Pakistani singer, social activist and discoverer of the fountain-of-youth, Shehzad Roy, posted his latest picture on Twitter, leaving fans going gaga over him.
Minutes after the picture was posted on the social website, Twitterati questioned Roy if he would ever age.
Here are few of the comments;
Bollywood is often criticised for remixing old classic songs now and ruining the original essence of cult songs. Now, Pakistan’s pop icon Nazia Hassan’s iconic track Aap Jaisa Koi has been revamped for Ayushmann Khurrana’s upcoming film, An Action Hero.
The new version, sung by Zahrah S Khan and Altamash Faridi, was released on YouTube on Saturday. It also marks the comeback of the Chaiyya Chaiyya diva Malaika Arora. Hassan’s vocals were initially picturised on Zeenat Aman, and late actors Feroz Khan and Vinod Khanna in the 1980 Bollywood film Qurbani.
Aap Jaisa Koi was a touchstone track in the disco movement back in the day.
Actor Adnan Siddiqui tweeted his opinion on the remixed track on Twitter.
He wrote, “Is there something in the air that the world has suddenly developed a penchant for ruining perfect classics? Even re-creation requires talent. Nazia Hassan must be turning in her grave. #AapJaisaKoi nahi..”
The heavily auto-tuned newer remixed version has also been panned by netizens. Not only they termed it “unnecessary” but also “criminal” by social media users. Netizens took to Twitter to rant about how the Indian industry should stop “ruining classics” and focus on creating new music instead and how the originals remain “unmatched.”
Earlier this year, Bollywood upset Pakistani fans after recreating Abrar ul Haq’s Nach Punjabun in the Varun Dhawan starrer, JuggJugg Jeeyo. In May this year, Haq had accused filmmaker Karan Johar and his Dharma Productions of stealing his music.
A resident of Karachi, identified as Fawad, killed his wife and three daughters in Shamsi Society in Malir before attempting suicide. He is now admitted in a hospital where his condition is said to be critical.
Local police have said that they found the bloodied remains of a woman aged 38 and three girls, 16, 12, and 10 in the house.
According to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sajid Sadozai, the man first killed his daughters then his wife with a sharp-edged tool as a knife has been recovered from the scene. He also added the incident was the result of an internal dispute within the family.
“The suspect, a sales manager at a spice-selling company by profession, tried to commit suicide after killing his wife and daughters,” the police official said.
The SSP said the house was locked from the inside after the murders, “which indicates the suspect was behind the killings”.
When the incident happened, Fawad’s brother, whose family lives just one floor below Fawad’s, was at work and the neighbours were also unaware of the incident.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan will make an important announcement regarding the dissolution of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) assemblies next week, Geo News has reported.
Khan will address all PTI members of the assembly via a video link. Meetings for both KP and Punjab parliamentary parties have also been called.
The KP Parliamentary Party meeting will be held on Friday while the Punjab Parliamentary Party meeting will be held on Saturday, in which Khan will take both parties into confidence to dissolve the assemblies
The meeting also decided that the PTI would approach the National Assembly (NA) speaker and push him to accept the resignations of its legislators.
On Saturday, Khan announced that PTI wouldn’t be part of “this system” and would quit all the assemblies. Following the announcement, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi showed support for Khan’s decision.
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Muhammad Rizwan gifted his spiked shoes to a young player when he bowled him out during a practice session ahead of the Pakistan-England Test series.
In a video —which has been trending on social media—the young man said that Rizwan told the younger players that whoever gets his wicket, will be given a gift.
The man said that he got Rizwan’s wicket and was later gifted a pair of shoes by him.
This is not the first time that Rizwan has been generous. Earlier, he gifted his jersey to an Indian doctor who cured him when his health deteriorated during T20 World Cup 2020.
Last month, the wicketkeeper completed 2500 runs in T20Is and became only the third Pakistani after Muhammad Hafeez and Babar Azam to do so.
Rizwan will be seen in action during Pakistan’s upcoming Test series against England in December. The first match of the series will be played in Rawalpindi.
Strangely, the Pakistani rupee (PKR) did not increase or decrease at the time of closing on Tuesday. The PKR’s closing rate was Rs223.95 and showed no change from its previous closing rate of Rs223.95.
The local currency only declined by one paisa on Monday.
After falling for four straight days, the rupee’s slide against the US dollar came to an end today. The market confidence was bolstered by the Finance Division’s earlier confirmation of receiving $500 million from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
What do Pakistanis think of the current dollar exchange rate?
Some Twitter users claim that the government is controlling exchange rates, which will harm the economy in the long run since exporters are reluctant to accept payments made through banking channels and question why they should sell dollars to banks for less when the open market price is more than Rs250.
The daily dollar rate announcement from SBP, according to a Twitter user, has lost all relevance because “the rate is controlled and not determined by market forces. The hefty difference between the interbank rate and the open market rate proves the point.”
The government of Pakistan on Tuesday received $500 million from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday.
“Government of Pakistan has today received $500 million from AIIB. The funds are deposited with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and will augment our reserves,” the ministry said.
The funds by AIIB are crucial for the cash-strapped country, which has seen its foreign exchange reserves dwindle in recent months. The country’s reserves stood at $7.8 billion as of November 18.
“During the week ended on November 18, 2022, SBP’s reserves decreased by $134 million to $7,825.7 million due to external debt repayment,” said the SBP on Friday.
It is important to note that on October 26, 2022, the SBP got $1.5 billion from ADB as a loan disbursement for the government of Pakistan.
An agreement between the ADB and Pakistan was inked last month to offer a $1.5 billion loan for budgetary support as well as assistance with flood-related repair and reconstruction efforts.
The government’s $2.3 billion countercyclical development spending programme, created to lessen the effects of external shocks like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was funded in part by a loan issued under the BRACE Program.
Chief Minister (CM) of Punjab, Pervaiz Elahi, taking a jibe at the Opposition, said on Tuesday, “No-confidence motion ka jisy shoq hai woh le aye” (whoever wants a no-confidence motion can bring it on).
Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) including its Chairman Shakeel Masood Hussain and others, Elahi reiterated that he and his party members were standing with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and that the Punjab Assembly would be dissolved immediately when Khan orders it.
He said that the Opposition can only raise slogans which is not enough for them to bring a no-confidence motion.
The nexus of PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) members in the Punjab Assembly stands at 191. The Opposition is in minority and would remain in minority, he predicted.
“If the assembly is in session, there can be no voting on the no-confidence motion and no vote of confidence. If the assembly is in session, governor’s rule cannot be imposed,” he explained and asserted that everything was being done within the limits of the Constitution and law.
On Monday, the PML-N’s parliamentary party held a meeting in which they decided in principle to use all ‘available tactics’ to prevent PTI’s proposed plan to have the provincial assembly dissolved.
The meeting discussed the prospects of tabling a no-trust move against CM Elahi, imposition of the governor’s rule and the governor seeking a vote of confidence from the CM.
Around Rs.80 to Rs.100 million would be required to conduct elections on one National Assembly (NA) seat, while the cost of polls on one provincial assembly seat would be approximately Rs.60 to Rs.70 million, reports Geo News.
In a statement Monday, an ECP spokesperson said that the Commission is bound to hold elections in 60 days in case a seat falls vacant.
The official said that an election on a National Assembly seat costs Rs.80 to Rs.100 million, while the estimated expenditure of an election on a provincial assembly seat is Rs.60 to 70 million.
“In case of dissolution of an assembly, elections will be held only for the respective assembly seat,” the spokesperson said.
Imran Khan, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced on Saturday that his party will quit all assemblies in its bid to pressurise the Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif-led government into early general elections.
However, PTI — which has called off the long march to Islamabad — is yet to make a final announcement on when it is quitting the assemblies.
Following Khan’s announcement, PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry tweeted that elections will be held on a total of 563 seats across Pakistan which include 123 seats in the National Assembly, 297 seats in Punjab, 115 seats in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 26 seats each in Sindh and Balochistan.
Sindh government on Monday announced launching a mobile application for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening test, Samaa has reported.
Head of Communicable Disease Control Program of Sindh Health Department, Dr Ershad Kazmi, while addressing an awareness session on HIV at Karachi Press Club said that there are some people who want to get tested for HIV but want to keep their identity hidden.
He said that this application is being launched for such individuals to get tested without revealing their identity.
The UNAIDS research estimates that 0.21 million persons in Pakistan are HIV positive.
According to Dr. Ershad, 19,766 of the 90,300 HIV-positive individuals in the country are registered in Sindh and are receiving free medical care from the government.
1,500 transgender people were registered in Sindh through the UNDP HIV Program.