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  • VIDEO: Sheikh Rasheed claims discussing ‘nuclear attack’ with ISPR chief

    VIDEO: Sheikh Rasheed claims discussing ‘nuclear attack’ with ISPR chief

    Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has claimed having discussed with Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General Asif Ghafoor what “fireworks” to use and when.

    “In Beijing, I told [the] ISPR DG that I wittingly made the statement regarding the use of quarter or half kilogram fireworks when the time comes,” he said while speaking to journalists on Saturday.

    The minister had earlier warned India that Pakistan “even has small nuclear bombs weighing 125-250 grams”, which can hit and destroy targeted areas.

    “We know if we want to use our 1-inch, 2-inch or half an inch [atomic bombs],” the minister had said last month, leaving netizens all cracked up.

    “My information is more accurate than most of the people… and Pakistan doesn’t want war. But I stand by my words that it would be the last war. I told Asif Ghafoor that I understand better as to what is to be said in public,” he said Saturday.

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    He further said that the nation cannot remain silent while Indian atrocities continue in held Kashmir. “We’re standing with Kashmiris. Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan is standing with Kashmiris and so are the country’s armed forces.”

    “India committed two blunders. The first one was carrying out atomic explosions while presuming that Pakistan would not do so and secondly, it scrapped special status of Kashmir on August 5 this year, believing Kashmiris won’t react”, the minister had said last month.

    His statements had come as tensions started to soar on either side of the border ever since New Delhi on August 5 revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution, robbing the people of the troubled valley of their autonomous state.

    India has since kept Kashmir under lockdown.

  • Man sentenced to eight years for sharing indecent photos of ex-fiancée

    Man sentenced to eight years for sharing indecent photos of ex-fiancée

    A cyber-crime court has handed an eight-year sentence to a man for posting his ex-fiancée’s indecent photos on social media and directed him to pay Rs500,000 in damages.

    As per reports, the case had been registered by the woman in the FIA’s cyber-crime wing. During the hearing, the woman told the court that she had been engaged to the suspect Sajjad two years ago but the engagement broke off after her family learnt about his criminal history. Sajjad, in anger, forced her to come to his house where he took pictures of her without clothes and then blackmailed her with them.

    The suspect threatened to kill her, post her indecent pictures on social media, and make them viral on the Internet.

    Later, when the woman got married to another man, Sajjad uploaded the same pictures on Facebook and shared them with her husband as well as her relatives, resulting in her marriage to end.

    Sajjad was sentenced eight-year jail and fine of Rs 500,000 in accordance with Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016.

  • ‘PTI illegally amassed $3 million from offshore firms in 2014,’ founding member

    ‘PTI illegally amassed $3 million from offshore firms in 2014,’ founding member

    A founding member of the Pakistan Tehreeke Insaf (PTI) party, Akbar S. Babar, had filed a case in 2014, alleging that the party had collected nearly $3 million in illegal foreign funds through two offshore companies, Dawn reported.

    Akbar alleged that money was sent through illegal ‘hundi’ channels from the Middle East to certain accounts of “PTI employees” and that the foreign accounts used to collect the funds were not mentioned in the annual audit reports submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

    For investigation in this matter, a scrutiny committee was formed in March last year to complete an audit of PTI’s funding sources in one month. Its mandate was later extended for an indefinite period.

    After the beginning of the probe, PTI submitted four applications to the ECP seeking secrecy during the scrutiny of its foreign funding sources.

    However, the ECP rejected all four applications of PTI and instructed the scrutiny committee to continue its work and instructed PTI representatives to appear before the committee on Oct 14.

    Foreign Funding Case

    Akbar S. Babar had filed the foreign funding case before the ECP in 2014 after he developed differences with PTI Chairman Imran Khan over alleged internal corruption and abuse of laws governing political funding.

    For over a year, the proceedings of the case were delayed in the ECP as the PTI had filed a writ petition in October 2015 in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking to restrain the ECP from scrutinising its accounts.

    Later in February 2017, the IHC had remanded the case back to the ECP for a fresh review of its jurisdiction. On May 8 of the same year, a full bench of the ECP had once again declared its complete jurisdiction over the matter and stated that the PTI had failed to produce any evidence that the petitioner had been expelled from the party and hence lost the right to question the PTI’s accounts.

    In March 2018, a scrutiny panel had been formed to look into PTI’s foreign funding accounts to search for any wrongdoing.

  • Warned Nawaz against fighting establishment, but he didn’t listen: Shehbaz

    Warned Nawaz against fighting establishment, but he didn’t listen: Shehbaz

    Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Shehbaz Sharif has criticised his elder brother and jailed former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif “for picking fights with the establishment and not paying heed to his advice”, SamaaTV reported.

    Reports quoted Shehbaz as saying at a party meeting on Thursday that he had told Nawaz during his last stint “to stop fighting with the establishment and serve the people”.

    “[I] advised him [Nawaz] to not remove General (r) Jahangir Karamat and General (r) Pervez Musharraf as army chiefs, but my brother didn’t listen.”

    “Tayyip Erdogan had served his country for 15 years, that’s why people came out in his support [and foiled the coup]”, he said, adding that if the PML-N government had completed another two or three terms, people would have come out in their support as well.

    “We suffered major losses at a crucial time because my brother didn’t listen to me,” Shehbaz said further.

    “I also advised him against joining the Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Azadi March later this month. We cannot fight and always end up hurting ourselves.”

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    However, Nawaz while speaking to reporters during his hearing at an accountability court in Lahore on Friday said that he fully supported the forthcoming JUI-F rally against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

    “Our viewpoint is the same as that of Maulana [Fazlur Rehman],” the former premier said.

    He recalled that Rehman had called for resignations and protest after the 2018 general elections and added, “But [now] I feel that his argument was solid.”

    “Not paying heed to Maulana’s call for the march would be a mistake,” he said.

    “I have already written a letter to Shehbaz in this regard, detailing the future course of action of the party and the PML-N president would brief the media soon.”

  • Atif Aslam’s ‘Wohi Khuda Hai’ for Coke Studio 12 will give you goosebumps

    Atif Aslam’s ‘Wohi Khuda Hai’ for Coke Studio 12 will give you goosebumps

    After a disastrous Season 11, Coke Studio is back with Rohail Hyatt donning the producer’s hat. Anticipation and expectations for this season is high given the producer and the line-up.

    Season 12 opened with Atif Aslam’s rendition of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s immensely popular qawaali Wohi Khuda Hai. It comes as no surprise that Atif has nailed his performance and delivered a beautifully soothing track.

    The hamd penned by Muzaffar Warsi reflects the praise of God as the omnipotence, who maintains the balance and harmony in the universe.

    And we’re not the only ones blown away by Coke Studio’s opening track – it had 400K plus views on Youtube in its first one hour. Twitter is also lit with #CokeStudio12, #WohiKhudaHai and Atif Aslam trending.

    Atif has dedicated this beautiful rendition to his five years old son. Listen to it here:

  • Vaccination to replace poisoning for rabies eradication in Sindh

    Vaccination to replace poisoning for rabies eradication in Sindh

    Authorities in Sindh have decided to avoid the traditional method of fighting rabies by choosing to vaccinate the stray dogs instead of poisoning them to eradicate the deadly virus.

    As per reports, the decision was taken by Karachi Commissioner Iftikhar Shallwani in light of the rise in the death toll due to rabies across Sindh. The meeting was co-chaired by Health Secretary Saeed Awan.

    In the meeting, it was decided that a complete plan to vaccinate the stray dogs in Sindh would be designed with the guidance of the Department of Infectious Diseases at The Indus Hospital (TIH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

    Moreover, it was also agreed that a training program should be conducted by the TIH’s Department of Infectious Diseases at all major public hospitals in Sindh to train doctors for ensuring effective vaccination and treatement of the disease. Training will be given to the doctors through different workshops and seminars.

  • ISPR chief defends Indian pooja of new jet, trolls neighbours for their ‘incompetence’

    ISPR chief defends Indian pooja of new jet, trolls neighbours for their ‘incompetence’

    With India finally receiving the first unit of Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Rafale fighter jet from France, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) chief Major General Asif Ghafoor has defended Indian defence minister’s “weapon worship”, but also trolled the neighbours for their incompetence.

    The French-made aircraft was acquired by the IAF at a handover ceremony in Merignac where Defence Minister Rajnath Singh performed “shastra pooja” on Rafale.

    The act was severely criticised by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BRP) rival Indian National Congress (INC) as opposition leaders questioned the Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi-led government for “saffronising” the handover.

    With Pakistani Twitterati also taking to the microblogging site to call out their neighbours over Singh’s move, the ISPR chief has said that there was nothing wrong in it.

    “Nothing wrong in #RafalePuja as it goes by the religion and that must be respected [sic],” Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor wrote.

    He, however, also trolled Indians over their incompetence in words that appeared to be hinting at the aerial standoff between airforces of the two countries from earlier this year.

    “Please remember… it’s not the machine alone which matters but competence, passion & resolve of the men handling that machine. Proud of our PAF [Pakistan Air Force] Shaheens. #PAFtheMenAtTheirBest [sic].”

  • Mother helps police arrest son for kidnapping minor girl

    Mother helps police arrest son for kidnapping minor girl

    Police officials have recovered an eleven-year-old girl from Chishtian who was kidnapped at the age of two from Multan. The mother of the kidnapper assisted the police in arresting her son.

    As per reports, the recovery of the girl was made after the kidnapper’s mother revealed that her son had brought a minor girl home nine years ago and claimed to be the child’s father after his secret marriage.

    The woman told the police that she suspected his claims as the innocent child was subjected to torture by her son. Later, the brave mother stepped forward by herself to file a case against son’s alleged crime at a local police station. 

    The parents of the girl were traced through DNA tests and handed over to them after nine years.

    The police said that the local administration will assist the parents in organising the marriage of the recently recovered girl. They praised the mother for setting an example by registering a case against her son. The local police department has also commenced a thorough investigation against the alleged kidnapper.

  • Everyday-use items dirtier than toilet seats

    Everyday-use items dirtier than toilet seats

    We all think that there is nothing dirtier than toilet seats; we keep wipes in case we need to use the washroom at a public place or our offices or even at a friend’s place. Well, you’re wrong. There are other everyday items that are dirtier than our toilet seats!

    Smartphones

    A lot of us use our smartphones on the toilet. This means that our smartphone screens could be covered in 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat. Clean your smartphones with anti-bacterial wipes if you use them in the washroom.

    Make-up bags & brushes

    Make-up bags and accessories often harbour bacteria. If you use brushes that have contact with your skin and then put them back into the same bag, you’re transferring germs from your skin to the bag and then back again when you reuse them. Make sure to wash your brushes and clean out your kit at least once a week.

    Filters in washing machine & fridge

    The purpose of filters is to trap all the dirt and debris that make its way through the system, it is inevitable that these filters eventually get overloaded and clogged. Make sure you clean out the lint catcher in your washing machine and the filter tray under your fridge, as both are prone to building up germs.

    Side of ovens

    Ovens that are built-in are vulnerable to food spillage that falls from the pan and down the side of the oven. This not only leaves bad odour but also creates bacteria. The only way to clean this is by taking the oven out of where it is placed and thoroughly cleaning it.

  • Nawaz’s assets jumped from Rs2.7 million to Rs1.8 billion in 20 years of politics: report

    Nawaz’s assets jumped from Rs2.7 million to Rs1.8 billion in 20 years of politics: report

    Ousted prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif’s assets jumped from Rs2.7 million to Rs1.82 billion in twenty years of his political career from 1993 to 2013, media reports have revealed.

    As per the details, Nawaz owned assets worth Rs 261.6 million in 2012, but that saw a six-fold increase and reached Rs 1.82 billion in 2013 — the first year of his third stint as the country’s chief executive, making him a declared billionaire for the first time.

    His assets in 2014 crossed the Rs2 billion-mark, but in 2015 declined slightly to Rs1.96 billion. Earlier in 2011, he owned assets worth Rs166m.

    According to the statements of assets of lawmakers, released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in 2017, the value of his assets further declined to Rs1.72 billion in the year that ended on June 30, 2016.

    The former premier, however, only owned assets worth Rs2.7 million by the year 1993, media reports said.

    Citing the details submitted to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in the assets beyond known sources of income and money laundering cases against the Sharif family, a private media outlet claimed that Nawaz’s total assets in 1986 stood at a bit over Rs0.13 million.

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    The assets kept on increasing over the years, the report said, adding that Nawaz’s assets rose by only Rs23,319 in 1986. “According to FBR records, the same swelled by Rs98,588 in 1987.”

    These assets also included those owned by his children, the report claimed.