Two persons beat up a differently-abled person and robbed a 15kg bag of wheat from him on Wednesday in Faisalabad.
Imran Haider filed a complaint at the Ghulam Muhammad Abad Police Station asserting that he was on his way home to the University of Agriculture Faisalabad road when two men on a motorcycle stopped him.
“They [robbers] were riding a motorcycle. I was also on a motorcycle. They robbed me of a bag of wheat. I tried to stop them but I am disabled and they were two so they were able to get away,” he said.
The incident took place when wheat prices have increased across the country. In Karachi, a sack of flour was being sold for Rs500 a couple of days ago. The Flour Mill Association Punjab increased the price of flour by Rs6 per kg in Lahore after which flour was being sold at Rs70 per kg across the city.
The popular online game Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG had taken the world by storm and many people are addicted to this game. Recently, a man died of a stroke while playing the game.
25-year-old Harshal Menane, from the Indian state of Maharastra, died as he suffered a brain stroke while playing PUBG on the mobile. As per reports, the man suffered from an Intracerebral hemorrhaging because he got too excited while playing the game.
Following the stroke, the man was instantly taken to the hospital to undergo surgery. Unfortunately, it was too late as he died during the process. The autopsy report stated,
This is not the first time that the popular mobile game has taken a life. A 20-year-old Saurabh of India accidentally drank a bottle of chemical instead of water. This happened because he was too focused on the video game to notice what he was consuming.
A station house officer (SHO) in Khanewal was suspended on Tuesday for sending indecent messages to a girl in the Makhdoompur area.
As per reports, the family of the girl, who works as a bus hostess, claimed that SHO Makhdoompur Zafar Iqbal sent indecent messages to her. They said the officer also raided their house with a police team and also tortured them.
The family said SHO Iqbal also took their cellphones
because he was afraid that he could be exposed.
Khanewal District Police Officer Faisal Shehzad has
suspended the police officer and ordered a departmental inquiry against him.
TikTok, a video-sharing social networking app, has beaten Facebook to become the second most downloaded app in the world in 2019. The platform owned by China-based ByteDance came second to Whatsapp in terms of downloads.
As per market analyst Sensor Tower’s ranking, both TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin amassed a total of 740 million downloads in 2019. The reports consist of worldwide downloads for Google Play Store, iPhone and iPad. They, however, did not include data from Apple apps, pre-installed Google apps and Android downloads from third-party stores based in China.
The company is making efforts to monetize the app, it had a successful year in terms of revenue grossing over $176.9 million in 2019.
Three thieves robbed the house of a police officer in Multan Monday night.
As per reports, the suspects entered the house of ASP Arsalan Zahid and held his family hostage for three hours. They took Rs300,000 in cash and 12 tolas of gold from his house.
A case has been registered at
Mumtazabad police station and the further investigation is in progress
Sindh Minister for Local Government and Forests Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has announced that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will soon inaugurate the world’s largest urban forest that will be planted along the Lyari River in Karachi over an area of 26 kilometres.
According to The News, Shah, while speaking to journalists on Monday, vowed to ensure that only environment-friendly trees that bear fruits will be planted, and said the project had been initiated according to the vision of the PPP chairman.
The first phase of the project will be initiated at the bank of the Lyari River, while in the second phase, an urban forest will be planted along the Malir River, he added.
The minister directed the authorities concerned to make arrangements for setting up recreational facilities for citizens as part of the project and also ordered constructing small playgrounds for children as well as a jogging track.
He said that planting an urban forest along the rivers will turn the entire area into an attractive spot for local and foreign tourists. Shah added that such urban forests will also be planted in other parts of the city.
The minister said that apart from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), other political parties are also supporting the provincial government in the project and announced constructing football, boxing grounds as well as volleyball and basketball courts for children of the city so they can involve themselves in healthy activities.
The minister said that due to climate change and the ever-increasing temperature of Karachi, it was necessary to plant more trees. He also urged Karachiites to help in curbing pollution.
Marriage plans of two youngsters were shattered after the groom’s father and the bride’s mother revived their young days’ love and both reportedly fled.
According to Times of India, the incident took place in the Indian city of Surat where the marriage was scheduled for the second week of February, but the 48-year-old man and the 46-year-old woman, are nowhere to be found for 10 days now.
While the man disappeared from his house in Katargam area, the woman left her house in Navsari. It is strongly suspected that they have eloped, leaving the families in an extremely embarrassing situation. Both families have filed missing persons’ report with the police.
The bride and groom were preparing for their marriage for the past one year after they got engaged. They are from the same community and elders were taken into confidence before their engagement. However, the elopement barely a month before the marriage has left everyone shocked.
The groom’s father, a textile businessman, who also deals in property, went untraceable around January 10. He is also a member of a political party and knew the bride’s mother since their younger years. They were neighbours in Katargam area and were good friends too, the report said.
“They knew each other since they lived in same society. Some of their close friends informed us after they eloped that they had a relationship in the past too. However, the woman got engaged to her current husband,” said a relative of both the families.
Amidst the royal drama which has enveloped Britain, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Bradford where they went to My Lahore, a British Asian restaurant and recalled fond memories of their trip to Pakistan.
The director of the restaurant that hosted the royal couple while speaking to The News shared that Kate and William were “in love with Pakistan.” Kate also wore the earrings from Zeen for the occasion.
“The visit by Prince William and Kate Middleton was a brilliant experience for us. We were amazed to find out so much about Pakistan from them,” said Farooq. “Duchess Kate told us how she loved Pakistani people, culture and food. She was clearly missing the time spent in Pakistan.”
He added: “The Prince said the people of Pakistan are amazing and they received a great hospitality and love from the people during their busy tour of the country in October last year.”
William and Kate made kulfi and mango milkshakes at the restaurant, inspired by the historic and culturally rich city of Lahore.
Talking about their visit further, Farooq said that the royal couple wanted to visit the kitchen and took a keen interest in its operations. After going through the menu, they decided to make mango and kulfi milkshakes.
“The couple said they had enjoyed mango and kulfi milkshakes in Pakistan as well,” Farooq elaborated.
Prince William also asked about the origin of the ingredients used in their food.
“He already knew a lot about the ingredients used in Pakistani, Asian food. We told the couple that we take pride in the fact that we take inspiration from Lahore, known as the food capital of Pakistan.”
After making milkshakes at the ground floor area, the couple tasted Pakistani dishes at a private banquet above the restaurant.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Bradford to promote cohesion and try their hand at making kulfi milkshakes. pic.twitter.com/WrIN7SuDv6
British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan was also present during the visit and he discussed mental health in sport and his boxing foundation with the Duke and Duchess.
The royal couple also met representatives from the UK Women’s Muslim Council and those who have taken help from the Council’s Curry Circle. The Curry Circle is an initiative that provides a two times meal for people who are homeless or struggling to feed themselves.
TikTok celebrity Sandal Khattak, who is often seen in videos and pictures with viral TikToker Hareem Shah, is angry at the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) for their investigation against her.
Sandal approached a Lahore sessions court, demanding that the FIA should stop ‘harassing’ her and that she had not been informed why she was being investigated.
The FIA, in a written response to the court, said that they launched their investigation against Sandal after anchorperson Mubasher Lucman filed a formal complaint against her with the FIA’s cybercrime wing. In the complaint, Mubasher claims that Sandal is posting ‘fake and fabricated’ videos against him on social media.
The FIA also denied that they were ‘harassing’ the TikTok star and said that they were just doing their job by summoning her.
Sandal has petitioned for all documents in the investigation against her to be brought to court.
Previously, Mubasher Lucman had filed an FIR against Sandal and Hareem Shah, alleging theft when they recorded videos in his private plane.
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The two TikTokers said that the theft claims were false and that Mubasher was against them because they had ‘exposed’ his private plane.
A Hindu couple in Kayamkulam Town in India’s Kerala state tied the knot in the most unusual of places.
The couple, Sarath Sasi and Anju Ashok, held their wedding at the Cheravally Muslim Jamaath mosque in Kerala, where a Hindu priest oversaw the ceremonies and solemnised the marriage according to Hindu rituals.
According to Indian media, the mosque committee had set up and decorated the mandap — a covered structure with pillars under which the main Hindu wedding ceremonies and rituals take place. Members of both the religious communities turned up in large numbers to attend the event.
As per reports, the bride’s mother, on a neighbour’s advice, had approached the mosque to host her daughter’s wedding due to financial constraints.
“She came to my house seeking help for conducting the marriage. She gave a letter, which I presented to the Jamaath committee. We decided to help the family conduct the marriage,” Nujumudeen Alummoottil, secretary of Cheravally Muslim Jamaat Committee told Indian news agency ANI.
The mosque committee not only helped provide a venue for the event but also gifted the couple 10 gold souvenirs and 200,000 Indian Rupees, and took care of other wedding expenses.
The committee also served vegetarian meals to around 1,000 guests at the wedding.
The family added that they were very thankful to the Jamaath committee for hosting their wedding.
