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  • [GRAPHIC WARNING] Indian Army resorts to pellet guns in Kashmir to stop Muharram processions

    [GRAPHIC WARNING] Indian Army resorts to pellet guns in Kashmir to stop Muharram processions

    Armed forces in Srinagar of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IoJ&K) have fired pellet guns and tear gas on the troubled valley’s Shia community members in attempts to keep them from taking out Muharram processions on Ashura, it has emerged.

    According to reports, dozens of people sustained injuries as Indian military fired pellet guns to keep them from attending religious gatherings.

    Pictures doing rounds on social media showed people lying in hospitals with severe wounds on the face and other body parts.

    https://twitter.com/kashmirosint/status/1299723646861078529?s=20

    https://twitter.com/Habeebinamdar/status/1299709357748187136?s=20
    https://twitter.com/aarifshaah/status/1300118619909574656?s=20

    The acts of brutality from Sunday were condemned by Pakistan.

    In a statement, Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that due to the illegal and indiscriminate use of pellets, dozens of Kashmiris were wounded and some had sustained eye injuries causing permanent blindness.

    Meanwhile, Indian media tried to defend the violence as journalists, including Gaurav C Sawant, took to Twitter and wrote, “If one breaks the law, one should be ready to face the full force of law enforcement agencies.”

  • Kabul University teacher feeding student’s child during an exam wins hearts

    Kabul University teacher feeding student’s child during an exam wins hearts

    A picture of a professor at Kabul University, Afghanistan feeding one of his student’s child while she was taking her exam went viral on social media.

    As per reports, last week, a four-month-old son of a student at Kabul University cried and she was trying to make her baby calm instead of solving the exam. Amid all this, a teacher came forward and took the child in his arms and started feeding him through a feeder.

    The mother of the child completed her exam and someone in the examination hall took the picture and posted it on social media.

    https://twitter.com/NiqabiTilFajr/status/1300195905832914945?s=20

    The teacher in the picture is actually Mahmood Marhoon, a lecturer in the Pashto department at Kabul University. While speaking to BBC, he said that after the photo, he had received messages from many countries around the world appreciating him for his kind gesture.

  • Karachiites lash out at K-electric for power outage, KE responds

    Karachiites lash out at K-electric for power outage, KE responds

    As this year’s spell of monsoon rains wreaks havoc in Karachi, flooded roads and houses, clogged drains and power outages have been disrupting Karachiites’ routine for the past few days.

    Amid all this, the city’s residents found themselves in added misery as there is also hours-long power outages. Most of them have taken to Twitter to share the current situation of the city and express their outrage over the situation. K-electric has said that “power will be restored as soon as it is safe to do”.

    Actor Ushna Shah also tweeted: “Excuses excuses guys. No flooding in Phase 6 and no power since almost 20 hours now.” She added that DM (direct message) is also of no use.

    Other Twitter users had similar woes.

    https://twitter.com/cobrachandio/status/1299164438457540610?s=20

    Later, K-Electric said that “several areas remain inaccessible due to high water level” and that “power will continue to remain closed until all standing water is cleared”.

  • Doctor on Indian TV soap uses bathroom scrubbers as defibrillators

    A scene from an Indian soap Krishnakoli has left the Internet in shock where a doctor is seen using bathroom scrubbers brush instead of a real defibrillator. 

    A video clip of Krishnakoli was shared on August 19, where a doctor is struggling to save the life of a patient, while the patient’s wife is praying in one corner.

     However, what caught everyone’s attention was not the patient or the doctor but the green scrubber brush that the doctor is using on the show.

    The doctor is seen rubbing the brushes together and putting them on another actor, who jumps up in ‘shock’.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=Rluh4iMfCag&feature=emb_title

    The screenshots of the scene are doing rounds on social media and people can’t stop trolling it.

    https://twitter.com/r_bhaduri/status/1296500367715262464?s=20
    https://twitter.com/r_bhaduri/status/1296500367715262464?s=20

  • Did you know Indians made desi version of ‘FRIENDS’?

    We just found out that there exists a desi version of FRIENDS made by ZeeTv. Episodes of the desi version titled ‘HELLO FRIENDS‘ are on YouTube and it is not only unfunny but also unoriginal because the makers copied each and every scene and the exact dialogues from the original. Needless to Friends fans were outraged with this and some even called it a bigger pandemic than COVID-19.

    A Twitter user posted a video of its opening scene on the microblogging site and people think it was not a good idea to make a desi version of the super hit show.

    https://twitter.com/PancholiRudri/status/1293949864879902722?s=20

  • Indian court orders man to get Rakhi tied from woman he molested, sparks outrage on Twitter

    Indian court orders man to get Rakhi tied from woman he molested, sparks outrage on Twitter

    The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that an accused molester who forced entry into a woman’s house could be granted bail on grounds that he agrees to get a rakhi tied by her on the day of Rakshabandhan. The court also asked the man to give Rs 11,000 to the woman as part of a customary offering made by brothers to sisters on the occasion and seek her blessings.

    Rakshabandhan is an Indian ceremony during which a sister ties a bracelet to her brother’s wrist to honour the relationship between brother and sister.

    In the order, the court said, “The applicant, along with his wife, shall visit the house of the complainant with a rakhi (thread/band) on August 3 at 11 am with a box of sweets and request the complainant to tie the rakhi band to him with the promise to protect her to the best of his ability for all times to come.”

    The man named Vikram Bagri is accused of entering the 30-year-old woman’s house in Ujjain on April 20. Bagri has also been ordered to give Rs 5,000 to the complainant’s son to buy clothes and sweets.

    The bizarre order sparked outrage on social media.

    https://twitter.com/mobeenrb/status/1289992785697705984?s=20

  • Fact Check: Notification asking barbers’ not to style customers’ beards is fake

    Fact Check: Notification asking barbers’ not to style customers’ beards is fake

    Claim: A notification has been issued claiming that the barbers are now forbidden from styling their customers’ beard

    Fact: This was a fake notification according to the Balochistan Government spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani

    A notification stating that barbers who style their customer’s beards will be charged with blasphemy is doing the rounds on social media.

    However, Spokesperson of the Balochistan Government, Liaquat Shahwani said that the notification is fake.

    “Balochistan Govt has got nothing to do with personal matters of citizens”, wrote Shahwani on Twitter.

    Earlier, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Rukhsana Kausar had tabled a resolution in the provincial house of Punjab seeking a ban on beard styling and action against men with fashionable beards as well as their barbers. However, it was never implemented.

    VERDICT: FALSE

  • Official, who banned books in Punjab over ‘blasphemous and anti-Pakistan’ content, is a ‘pervert and misogynist’

    Official, who banned books in Punjab over ‘blasphemous and anti-Pakistan’ content, is a ‘pervert and misogynist’

    Punjab Curriculum & Textbook Board (PCTB) Managing Director (MD) Rai Manzoor Hussain Nasir, who had on Thursday banned 100 books being taught in private schools for carrying “blasphemous and anti-Pakistan” content, has come under fire for being what Twitterati call is a “pervert and misogynist”.

    BOOKS BAN:

    Addressing a press conference, Nasir said that the PCTB had started critical review of 10,000 books being taught by private schools across the province and in the first phase had banned 100 books of 31 publishers including Oxford and Cambridge for blasphemous, immoral and anti-Pakistan content.

    The PCTB MD said that the board had formed 30 committees for this purpose. He said it was sad that nobody checked these books earlier and had no idea what was being taught to our kids in private schools against hefty fees. He said the banned books had distorted facts about Pakistan and its creation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal while these books also carried blasphemous content. He said Pakistan was portrayed as an inferior country to India while Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) was also shown as part of India in maps in some of these books.

    Rai Manzoor Nasir said that instead of including sayings of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal, etc. one of the books carried sayings of Mahatma Gandhi and some unknown people. He said in a book of Mathematics counting concepts were made explained to the young students showing pictures of pigs. He said one of the books by Cambridge tried to promote crime and violence among the students on the basis of unemployment in the country.

    The PCTB MD said that these 100 books had been immediately banned and the publishers had been directed to immediately stop publishing and selling the books. He said District Education Authorities (DEAs) across Punjab will visit private schools (after reopening of schools) to check if these books were still being taught. He said FIRs would be registered against the publishers for violation under the provisions of the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board Act 2015.

    ‘PERVERT AND MISOGYNIST’:

    Already under fire for what was criticised as a move to “crackdown on the future of children by banning books”, things took an uglier turn for the PCTB MD as Twitterati called him out over “hypocrisy” and being a “pervert and misogynist”.

    Besides calling him out for liking porn videos on Twitter, netizens also highlighted that Nasir was involved in moral policing over the social networking site.

    He was also criticised for being a racist and tweeting against Afghan refugees.

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  • WWE legend The Undertaker joins TikTok

    WWE legend The Undertaker joins TikTok

    World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) legend The Undertaker shocked fans with a bombshell by creating an account on TikTok.

    He was away from social media for the longest time but then he joined Twitter two years ago, and Instagram just last year. After creating an account on TikTok, the legend has over 59,000 followers on the app despite not posting anything as of yet.

    Undertaker has preserved the nature of his character for the longest time and has a persona of a macho guy, that is why fans were stunned over the development given the content on TikTok doesn’t really go with the stature of his personality. Consequently, people started posting memes on Twitter.

    All in all fans were bewildered by Undertaker’s move to the social media app.

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  • Zobia Meer Case: Man’s wife responds to allegations

    The wife of Arsalan, the man who was seen beating and abusing his mother in the video, has responded to allegations of physical and verbal abuse.

    Taking to social media, Arsalan’s wife posted a video and said that the allegations her sister-in-law and mother-in-law have made are false. She said that her husband has asthma and she is six months pregnant.

    “My mother-in-law attacked my husband’s private parts which made him unconscious. She also attacked my private parts as she wanted to abort my child,” said the woman in the video.

    She also alleged that her mother-in-law beat her daughter and that Zobia Meer did not share the complete video.

    The woman further said that the mother and daughter broke their cars, hid their jewellery, ID cards and other papers.

    “They broke things in my room and even hid my daughter’s milk,” she added.

    According to the woman, Zobia is her husband’s half-sister and that the property that Zobia claimed they ran away with is in her husband’s name.

    Late Tuesday night, a video of a man beating and abusing his mother went viral on social media. Rawalpindi police registered a case against the culprit after the social media users including journalists, celebrities and social activists condemned the incident and demanded justice from the authorities.