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  • Our words are scripted; Faysal Quraishi replies to ‘Zulm’ legal notice

    Our words are scripted; Faysal Quraishi replies to ‘Zulm’ legal notice

    Karachi Bar Association turned its guns on famous actor Faysal Quraishi and HUM for allegedly showing lawyers in a bad light in their show ‘Zulm’.

    Led by Ikhtiar Ali Channa and Zahid Hussain Soomro, the Association is especially unhappy about Faysal supposedly saying rude things about lawyers.

    The Bar Association said that how lawyers are shown in the drama is disrespectful and hurts their image. They want everyone involved, including Faysal and the TV channel owner, to say sorry.

    The Bar Association also said they might take legal action against those involved. Faysal responded on Instagram, thanking Kaiser Khan Nizamani, a lawyer, for talking to him about the problem.
    “A notification was issued after which all hell broke loose. My fans and friends were worried all morning. At the place I was at, there weren’t any signals there. So anyway, I was getting a lot of calls but I’m very grateful to Kaiser Khan Nizamani Sahib, who is a lawyer of Karachi High Court and Karachi Bar Court,” Faysal said.

    He added, “I’m very thankful to him that he called me up and he asked me what the problem was. So I told him, look Sir you understand that as an actor there is no fault of ours in this, we say whatever is written.”

    The actor understood why lawyers were upset and said sorry if anyone felt bad because of the show. He reminded his followers that he just acts out what’s written in the scripts.”In this show, there were things we didn’t agree with personally. We told them we wouldn’t say certain things, so we didn’t.”

    “Sometimes, mistakes happen, and things get said that shouldn’t. Those can be fixed later. Anyway, the show aired, and our lawyer friend was upset. I’m really sorry if anyone got hurt,” he said.
    Faysal emphasized that even though it’s normal in showbiz, he felt really sorry that people were hurt. “I don’t like hurting anyone personally because I’m part of this community too. If someone said something hurtful about me, it would hurt. So, we’ll try to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” he concluded.

  • Wordle saves woman’s life when she didn’t post her score

    Wordle saves woman’s life when she didn’t post her score

    An 80-year-old woman in the US, who was being held hostage by an intruder, was saved because she had not texted her daily Wordle score to one of her daughters. Wordle is a popular word game, which has recently been bought by the New York Times.

    According to media reports, Denyse Holt was woken up by a naked man with a knife in the middle of the night. The 32-year-old intruder also disconnected her phones and took two knives from her kitchen before taking her to the basement and locking her there for 17 hours without food or medication. “I didn’t think I was going to live,” she told CBS Chicago.

    Her daughter in Seattle thought something was off when her mother did not text her daily Wordle score. “I didn’t send my older daughter a Wordle in the morning and that was disconcerting to her,” said Holt.

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    Friends and family alerted the police, who found a broken window on the first floor of the home and blood when they arrived at Holt’s home. Police told CBS Chicago that the intruder, James H. Davis III, was taken into custody and is facing felony charges. He continued to refuse to surrender but was eventually caught by the police. Davis was charged with home invasion, aggravated kidnapping while armed with a weapon and two counts of aggravated assault against a peace officer.

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  • ‘Accha’ is now a dictionary word

    ‘Accha’ is now a dictionary word

    Accha, probably one of the most commonly used words in the country, has been recognised as a real word and added in the Cambridge Dictionary.

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    The Cambridge Dictionary, produced by Cambridge University Press, is one of the world’s most well-known, trusted and credible English dictionary sources and they have added word Accha also Achha as an expression which, according to it, means “That’s good. Go ahead.”

    The word in it is used for showing surprise or happiness. “I managed to buy it for half the price. Accha!“

    Meanwhile, the Cambridge Dictionary has also declared Quarantine as its word of the year. According to the dictionary, quarantine was the third most-searched for word during the year, with maximum searches between March 18 and 24, when restrictions began to be imposed due to the pandemic.

    Alongside quarantine, other coronavirus-related words, including pandemic and lockdown, ranked highly on Cambridge Dictionary’s most popular list for 2020.