Actor Areeba Habib’s Shendi took place yesterday on December 2nd in Karachi.
The pictures from the event have gone viral on social media. Many celebrities including Mansha Pasha, Aiman Khan, Iqra Aziz, Yasir Hussain and Sadaf Kanwal and Shahroz Sabzwari were spotted having fun on the wedding.
Areeba made a gorgeous bride in an off white ensemble paired with traditional jewelry.
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Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin termed the geo-political situation of the region as a reason for the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) to impose strict conditions on Pakistan.
The finance minister spoke about a number of issues, including the Supplementary Finance Bill 2021, inflation, State Bank Amendment Bill, prior actions demanded by IMF, and other core issues related to finance on Geo News‘ programme ‘Naya Pakistan’.
The minister, terming the geo-political situation of the region as a reason for the IMF being forceful, said that the talks with the lender aiming to restore the United States (US) $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) were not a piece of cake after the US pullout of Afghanistan.
Tarin admitted that America was behind IMF to impose strict conditions on Pakistan.
The finance minister said that the petroleum levy in fuel prices has been increased as per the IMF’s demand.
“We had cut down the sales tax on petroleum products to zero but were compelled to apply the petroleum levy due to IMF’s strict behaviour,” said Tarin, adding that the IMF had lent the country some money back in March 2021 on account of an increase in the petroleum levy.
Former Pakistan cricket team captain Mohammad Hafeez has announced his retirement from international cricket, ending a career spanning more than 18 years with the Pakistan side. His international debut was in an ODI against Zimbabwe in 2003, and his last match was Pakistan’s defeat against Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-final last November.
The 41-year-old top-order batter and off-spinner, has signed up with Lahore Qalandars for the upcoming edition of the PSL and will continue to be available for franchise cricket around the world.
As per his ESPN cricinfo, Hafeez played 55 Tests, 218 ODIs and 119 T20Is while amassing 12,780 runs across formats, and grabbed 32 Player-of-the-Match awards, the fourth-highest among Pakistan players in all international cricket, with only Shahid Afridi (43), Wasim Akram (39) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (33) above him. In addition to that, Hafeez also earned nine Player-of-the-Series awards, joint-second with Imran Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis.
Hafeez retired from Test cricket in December 2018, with selectors later deciding to move on from him in ODIs after the 2019 World Cup, where he played his last match of the format – against Bangladesh at Lord’s.
He is the only Pakistan player to have played in all but one T20 World Cup – the one Pakistan ended up winning in 2009 – and holds the Pakistan record for most T20 World Cup appearances. Hafeez also led Pakistan to the 2012 World T20 semi-final.
After he announced his retirement, his colleagues and Twitterati wished him good luck with heart-warming messages.
Actor Sajal Aly is opening about her relationship with husband Ahad Raza Mir and how their equation developed over the years.
Speaking to journalist Maliha Rehman in a recent interview, the Khel Khel Mein spilled the beans on how the Sammi star proposed her.
“Ahad has talked about me a lot in his past interviews but, somehow, I’m only doing it now,” she smiles. “It’s just that I rarely give interviews and I worry that, if I’ll get asked about Ahad, I’ll just end up going on and on.”
Walking down the memory lane, the Mom star spilled how Ahad had asked her hand in marriage on the sets of Aangan.
“We had just got engaged when we started working in Aangan together. He had proposed to me and I had told him that he needed to reach out to my family. The very next day, I had fallen ill and Ahad’s mother had come to take care of me for three days. My father had been very surprised but my sister told him that Ahad’s family were thinking of marriage. Once I got better, Ahad’s parents came to Lahore, met my family and we got engaged.
She continued, “I later asked Ahad why he had been in such a hurry to get engaged. He told me that he had been afraid that, if he didn’t ask me to marry him, he would lose me, and I would marry someone else.”
Speaking about their Zee5 project after grand wedding in Abu Dhabi, Sajal revealed that her and Ahad have now decided to take a break from joint projects.
“I thought that Dhoop Ki Deewar had a simple story and I would be working with a great team,” she says about the series. “But Ahad and I did decide that we had been acting together far too frequently and that we should take a break from it, unless, of course, the sort of story comes along that we can’t resist.”
The pair posed with Sajal’s former co-star Nawazuddin Siddiqui from the movie Mom in Dubai at the prestigious Filmfare Middle East Awards ceremony. The Yeh Dil Mera diva shared picture on her Instagram stories.
In an exclusive conversation with The Current, Sajal said that she is aware of her popularity in India and feels lucky when co-star Sridevi’s daughter Janhvi and Punjabi Indian actor Sonam Bajwa praise her work publicly.
Pakistani Actor Adnan Siddiqui’s video went viral on social media in which he was seen throwing seized liquor bottles, breaking them to show how bootleg liquor is illegal in Pakistan. Adnan received a lot of blacklash for his role in breaking the bottles with many people calling out him on social media. However, at the same time Adnan Siddiqui’s act was praised by a large number of social media users.
Two days later a picture of Adnan from the same day went viral, and has become the first viral meme of Pakistani social media in 2022.
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Director Abu Aleeha of Tevar fame called out the industry forces for promoting nepotism, making an obvious reference to debutants Haroon Kadwani and Azaan Sami Khan.
On tweeted, “The amount of effort put in by TV channels to promote actor Abdullah Kadwani’s son Haroon Kadwani and singer Adnan Sami Khan’s son Azaan Sami Khan should have been spent on NAPA’s talented acting students. To give them the platform they deserve! He urged netizens stop appreciating every teaser that they see.”
Abdullah Kadwani who is debuting as a lead opposite Kinza Hashmi, Haroon Kadwani’s father, is a well-known producer with projects like Khuda Aur Mohabbat 3 as well as the owner of 7th Sky Production Company.
Meanwhile, actor Azaan Sami Khan starring opposite Sajal Aly and Yumna Zaidi in Ishq-e-Laa is the son of Pakistani actress Zeba Bakhtiar and legendary musician Adnan Sami.
Also senior actor Naumaan Ijaz’s son Zaviyar is also being signed on by a leading channel for multiple projects despite lukewarm response to his acting debut in Qissa Meherbano Ka.
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives and head of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Asad Umar has said that there was clear evidence that the fifth wave of COVID-19 had started in the country.
“Clear evidence now of a beginning of another covid wave which has been expected for last few weeks. Genome sequencing showing rising proportion of omicron cases particularly in Karachi.”
He also urged people to wear masks
According to NCOC, people who got both doses of their coronavirus vaccine at least six months back and are 30 or above, are eligible for the booster jab.
On December 13, the NCOC confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in Pakistan.
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan during a discussion with top scholars on how the youth can be protected from the invasion of social media on faith, religious and ethical values said that corruption and sex crime s are two main evils of the Muslim world.
“There are two sorts of crime in society, one is corruption and the other is a sex crime. Sex crime has risen sharply in our society, i.e. rape and child abuse, and only one per cent of this is reported,” said PM Khan.
“The other 99 per cent, I believe, society has to fight it. The same is the case with corruption… society has to make corruption unacceptable. Unfortunately, when you have leadership which is corrupt over time, they make corruption acceptable,” he said.
The prime minister stressed the need to save the Muslim youth from being inundated with obscenity and pornographic material available on the internet.
Pakistan cricket team’s young pacer Mohammad Hasnain made a great start to his Big Bash League (BBL) career, for Sydney Thunder, with a triple wicket maiden in his very first over.
The right-armer dismissed Matthew Short, Jake Weatherald and Jonathan Wells in a match against Adelaide Strikers.
Hasnain finished with figures of 3/20 in his four overs.
The pacer’s impressive spell played a key role in Thunder’s victory against Strikers by 28 runs.
In 2019 Hasnain registered his name in record books as the youngest, 19 year-old-old bowler to take a hat-trick in a T20I match. The Hyderabad-born achieved that feat against Sri Lanka.
In the same year, Hasnain stole the limelight in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) by bowling the fastest deliveries recorded in each competition. He bowled at 151 km/h for the Quetta Gladiators, and 155.1 km/h for Trinbago Knight Riders.
Hasanin is representing Quetta Gladiators again in the seventh edition of the PSL. The tournament is set to begin from January 27.
Several people from the cricket fraternity lauded the young speedster for his fantastic feat.
Former Coach of team Pakistan also lauded the cricketer.
Actors Aadi Adeal Amjad and Faizan Sheikh appeared on Naumaan Ijaz’s show G Sarkar on which the duo made revelations on a problematic episode shooting with senior actor Maria Wasti.
The famous duo is known for their comedy and also they host a comedy show. They talked about this incident on Naumaan’s show earlier they spilled the beans on this matter on Time Out With Ahsan Khan.
When the Parizaad star asked Aadi and Faizan about the spat with Maria Wasti during a show’s recording. that did any guest ever get irked because of their humor. Aadi shared an incident when actor Maria Wasti got annoyed in one of the segments of the show, in which Aadi was playing a child who couldn’t remember her name.
She took offence in it and expressed her disappointment firmly.
Aadi also said that at that time they were really new in the industry and didn’t know about the ups and downs.
Faizan stated that she got very upset with them and added to this that, “A celebrity should do their homework and realise the kind of show they are going to, if they are uncomfortable with the content, they shouldn’t come in the first place.”