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  • PTI’s Ali Zaidi criticises Sindh govt, offers to take over Karachi Zoo

    PTI’s Ali Zaidi criticises Sindh govt, offers to take over Karachi Zoo

    Minister for Maritime Affairs, Ali Haider Zaidi, took to Twitter to express his frustration with the Sindh government over the tragic death of a rare white lion at the Karachi Zoo.

    Karachi Zoo is pathetic. Sindh government has destroyed it as their whole system is marred by corruption,” tweeted Zaidi.


    He further expressed that if the local government is incompetent to administrate the zoo, then the Maritime Affairs Ministry can take over it under one of its port foundations and turn it into top habitat for wildlife.

    Earlier the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) dismissed Khalid Hashmi, the senior director of the Karachi Zoological Garden, from his position. He was replaced by Mansoor Qazi on Thursday, reports Samaa News.

    The proclamation was issued by the Metropolitan Commissioner, Afzal Zaidi. It is reported that Qazi holds the position for the second time.

  • TV channel production operator commits suicide after being fired

    TV channel production operator commits suicide after being fired

    Muhammad Faheem, a former employee of a private media news organisation, has committed suicide after being fired from his job. Muhammad Faheem was a “production operator,” according to his press card circulating on social media. As per journalist Waqar Satti, Muhammad Faheem after being fired from his job, started working as an auto rickshaw driver. Later, he committed suicide due to continuing financial problems

    As per a news report, he had earlier also attempted to commit suicide three times. Faheem was found hanging from a fan. The deceased had six children and was the only breadwinner in the family.

    As per a video posted by friends of the deceased, Faheem, in a Facebook status a month earlier, wrote, “I’m Faheem and I need a job.” He also mentioned his contact details in the status.

    The reporter, who made the video, showed the place where the suicide happened, talked to one of Faheem’s daughters, who told him that they would go a week without having food. Faheem was in 70 thousand rupees debt.

    Pakistan ranks 145 out of 180 countries, according to an annual press freedom index report issued in 2020 by Reporters Without Borders. The South Asian nation was listed 142 in the 2019 ranking.

  • Hafizabad Court sentenced a father for raping her daughter

    Hafizabad Court sentenced a father for raping her daughter

    The district and sessions court in Hafizabad, Punjab, announced the death penalty to a father for raping his daughter, along with a fine of 0.5 million,, reports Daily Pakistan.

    According to details, the man was proven guilty on Wednesday by the court, after the paternal grandfather of the victim approached law enforcement personnel and registered the heinous crime against his own son for raping his granddaughter in April.

    Meanwhile, the culprit Nasir Ali denied all the accusations and alleged that his father was framing him to get his cattle in possession.

    However, during the trial, the prosecution argued that the grandfather was informed by his granddaughter about the sexual assault subjected on her by her father multiple times. Furthermore, the medical reports prove the sexual abuse of the daughter.

    The judge also stated in his written verdict that the perpetrator does not deserve any leniency for this horrible crime.


  • Nation-wide petrol strike: List of Petrol stations that are still open today

    Nation-wide petrol strike: List of Petrol stations that are still open today

    The Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) has launched a nationwide strike today. PPDA is demanding that dealers’ profit margin on petroleum products be increased to six per cent the current three per cent.

    Earlier, the dealers had announced the strike on November 5 but withdrew it after a government delegation held a meeting with them on November 3 to fulfil their demands.

    However, some petrol pumps are opened today. The Pakistani Energy Ministry, which is verified on Twitter, in a tweet mentioned the names of the petrol pumps that are open today. The petrol pumps which are open today include some from HESCO, GO, SHELL and PSO.

    Read more- All petrol pumps will be closed, petroleum dealers announce strike on Nov 25

    Deputy Commissioner Lahore, Umer Sher Chattha in a tweet shared the list of 62 petrol pumps that are opened in Lahore today.

    Earlier this month, the government had announced the rise of up to Rs 8.14 per litre of petroleum products.

  • PepsiCo Pakistan hits 100% Covid-19 vaccination rate

    PepsiCo Pakistan hits 100% Covid-19 vaccination rate

    In partnership with the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department, Government of Punjab, PepsiCo Pakistan achieved a 100 percent company-wide COVID-19 vaccination rate. Both entities collaborated to organize vaccination drives and awareness programs for over 3,000 employees and frontline associates across PepsiCo’s facilities.  PepsiCo aimed to prioritize employee health, safety, and wellbeing and accelerated support for the public health authorities on the national Covid-19 immunization agenda.

    Protecting employees’ health, well-being, and safety is an utmost priority at PepsiCo Pakistan, where a conscientious and people-centric company culture drives a safe work environment for people and the surrounding Pakistani communities. PepsiCo has embarked on transformational policies that have uplifted workplace safety standards and contributed to its ‘Winning with Purpose’ agenda for sustained and accelerated company-wide growth. In these particularly challenging times, PepsiCo has taken full ownership for cultivating an environment safe for all.

    From the onset of the pandemic in 2020, PepsiCo Pakistan has positively touched the lives of communities it operates in. PepsiCo Pakistan launched the ‘Millions of Meals’ program – a nationwide food distribution drive that served meals to underserved and needy families amidst the pandemic. 

    As Pakistan makes its recovery from the pandemic, PepsiCo is well-positioned to further entrench its ‘In, With, For Pakistan’ agenda across its business functions and continues to create positive social impacts and strengthen its alliance with the government for improving the social sector performance and fostering shared values for communities, including women and youth in need.

  • Lion allegedly starved to death in Karachi Zoo

    A lion in the Karachi Zoo has allegedly been starved to death.

    Journalist Quatrina Hosain, while posting the picture of the dead lion wrote, “Shed a tear for this majestic animal reduced to misery and painful death. I am so sorry we failed you. Let my tears wash your scarred body.”

    Earlier she posted a video in which the lion was in very poor condition. She also tagged the City Administrator Barrister Murtaza Wahab in her post, asking him to take the action against those responsible.

    Read more- ‘Let’s shut down all zoos’: social media angry over Karachi zoo not providing food to animals

    The video went viral on social media and people asked the city administration to take strict action against the zoo administration, Some even asked to “shut the Karachi zoo immediately.”

    Moreover, celebrities including Ahsan Khan, Shaneira Akram, Areeba Habib, Ahmed Ali Butt and Anoushey Ashraf also spoke up against the trivialising treatment of animals in Karachi Zoo.

    Read more- ‘Shameful, shut down’: Celebs slam Karachi zoo after viral video circulates

  • Video: Two women beaten in police station by another woman claiming the police forced her to do it

    Video: Two women beaten in police station by another woman claiming the police forced her to do it

    Trigger warning: Violence

    A video went viral on social media yesterday in which a lady can be seen beating two women in Kasur’s Sadar Police Station. One of the woman in the video was being investigated for a robbery case. The video caused an uproar on social media.

    After the video went viral on social media, the police took the woman named Sajda who beat the other two, into custody and have registered cases against the investigating officer and a woman constable.

    However, in a video message shared by the woman later she said that someone called her from police station and asked her to visit the police station in relevance to her own case. She said that when she reached the police station the officers said they will look into her case only after she beats up the two women they have taken into custody. She said she refused, but she did it after they forced her.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SghIbo-r8vw
  • SHC allows children of single parents to get CNIC without father’s information

    SHC allows children of single parents to get CNIC without father’s information

    In a ruling, the Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) to issue Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) to a woman who didn’t know about her father’s whereabouts, reports Samaa.

    Rubina was brought up by a single mother as her father had left the family many years ago. The local court ordered NADRA to issue CNIC to Rubina based on her mother’s citizenship record. Her mother works in the Education Department.

    When Rubina, who is specially-abled, turned 18 and went to a local NADRA office to obtain her CNIC, she was told that the card would not be issued unless she provides the record of both her parents.

    “When I went to the NADRA office, they refused to issue me CNIC and asked to bring my father or any other guardian. Where could I have found my father, who left me and my mother when I was young?”

    She filed a petition with the court, which resulted in a landmark verdict. In the past, many orphans in Pakistan have faced this problem regarding the issuance of CNIC.

    Advocate Usman Farooq stated that the ruling would apply to similar cases and now the children with single parents would be able to get their CNICs after producing the record of only a single parent.

  • Lawyers beat up woman inside court

    Lawyers beat up woman inside court

    A female activist of the ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Laila Parveen, and her brother were allegedly beaten up by a group of lawyers on Malir court premises, reports Dawn.

    Videos of the incident are doing the rounds on social media. The lawyers are being criticised for the way Parveen and her brother were treated.

    Trigger Warning!

    Parveen told the media that she, along with her brother, had appeared before a court in connection with a case she had filed against her ex-husband Advocate Hasnain, who was the one who verbally and physically assaulted them along with his colleagues Advocate Shahzad Saeed and Advocate Jalbani at the court.

    According to Parveen, her ex-husband had given a bounced cheque of Rs6.5 million.

    Later, the general secretary of the Malir district bar association, Riaz Bhatti, revealed that some lawyers had tried to settle the dispute between Advocate Hasnain and Parveen but some people who were with Parveen became harsh and indulged in a fistfight.

  • Kartarpur Corridor reunites Pakistani and Indian friends separated during partition

    Kartarpur Corridor reunites Pakistani and Indian friends separated during partition

    The Kartarpur Corridor has brought together two friends separated after India was divided into two countries, Dawn has reported.

    Sardar Gopal Singh from India who is now 94 and Muhammad Bashir from Pakistan who is now 91 got separated in 1947. They both hugged each other when they met almost after six decades.

    Sardar Gopal Singh came to Kartarpur to perform religious rites at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib and Bashir visited Kartarpur as a visitor.

    Gopal Singh, while recalling old memories, said that both of them were young at the time of partition. Bashir, who is from Narowal, said that even before partition, Gopal and he used to visit Baba Guru Nanak’s Gurdwara.

    Read more-Indian Punjab CM, Indian politicians at Kartarpur to celebrate Baba Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary

    https://twitter.com/SinghLions/status/1462837304502878209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1462837304502878209%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news18.com%2Fnews%2Fbuzz%2Ftwo-friends-separated-during-partition-reunite-at-kartarpur-after-74-years-4476200.html

    People on social media have expressed their love for both Gopal and Bashir.

    https://twitter.com/RezinaSultana9/status/1462690486116782081

    The Kartarpur Corridor, which links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, the final resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district, reopened in November. The pilgrimage to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara was suspended in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.