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  • Gautam Gambhir helps Pakistani kid get Indian visa for treatment

    Gautam Gambhir helps Pakistani kid get Indian visa for treatment

    Cricketer-turned-politician, Gautam Gambhir of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has helped an ailing Pakistani minor get a visa for treatment in India, Times of India reported.

    According to reports, Gambhir wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs, requesting help for seven-year-old Omaima Ali with congenital heart disease.

    In a letter to the former cricketer, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that he had directed the Indian high commissioner in Islamabad to grant the necessary visa to the minor girl and her parents.

    Gambhir was quoted as saying that he had learnt about the girl’s condition through a phone call to his office by former Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Yousuf. Following this, the now lawmaker wrote to the ministry on October 1, seeking help for the child.

    “I have asked our high commissioner in Islamabad to issue appropriate visas to Omaima Ali and her parents,” the minister wrote back to Gambhir in his letter dated October 9.

    Sharing the letter on Twitter, Gambhir wrote a poetic tweet in Hindi, “A little heart knocked from the other side and the heart this side removed all the boundaries. A sweet breeze has wafted through with those little feet, it seems sometimes like a daughter has come home.”

    Meanwhile, Omaima’s maternal uncle from Karachi thanked Gautam and said that they would be travelling to India soon.

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  • Azadi March: Govt’s move to seal twin cities to cost taxpayers over Rs3.3 million a day

    Azadi March: Govt’s move to seal twin cities to cost taxpayers over Rs3.3 million a day

    With the government planning to put in place hundreds of shipping containers to seal the twin cities and block the forthcoming long march of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), reports have revealed that the move will be costing taxpayers millions of rupees a day.

    JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has announced leading an anti-government long march to Islamabad via Rawalpindi with plans of a lockdown. While the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has invited opposition parties for a dialogue to call off the protest, it is also preparing for the worst.

    The capital will likely be sealed from October 31 onwards by either the police or the JUI-F as preparations on both sides for the Azadi March gain momentum. According to Dawn, the Islamabad police have demanded more than 550 shipping containers to intercept the march before it enters the city.

    The containers include 250 for City Zone and 100 each for Saddar, Industrial Area and Rural zones, while the logistics department of the police has ordered a vendor to arrange 450 containers.

    The Rawalpindi police, on the other hand, have prepared a contingency plan under which 120 freight containers will be used to seal the garrison city by blocking all roads leading to Islamabad.

    According to officials, each container being procured for both the cities, costs more than Rs5,000 a day to rent, which puts the total cost of 670 containers at Rs3.3 million (Rs3,350,000) a day.

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  • MAO College professor commits suicide over “false” harassment allegations

    MAO College professor commits suicide over “false” harassment allegations

    An English language professor at Government MAO College allegedly committed suicide after being accused of harassment by one of his female students.

    As per reports, Professor Afzal Mehmood took his life after his wife left him and the college administration did not issue a clearance certificate to him even after harassment allegations were proven false.

    Afzal left a suicide note in which he wrote that he had left the matter in the court of Allah and that he did not want the police to investigate his death and bother anybody over it. The professor reportedly died by consuming poison

    After legal proceedings, the police handed over the body to the deceased family without conducting a postmortem.

    A day before his death, the professor had written a letter to his senior colleague, Dr. Aaliyah Rehman, who was leading the committee that was inspecting the harassment charges.

    In his letter to Dr. Aaliyah, he complained that he had not been informed of the decision made by the committee in writing, even though he had been innocent of the charge. Afzal also expressed that the matter had damaged his image.

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    As per reports, a female student initially complained that Prof Afzal used to stare at girls. The student changed her statement during the inquiry and said that the professor used to deduct students’ marks because of low attendance.

    She revealed that after completing the inquiry, the student wrote in the report that Prof Afzal is innocent and false accusations were made against him. As a result, the report recommended a warning to be issued against the student.

    The student sent the letter to the principal three months ago. In the next step, the principal had to issue a clearance letter to Prof Afzal, in which it should be written that he is innocent and the allegations against him were false.

    MAO College Principal Farhan Ibadat responded that Prof Afzal never came to him, otherwise, he would have issued him the letter.

  • ‘If we were still together’: Reham speaks about ‘puppet’ Imran

    ‘If we were still together’: Reham speaks about ‘puppet’ Imran

    Reham Khan, former wife of Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, has once again managed to make headlines by saying that she would not have “let herself and Imran be a puppet had the two still been together”.

    Reham’s statement came as a reply to a follower’s tweet that said, “Had Reham been here, the government wouldn’t have seen such days.”

    PM’s former wife is rather infamous for her statements hitting out at PM Imran and his ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Twitter as well as her personal Youtube channel.

    Just last week, Reham had accused the premier of being involved in illegal transactions of foreign funds and “moral corruption for hiding accounts from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)”.

  • PM Imran to establish state-of-the-art laboratories in 500 Madrassas

    PM Imran to establish state-of-the-art laboratories in 500 Madrassas

    Prime Minister Youth Affairs Program (PMYAP) has planned to establish 500 skilled laboratories in Madrassas to mobilize these institutions across the country with modern technology tools, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported.

    A PMYAP official has said that most of the madrassas were undergoing informal education programmes to impart basic education to the students along with religious schools.

    However, the authorities were planning to collaborate with different madrassas in the country to have modern technology equipped laboratories for their students.

    “These skilled laboratories would help provide acquaintance to new methodologies applied through information technology tools and software applications. It would also contain technical training equipment as well that is going to enable madrasa students get technical skills for better employment opportunities,” PMYAP official added.

    He also said that this programme would primarily focus to get the madrassa students at par with those acquiring formal education in schools for better employment.

  • Ahad Raza Mir, Sajal Aly’s latest drama has created quite a stir

    Ahad Raza Mir, Sajal Aly’s latest drama has created quite a stir

    The teasers of Ahad Raza Mir and Sajal Aly’s latest drama Yeh Mera Dil released Saturday and has created quite a stir.

    The drama is the engaged couple’s third project after Yakeen ka Safar and Aangan – both of which also aired on Hum TV.

    From the look of it, the drama will be a love story where Ahad plays Sajal’s suave boss. The promos have scenic shots of the two in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and are visually very appealing.

    While the aesthetics and cast of the drama look good, people are not too pleased with the teaser – some are likening it to workplace harassment while others are comparing it to 50 Shades of Grey.

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    The drama has been written by Farhat Ishtiaq and will air soon on Hum TV. Watch the promo here:

    Meanwhile, others took to defend the drama and asked people to wait for it to release before criticising.

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    And then there were those who were trying to figure out Sajal’s outfit for a job interview.

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  • Students forced to wear cardboard boxes to control cheating during exams

    Students forced to wear cardboard boxes to control cheating during exams

    School students were forced to wear cardboard cartons on their heads during an exam, apparently to stop them from cheating in the test in the Indian state of Karnataka.

    As per reports, the pictures of the students wearing the cartons over their heads went viral on social media and people wanted the Indian government to take notice. The exams were mid-terms, and teachers were seen monitoring students.

    “This is unacceptable. Nobody has any right to treat anybody more so students like animals. This perversion will be dealt with aptly,” a provincial minister said of the incident.

    Social media widely criticized the institute for treating the students so inhumanely, tagging the behavior as totally unacceptable and ridiculous.