As the common people of Pakistan reel from rising taxation and increasing costs of living, the country’s premier tax collection agency, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), plans to buy more than one thousand brand-new Honda City 1.2L CVT cars worth almost six billion rupees.
A notification dated January 10, 2025, went viral on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), addressed to Honda Atlas Cars from the FBR with the subject: “Letter of Intent for the purchase of 1010 Honda City 1.2L CVT.”
Social media users criticised the move, with many pointing out that the salaried class of Pakistan bear the brunt of the government’s expenditure. One user wrote: “About Rs. 6 billion of the hard-earned money of taxpayers including salaried class (taxed oppressively up to 40%) is being spent on buying 1,010 Honda City cars for FBR officials. If you’re a tax payer, you should know where your money is going.”
The official letter also listed the following additional “add-ons” that would be included in the package: “Navigation system with reverse cameras, high-grade interior, free four periodic maintenance (20,000 KM or 12 months), 4th year extended warranty (4years or 100,000 KM subject to regular maintenance at Honda authorized 3S/2S dealership), FBR logos on both front doors and front windscreen, and installation of tracker system with one-year service charges @ Rs.8500/- in all cars for which the FBR will bear the cost.”
The purchase of more than a thousand cars will be completed in two phases, beginning in January of this year and concluding in May 2025.
According to the notification, “FBR will upfront Rupees 3 billion for purchase of one thousand and ten vehicles (as full payment for 500 units and partial payment of balance amount for remaining 510 units) and the balance payment shall be made as and when delivery of the first batch is completed i.e. 500 vehicles. The first payment will be made once pre-receipted bill is received.”
A social media user pointed out that no efficient department would need so many cars for tax collection in this century, writing, “On top of that, all these cars will be used for personal purposes. In today’s digital world, no tax man needs vehicles to work effectively.”
Another user wrote: “Is the salaried class paying taxes from their hard-earned money for this? What exactly has the FBR staff achieved to deserve this reward? Approximately 6B will be spent on purchasing these 1,010 Honda City cars. Take back this decision — it is unacceptable.”
One user took a sigh of relief, adding, “We must be thankful that they booked Honda City and not Toyota Fortuners.”
Prominent journalist Absar Alam has revealed the incomes of seven YouTubers in November, the same month in which Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had staged a protest march towards Islamabad.
Talking on his Samaa TV show Mere Sawal, Absar recalled that following the “final call” of party founder Imran Khan, the convoy led by Chief Minister (CM) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Ali Amin Gandapur and former First Lady Bushra Bibi marched towards the federal capital on November 24. The protest ended after police launched an operation on the night of November 26, leading to violent clashes and deaths.
PTI had demanded the repeal of the recently passed 26th Constitutional Amendment, the release of all political prisoners, including Imran Khan, and the return of their mandate.
Former ruling party demonstrators clashed with security officials during the three-day protest.
Veteran journalist Absar Alam disclosed the seven YouTubers’ income in November alone.
Here are the details:
1st YouTuber
According to a research report presented by TV host Absar Alam, the first YouTuber with 55 lac subscribers earned two lac dollars ($200,000) in November alone, which is equivalent to five crore fifty-six lac rupees (PKR55,600,000). The annual income of the YouTuber was 70 crore rupees. However, the journalist stated that the YouTuber is a “fugitive from Pakistan.”
2nd YouTuber
Absar Alam revealed that the second YouTuber with 11 lac subscribers earned 80,000 dollars in November, equivalent to two crore twenty-two lac rupees (PKR22,200,000), with an annual income of twenty-six crore thirty-five lac rupees (PKR263,500,000).
3rd YouTuber
Absar Alam claimed that the third YouTuber, who holds 25 lac subscribers, earned around $50,000, which is equivalent to one crore of 40 lac rupees (PKR14,000,000); the YouTuber earned 15 crore rupees in one year. “I know this YouTuber; he hardly earned 25,000 rupees when he was in Nawaiwaqt newspaper. He is a fugitive from Pakistan,” Alam added.
4th YouTuber
As per the journalist’s research, the third YouTuber with 680,000 subscribers, who is also a fugitive from Pakistan, earned $20,000 in November, equivalent to 55 lac rupees. The annual income of the YouTuber was six crore eighty lac rupees (68,000,000).
5th YouTuber
The fifth YouTuber with 14 lac subscribers earned $11,500, which is equivalent to 32 lac rupees; the annual income of the YouTuber was three crore eighty lac rupees (PKR38,000,000). “He is an American citizen,” Alam revealed.
6th YouTuber
The third YouTuber with one million subscribers earned $10,000 (PKR270,000) in November. The YouTuber earned (35,000,000) rupees annually, the former Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman revealed. “The YouTuber had only a motorbike in two-three years ago,” the journalist said.
7th YouTuber
The seventh YouTuber with five lac thirty-three thousand (533,000) subscribers earned $6000 in November, equivalent to nearly 16 lac rupees; the YouTuber earned two crore rupees in one year, Alam claimed.
However, the veteran journalist did not disclose the names of the YouTubers.
Additionally, the journalist said, “Out of the seven YouTubers, only one lives in Pakistan.”
A 24-year-old Pakistani man was found dead in Strovolos, Cyprus, after being killed in a police shooting incident on January 6. The news surfaced in international media on Saturday, January 11.
Initial reports suggested that the deceased was wounded by a service weapon and that his body was found thirty kilometres away from the location of the shooting.
According to Cyprus Mail, there are “fears of major coverup in Pakistani man’s death.” Following the incident, state pathologist Nicholas Charalambous was suspended until a disciplinary investigation against him was completed. He had initially ruled out the suspicion of criminal activity when he assessed the victim’s body, even though there was a gaping bullet wound in the victim’s shoulder. However, four days later, after the autopsy, he retracted his statement and confirmed that it was not a stone injury but a gunshot wound — resulting from police fire.
Police found the Pakistani man’s body in a field in a suburb of the capital, Nicosia, on January 6, a national holiday in Cyprus.
Another local news website, Phileleftheros, reported on Sunday that three police officers were being questioned over the shooting, which occurred in a different location from where the body was found.
As the public outcry against the apparent cover-up grew, the state attorney appointed a senior state lawyer, Ninos Kekkos, to carry out an independent investigation.
The Cyprus police, in its official statement, stated that it was patrolling the buffer zone when it noticed three vehicles illegally smuggling migrants. Subsequently, the police officers on duty shot at the wheels of one of the trucks, but the driver, along with the second vehicle, managed to escape into the buffer zone. Furthermore, they have declined to make any statements before the investigation is completed.
Cyprus Mail asserts that the State Pathologist’s ruling that there was no criminal activity meant the CID did not investigate the matter.
However, it was decided on Sunday that an independent investigation would be carried out to address all concerns.
According to Phileleftheros, investigators have discovered a suitcase containing numerous documents relating to foreign nationals during the probe, which are now being investigated.
Dawn reports that Pakistan’s Foreign Office ambassador to Cyprus, who is based in Beirut, was in touch with Cypriot officials over the matter, and an update is expected soon.
A petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) has sought an immediate ban on YouTube, Facebook and TikTok.
As per the details, a citizen named Aslam, through Advocate Nadeem Sarwar, has filed the petition with the federal government and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) as respondents.
The petitioner claimed that many people in Pakistan used YouTube channels for blackmailing, adding that immoral videos were being uploaded to YouTube and Facebook to gain views and earn money without any license.
It was further stated that fake videos were being shared to said platforms besides some content creators showing women from their families in their vlogs, which he believed, was harmful to the social fabric.
The citizen requested the court to enforce the Citizen Protection Rules and order the shutdown of all social media platforms.
It merits a mention that YouTube was last banned in Pakistan in September 2012. The ban was imposed after the platform failed to remove a blasphemous video that sparked widespread protests by Muslims across the globe.
The ban lasted for several years and was lifted in January 2016 after YouTube launched a localised version for Pakistan, allowing the government to request the removal of objectionable content.
Apart from this, TikTok has been banned multiple times in the country due to concerns over immoral and indecent content. The platform faced bans in October 2020, March 2021 and July 2021, but these were lifted after TikTok assured stricter content moderation and compliance with local laws.
The UK’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has set the record straight, stating that white men have carried out the vast majority of sexual grooming gang offences, after the owner of X (formerly Twitter) published a post making false accusations against British-Pakistani men.
Police databases presented new figures that included quantitative data on ethnicity, showing that white offenders constituted 85 percent of “group-based” child abusers in the first three quarters of 2024. The same data for the whole of 2023 showed that 83 percent of offenders were white.
Speaking to the press briefing on Friday, the director of the NPCC’s Hydrant programme targeting child sexual abuse, Richard Fewkes, claimed that there is no “significant issue” with “any particular ethnicity or setting”.
Musk also waged an online campaign against the UK government over the grooming gangs issue, making false allegations against UK Prime Minister (PM) Keir Starmer.
In a post on Wednesday, he wrote “True” in reply to India’s Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Priyanka Chaturvedi, who had accused people of Pakistani origin of being behind the UK’s gang grooming.
Meanwhile, Musk’s biographer, Seth Abramson, posted a series of notes on X on Tuesday, alleging that Musk may be “going mad.”
Abramson wrote: “I’m a Musk biographer who has been tracking his online behavior for the last two years, and given that he’s admitted to all of mental illness, heavy drug use, and crippling stress, it is now reasonable to fear he is deeply unwell.”
The billionaire has falsely accused Starmer of being “complicit in the rape of Britain” during his tenure as a Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) between 2008 and 2013 and called safeguarding minister Jess Phillips a “witch” and a “rape genocide apologist”.
On Friday, Fewkes said, “(The data) reflects what you would expect to see across the country in terms of ethnicity. Offences where grooming gangs are involved are predominantly white. There is not a significant issue here with any particular ethnicity or setting.”
The NSPCC data indicates that white individuals constituted the largest proportion of child sexual abuse suspects. In 2023, they accounted for 1,884 cases (83%), while Pakistani suspects numbered 62 (2.7%).
From January to September 2024, there were 1,623 white suspects (85%) and 75 Pakistani suspects (3.9%).
The NPCC, however, said, “Quarter four 2024 is not included in 2024 data as it is still being worked on.”
The police have released data in the wake of a heated debate in the House of Commons regarding whether there should be a national statutory inquiry into Pakistani grooming gangs.
Earlier, The Telegraph reported that grooming gangs are responsible for two child sexual abuse offences reported to police every day.
The newspaper reported an analysis indicating that there were 4,228 offences of “group-based” child sexual abuse, which constituted 3.7 percent of the 115,489 child sexual abuse and exploitation crimes (including online offences) in 2023.
The Network of Women Journalists for Digital Rights (NWJDR) has come forward to condemn the ongoing online harassment and gendered disinformation campaign against leading journalist and columnist Asma Shirazi.
The online campaign against Asma Shirazi is being spearheaded by “prominent political party supporters, and political commentators and vloggers.”
Asma Shirazi, who is a senior journalist, a talk show host at a private channel and a columnist at BBC Urdu, is at the receiving end of the online hate curated by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s leader, Shehbaz Gill.
It all started with Asma’s criticism of PTI’s claims of getting relief through negotiations with the government and pressure from a backdoor channel. On her YouTube channel, Asma posted about the ongoing process of negotiations and reports of Trump’s influence, which some supporters of PTI claim to have. In a video about the “End of talks or a pause before breakthrough,” Asma shared her insight on the matter and said that it has been observed lately that one of Trump’s aides, Richard Grenell, who had been posting very actively about freeing Imran Khan-PTI’s incarcerated leader- has stopped posting on social media all of a sudden because “Trump administration has strictly directed the new cabinet to not post anything without approval.”
Asma said that the new directive has resulted in silence from Grenall, who had become “a very active member of PTI.”
“So there is nothing going on which could bring hope to PTI followers…who had assumed Grenell is Trump,” Asma commented.
This part was taken out by Shehbaz Gill, and he posted on Twitter, “Military-backed journalist Asma Shirazi is accusing @RichardGrenell of behaving like a political worker for Imran Khan simply for speaking his mind! She thinks his tweets sound like he’s part of Khan’s team. Chilling attempt to stifle free speech.”
This prompted many social media accounts attributed to the supporters of PTI to attack Asma’s journalistic ethics, calling her biased and stating that her analysis was an attempt to curb the freedom of expression. Her columns for BBC Urdu were dug out to show that she has a prejudice towards the party.
However, in the said vlog, she went ahead and appreciated PTI for taking a step back and agreeing to negotiate while stating that the matter will remain suspended till Donald Trump’s administration takes over in America. Additionally, she made it a point to mention that ruling party PMLN’s social media took her appreciating and framed it as a remark from her side that “Imran Khan lait gaya” which can be translated as “Imran Khan has surrendered.” PTI social media took it up and started a smear campaign against the senior journalist.
According to Asma, she never used such language, and this is a “misogynistic” campaign against her.
In a separate vlog, Asma lambasted Gill for using Imran Khan’s name and smear campaign against women in politics and journalism to earn “dollars” while sitting abroad. She even cited examples of Gill’s previous instances of referring to women as prostitutes and cursing them, quoting his interaction with fellow journalist Nadia Ahmed and herself in the past.
This led to an onslaught of hate, targeting her credibility, character and journalistic integrity with Shehbaz calling her an “internalized misogynist.”
After Asma’s vlog was published, the International Coalition for Women in Journalism stepped in and issued a statement to condemn the online abuse and harassment faced by Asma Shirazi. “This is not the first time Shirazi has faced such abuse. PTI members, workers, and supporters have repeatedly harassed her online for her journalism. These coordinated attacks aim to silence women journalists and suppress critical reporting,” the statement read.
Previously, Asma was bullied for one of her articles for BBC Urdu: Kahani Baray Ghar Ki. Written in 2021 when PTI was in government, and it was inferred from her write-up that she has accused the then first lady of the country and wife of Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi, for being involved in black magic where in reality, Asma wrote about how the economy cannot be saved by “slaughtering goats” or “spilling the blood of pigeons.”
Shehbaz Gill was also at the forefront of the campaign when Asma criticised ARY News’ coverage of a Supreme Court hearing where her picture was used despite her not being involved in the case.
Former Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar posted, “In the last decade or so I’ve been to hundreds of Asma Shirazi‘s shows. Can’t point out a single one which wasn’t balanced. It’s simply unfair to expect journalists to subscribe to a particular narrative or to hound them when they don’t. Nauseating sexist witch-hunt!”
Simultaneously, NWJDR has raised its voice for the protection of female journalists against cyberbullying in the country. As per a report by International Centre for Journalists, Facebook and X are the two least safe platforms, with 39 percent and 26 percent of respondents, respectively, expressing concerns. The research also laid out that nearly 73 percent of women journalists experience online violence.
While talking to The Current, Asma Shirazi emphasised that these tactics are used to snub the voices of journalists at large. “The campaigns like these are meant to threaten journalists and forbid them from speaking or writing the truth.”
While shedding light on the purpose of these campaigns, she said, “The purpose of these campaigns is to make people fearful or target one person to spread the fear among all that nobody comments on this one thing or anything at all, and this happens with women all the time, be it me or others. They just want to make an example out of us.”
“It is not easy to combat an organised campaign like this. That is why I have seen so many people getting silenced in the years gone by,” she lamented.
Talking about Shehbaz Gill’s campaign, she said, “It’s been five years that this person is running a one-sided campaign against me. Neither me nor any other journalist have ever talked back.”
Stressing on the present circumstances, she said, “Nowadays, they [cyber-bullies] are using pictures of women to earn money through YouTube. These could be women in politics or journalists. They put their pictures on [thumbnails] make fun of them, write trashy things about them, increase their viewership through that and earn dollars. This needs to stop.”
On a concluding note, she said, “There has to be a method with which we can control them, and even if we can’t, we can raise our voices. I wish and I hope that all the journalists, both male and female, talk about it. I know so many are reluctant, and maybe that is because they are afraid.
We won’t ignore them from here on, and they’ll get a reply from our side. They can’t just keep saying anything. The faceless trolls are hard to fight, but we will keep challenging their known faces.”
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested three suspects involved in editing and sharing of a fake video of Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Maryam Nawaz with United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
As per the details, fake AI-generated videos of the Punjab CM started doing the rounds over the internet after Maryam, accompanied by Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif, greeted the UAE president upon his arrival at the Rahim Yar Khan Airport on December 5.
Reports on Saturday quoted FIA officials as saying that 20 social media accounts responsible for sharing the fake media had also been identified. Three suspects have so far been, and the FIA is also conducting raids to arrest the remaining culprits, they added.
A joint investigation team (JIT) to widen the scope of investigation under the chairmanship of Additional Director Sarfraz Chaudhry has been constituted with Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad deputy directors as members, reports said.
Action comes after Punjab CM’s office approached the FIA’s cybercrime wing for a probe into the doctored pictures and videos. The FIA had earlier assured the government of cracking down on those responsible for uploading and sharing the altered content.
As part of the investigation, the FIA’s cybercrime wing had said, it would conduct inquiries across the country. The agency had warned that individuals found involved in uploading or sharing of the fake images would face legal consequences.
It merits a mention that deepfakes or AI-generated visuals are becoming increasingly convincing and easier to make. In May 2022, the FIA’s Cybercrime Wing arrested a man in Peshawar on charges of circulating fake videos of CM Maryam on social media.
Doctored images and fake videos are used to discredit individuals’ role in society, experts say, adding that politicians, actresses and other well-known persons are especially targeted by those involved in such activities.
Earlier, Punjab Information Minister Azma Zahid Bokhari also fell victim to a deepfake video.
Reacting to the viral video, the info minister had stressed the need to urgently tackle the menace. Bokhari had asserted that the criminal justice system needed to be modernised to counter such issues, as deepfake videos were frequently used to target women.
“I was shattered when it came to my knowledge,” the minister had told a foreign media outlet, vowing to do every thing in her power for the protection of digital rights of the people.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat received criticism from the party’s senior leadership and a response from party founder Imran Khan, hours after Marwat called out lawyer Salman Akram Raja.
Aleema Khan, speaking outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Friday, quoted her brother as saying, “There is an infiltration within the party that is currently active.” She added, “Imran Khan had appointed Salman Akram Raja as the party secretary general.”
Defending party secretary general Salman Akram Raja, Aleema stated that the lawyer was merely relaying Imran Khan’s message.
The row erupted when Raja, while speaking to a private news channel on Thursday, downplayed Marwat’s claims, which he often linked to party founder Imran Khan, saying, “Only two or four party members are deemed capable of having the right to speak about the party.
“Marwat statement has nothing to do with the party’s official narrative. His [Marwat] statements are unimportant,” Raja said.
Following statements from Raja, who questioned Marwat’s understanding of the party’s policy matters, Marwat assailed him.
On the same day, while declaring Raja’s appointment as party secretary general to be inconsistent with the party constitution, PTI’s firebrand appeared at a private media outlet and stated that party Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan and Firdous Shamim Naqvi are public officeholders. “Salman Akram Raja is a stranger [to the party],” he asserted.
Since the interview, key PTI leaders, including Chief Minister (CM) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Ali Amin Gandapur, former PTI spokesperson Raoof Hassan, and Secretary of Information Sheikh Waqas Akram, reacted to Marwat’s statements.
Raoof Hassan
Reacting to the heated exchange between Marwat and Raja, former PTI spokesperson Raoof Hassan, while speaking to a private news channel on Friday, sternly said, “I’ve stopped talking about him [Sher Afzal Marwat] because no one has been spared their wrath, including me.”
Responding to Marwat’s stance that Salman Akram Raja was not appointed party secretary general according to the party constitution, Hassan remarked that Raja is currently the de facto secretary general.
“If nominated, a person can be a de facto party secretary general. Imran Khan nominated Raja,” Hassan clarified, setting the record straight about whether any unelected individual can become a de facto party secretary general according to the party constitution.
Sheikh Waqas Akram
PTI Secretary of Information Sheikh Waqas Akram also defended Salman Akram Raja’s position within the party.
He took to X (formerly Twitter), writing, “[…] For Khan’s followers, it’s not about the legality of the party position, it’s about what Khan said, and Khan’s Secretary general for PTI. is Salman Akram Raja, duly nominated by Khan. He also represents party in the dialogue committee and whole party endorses his stance regarding dialogue.”
“Salman Akram Raja has played a very important role in managing our leader Imran Khan’s cases. Khan Sahib has faith in him and trusts him. Despite Raja Sahib’s hesitation, Khan Sahib insisted and nominated him as the secretary general of the party,” he wrote.
Ali Amin Gandapur
While many party leaders have criticised Sher Afzal Marwat, CM KP Ali Amin Gandapur slightly defended him, saying, “Indeed, Marwat has made a lot of sacrifices for the party.”
Gandapur opined that Marwat’s minor mistakes should be forgiven, as he had worked hard for the party in subsequent years. He shared this in an exclusive interview with a private media outlet.
“Marwat informed me by telephone that he had received a show-cause notice. I advised him to respond to the notice as per party policy and to present his point of view to Khan Sahib for clarity,” CM KP added.
A foreigner on a motorcycle trip to Pakistan was taken by surprise by a sweet interaction with a Pakistani traffic police official.
Tourist Jacob Lum, who is from the United States of America, is on a year-long trip on his motorcycle. He is currently visiting Pakistan, a place he referred to as the most “underrated country” in the world.
Jacob took to Instagram and shared a video of an interaction with a traffic warden in Lahore who stopped his vehicle because it is prohibited to drive a three-wheeler in the specific region, yet he was allowed to go ahead because he was a “guest.”
The video features a middle-aged traffic warden who is seen admonishing the driver for taking the tourists on Mall Road when he knows it is prohibited in the area. However, he turns to Jacob and tells him politely, “We stop it only because it is dangerous.” He also adds, “But you are our guest, so I will allow him to take you to the city of Lahore.” Jacob thanked him, and the officer added: “I think you will enjoy your trip in Pakistan.”
The video also shows the traffic warden welcoming Jacob, asking him to visit Minar-e-Pakistan, Badshahi Mosque, Tollington Market and other Mughal and British heritage sites in the city and warning him against eating street food because it is “unhygienic”.
Jacob wrote in the caption, “This video is a great example of the kindness of the Pakistani people. This interaction was one of the best I have had with the police. He was there to enforce the rules that 3 wheeler rickshaws (motorcycle/ tuktuk) are not allowed in the city. And instead of removing us from the taxi ride and forcing us to get another one, he just scolded the driver and then permitted him to carry on “because we are guests”. I thought that was really nice of him and he quickly changed the conversation to welcoming us to Pakistan and providing recommendations about what to see in the city of Lahore.”
Jacob also posted about how has had multiple experiences with the police in other countries and while some just want to exert control, extort money or just show their dominance; most are essentially kind yet he chose to show the interaction with the Pakistani police officer because that won him over.
“What made this memorable for me is how happy and excited he was when he had the opportunity to inform Western tourists about what to visit. It was very clear that he is proud of his city and happy to see us here!”
Jacob recounted that this was a “great start to my first day in the city and I felt extremely welcomed by the authorities.”
“In addition to the police officer the immigration / customs office was also super friendly and very happy to welcome us to Pakistan,” the American tourist made it a point to mention.
On a lighter note he added, “He also advised us to not eat the street food Ironically we were just taking the taxi back from going out searching for street food.”
Jacob had previously shared other videos from his visits to Northern areas of the country especially Hunza valley and the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region. “I see why this land is being fought over,” he captioned the video he shot in GB.
What happens when a government official becomes a fashion icon? Hazim Bangwar, who has served as the Assistant Commissioner (AC) of Karachi, has become a sensation not only in Pakistan but also in India, owing to his spectacular fashion and unique style.Hazim’s stylish pictures and videos quickly went viral in 2023, and his popularity continues to grow.
Before stepping into a government job, Hazim Bangwar lived in various countries including the US, where he dabbled in modeling. Later, he became part of the Sindh government, serving in multiple districts and towns within Karachi Division.
While his fashionable image had already captured attention in Pakistan, it has now spread across Indian social media. Viral videos show Hazim rocking traditional yet trendy outfits, leaving many Indian viewers in awe.
Indian social media users have been quick to react. Some praised Hazim, calling him the ‘Irfi Javed of Pakistan,’ while others criticized his fashion choices.
Hazim Bangwar’s rise to fame as Karachi’s fashionable AC was overshadowed by removal from the job on October 30, 2024.
He was removed from his position after issuing notices to three government officials, asking them to vacate their official residences, following orders from the Sindh High Court and the Karachi Commissioner.
The officials, Zahid Jamaica and Fatima Ahmed, were living in properties not meant for their office. Even though Bangwar was following court orders, his actions led to his dismissal. He has been directed to report to the Services and General Administration Department for further instructions.
Currently he works as an Assistant Commissioner (General) of Karachi.
