Azeem Khan has taken full accountability and responsibility of breakup with Saba Qamar.
“Saba Qamar Zaman you have the most amazing soul and you deserve all the happiness in the universe,” said Azeem in a statement. “May God bless you with all the success and love.”
He further wrote: “Difficult roads often lead to the beautiful destinations.”
“And yes, I’d like to go take full accountability of this breakdown,” added the Australia-based entrepreneur.
Earlier in the day, Saba had announced her breakup, saying: “We are not getting married now. Hope you guys will support my decision just like you all have been supporting me always, and I guess it’s never too late to realise the bitter realities!”
Responding to Saba’s post earlier, Azeem had said: “She hasn’t written my side of [the] story and yes it’s my fault.”
Renowned Pakistani folk singer Shaukat Ali passed away in Lahore on Friday after battling a prolonged illness.
As per details, Ali’s health had deteriorated a day before his demise. His son Amir Shaukat Ali had said that his father’s condition was critical and his liver was not working at all and had requested everyone to pray for his quick recovery.
Ali had been suffering from liver disease for a long time. He was also facing multiple medical issues, including diabetes and a liver transplant. Moreover, he had undergone a heart bypass surgery a few years ago.
Last year, on the instructions of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, he was admitted to Gambit Institute in Sindh where he had remained under treatment for several days. Later, he was admitted to CMH Lahore on the special instructions of Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
Special Assistant to Chief Minister Punjab on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan also extended her condolences to the grieving family.
Dr Awan said that she was saddened to hear about Ali’s demise, saying that Ali had played a key role in putting Pakistan on the map with his songs.
معروف گلوکار شوکت علی کے انتقال کی خبر سن کر بہت دکھ ہوا (اِنَّا لِلّٰہِ وَاِنَّا اِلَیْہِ رَاجِعُوْن)۔ شوکت علی نے اپنے فن خصوصا پرجوش ملی نغموں سے پاکستان کا نام روشن کیا۔ پروردگار مرحوم کو جنت الفردوس میں جگہ دے اور غمزدہ خاندان کو صبر جمیل عطا فرمائے۔ آمین۔
— Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan (@Dr_FirdousAwan) April 2, 2021
Senator Faisal Javed Khan also prayed for him in his tweet.
Saddened to hear of Legendary Shaukat Ali sb's passing. He played a vital role in instilling affection for the country in hearts of everyone and in motivating & encouraging soldiers’ morale and rallied the nation. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace. Ameenhttps://t.co/fHOqV010ik
— Faisal Javed Khan (@FaisalJavedKhan) April 2, 2021
Yasir Hussain and Shaan also expressed their grief over the demise of the Punjabi singer.
Rest in peace shukat Ali Sb indeed you have served this nation 🇵🇰with all your love , talent and hard work . Your contributions will always be remembered by all of us 🇵🇰May ALLAH bless your soul ♥️🙏🏼🇵🇰 pic.twitter.com/ufAlnsNZrp
Iqra Aziz has opened up on why she chose Yasir Hussain as her life partner.
Sharing a video clip of Yasir’s interview in which the actor remarked that there is nothing wrong with publicly expressing his love for his wife, Iqra said: “I chose Yasir because he always speaks the truth and does not differentiate among people.”
“He respects everyone and gives them their due credit,” said Iqra further. “In addition to this, he knows how to respect a woman. After my mother and sister, no one has given me more confidence than him.”
Iqra continued: “This is important in these times that a man, your husband, supports you in your work, your dreams and wishes to see you succeed in your life.”
The actor further said that a man who loves and respects his wife, helps her achieve her dreams and prioritises her happiness over his own is the dream of every girl and that her “dream has been fulfilled. Alhamdulillah“.
Iqra has always praised Yasir for being in her life. On their first wedding anniversary, Iqra had penned a loving note for Yasir, saying that he is the positivity in her life.
On April 1, April Fool’s Day, Hania Aamir announced that she has gotten engaged. Sharing a picture of her hand with a ring on it and a rose, Hania wrote “01/04/2021”.
Soon after, people from her close friend’s circle started congratulating her. While Hania initially did not share who she had gotten engaged to, her friend Umer Mukhtar later revealed that the actor had gotten engaged to musician Shamoon Ismail.
Ismail added more fuel to the fire by resharing the story on his Instagram account leaving fans confused over whether the two had actually put a ring on it or were just fooling around.
Turns out Hania was just playing an elaborate April Fool’s joke on her fans and has not gotten engaged to Shamoon.
“Thanks guys. I’ll definitely have a better quality photo when it’s real. I love you guys,” said Hania.
She also thanked Shamoon for being “such a sport”.
Saba Qamar has announced that she has called it off with Azeem Khan due to many ‘personal reasons’, just a week after she had shared that she was getting married soon.
“I have a very important announcement to make,” said Saba in a statement. “Due to a lot of personal reasons I have decided to call it off with Azeem Khan.”
“We are not getting married now,” said Saba further. “Hope you guys will support my decision just like you all have been supporting me always, and I guess it’s never too late to realise the bitter realities!”
“I also wanted to clear one important thing that is: I have never met Azeem Khan in my life we were only connected over the phone,” shared Saba, adding: “It’s a very hard time on me right now but as we all know ‘This too shall pass’.”
Responding to Saba’s post, Azeem said: “She hasn’t written my side of [the] story and yes it’s my fault.”
Earlier, in an interview, Saba had shared that she has found her soulmate and “if everything goes well, I will be tying the knot very soon.”
She had also said ‘Qubool Hai‘ to Azeem when he commented under her post and said that let’s get married this year.
Meanwhile, Saba’s colleagues including Hadiqa Kiani, Yumna Zaidi, Noor Bukhari, Adnan Ansari and Abdullah Sultan commented on her post to show support to her.
Ahmed Ali Butt has revealed that he lost a whopping 25kgs over a period of six months.
Talking to Vasay Chaudhry during his showGhabrana Mana Hai, Butt opened up on his weight loss journey besides talking about his marriage and upcoming projects.
“The isolation period during COVID-19 helped me a lot in my weight loss journey,” shared Butt. “After Ramadan, I started fasting regularly for a few months. It became an effective and helpful cycle for me.”
“It took six or seven months to reduce my weight but when I came in [the] public after losing 15kg weight, everyone was shocked,” said the actor further, adding that he has “lost 25kgs weight till now”.
Butt also talked about his experience of shooting for an international Punjabi film Phatte Dinde Chakk Punjabi, saying that it was amazing. The actor also revealed that he has signed another movie, hinting that he will be doing a serious role in his upcoming project.
Talking about his marriage, Butt shared that he and his wife Fatima were in a long-distance relationship for over nine years.
“We were great friends and then we were together for nine years,” he told Chaudhry. “She was in London, I was here so we just used to stay connected via calls. It was a very expensive relationship! But after nine years, we got married and have been married for seven years now.”
Butt also shared that he has known his wife for 20 years. The couple together have a son Azaan.
When the host asked him about the time he was caught red-handed by his wife, Butt said: “She usually catches me.”
“Red-handed. I’ve been caught red-handed twice,” he laughed. To this, Chaudhry asked: “Doing what?” and Butt replied: “I won’t tell you that!”
In response, Chaudhry remarked: “It’s better to clarify before you are caught in a very Naumaan Ijaz moment.”
To which Butt said: “I don’t think that would happen cause I never stare at other women. But I had these old messages on my phone that she [my wife] saw.”
British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan and Faryal Makhdoom have got their own Kardashian-style show: a BBC Three documentary titled Meet The Khans: Big In Bolton, in which the couple gave fans a sneak peek into their lives and relationship.
During the show, Faryal reportedly said that Amir no longer cheats on her because he’s an “old man” now.
“We’ve been through hell and back,” said Faryal, while talking about the various scandals over the year. It is pertinent to mention here that Amir has been accused of cheating more than nine times.
“He was never able to enjoy his youth because of all his hard work, so he never really got it out of his system. He’d get caught in the wrong places,” said Faryal while explaining the reasons behind her husband’s infidelity.
“We’ve moved on. The past is the past, we were young, we grew up together – the bad and the good,” she said further, adding: “Amir was so famous and so young when I first started dating him and married him, and now it’s like… he’s an old man!”
The social media influencer further said that labels like “gold-digger” and “doormat” deeply upset her.
Agreeing with Faryal, Amir said: “It changes with time. When you have three kids, it changes your responsibilities. I’ve had that crazy life before, now I’m a changed man.”
Meanwhile, during an in-camera therapy session, Faryal, in between tears, tells her therapist: “My relationship still gets judged for what I’ve been through. A lot of people have ups and downs – the only difference is my marriage is quite public. I married a celebrity.”
Faryal and Amir’s real life has been nothing short of a reality series marked with a long feud with the in-laws followed by an emotional reunion, cheating allegations, extramarital affairs and public scandals. The couple has three kids, Lamaisah aged 6, Alayna aged 2 and Muhammad Zaviyar aged 8 months.
Amir is also no stranger to reality tv – he has also taken part in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Countdown, Beat the Star, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Celebrity Juice.
Speaking to Ahsan Khan on his show Time Out with Ahsan Khan, Minal said: “What I learnt from Nisha was [that] it is just confidence. Aap main itna confidence hona chaheeye keh agar aap koi sahi faisla kar rahe toh uskay liye bhi confidence bohat zaruri hai. Agar ghalat hai toh uskay liye bhi aapko confident hona chaheeye.”
Minal further said that playing a negative character like Nisha helped her explore her own personality which in turn gave her more confidence.
Meanwhile, talking about social media, Minal said: “I think social media is important. It is important to know peoples point of view and what they expect from you.”
“But that doesn’t mean you let their expectations take over your life,” continued the actor. “That cannot happen. We have our own life also. Some people really need to learn not to be judgmental every single time. Learn to ignore if you don’t like something instead of making the other person feel bad through your harsh words.”
Minal added that she doesn’t let mean comments hurt her though they do get under her skin sometimes. To this, Saboor Aly, who was also on the show, said that she doesn’t like it when people raise fingers at her character or drag in her late mother.
Khan and Aly also talked about having famous sisters [Aiman Khan, Sajal Aly], saying that they are very proud to be associated with them and they are their biggest inspirations.
With the FIFA ban looming over the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), Mahira Khan and Yumna Zaidi have extended their support for Pakistan’s Women football team, requesting the authorities to resolve the women footballers’ issues.
“Sports are essential to a society to remain healthy [and] provide us with the heroes we so desperately need to look up to and represent our country,” said Yumna, sharing her thoughts on the matter.
Urging authorities to listen to the girl’s appeals, Yumna further said: “At present, the current Pakistan women’s football team seems to be going through a host of issues and I want to appeal to whoever is listening, please help them we need this.”
“We need them to shine,” she asserted.
Sharing a video of Hajra Khan on Instagram stories, Mahira wrote: “Respect the game!!! Respect the players!!”
In a step that could be seen as players’ and teams’ vote of no confidence against Ashfaq Shah, the players of Karachi United and Highlanders Football Club have announced their decision to withdraw from the ongoing National Women Football Championship after the Ashfaq-led-group refused to hand over Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) offices back to the normalisation committee.
While Ashfaq group’s act may lead Pakistan to a suspension from FIFA, both clubs say that they do not support the incidents that took place at PFF last weekend and have decided not to play under the Ashfaq-led setup in protest.
Karachi United FC, which was scheduled to play against WAPDA Thursday morning in the semifinal, posted their decision on the club’s social media page, saying that given the prevailing circumstances and based on the decision of players, Karachi United has decided to withdraw its women’s team from the National Championship.
The statement added that while the team had played its quarter final “under protest” and for purely football reasons, it had hoped that the matter would be resolved.
“Since the FIFA deadline has passed and no corrective action has been taken, the team is left with no option but to withdraw from the competition,” the club said.
“Being a football organisation, we feel that footballers and teams should never have to be put in such situations to make such choices as players and teams just want to play,” they added.
Karachi United further appealed to the FIFA, AFC, NC and all stakeholders to urgently resolve this issue to avoid Pakistan from being suspended.
BREAKING: Karachi United have decided to pull out of the National Women's Football Championship which is now being organised without the PFF Normalisation Committee.
Islamabad-based Highlanders football club said in the statement that following the recent development in PFF, it has decided not to participate in NWFC any further.
“We do not support any act that brings football into disrepute because we believe that no individual is bigger than the game. However, the integrity of game should be maintained at all levels,” the club said in a statement.
“We, the Highlanders club, believe that this is in best interest of Pakistan football,” the statement posted on club’s social media accounts said.
Highlanders Women Football Club was playing its first national women championship and they proved themselves as one of the contenders to win the Trophy. They were scheduled to play against Masha United in the semi final on Thursday.
“We travelled from Islamabad to Karachi with a dream to do well on football field and to win the national women football championship. We are proud of Highlanders’ performance in the tournament and I believe that we made the statement that we wanted to,” the club said.
BREAKING: Highlanders FC become the second club to pull out of the National Women's Football Championship which is now being organised without the PFF Normalisation Committee.
Earlier, six footballers from different teams had announced to boycott the championship ahead of the quarter final matches.
Later Masha United, which was one of the semi-finalists, “become the third team to withdraw from the ongoing National Women’s Football Championship which lost its official status after PFF NC was ousted. Only WAPDA left now and probably get declared champion”, announced FPDC on Twitter.
Masha United become the third team to withdraw from the ongoing National Women's Football Championship which lost its official status after PFF NC was ousted.
Hajra Khan, Khadija Kazmi, Sarah Ali, Mashal Hussain, Maria Khan and Zahra Shah had issued a issued a joint statement on Tuesday, saying “the integrity of game is being challenged by politicised governance, adding that “we, too, are responsible for upholding the integrity of the game.”
The Pakistani footballers say FIFA ban would destroy their careers.
Meanwhile, the Provincial Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab, Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti had addressed the issue, saying: “Pakistan Football Federation’s decision to play a role in the dispute, the parties are being contacted. The suspension of Pakistan’s membership by FIFA will bring the country into disrepute in the international arena. A positive solution to the conflict will come out soon.”
پاکستان فٹ بال فیڈریشن کے تنازعہ پر کردار ادا کرنے کا فیصلہ،فریقین سے رابطہ کیا جارہا ہے۔فیفا کی جانب سے پاکستان کی رکنیت معطل ہونے سے عالمی سطح پر ملک کی بدنامی ہوگی۔بحیثیت حکومت ملک میں فٹ بال کے فروغ اور سہولیات کی فراہمی کا کام کررہے ہیں۔جلد تنازعہ کا مثبت حل نکلے گا۔
The archbishop of Canterbury has confirmed that he legally married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle in May 2018, despite the couple’s claim that they had another, private, ceremony three days earlier.
During a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey last month, Meghan had said that “three days before our wedding we got married.”
“We called the archbishop and we just said, look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us,” she said. “So the vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the archbishop of Canterbury.”
Though Meghan didn’t elaborate on the private service, many people said that it wasn’t legally binding because of the absence of witnesses.
Justin Welby has now contradicted the couple’s claims and said that they legally married at the castle on May 19, 2018, but would not disclose what occurred at private meetings before that.
“I signed the wedding certificate, which is a legal document, and I would have committed a serious criminal offence if I signed it knowing it was false,” said Welby, who is head of the church of England.
Welby told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that “I won’t say what happened at any other meetings,” adding that he’d had “a number of private and pastoral meetings with the duke and duchess before the wedding.”
In the interview with Winfrey, Meghan had claimed that she had experienced racism and callous treatment from the royal household and the press during her time as a working member of the royal family. William rejected Meghan’s claims saying that “We’re not a racist family”, while the Queen said that they will address the couple’s concerns privately.
In early 2020, Meghan and Harry announced they were quitting royal duties and moving to North America, citing what they said were the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media.
