A man has been arrested for raping his six-year-old cousin in Bahawalpur, Samaa News reported.
The minor girl’s mother lived with her sister and their children. The women of the family were at their neighbours’ house, while the children were at home. “When we came back, I heard my daughter’s screams from one of the rooms,” the complainant, who is the six-year-old child’s mother, told the police.
The suspect, Adnan, was raping the child while his brother Nadir was watching over the door. “When they saw us, they attacked us with punches and kicks and escaped from the scene,” the complainant added.
A case has been registered against the men under sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The suspects were arrested after a police raid on Friday. The investigation officer said that Adnan’s DNA sample will be tested and further inquiry is underway.
A billboard installed in Gujranwala wishing Korean band BTS’ youngest member JungKook happy birthday was taken down the same day it was put up.
The advertiser who owns the billboard, Younus Mughal, told Images that the ad was scheduled to be up for two days.
“The business centre of the chamber of commerce had asked us to put the billboard ad up for two days. They had the ad put up before we could do so ourselves.”
But the ad was removed from the billboard in a few hours, leaving many fans confused why the ad disappeared.
“We took it off later that same day in the evening. When we saw the ad while removing it, we didn’t really get what it was about, just that it showed someone’s face. Furqan Aziz Butt from the Jamaat-e-Islami had told us to take the ad off immediately,” Mughal explained.
“The advertisement was put up by a person from Lahore. They paid Rs100,000 to have it put up for this person’s [Jungkook’s] birthday.” But a member of the Jamaat-e-Islami who is contesting the PP-57 Gujranwala seat in the Punjab Assembly was behind the billboard being removed and also shared it on Facebook.
He claimed the singer in the poster supports homosexuality and hence he believed that the poster should be removed.
“It was a public complaint. We saw it posted on the Amazing Gujranwala [Facebook] group and went there immediately and had it taken down,” he said, saying that it was a 15-by-20-foot vertical board.
Director General Inter Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar on Friday paid rich tributes to the martyrs, Ghazi and their loved-ones for their indomitable spirit, patriotism and valour rendered to safeguard the homeland.
DG ISPR took his social media handle to share a special video with a special message of patriotism. He wrote on his official account, “Salute to the martyrs, Ghazi and ‘all’ related to them. Martyrs of Pakistan are our pride”.
The tweet was also followed by hashtags ‘#6 September’ ‘#ShuhadaKoSalam’. Earlier, the ISPR chief during his news briefing announced that this year’s “Defence & Martyrs Day” theme was “Our martyrs are our pride, salute to all the relatives belonged to Ghazi and Shaheed”. He said the ceremony for this year would be held under Covid-19 protocols with full national zeal and fervour.
Newly hired medical superintendent of the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) Dr Muhammad Younus Warraich has banned jeans in the hospital and made dupatta or scarf mandatory for the women medical officers (WMOs) and paramedics, Majeed Gill reported for Dawn.
The new dress code has been introduced reportedly by the new head of the hospital to ‘preach Islam and reform the society’.
A notification signed by Mr Warraich, titled as, DRESS CODE RULES IN B.V. HOSPITAL BAHAWALPUR PREMISES consisted of two categories of ‘ALLOWED’ and ‘NOT ALLOWED’.
The letter gives the list of the dresses, which are not permitted in the hospital. It includes “jeans/tights (but only with knee-length shirt), high-up trousers/capri above ankle, tight fitted clothes, see-through clothes, heavy/tacky bangles or rings, sleeveless/half sleeves clothes, heavy make-up (especially dark lipsticks), untied long hair, high heels (making loud sounds and turning heads of everyone), extreme hairstyles (especially high buns like the hump of camels), low neckline (front and back), nail paint on long nails, slippers and anklets (Pazaib)”.
The “ALLOWED” category includes, “shalwar kameez or trousers with long shirts, dupatta/scarf, minimal jewelry like studs/tops, simple ring, or a chain with locket, sleeves below the elbow, lab coat (compulsory in hospital premises), maternity gowns/suitable dresses (during antenatal period) and scrubs with long sleeves that can be folded for females”.
It is notable that the code looks to be mostly women-centric.
Talking to Dawn, Mr Warraich confirmed that lab coats and maternity gowns during operations are now necessary on the hospital premises along with dupatta/scarf with minimum jewellery for women medical officers. Explaining the move, he said the step had been taken to preach Islam, promote religious values and reform society.
PML-N Vice President, Maryam Nawaz and Captain (R) Muhammad Safdar’s son Junaid Safdar, in an exclusive conversation with The Current has revealed that his remaining marriage ceremonies will take place in Pakistan. The dates have not been finalised yet but it is expected that the wedding festivities will take place in December.
“Rukhsati and Valima will be in Islamabad/Lahore once dates are finalised,” he said. Junaid did not reveal his honeymoon plans, saying, “I think we will decide post December once all other marriage ceremonies take place in Pakistan.”
A meme has been doing the rounds on social media comparing Junaid Safdar’s transformation with Hrithik Roshan’s character Rohan, from Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.
The Current asked its followers whose transformation they like more, Hritikh’s or Safdar’s? 56 percent voted for Junaid.
The Current reached out to Junaid Safdar to find out how he feeling about all the memes comparing him to Hrithik, to which Junaid replied, ” I love it, gives us all of us something to celebrate…Ayesha and I had a good laugh Alhumdullilah”.
Junaid further added that his favorite movie is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and he enjoys Farhan Akhtar’s films.
Twitter has rolled out Safety Mode feature for a limited number of users.
“Safety Mode is a feature that temporarily blocks accounts for seven days for using potentially harmful language — such as insults or hateful remarks — or sending repetitive and uninvited replies or mentions.”
“When the feature is turned on in your settings, our systems will assess the likelihood of a negative engagement by considering both the tweet’s content and the relationship between the tweet author and replier. Our technology takes existing relationships into account, so accounts you follow or frequently interact with will not be autoblocked.”
Authors of the tweets found by Twitter to be harmful or uninvited will be autoblocked, meaning they will temporarily be unable to follow your account, see your tweets, or send you direct messages.
This feature has been rolled out to a small feedback group on iOS, Android, and Twitter.com, beginning with accounts that have English-language settings enabled.
Gujranwala fans of a Korean pop band, BTS, wished a happy birthday to the band’s youngest member JungKook by installing a billboard. The singer recently turned 24.
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Asad Umar has said that critical patients admitted in hospitals due to covid-19 are at “highest level.”
“As seen globally, impact of indian delta variant in Pakistan also shows that it spreads faster & increases chances of patients to need hospitalization,” wrote the minister in a tweet.
“Right now both hospital inflow & critical care patients at highest level since start of covid,” he added.
Asad also requested people to, “please follow sop’s & vaccinate.”
As seen globally, impact of indian delta variant in Pakistan also shows that it spreads faster & increases chances of patients to need hospitalization. Right now both hospital inflow & critical care patients at highest level since start of covid. Please follow sop's & vaccinate
Pictures of three physically challenged Pakistani friends on a tour to Egypt are doing the rounds on social media. The three women are Tanzeela, Afshan and Zarghona. Tanzeela is from Lahore, Afshan hails from Peshawar and Zarghona lives in Quetta.
Talking to BBC Urdu, Tanzeela said that she is physically challenged since her childhood. She says, “I have no legs below the knees and I have been in a wheelchair all my life,” but so far she has travelled 20 countries in a wheelchair.
“I wanted to prove that a disabled girl doesn’t need anyone, she can be independent, she can make her own decisions,” she said talking about travelling alone.
Tanzeela said, “Allah has created us all independent, but in our country, a differently-abled person is made dependant on others and he cannot go anywhere without the help of anyone, from restaurants to public washrooms.” She added that there are no facilities for physically challenged persons to go anywhere alone. They have to ask for someone’s help to go to the restaurants or public washrooms. There is no privacy and if there is no privacy, then your self-confidence is completely destroyed.
“I thought I would take a step forward and set an example for other people.”
The other friend, Afshan told BBC Urdu that 75 per cent of her body was paralysed because she was not vaccinated against polio when she was a child. Physiotherapy has made her healthy enough that she can now sit in a wheelchair.
Sharing her feelings about travelling alone, she said that women with disabilities are often looked upon with pity. “It is a common notion about them that they cannot go anywhere so I decided to show the world that when you have the courage, then nothing is impossible.”
Afshan said that we used to see girls travelling outside Pakistan but never saw anybody mentioning facilities provided to the physically challenged people who want to travel to other countries. “Nobody mentioned whether the conditions are the same in foreign countries as in Pakistan or better for people like us.”
Zarghona was seven months old when she contracted polio and was unable to walk.
“I have never travelled from Quetta to Islamabad or Karachi alone before this and I used to have some attendant with me. Even if I go somewhere in Quetta, I have to take someone with me,” she said.
This is her first trip alone. She has previously travelled with different groups to three countries. “I was very excited to see Tanzeela and Afshan and I dared to travel alone,” she added. “If they can travel alone, why can’t I?”
