بھی شاید مرد ہی دینا چاہتے ہیں ۔ مرد کی چونکہ عزت کے خلاف ہے اپنی غلطی ماننا تو یہ قدرتی بات ہے کہ وہ روئے گا ، چلائے  گا ، اور عجیب وغریب دلیلیں بھی دے گا ۔ جہاں تک میں نے دیکھا ہے ، مرد کی برداشت کے 5 مرحلے ہیں۔ آپ چاہیں تو اس میں اضافہ بھی کر سکتے ہیں ۔

    پہلا مرحلہ ہوتا ہے جہاں مرد کہتے ہیں “دنیا میں پاکستان سے زیادہ عورت کی عزت کہیں نہیں ہوتی “۔ یہ ہمارے وزیرِ اعظم بھی کہتے ہیں ۔ جب ہم عورتیں یہ کہتی ہیں کہ کہاں کی عزت جب روز کسی عورت کی عزت لٹتی ہے یا عورت کا قتل ہوتا ہے تو  اس پر مرد کہتے ہیں ” ہم  اتنی عزت کرتے ہیں آپ کی  ۔ تندور پر جو قطار بنی ہوتی ہے ، ادھر ہم عورتوں کو پہلے روٹی دیتے ہیں “۔ یا پھر” جب عورت  اے ٹی ایم پر جاتی ہے  تو ہم اسے پہلے پیسے لینے دیتے ہیں ” اتنی تو  عزت دیتے ہیں ، تو  کیا ہوا اگر تھوڑا مار لیا یا قتل کر دیا؟ اور کیا چاہتی ہیں آپ، اور کیا حقوق  چاہئیں ہیں آپ کو ؟

    پھر مرد آتا ہے دوسرے مرحلے کی جانب ۔ اس میں وہ کہتا ہے پوری دنیا کے مقابلے میں پاکستانی عورت پاکستان میں محفوظ ہے ۔ جب عورتیں کہتی ہیں کہ کہاں محفوظ ہیں ؟ کبھی عورت کو کوئی ہاتھ مار جاتا ہے ، کبھی عورت پر 400 مرد حملہ کر دیتے ہیں ، کبھی عورت کے پیچھے گاڑی  لگ جاتی ہے ، کہاں محفوظ ہے؟ اس پر مرد حضرات کا جواب ہوتا ہے ” تو نہ جائیں باہر ” یا پھر وہ کہتے ہیں “ہاں  تو کچھ کیا  ہوگا ، کپڑے ٹھیک نہیں ہوں گے ، یہ نہیں ہوگا ، وہ نہیں ہوگا ” ۔ مرد اِس بات کو سمجھ ہی نہیں پاتے کہ عورت میں کچھ نہیں ہوتا ،ساری غلاظت ان کے ذہن میں ہوتی ہے ۔ سارا کا سارا  گند ان کے دماغ میں ہروقت رچا بسا رہتا ہے  جس کی وجہ سے نہ وہ سیدھا  سوچ پاتے ہیں اور نہ ہی کچھ سیدھا کر پاتے ہیں ۔

    پھر آتا ہے تیسرا مر حلہ  جس میں وہ کہتے ہیں کہ عورت نے خود کروایا ہے تاکہ وہ ملک سے باہر جا سکے ۔ یا پھر انڈیا نے فلاں فلاں کو پیسے دے کر یہ کروایا ہے تاکہ پاکستان کو بدنام کیا جا سکے ۔اور اس مرحلے پر مرد کی آواز کافی اونچی ہو جاتی ہے ، صبر کا پیمانہ لبریز ہورہا ہوتا ہے ، وہ سارا غصہ جو ان کو عورت کے “ہونے ” پر ہے، وہ اندر کھولنے لگتا ہے ۔ یہ کہنا غلط نہ ہوگا کہ “مرد ایک نازک موڑ سے گزر رہا ہوتا ہے” جدھر اسے ہارٹ اٹیک ہو سکتا ہے یا پھر گردے بھی فیل ہو  سکتے ہیں کیونکہ خدا نخواستہ وہ کیسے مان لے کہ غلطی مردوں کی ہے ؟

    چوتھا مرحلہ وہ ہوتا ہے جس میں وہ آپ کو یاد کرواتے ہیں کہ آپ کے ابو آپ کا بھائی یا آپ کا خاوند بھی مرد ہے ۔ صبر کا زہر پی کر  وہ آپ کو  کہتے ہیں کہ “اگر مرد اتنا برا لگتا ہے تو ابو کو بھی مار دو ” خدا کی قسم ، اس نکتے پر میری  اپنی ہنسی نکل جاتی ہے کہ آخر یہ مرد کیوں اتنا مجبور ہے  اپنی انا کےہاتھوں، آخر مسئلہ کیا ہے؟

    پھر آتا ہے پانچواں اور آخری مرحلہ جس میں مرد کہتا ہے  ” میری ہو گئی ہے بس کاٹ دے میری کوئی نس “۔ اس مرحلے میں اسے پہلے دو مرحلے جس میں وہ عورت کے محفوظ ہونے اور عورت کو عزت دینے کے نعرے کو بھول جاتا ہے ۔ اس کے اندر کا وہی درندہ جاگ جاتا ہے جو نور کے قاتل ظاہر میں ہے ، ان 400 مردوں میں ہے جو عورت پر جھپٹ پڑتے ہیں ، اوران  مولویوں میں ہے جو مدرسوں میں بچوں کو بھی  نہیں چھوڑتے ۔ مرد آپ کو ایسی گالیاں دے گا کہ آپ کو یا تو سمجھ نہیں آئے گی کہ یہ کہا کیا  ہے  یا پھر آپ صدمے میں چلی جائیں گی یہ زبان ہے عورت کو “عزت ” دینے والے کی ۔ ان 5 مرحلوں میں آپ عورت ہوتے ہوئے محسوس  کریں گی کہ  مرد خاموش نہیں ہوگا ، ایک سیکینڈ کے لیے بھی منہ بند نہیں کرے گا ۔ وہ آپ کو بات کرنے ہی نہیں دے گا ۔ کیونکہ وہ جانتا ہے کہ اگر اس نے خدا نخواستہ سن لیا ، تو وہ سوچنے لگ جائے گا ۔ اگر اس نے سوچ لیا ، تو شاید اس کو عورت کی بات ٹھیک لگنے لگے گی ۔   اس ٹھیک لگنے پراسے شاید  شرم بھی آ جائے ، اور شاید اسے معافی بھی مانگنی پڑے ۔ جیسے ہی معافی کا لفظ ذہن میں آئے گا مرد پھر سے  وہی درندہ بن جائے گا !

    اس لیے میری بہنوں ! آپ کی جنگ جائز ہے ۔ آ پ کا بار بار آواز اٹھانا جائز ہے ۔  لیکن  یہ مت بھولیں کہ اگلے کے لیے غلطی ماننا ناجائز ہے !

  • Samar Khan accused of faking cycling to K2 base camp, clarifies her stance

    Samar Khan accused of faking cycling to K2 base camp, clarifies her stance

    Samar Khan has clarified her stance after a handful of people tried to dismiss her achievement.

    The Current reached out to Samar after her audio clip was leaked on social media by a journalist Jamil Nagri in which she was allegedly being angry at the journalist and locals of Gilgit-Baltistan for dismissing her feat.

    When we asked her about the area she covered on her bicycle and on foot, she said: “Around 15-20 per cent of the trek is paddled by me, in remaining parts I mostly dragged and lifted my bike, as there was hardly a trek for proper walk.”

    When we questioned her about the leaked audio, she clarified: “It’s a leaked WhatsApp audio, where my response has been uploaded on Twitter by a local Balti Journalist Jamil Nagri, whose abuse on social media I was answering at that time. He, with his few friends, started mocking and abusing me on different platforms and the audio is more than this, but a specific chunk has been leaked to use it against me and to get sympathies by using GB (Gilgit-Baltistan) card and arousing emotions of the locals.”

    “Being an athlete, I just rode my bicycle, which made these weak men insecure enough to play these games against me,” she added.

    “I already released my statement on Twitter with an apology but still receiving life threats and abuse.”

    Taking to Twitter, she wrote: “I take complete responsibility of my words but keep in mind it was a personal voice note intended for a single individual, so all of my F’s goes to him only, because nobody can bring here a single public post of mine which spreads hate between #GB.”

    “I offer my apologies to Balti friends whose sentiments got hurt by my words. I am grateful for all the love I always received from GB. I wish the complete abuse would have been shared here instead of uploading a chunk from my response to manipulate people for personal sympathies,” she said in another tweet.

    https://twitter.com/SKhanAthlete/status/1428982990114213888?s=20

    Khan has become the only female cyclist to reach the base camp of the world’s second tallest peak K2. She holds the title of the first Pakistani to summit Mount Kilimanjaro and the Biafo Glaciers in the Karakoram Range on a bike, has set a unique record by reaching the base camp of the savage mountain via cycle.

    Earlier, Samar gave it back with the same dismissiveness.