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  • Despite so many good looking men, ads feature women, Tahir Asharfi criticises Pak ads

    Despite so many good looking men, ads feature women, Tahir Asharfi criticises Pak ads

    Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony Maulana Tahir Ashrafi has criticised advertisements featuring women. “Despite having so many good looking men in the country, advertisers still hire women to represent their brands.”

    Tahir, while addressing a press conference at the Punjab Institute of Quran and Seerat Studies, said that he is against the practice of women being “unnecessarily featured in advertisements”.

    Talking about the strategy of curbing Islamophobia, Tahir Ashrafi said, “For this purpose, the government has started reaching out to different Islamic scholars across the globe.”

    “The ulema have a role to play in eradicating obscenity, terrorism, and extremism from the country,” said Maulana Tahir Ashrafi  while talking about the increase in sexual crimes.

  • Everything you need to know about Ehsaas Rashan programme

    Everything you need to know about Ehsaas Rashan programme

    The registration of poor families whose monthly income is less than Rs31,000 has begun today under the Ehsaas Rashan Programme. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection Dr Sania Nishtar, giving details of the programme, said that the eligible families will be able to obtain items of daily use like flour, oil, sugar and pulses at subsidised rates from Utility Stores and retail stores (kiryana shops). Small retail stores opened even in streets and localities will also provide this facility if they are registered and authorised for this system.

    Registration process:

    The National Socio Economic Registry (NSER) survey of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has been completed.  A database of 27 million households was originally developed during a nationwide survey under the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government in 2010-11.

    Another survey will be used to identify deserving families for this new pro-poor programme. It will take three or four weeks to complete the process of registration. The beneficiaries will need a mobile phone number registered on their Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC), which will be produced before the specific stores from which purchases on subsidised rates will be sought.

    How will it work?

    The kiryana merchants will require downloading the relevant app on their Android phones, entering CNIC numbers of the customers and pass on the benefits after authentication from the back-end immediately.

    The customer will receive a verification code, which would be entered by the kiryana merchant in the app.

    Eligibility Criteria:

    20 million households across Pakistan with a poverty score of less than 39 and an income of Rs 31,000 per month.

  • Man accidentally throws Rs3,139,500 in trash bin

    Man accidentally throws Rs3,139,500 in trash bin

    A businessman in  Greece accidentally threw a bag containing 19,000 Euros (RsRs 3,139,500) in a dustbin after mistaking it for garbage.

    As per reports, a businessman from the Greek Island of Limos was carrying cash in a bag and a garbage bag on Monday. On his way to his office, the man dumped both the bags into the dustbin. After reaching his shop, he realised that he had mistakenly dumped the bag with the cash as well.

    The businessman told the local media that after realising his mistake, he ran to the area where he had dumped the bags but the garbage bags were missing.

    “I panicked and stopped the cops and told the officers about the money and how I threw it accidentally into a dustbin,” said the businessman.

    The police officers along with him located the garbage truck and caught up with the vehicle at the island harbour before it could dump the contents for burning.

    The businessman told the local media that he, along with three officers, reached the rake and started searching through all the trash. After a few minutes of searching, they found the first garbage bag but the bag filled with money was still missing.

    According to reports, the man and the police officers on finding the first bag were hopeful that they would locate the one with money too. The businessman and the cops searched each garbage bag in the dump and finally found the bag with the euros after searching for almost an hour.

  • Video: Rain lashes on just one vehicle in Indonesia

    In a strange video, rain is seen lashing on just one car in Indonesia, reports ARY News.

    https://twitter.com/Random_Uncle_UK/status/1455151015712497671?s=20

    The viral event reportedly took place at a parking lot located in West Java on Monday.

    Uryan Riana who witnessed the rain pouring down said that he first thought of it as a prank.

    He said, “It just so happened that I was in the parking lot at that time. I immediately took my cellphone and took a video of the rain.”

    “At first, I thought someone was playing with water above the hotel. But when I looked up, the water was actually falling from the sky. It was raining.”

    Indonesia usually has monsoon season at this time of the year.

    It is not the first time that such a bizarre episode has taken place as in 2017, rain poured down on a single house located in South Jakarta in Indonesia.

  • Diwali fireworks: Delhi residents pay the price

    Diwali fireworks: Delhi residents pay the price

    India’s capital New Delhi has the worst air quality in the world as the city is at the top of the Air Quality Index (AQI) with 332.

    The morning after the Diwali celebrations, a thick smog turned daylight into dusk around the capital as AQI surged to 463 on a scale of 500, which is the maximum recorded in 2021, indicating “severe” conditions that affect even healthy people let alone those with existing respiratory diseases, reports Reuters.

    In India, toxic air kills reportedly more than a million people annually.

    “No country delights more in passing laws and then bypassing them than ours. Today Delhi particularly is facing the consequences of this feature of our lives,” Jairam Ramesh, a lawmaker and a leader of the main opposition Congress Party tweeted on Friday.

    Gopal Rai, Delhi environment chief said authorities planned to install 20 anti-smog guns to spray water into the air to help dilute the smog.

    Currently, there have been calls for more strict measures such as a temporary ban on construction activities and shutdowns of high-polluting factories.

    Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi told the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow that India would achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2070, but some experts reckoned that the target was at least two decades too late.

    As per today’s date (Saturday), Lahore was at 3rd place. While India’s other two cities currently stand at 4th and 5th.

  • PTA, TikTok agree at a ‘mutually acceptable mechanism’ for content

    PTA, TikTok agree at a ‘mutually acceptable mechanism’ for content

    TikTok Head of Public Policy-Emerging Markets and Head of Global CSR, Helena Lersch, along with her team visited the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) headquarters . PTA has agreed to work with TikTok to build a framework to guarantee that all content shared on the site is legal and safe for society.

    As per the press release, “The chairman PTA, while acknowledging the highlighted efforts of TikTok, assured to continue engagement with TikTok to reach at a mutually acceptable mechanism for provision of safe, lawful and productive internet experience to the users in Pakistan.”

    Earlier, Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Athar Minallah expressed anger over the fourth ban on video-sharing app TikTok by PTA and asked the authority for justification regarding the ban.

    TikTok was banned for the fourth time in Pakistan on July 21, 2021 for its failure to take down “inappropriate content”. 

  • Husband reunites wife with her lover five months after own wedding

    Husband reunites wife with her lover five months after own wedding

    A man in Kanpur, India, helped his wife reunite with her lover just five months after he got married to her.

    Pankaj told reporters that his wife Komal used to maintain distance from him since their marriage. “She neither consummated the marriage nor even talked to anyone. After being coaxed, she confided that she wanted to marry her lover Pintu,” he said.

    When Pankaj informed the girl’s family, they tried to convince Komal but she remained persistent.

    Read More: Barat sent back for coming with the wrong older groom

    The matter then reached the Anti-Domestic Violence Cell and Asha Jyoti Centre where a meeting was arranged between the woman, her husband, her lover, and their relatives.
    Seeing that Komal was determined, Pankaj agreed and even made arrangements for her marriage. He also arranged a lawyer to solemnise the marriage of his wife to her lover Pintu on Friday evening, which was attended by relatives and guests from both sides.

  • ‘I am giving you an opportunity to hang me’: Zahir Jaffer calls the judicial system ‘incompetent’

    ‘I am giving you an opportunity to hang me’: Zahir Jaffer calls the judicial system ‘incompetent’

    Zahir Jaffer was kicked out of an Islamabad sessions court on Wednesday for interrupting and misbehaving with the judge, SAMAA has reported. In a video being widely shared on social media, Zahir can be seen being dragged out of court by policemen. As per media reports, the prime suspect in Noor Mukadam’s murder case misbehaved and used derogatory language in the court.

    Read more- Noor Mukadam case: SC demands evidence against Zahir Jaffer’s mother

    Journalist Zubair Ali Khan tweeted that Zahir Jaffer in court said, “I’m giving you guys an opportunity to hang me but still you guys are dragging this, this shows it is all a puppet show.”

    Zahir further said that he has never seen more incompetent people than [the ones] sitting in the [court] room in his entire life.

  • Chinese man arrested for nine days for sharing a meme

    Chinese man arrested for nine days for sharing a meme

    A man in China was detained for nine days after sharing a meme to a group chat that local police deemed offensive. His arrest has gone viral on Chinese social media, CNN reported.

    The man, identified only by his surname Li, allegedly shared the meme on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, complaining about local coronavirus prevention and control measures late last month, the report said citing authorities and state media.

    Police in Qingtongxia city in the Ningxia region posted a screenshot of Li’s text exchange on Chinese social media but later removed the post.
    State-run outlet The Paper reported more details of the incident that has shocked people in China, with a related hashtag garnering 170 million views.

    Many protested against Li’s punishment, arguing that a meme hardly justified arrest by the police, a CNN report said.

    According to The Paper, Li sent a meme showing a dog in a police hat, holding a police badge and pointing at the camera. It’s a common image that has been used widely online before, with different variations, sometimes including a cat or cartoon character in police hat.

  • Barat sent back for coming with the wrong older groom

    Barat sent back for coming with the wrong older groom

    A bride’s parents have filed a case of fraud at a local police station, Geo News reported.

    The parents claim that the boy who was shown before the wedding did not come with the barat. The person who came with the barat was older.

    Read More: Newly-wed bride asks groom to bring water, runs away with cash, jewellery

    The girl’s family said that we took a loan for the wedding arrangements and the food. We have been deceived and we are receiving threats after sending back the barat.

    Police say they have received a request from the girl’s parents and an investigation is underway.