Ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Faisal Javed reaches the venue of a Kashmir Day event on a motorcycle.
Senator Javed reportedly sought a stranger’s help after his vehicle broke down midway. Kashmir Solidarity Day is to be observed by the country tomorrow (February 5).
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Tuesday directed action against productions of low-quality fairness creams.
The Punjab CM has approved ‘The Punjab Drug and Cosmetics Amendment Act’, according to which the drug regulatory authority will take action against companies making substandard fairness creams.
During the meeting, CM Buzdar said that previous governments failed to take any action against mafia selling fake cosmetics.
“There is no place for such kind of ‘mafias’ in PM Imran Khan’s government”, said CM Buzdar, adding that such people are playing with the health of the nation because they contained toxic ingredients.
Last year in July, the minister for climate change, Zartaj Gul Wazir had initiated a crackdown on fairness creams across the country and ordered strict action against those selling substandard products.
A Pakistani student, who was extracted from coronavirus-hit China as flights operations resumed between the two countries, has been quarantined since his return as he showed suspected symptoms of the novel epidemic, The Express Tribune has reported.
According to reports, Shahzaib Rahujo studies petroleum at a Chinese university around 1,000 kilometres (km) away from Wuhan where the deadly coronavirus originated. He reached his village, Nangerji, late on Saturday night and was shifted to an isolation ward on Monday after he fell ill.
“He was experiencing a headache, flu and cough when he reached Qatar. He took some medicine to relieve the symptoms and was able to reach the village safely,” Rahujo’s elder brother, Irshad Ali, told the media outlet. He added that his brother cleared medical screening at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, but once he reached his village, he started experiencing fever, flu, cough and fatigue.
Kept in isolation, Rahujo is reportedly facing neglect at Civil Hospital in Khairpur where he is admitted, as medics there are not ready to perform tests on him. Ali posted a video over the internet showing how his brother Rahujo was being neglected in spite of his ill health and nose bleeding.
“We were on our way to Karachi when they told us to come back to the civil hospital. There, they put him in a dengue ward. But there is no doctor and we are not being treated properly,” Ali said.
Several Pakistani citizens, a large number of which are students, are still reportedly stuck in China.
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has regretted not attending December 2019’s Kuala Lumpur Summit in Malaysia, saying there were misconceptions among some friendly countries of Pakistan, which led to him and his team opting out of the moot, Dawn reported Tuesday.
Addressing a joint press conference following talks with Malaysian Prime Minister (PM) Mahathir Mohamad in Putrajaya, the premier said he wanted to share how sad he was for not attending the conference in Kuala Lumpur in the middle of December.
“Unfortunately, our friends, who are very close to Pakistan as well, felt that somehow the conference was going to divide the ummah. It was clearly a misconception because that was not the purpose of the conference as evident from when the conference took place.”
In December last year, Pakistan had pulled out of the Kuala Lumpur Summit of some 20 Muslim countries reportedly due to pressure exerted by Saudi Arabia. At the time, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had confirmed that Riyadh and the UAE had concerns about the summit.
A cleric has been arrested for selling meth to his students, claiming it would “help them study and recite the Quran better”.
According to The Star, the religious leader from Madura, Northeast Java in Indonesia had been selling the drug to his students at an Islamic boarding school and reasoned that it was permissible under Islamic law.
Being an avid drug user himself, Ahmad Marzuki managed to avoid the police for two months after they learned of his actions.
Despite being a fugitive, the religious leader still taught at other Islamic boarding schools in Surabaya and Mojokerto cities.
On January 20, authorities finally managed to capture him when he was attending a funeral in Madura. Police officers located Marzuki and two other drug users at his home where they found a small quantity of the substance and other drug paraphernalia.
After he was arrested, Marzuki said he knew meth is illegal under Indonesian laws, but found “no evidence against it in the Quran”.
K.H. Said Aqiel Siradj, head of Nahdlatul Ulama — Indonesia’s largest independent Islamic organisation — on the other hand, said that while the Quran does not explicitly mention the drug, the religious text’s verses should be interpreted with a consensus among Islamic scholars and deductive analogy.
Meanwhile, Marzuki will be charged under the Indonesian Narcotics Law. He reportedly also faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of 10 billion Indonesian rupiahs (PKR112 million).
A man’s penis was cut off after he attempted to rape a woman in Punjab’s Jaranwala.
As per reports, a 24-year-old woman chopped off the 30-year-old man’s genitals when he tried to rape her on January 30. The FIR was registered on the complaint of the survivor’s father at the Jaranwala City police station.
Her father’s statement reads that his daughter told him that the suspect broke into her house with a knife. He threatened to kill her and attempted to rape her. On getting a chance, the woman grabbed the knife from him and chopped off his penis after which the man ran off screaming.
The police say the man is in police custody and under treatment at a hospital. The case is being investigated.
In an initial statement to the police, the suspect has not only denied the accusations against him but also alleged the woman of calling him to her house and of attacking him, the police said.
The FIR has been registered under Article 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code, which states:
Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry revealed that he was the one who recommended Mehwish Hayat for the prestigious Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.
In a recent interview, when asked who his favourite female actor is, Fawad replied that he is a big fan of Hayat, adding that he had suggested Hayat’s name for the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest civilian honour.
“Mehwish Hayat is brilliant. As [information] minister, I recommended her name for Sitara-e-Imtiaz even though I had never met her, until recently”, the minister said.
He shared that he recommended her because her films do exceptional business.
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The minister also remarked that people do a lot of sifarish to receive awards, asserting that no one asked him to nominate Mehwish.
When probed further, Fawad said that he took awards very seriously and had always wanted youngsters to be nominated for awards.
“I take awards very seriously and I only want them to be given to those who are toppers in their respective fields”, he said. “We try to ensure that merit is followed strictly.”
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Mehwish had received immense flak on social media when she was awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in March last year. Most people were of the view that she did not deserve it though their views changed after her speech at Oslo, Norway and her strong stance against Bollywood films.
President Dr Arif Alvi had conferred the award on Hayat during a ceremony in Islamabad.
A Pakistani doctor from Jhelum has won appreciation for volunteering to treat coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China.
Dr Usman, a Pakistani teacher at Changsha Medical College, is the first foreign doctor who stepped forward to volunteer to treat infected people in Wuhan.
The Chinese Embassy thanked the doctor saying, “We appreciate Dr Muhammad Usman Janjua, a foreign doctor to join the fight against coronavirus in China as a volunteer. He is a teacher from Changsha Medical University, China and hails from Deena, Jhelum, Pakistan”.
On January 27, Usman formally applied to the Foreign Experts Service office of the Hunan Science and Technology department, hoping that he could go to the Wuhan for medical assistance.
Usman told media that when the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus began in China, he kept an eye on the continuously updated figures and situations every day.
“The staff of the foreign expert service sent me the methods of epidemic prevention every day asking me to protect myself and solving many difficulties for me.”
Usman, 29, had dreamed of becoming a doctor since he was a child. He graduated from Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine with a bachelor’s degree in 2012 and returned to Pakistan to practice medicine for four years.
During the four years of stay in his hometown, he had always been unable to forget China and Changsha. He said that China had provided him with good opportunities for education and employment.
In 2016, he returned to China and began studying for a Master’s degree in medicine at Central South University in Changsha. After graduation, he became a foreign teacher at Changsha Medical College.
A man has registered a case in the Lahore High Court asking for the elimination of the condition in which he is required to get his first wife’s permission for a second marriage.
Dr Muhammad Mudassir, who was sentenced for marrying another woman without his wife’s (now ex-wife’s) permission, has named the Punjab Law Ministry and provincial law secretary as respondents.
He has appealed the Punjab government to make changes to the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961.
A man doesn’t need the permission of his first wife to get married again in other provinces, the petitioner said, adding that such complaints could only be registered at union councils in Balochistan, Sindh, and KP. He claimed that Punjab has a higher fine too.
On May 17, 2019, Dr Mudassir was sentenced to jail for one month and fined Rs500,000 for his second marriage by a special judicial magistrate in Sialkot.
He was found guilty of violating the laws of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961. As per law a man must submit written permission from his first wife if he wants to marry another woman. If a man is found guilty of violating the law, he may be imprisoned for a year.
The petitioner has asked for more time to submit additional documents. The case has been postponed till February 10.
The phenomenal success of Meray Paas Tum Ho has put Humayun Saeed on another level so much so that reports started circulating that the actor was chosen to be part of the award-winning Money Heist Season 4.
The rumours soon gained traction and everyone started getting excited about the prospect of a Pakistani actor in the series. But turns out that the report was a work of satire and Humayun will not be part of Money Heist‘s season four.
However, Humayun said that he will one day make his own Money Heist. That should be fun?
Meanwhile, Humayun has started shooting his next film, London Nahi Jaunga, in Bahawalpur. The film has been written by Khalil ur Rehman Qamar and will be directed by Nadeem Baig. Apart from Humayun, the film’s cast also includes Mehwish Hayat, Kubra Khan and Gohar Rasheed. It is scheduled to release on Eid ul Azha.