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  • Man put behind bars for illegally hunting ibex cubs

    Man put behind bars for illegally hunting ibex cubs

    A man was sentenced to jail for eight months by the Hunza wildlife magistrate for illegally hunting two Himalayan ibex cubs.

    According to Dawn, the Gilgit-Baltistan wildlife department had discovered the carcasses of ibex cubs during the inspection of a vehicle at Ganish bridge on the Karakoram Highway in Hunza area. The officials seized the carcasses and arrested Rehmat Khan of Altit area.

    The DFO of the area shared that the poacher hunted the ibex cubs in the surroundings of Attabad Lake before attempting to transport their carcasses to Gilgit. He revealed that the wildlife department with the help of police seized the carcasses and hunting gear. The poacher was handed eight months imprisonment under the Wildlife Preservation Act, 1975.

    Meanwhile, the Khunjerab Village Organisation has accused personnel of Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) to have hunted three Himalayan ibexes in Khunjerab National Park in upper Hunza. They claimed that the FWO personnel killed ibexes after cordoning off the area, and took away the carcasses, adding that they have substantial evidence to prove their claims.

  • Your choice: Who will die in Meray Paas Tum Ho?

    Your choice: Who will die in Meray Paas Tum Ho?

    The most anticipated Saturday night: The double episode finale hits television screens and cinemas tomorrow and almost all cinema tickets in major cities are sold out. So we asked you the question that everyone is talking about: Apparently, someone is going to die in the last episode: Who is it going to be?

    More than 450 of you replied to our poll and here are the results:

    Poll results are in

    Poll results show that 43 percent of people think that Danish (Humayun Saeed) is going to die in the last episode, followed by Mehwish (Ayeza Khan) at 35 percent, baby boy Rumi at eight percent, Hania (Hira Mani) at seven percent, Shehwar (Adnan Siddiqui) at six and three percent of you said writer of the drama, Khalil ur Rehman Qamar would die after the final episode.

    READ MORE: Advance booking for ‘Meray Paas Tum Ho’ finale sets new record at the box-office

    We saved the top conspiracy theories and here are some of the best:

    Murderer Shehwar
    The Mehwish Advantage
    The Real Conspiracy
    Hira Hating
    Killing off Everyone
    The ‘Factual’ Conspiracy
    Aurat Power

    READ MORE: Ending of ‘Meray Paas Tum Ho’ still undecided

    The episodes airs on Saturday at 8PM on ARY Digital.

  • US imposes strict visa rules for pregnant women to control ‘birth tourism’

    US imposes strict visa rules for pregnant women to control ‘birth tourism’

    The Trump administration on Thursday announced new visa rules to restrict birth tourism, in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can get US citizenship.

    According to the rules in the Federal Register, applicants will not be given tourist visas if they are determined by consular officers to be coming to the US only to give birth.

    It is a bigger hurdle to overcome, proving they are travelling to the US because they have a medical need and not just because they want to give birth here. Those with medical needs will be treated like other foreigners coming to the US for medical treatment and must prove they have the money to pay for it including transportation and living expenses.

    “Closing this glaring immigration loophole will combat these endemic abuses and ultimately protect the United States from the national security risks created by this practice,” White House press secretary Step­hanie Grisham said in a statement.

    While the new rules deal specifically with birth tourism, the Trump administration also has turned away pregnant women coming over the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a broader immigration crackdown. Those women were initially part of a vulnerable group that included others like small children who were allowed in, while tens of thousands of other asylum seekers have been returned to Mexico to wait out their cases.

    While President Trump’s administration has been confining all forms of immigration, Trump has been particularly worried by the issue of birthright citizenship anyone born in the US is considered a citizen, under the Constitution.

    The Republican president has criticized the practice and threatened to end it, but scholars and members of his administration have said it’s not so easy to do.

    Regulating tourist visas for pregnant women is one way to get at the issue, but it raises questions about how officers would determine whether a woman is pregnant, to begin with and whether a woman could get turned away by border officers who suspect she maybe just by looking at her. Critics of the new policy say it could put pregnant women at risk.

  • Court dismisses petition against ‘Meray Paas Tum Ho’

    Court dismisses petition against ‘Meray Paas Tum Ho’

    Blockbuster drama serial Meray Pass Tum Ho continues to create a buzz nationwide. While some viewers anxiously are waiting for the last episode, others hate what the drama portrays.

    Recently, a petition was filed in Lahore’s civil court to stop the last episode of the drama from being aired. The petitioner, Maham, had filed a plea to stop the release of the last episode because it has had a negative impact and continues to degrade the status of women in our society.

    The civil court, after hearing the arguments of the petitioner had issued a notice to the makers and producers of the show to present their arguments in court on January 24, 2020.

    However, the court on Friday after examining statements and documents from representatives of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Auhtority (PEMRA) and ARY Digtal, Civil Judge Naila Ayub dismissed the petition and said that show had received clearance from the censor board of Punjab to screen in cinemas so there was nothing inappropriate in it.

    The last episode of Meray Pass Tum Ho, which starres Humayun Saeed, Adnan Siddiqui, Ayeza Khan and Hira Mani  is set to air in cinemas and on TV screens at 8pm on January 25, 2020.

  • VIDEO: PML-N’s Azma Bokhari hits back, tries to find atta at stores; PTI files lawsuit

    VIDEO: PML-N’s Azma Bokhari hits back, tries to find atta at stores; PTI files lawsuit

    The PML-N Azma Bokhari vs. Punjab Food Authority Chairman Umar Tanveer continues as Azma searches stores for the atta promised by PTI. The two had a big argument on a talk show which led to Umar dropping off bags of atta outside Azma’s house. Azma and Umar sparred once more on talk shows after the event, with Azma saying that PTI was trying to harass her and Umar saying that Azma lied and tried to malign PTI by saying atta was not available in stores.

    Umar Tanveer filed a defamation suit against Azma, saying that she had made false allegations against him in a talk show, alleging that he had given and taken bribes for political gains. He has filed a 10 crore law suit against her.

    The legal notice to Azma
    Umar Tanveer is askign for 100 million rupees in damages

    Meanwhile Azma visited stores, asking shopkeepers if they had any atta.

    WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:

    Azma Bokhari at stores asking for atta
  • After Sindh, Balochistan also bans gutka

    After Sindh, Balochistan also bans gutka

    The Balochistan Food Authority has imposed a ban on gutka (chewing tobacco) consumption in the province.

    Director-General BFA Ibrahim Baloch said the consumption of gutka is a health risk and people who eat it regularly are at risk of getting mouth, tongue or throat cancer.

    “We won’t allow anyone to play with human lives,” said the DG.

    The food authority has delivered a notification to all deputy commissioners, asking them to take action against those who produce and sell gutka, along with the customers. 

    Sindh has already imposed a ban on eating and selling gutka on December 19, 2019. According to the law, chewing of gutka can lead to imprisonment for six years and a fine of Rs500,000 will be imposed on violators.

  • ‘Intimate photos of Jeff Bezos, Laura Sanchez were leaked by her brother’

    ‘Intimate photos of Jeff Bezos, Laura Sanchez were leaked by her brother’

    Intimate photos of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, American news anchor Lauren Sanchez, were leaked by the latter’s brother, The New York Times (NYT) has reported.

    According to reports, Michael Sanchez released the images to National Enquirer — an American tabloid newspaper — which was reported by NYT after the publication accessed the four unnamed sources and a written contract between Michael and American Media Inc — parent company of The Enquirer.

    The Enquirer had long ago claimed that the source of the picture was Michael Sanchez, but the paradigm shifted when Bezos’ forensic team accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) for hacking his cellphone. 

    In reaction to The Guardian’s report, the Saudi Embassy in Washington DC and AMI had, however, denied the involvement of the Saudi crown prince.

    Earlier, the pictures in question had also become the reason behind Bezos’ divorce. Things are still not very clear as different media outlets are making varying claims.

  • Satirical headline comes true as PM tells ministers ‘to fix things by not watching news’

    Satirical headline comes true as PM tells ministers ‘to fix things by not watching news’

    A satirical headline from five years ago has come true as Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has told members of his government to “quit following news in order to fix things”, author of the satirical tweet pointed out on Friday.

    “To avoid getting depressed, [party] workers should shut their cameras, stay away from television screens, turn their mobile phones off and go to sleep after popping some pills,” Broken News — a “parody news channel” — had quoted then opposition member Imran as saying in 2015.

    While it was nothing but a satirical headline back then, the same statement, five years later, has made its way to newspapers after the premier actually said something quite similar.

    Speaking at a breakfast session aimed at showcasing his vision for Pakistan and its economic potential before the global business leaders as well as overseas Pakistanis in Davos, PM Imran said he had stopped reading morning newspapers and watching evening talk-shows due to extreme negativity targeted at him in the media.

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    “I’m trying to make my team understand this. The problem is that they watch the chat shows and they come… sitting there shell-shocked in cabinet meetings,” said the premier, who was in the Swiss town to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

    The similarity was pointed out by the author of the satirical tweet:

    Meanwhile, PM Imran has returned to the country from Davos where he attended different ceremonies and met key world leaders, including United States (US) President Donald Trump.

  • Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy rubs shoulders with Deepika Padukone at Davos

    Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy rubs shoulders with Deepika Padukone at Davos

    Pakistan’s resident Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy recently met and had a lovely conversation on artists and their moral responsibility with Deepika Padukone.

    The award-winning filmmaker shared a picture of herself with Deepika from Davos, calling the actor a hero.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B7sNhGiB3a9/

    While details of their meeting are still unknown, it is likely that the two met at TIME Magazine’s Mental Health Luncheon: A Blueprint for Solving the Youth Mental Health Crisis. Sharmeen had thanked TIME in her caption.

    According to the publication, “The event [luncheon] will convene some of the world’s most prominent experts and leaders. The event will feature a keynote interview with internationally-acclaimed actor and mental health advocate Deepika Padukone, who TIME named to the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2018″.

    Deepika also received the esteemed Crystal Award at Davos this year for her work on spreading awareness about mental health.

    Read more – Deepika Padukone delivers heartening speech on mental health at Davos

    Deepika’s Chappak is based on the true story of an acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal. The film sheds light on the plight of the survivor and her journey towards her healing and growth. Sharmeen’s documentary Saving Face was also based on the same lines.

    A few days prior to meeting Deepika, Sharmeen also met George Clooney with whom she discussed film and activism. We’re not sure if the two met at Davos or elsewhere.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B7csZIlBSmJ/
  • ‘Enough is enough,’ Chohan tells Fawad over Buzdar criticism

    ‘Enough is enough,’ Chohan tells Fawad over Buzdar criticism

    Training guns at Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry, Punjab Information Minister Fayazul Hasan Chohan has questioned the former’s own performance in response to his criticism aimed at Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar.

    According to Geo, Fayaz has accused Fawad of trying to remain relevant with his stunts and said he had “crossed all limits” when it came to violating the party’s discipline.

    “You should think about how to benefit the ship that you’re on,” said Chohan. “It is not his [Fawad] prerogative to give opinions on whether CM Buzdar should stay or go,” he said when asked to comment on Fawad’s statements, while speaking to a private media outlet.

    The provincial minister said only Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan had the prerogative to decide whether Buzdar should remain as Punjab’s chief executive or not and added that the premier, the entire cabinet and treasury benches were satisfied with Buzdar’s performance “100 per cent”.

    “I can give him befitting, beautiful replies in my style,” said Chohan. “However, I am bound by my disciplined attitude not to do so. I would request him that excess of everything is bad.”

    The information minister expressed disappointment that Fawad had still not learned how to talk about people from his party or government, adding that he was like a brother to him. “However, this has been his problem and he will never change.”

    “It is his habit to try to become a hero. He tries to issue a statement every month or so to become a hero in front of the media,” he added. 

    Chohan advised Fawad to play his part as the federal minister of science and technology to ensure Pakistan became a force to be reckoned with in space. “I request you to prepare a Ghauri II or a Ghauri III for space. Leave the clerics and Usman Buzdar alone,” he added.