Category: Lifestyle

  • Man booked for lying about first marriage to second wife

    Man booked for lying about first marriage to second wife

    A Lahore man was sent to jail for not telling his second wife about his first marriage, Samaa News reported.

    Arfah Naz has alleged that Rehmat Ali had not revealed his first marriage and she got married to him thinking he is single.

    The woman registered an FIR against Rehmat at the Shahdara police station when she came to know two days after the marriage that the latter was already married and had children too.

    She demanded that Rehmat should be booked for deceiving her. A district court sent him to jail on judicial remand.

    Section 6(5) of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961 states that a man has to submit written permission from his first wife if he wishes to marry for the second time. If a man violates the law, then he may be jailed for a year.

  • Nawaz Sharif’s grandson Junaid is getting married in England without his parents

    Nawaz Sharif’s grandson Junaid is getting married in England without his parents

    The date has been announced and the Nikkah invite has been sent out. Junaid Safdar, the son of PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and Capt (r) Safdar, will be getting married to Ayesha, the daughter of former National Accountability Chairman, Saif-ur-Rehman.

    According to reports, Maryam Nawaz and Captain (R) Safdar will not be attending the Nikkah ceremony.

    Maryam Nawaz has tweeted about not being able to attend her son’s wedding due to her name being on the Exit Control List.

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    The wedding invite states that the wedding is on Sunday, August 22 at 6PM. The Nikkah is taking place at a fancy hotel in London, called The Lanesborough.

    The hotel is reputably one of the most expensive in London, situated near Hyde Park.

    View of one of the marriage halls in the hotel
    View of the hotel from the outside

    Since the wedding invite states that the event is the Nikkah, it is being speculated that the rukhsati will not take place until Junaid’s parents can be in attendance.

    Maryam also tweeted that she was unable to see her mother before she died and now she has to miss her son’s wedding.

  • Police arrest Peshawar man for wearing scary mask

    Police arrest Peshawar man for wearing scary mask

    Police have arrested a man for wearing a costume mask and frightening citizens.

    The Yakatoot police received complaints about a motorcyclist riding around the streets with a scary mask to frighten pedestrians. The police traced and detained the man after complaints

    Naila Inayat, a journalist, shared a video of the man behind the bars. “This guy arrested in Peshawar had plans to celebrate Independence Day by scaring people. Apparently, the police wasn’t much impressed. He was caught in his scary mask,” she wrote in a tweet.

    Journalist Iftikhar Firdous tweeted, “Peshawar police and masks don’t get along.”

    Firdous was referring to a man who was wearing a ‘wolf mask’ in Peshawar on New Year’s Eve and was arrested by the Peshawar police for “trying to scare off people” in the provincial capital.

  • Eight-year-old Indian girl killed in ‘human sacrifice’ ritual, four held: police

    Eight-year-old Indian girl killed in ‘human sacrifice’ ritual, four held: police

    An eight-year-old girl was reportedly murdered as part of a human sacrifice ritual planned by a local mystic in India’s Bihar, Hindustan Times reported.

    The victim was a third grade student who went missing on August 4. A day later, her mutilated body was found on the banks of Ganga River.

    The police detained four people and charged them with kidnapping and murder under the Indian Penal Code.

    Superintendent JJ Reddy told the media that self-proclaimed mystic Parvez Alam had told a local villager, Dilip Kumar Choudhary, that he had to sacrifice a girl so that his pregnant wife would not lose her baby.

    Choudhary further informed that Alam had four children and wanted a fifth. Alam had asked him to bring the eye of a 10-year-old boy or girl so he could prepare an amulet.

    Choudhary told the police that he was involved in the crime because Alam provoked him.

    The other two suspects, Tanvir Alam and Dasrath Kumar, allegedly helped Alam in the crime, the police reported.

    Initial police reports suggest that Choudhary, Tanvir and Dasrath had abducted the girl when she was coming back home after delivering lunch to her father, who is a fisherman.

    The three men dragged the girl inside a brick kiln, choked her and extracted out her right eye.

    Read More: Police arrest teacher for raping, blackmailing woman in Chiniot

    The girl’s body also had wounds suspected of rape.

    After the forensic examination of the girl’s clothes and pendant, the medical board denied the possibility of rape, informed SP Reddy.

    Initially, the police arrested 12 people but all were freed after an inquiry. Alam was arrested from his home after Choudhary confessed to the crime.

    The girl’s mother and father, however, stated that the police have “cooked” up a story. They said that their daughter was sexually assaulted before being murdered

  • Police investigators find ‘mastermind’of Rs 750M bank gold scam

    Police investigators find ‘mastermind’of Rs 750M bank gold scam

    The investigation officials have found out that a ‘woman manager’ was a mastermind in the Rs750m gold scam at a private bank in Karachi, ARY News reported.

    As per reports, the investigators have found more hints while investigating financial fraud at a Karachi private bank after they interrogated the suspects.

    They revealed that a woman manager of the bank’s Gulistan-e-Johar branch who had allegedly planned the gold scam divided the shares and gave the money earned from the frauds to the accused bank staffers.

    The accused woman kept giving gifts to the staffers. Investigators also found Rs2,400,000 funds in the bank account of the bank’s gold finance executive Adeel.

    The woman manager had also gifted expensive mobile phones to the bank employees and invested the remaining money to the stock exchange, as well as bought luxurious vehicles.

    The officials said that the mastermind had also given ‘pocket money to the bank staffers in both branches. Police said that 14 arrests have been made in the Rs750 million bank gold scam case so far.

  • Dog beaten, tortured, hanged in public

    Trigger Warning: Animal Abuse

    A dog was beaten, tortured and hanged in broad daylight by a man accompanied by a huge mob in Karachi as per JFK Animal Rescue And Shelter.

    In the video, a man can be seen beating a tied up dog with a stick in front of a mob.

    Reportedly, the incident took place in Ghausia Mobile Market, Kharadar, in Karachi.

    As per the animal rescue and shelter, “Apparently they plan on doing this to all street dogs in that area.”

    Animal abuse and zoos in Pakistan have long drawn international condemnation for their mistreatment of animals. Last year, on December 16, Islamabad’s Marghazar Zoo was shut down after the Islamabad High Court ordered for Kaavan the elephant and two brown bears Babloo and Suzie to be relocated to sanctuaries abroad.

  • Police arrest teacher for raping, blackmailing woman in Chiniot

    Police arrested a schoolteacher for allegedly raping a married woman, recording her videos and blackmailing her to get gold jewellery and cash, Dawn reported.

    The suspect is a teacher at the Government High School, Chiniot. The woman’s son, a student of 10th class, was his student at his private academy.

    The survivor’s husband filed a complaint with the city police stating that the suspect would call his wife to his academy for discussing matters related to his son’s studies.

    He said some weeks ago his wife fell sick and went to a local quack, Shafiq, to take medicines where the suspect also arrived. He said that Shafiq and the teacher gave sedatives to his wife and when she was falling unconscious, the suspect (teacher) accompanied her to their house to drop her there.

    The complainant said that finding her alone at the house, the suspect raped her and filmed objectionable videos.

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    He said later the teacher started blackmailing his wife and asked her to give her gold jewellery to him, or he would post the obscene clip on social media.

    He said his wife got blackmailed and gave the suspect nine-tola gold jewellery. Similarly, he said, a few days later the suspect received Rs250,000 cash from her. Then the suspect demanded one million rupees but she could not arrange the amount.

    When she refused to pay the amount, the suspect got angry and sent the videos to the in-laws of their daughter, who was divorced by her husband over the issue.

    Finally, the blackmailed woman revealed the whole story to her husband, who registered a complaint with the city police.

    The police registered a case under sections 376, 382 and 506 of PPC against the suspect and arrested him and his accomplice Shafiq.

    District Education Officer Dr Khadim Hussain said the teacher had been suspended from service and a departmental inquiry had been started against him under the Punjab Employees Efficiency and Discipline ACT (PEEDA), 2006.

  • Japanese parents send bags of rice to hug for relatives instead of babies

    People in Japan have been sending bags of rice that weigh the same as their newborn babies to relatives who are unable to visit them due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    As per details, the phenomenon of “Dakigokochi”, which means rice-filled bags shaped like a baby covered in a blanket and printed with the newborn’s face and name, is becoming immensely popular among new Japanese parents amid restrictions due to the pandemic.

    The price of the bag depends on the size of the baby. Some companies charge one yen a gram, with a 3.5kg pack is priced at 3,500 yen (Rs 5,207).

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    Naruo Ono, the owner of Kome no Zoto Yoshimiya rice shop says they first had the idea about 14 years ago when their own son was born. “I was thinking about what I could do for relatives who lived far away and couldn’t come and see him. So we decided to make bags of rice that were the same weight and shape as the baby, so relatives could hold them and feel the cuteness.”

    Ono has since started making the bags for wedding celebrations as well. The wedding rice bags became more famous than the birth ones.

    “During the pandemic, the demand for them has really increased as people haven’t been able to travel to wedding ceremonies,” added Ono.

  • Printing national flag in different colours prohibited by Lahore Court

    Printing national flag in different colours prohibited by Lahore Court

    A Lahore court has forbidden the printing of flags in different colours. The printing of flag in various colours,  other than its original scheme, and on distorted shaped portraits undermining the national dignity might be considered a defilement, Samaa News reported.

    “Our parcham (flag) is not merely a piece of cloth. The white and dark green field represents peace and prosperity, the crescent on the flag [symbolises] progress and the five-ray star signifies light and knowledge, which symbolises the five most Holy personalities (Panjtan-e-Pak A.S),” Justice Ali Baqar Najafi ruled while hearing a petition filed by Advocate Shakeela Rana.

    The court observed that according to the National Flags Protocol, people cannot legally do this while celebrating independence day. It must not touch the ground, shoes, feet, or anything unclean.

    • It must not be flown in the darkness
    • It must not be marketed with anything
    • When raised or lowered, it must be saluted
    • It must not fly or be displayed upside down or with a crescent and star facing left
    • It must not be displayed where it is likely to get dirty
    • It must not be set on fire or trampled upon
    • It must not be buried or lowered into a grave

    People who will violate any of these will be imprisoned for three years under Section 123-B (defilement of the national flag) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

  • Azadi Sales to avail this season

    Independence day is around the corner and Pakistanis are ready to celebrate it with full zest. While people are looking forward to Azadi celebrations, various brands are also offering discounts for their customers.

    BEECH TREE

    Beech Tree is offering Up to 50% off Independence Day Sale online and in stores as well.

    Website: https://beechtree.pk/

    Nishat Linen

    Nishat is offering upto 50 per cent off on selected of items in stores and online.

    Website: https://nishatlinen.com/collections/home-linen

    ONE PK

    One is offering enf of Season Sale – Up to 70% in stores and online.

    Website: https://beoneshopone.com/

    Outfitters

    Outfitters is offering flat 30 per cent sale on all of your summertime essentials.

    Website: https://outfitters.com.pk/

    Cougar

    Cougar is offering Flat 30% – 50% OFF on the entire Stock.

    Website: https://www.cougar.com.pk/?fbclid=IwAR1K3AnXeHBO342Y9MYgIE_66KWAbw9ybV-cU_injkBD4Mla5pjaPHIbrHw

    MTJ – Tariq Jamil

    MTJ – Tariq Jamil is offering FLAT 25% off on entire stock.

    Website: https://mtjonline.com/?fbclid=IwAR2wNDxcDE4PVBmJ0rN19raNNU93cc-KAsB-4O-PROK-1kXGztf11B7510Qhttps://mtjonline.com/

    Cross Stitch

    Cross Stitch is offering Azaadi Sale upto 50% OFF.

    Website: https://crossstitch.pk/?fbclid=IwAR0P_pfOLgw5xX4XShTGNmhV7JGM5fXjUJyv5uNkvYDtlcKtDRmeZcS3wVw

    Logo Shoes

    Logo is offering flat 30% off on entire stock on stores & online.

    Website: https://www.logoofficial.com/?fbclid=IwAR0DSBEPkb7iSy00GakMFfW9EKeA6AGBDufCKmDv3xw76bSXBLqhoUSKC_c