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  • VIDEO: Massive spider webs blanket Australian state

    VIDEO: Massive spider webs blanket Australian state

    A part of Australis’s state of Victoria has been covered with thick layers of cobweb. The area had received heavy rains and flooding last week forcing many residents to leave.  Other locals are still there without power in the state as authorities repair transformers and clear roads.

    A video doing rounds on social media shows an entire area covered in massive spider webs. The spiders create these web sheets as part of a survival tactic known as ‘Ballooning’. In such events, spiders release silk strands to climb to higher ground.

    This is not the first time when the cobwebs have taken over the region after heavy rainfall. A similar incents had occurred after the rains in Gippsland in 2013.

  • Generation joins Ali Xeeshan’s campaign to raise breast cancer awareness

    Generation joins Ali Xeeshan’s campaign to raise breast cancer awareness

    Clothing brand, Generation, has joined designer Ali Xesshan’s campaign, ‘Parday Mein Parwah’, to raise awareness about breast cancer in Pakistan.


    The price of a dupatta is Rs1,998 and is available in stores and online.

    The brand joined hands with the designer Ali Xeeshan and a breast cancer survivor, Asma Nabeel, who is also the face of the campaign. Generation said that all profits from this campaign will be donated to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

    Sharing a picture from the campaign on social media, Generation stated, “We’ve joined hands with @alixeeshantheaterstudio and @asmanabeelan to bring you a one of a kind Dupatta for which we’ll be donating all profits to the @shaukatkhanum.”

    In another Instagram post, the brand wrote, “Approximately 90,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year in Pakistan! On grounds of modesty, women often hesitate to check themselves that can stop the disease at an early stage. We bring to life a dupatta that reminds and instructs women to check themselves.”

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    Ali Xeeshan started the campaign in March 2021 to talk about the stigma around breast cancer.

  • Food delivery boy robbed and shot in Lahore

    A food delivery boy was robbed in Lahore, on Wednesday. The robbers took cash from the delivery boy. As per details, the robbers fired bullets at the delivery boy but he remained unhurt, ARY News has reported.

    Police officials confirmed that an investigation has been launched and a magazine and bullets have been found from the crime scene.

    Earlier this year in January, robbers looted burgers from a delivery boy in Gujranwala. As per reports, a group of six men riding on two motorcycles robbed the delivery boy as he was on his way to deliver the burgers to customers. The unidentified but armed men stopped the boy and snatched six burgers and mobile from him and escaped from the scene.

  • Police make father of rape victim clean room, don’t file report

    Police make father of rape victim clean room, don’t file report

    A father who went to register a complaint of his daughter’s abduction and rape was forced to wash the room of the Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) in Kasur.

    As per reports, a 16-year-old girl was abducted and raped in the Mandi Usmanwala area of Kasur police station.

    The girl’s father bribed ASI Irfan and made several other efforts to file a case against his daughter’s kidnappers. But instead of taking any legal action against the accused, the police officer forced the girl’s father to wash the floor of his room.

    The video of the father washing the ASI’s room did rounds on social media after which DPO Kasur took the notice of the incident. The ASI was suspended and an inquiry has been ordered against him.

  • Clothing brand posts picture hurting Hindu community, apologises

    Clothing brand posts picture hurting Hindu community, apologises

    Clothing brand, Generation, took to social media to apologise for a picture posted on their Instagram story that was disrespectful to the Hindu community.

    The clothing brand posted a morphed picture of a Hindu goddess and tagged one of its employees with a ‘You will be missed’ sticker.

    Social media users were quick to call them out for their insensitive post.

    The brand and the employee who made that image apologised for their actions.

    In an apology note, the brand wrote, “We respect our viewers’ diverse beliefs. Yesterday an image was posted that was not respectful to the Hindu community and we had no intention to be disrespectful to anyone’s religious sentiments.”

    “We wholeheartedly apologise to each and every person who’s sentiments that post hurt. It is not representative of us as human beings or as a brand,” it added.

    “We are learning to be more respectful and considerate everyday,” the post concluded.

    The brand’s employee also apologised and wrote, “Though I have a reputation of being the office jokester, I realise that one of my jokes went too far and ended up disrespecting the entire Hindu community.”

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    He further wrote, “I should’ve known better and I should’ve done better. Sorry 🙁 Learning to be a better human every single day.”

  • Lahore police book Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman for sexual assault

    An FIR (first information report) has been registered against Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman at Lahore’s North Cantt Police Station. Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman’s video went viral on social media in which he can be allegedly seen sexually assaulting one of his students. The victim got admission to the Jamia Manzoorul Islamia in 2013, as per the FIR.

    The victim in his statement said that Mufi Aziz-ur-Rehman accused him of cheating on his exams after which he was banned from giving exams at the Wafaqul Madaris for three years. Mufti then asked the student to “make him happy” in order to get the ban lifted.

    After the video went viral, Mufti Aziz issued a video statement on social media in which he says he was intoxicated, adding, “This video is fake as you can’t even see me moving.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ2-Uaa30xY


  • Prankster arrested for harassing women for not wearing dupatta

    Prankster arrested for harassing women for not wearing dupatta

    A Gujranwala YouTuber, Khan Ali, has been arrested after posting videos of pulling a prank on women by giving them money and asking them to buy dupatta for themselves.

    A social media user, Sadaf Alvi, shared a video of the YouTuber requesting police officer Amna Baig to take action against him.

    https://twitter.com/TheGrumpyDoctor/status/1405117974156087297?s=20
    https://twitter.com/TheGrumpyDoctor/status/1405117978027380737?s=20

    Amna Baig tagged CPO Gujranwala to look into the matter after which he was arrested by the Gujranwala Police.

    According to CPO Gujranwala, Sarfaraz Ahmed Falki, the YouTube prankster was arrested by a team of Gakhar Mandi police led by SP Saddar Abdul Wahab for harassing and humiliating women in the name of prank videos.

    He said that an FIR has been filed against Khan Ali under relevant laws and an inquiry is underway, adding that protecting the dignity of citizens is the top priority of Gujranwala Police.

    The YouTuber apologised for his actions in a video message.

    The prankster runs a YouTube channel, ‘Velle Loog Khan Ali’, with 323,000 subscribers.

  • Abdul Sattar Edhi’s statue put up at Edhi Chowk in Quetta

    A statue of late Abdul Sattar Edhi has been placed at a chowk named after him in Quetta. The statue is built in partnership with Peoples Primary Healthcare Institute.

    “I wanted to pay a tribute to Edhi for his outstanding welfare work,” said Ishaq Lehri ,who sculpted the figure while talking to Samaa Digital.

    The Edhi Foundation, founded by the late Abdul Sattar Edhi, is the largest Pakistani charity foundation, known worldwide for its humanitarian work serves everyone regardless of race, religion or nationality. Edhi Foundation runs several shelter houses, old homes, an ambulance network, orphanages, soup kitchens, morgues along with multiple other welfare services.

    Until his death on July 8, 2016, Edhi dedicated his life and that of all his family members to the service of people. The statue honours him, and the work that is still being done by the foundation for the betterment of the people across Pakistan.

  • Muslim women can now perform Hajj without a male guardian

    Muslim women can now perform Hajj without a male guardian

    In a landmark move, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj has allowed women to perform the annual holy pilgrimage, scheduled to be held in July this year, without a male guardian (mahram).

    “Those wishing to perform Hajj will have to register individually. Women can register without a mahram (male guardian) along with other women,” the ministry said in a tweet.

    “In light of what the whole world is witnessing with the coronavirus pandemic and the emergence of new variants, the relevant authorities have continued to monitor the global health situation,” the ministry said. This year’s Hajj will only be limited to Kingdom’s nationals and residents due to the ongoing pandemic. “Those wishing to perform the Hajj must be free of chronic diseases and be vaccinated.” The ministry added that pilgrims should be between the ages of 18 and 65, reports Aljazeera.

    This news comes a few days after Saudi Arabia allowed women to live independently without male consent after a legal amendment. Over the last few years, the Kingdom has seen numerous reforms on women’s social freedoms, in a campaign headed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. 

    In April this year, Saudi authorities hired women to work in frontline positions at the Grand Mosque.

    In 2020, new penalties were announced against abusing women.

    In 2019, a new amendment allowed women aged 21 and above to apply for passport and travel without a male guardian’s approval.

    In 2018, Saudi women officially earned the right to obtain drivers licenses.

  • Covid-19 vaccine shortage is temporary, says Dr Faisal Sultan

    Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan while addressing a press conferences said that the government has secured sufficient vaccine doses in the month of June to ramp up the vaccination drive in the country, Associated Press of Pakistan has reported.

    “There are more than 2,000 vaccination centres in the country and the number of visitors varies. So there may be a shortage of vaccines in some centres,” he said, adding that the shortage of vaccine in some centres is only temporary.

    Dr Faisal further said, “We have two million doses available and vaccination will continue to protect citizens from carrying coronavirus.” He assured that the vaccine situation would improve after June 20 as more vaccines would reach Pakistan by then.

    As per the national tally on Wednesday, total active Covid-19 cases were 39,905, while 1,038 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 2,016 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.