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  • Video: Pet dogs attack Karachi resident

    Video: Pet dogs attack Karachi resident

    Two pet dogs attacked and injured a resident of Defence Housing Authority (DHA) in Karachi on Monday. 

    The video circulating on social media shows the two dogs rushed towards the resident when he was walking in the street. The pet sitter at first tried to pull off the dogs from the man but upon seeing the dogs out of control , he ran away from the scene leaving the victim to defend for himself.

    Another man, who appears to be the caretaker of the dogs tried hard to separate the animals from Ali but was unsuccessful. 

    As per reports, the victim, Mirza Akhtar Ali is a lawyer by profession later registered a complaint with Darakshan police station.

    The two caretakers of the dogs, identified as Fahad and Ali, left the advocate injured on the road. The victim said a passer-by took him to a hospital.

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    Police registered a case against the dogs’ owner, Humayun Khan and nominated the two caretakers in the case as well. 

    Police claimed that Fahad and Ali were arrested and presented in court. The owner of the dogs was granted bail in the case. 

  • Karachiites ignore Covid-19 protocols, as people head to beaches to beat the heat

    Karachiites ignore Covid-19 protocols, as people head to beaches to beat the heat

    Pakistan has shown great progress in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

    However, Karachiites seemed to have completely ignored the government’s call for maintaining precautions during the third wave. Videos on social media show how crowded the beaches were on the weekend.

    People gathered at the beach to beat the heat. Temperatures regularly hover around 40 degrees and the humidity only makes it worse.

    Pakistan has only fully vaccinated 3.4 million people. The government has asked citizens to avoid crowds and maintain social distancing.

    The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country are 949,175 with positivity rate of 2.6 per cent.

  • Police arrest three boys for raping, filming minor

    Police arrest three boys for raping, filming minor

    Three boys who gang-raped a 15-year-old girl and stripped her eight-year-old sister at Chak 324-JB Paira on Sunday have been arrested by the police.

    As per reports, the suspects recorded the crime with a mobile phone while they failed to rape the eight-year-old girl.

    A first information report (FIR) was filed with the City Police under sections 376 (2) (rape), 377-B (sexual abuse) and 292-C (child pornography) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the father of the girls.

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    He alleged that his daughters went to a nearby forest to bring some firewood where three suspects overpowered them.

    They gang-raped the elder girl, stripped the younger one and tried to rape her.

    District Police Officer Rana Umer Farooq said all the three suspects have been detained while both the girls were taken to the district headquarters hospital where the women doctors confirmed that the elder girl was raped after a medical examination report.

  • Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman admits he raped student, claim police

    According to Geo News, Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman has confessed that he raped his student. He was arrested by Lahore Police on Sunday from Mianwali after a video went viral on social media in which Mufti Aziz could be seen sexually assaulting one of his madrassa (seminary) students.

    According to details shared by police sources, Mufti Aziz confessed that the video was not fake and said that he was secretly filmed by his student. Mufti Aziz said after the video went viral, he panicked. He also admitted that his sons then threatened the victim. He said that he did not want to leave the madrassa, which is why he made a video denying that he raped his student after the management asked him to go.

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    Mufti Aziz hid in Township, Sheikhupura and Faisalabad with the help of some of his students but was found in Mianwali as his phone was being traced along with his sons.

  • Fawad says anyone who kills innocents is a terrorist after FM Qureshi skips question on OBL

    Fawad says anyone who kills innocents is a terrorist after FM Qureshi skips question on OBL

    Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry tweeted on Monday that there is no confusion at any level regarding anyone who kills innocents. “That is terrorism and the perpetrators are terrorists. We have suffered pain of terrorism in our own land and can understand pain of all who have lost their loved ones in these cowardly attacks.”

    In an interview with Afghanistan’s Tolo News, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi skipped a question when asked if Osama bin Laden was a martyr. Qureshi paused for a few seconds and then said, “I will let that pass.”

    Senior Afghan journalist Lotfullah Najafizada had originally asked Qureshi about Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan calling Osama bin Laden a martyr. The foreign minister responded that the PM was quoted out of context. “Out of context. He was quoted out of context. And, a particular section of the media played it up.”

    Qureshi is being criticised for skipping this question and not taking a clear position.

    Last year, Prime Minister Imran Khan came under fire for calling al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a “martyr” during his speech in the National Assembly.

  • Lahore police arrest Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman

    Lahore police has arrested Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman from Mianwali on charges of molesting  one of his students.

    An FIR was registered against him on the victim’s complaint on June 16. 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.

    “We have been able to arrest this criminal. We will take it as a test case, interrogate him, conduct scientific professional investigation, prosecute and get him convicted by the court. We want our kids protected from these child molesters and keep our society safe for our future,” Inspector General of Police (IG) Punjab Inam Ghani said in a tweet.

  • Case filed against organisers for partying at tourist destination Hunza

    Case filed against organisers for partying at tourist destination Hunza

    A case has been filed against the people who organised a music and dance event in Hunza’s Gojal for spreading obscenity, reports Samaa.

    The organisers were berated after videos and pictures of the event went viral.

    A youth organisation had filed a complaint against the organisers at the Gulmit police station on June 16. The complainants said that the event was held in Passu from June 12 to June 15. People from across the country attended it.

    They said that tourists used drugs during the event, adding that some women were seen in “inappropriate” clothes and that is against the traditions and norms of Hunza. The event organisers disrespected the culture of the region.

    A case has been registered against Farhan Bhatti and his friends under section 294 (obscene acts and songs) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Those convicted under the law can be sentenced to jail for a maximum of one year and carries a fine of Rs100,000.

    Following the controversial event, the district administration has decided to ban all music and cultural programmes in Hunza.

    Gilgit-Baltistan Tourism Minister Raja Nasir Ali Khan said that the government wants to bring more tourists to the region and promote its tourist industry.

    “We will provide them all kinds of assistance but tourists must respect the culture and traditions of the region.”

    Prior to this, a Canadian traveller Rosie Gabrielle, who has been exploring the northern areas of Pakistan, took to social media to call out the local tourists for ‘destroying Hunza’s beauty’ and ‘spreading vulgarity’ in the area.

  • Govt to add 0.7m intermediate students in Waseela-e-Taleem

    The federal government has decided to add intermediate students to an educational conditional cash transfer project, the Waseela-e-Taleem programme.

    As per reports, Ehsaas board will have a meeting on June 24 for the final approval.

    Under the project. intermediate students are given cash grants from underprivileged families on the condition of 70 per cent attendance in school.
    The Ehsaas Steering Committee has approved the inclusion of higher secondary education in the programme.

    With such a development, they added that approximately 700,000 students would get the advantage and the government has planned to allot Rs5 billion worth of funds for the project in the next fiscal year.

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    The boys would get worth Rs3,500 cash stipend and girls would get worth Rs4,000 every quarter.

    Moreover, students from the 6th to 10th standard would also get conditional cash assistance under this programme According to the plan, boys in the above-mentioned class bracket would get worth Rs2,500 cash assistance and girls would get worth Rs3,000 stipend from July every quarter.

  • Pakistan’s Mariam Adil makes it to ‘Forbes Next 1000’

    Mariam Nusrat Adil, who hails from Pakistan, has made it to ‘Forbes Next 1000’.

    As per Forbes , “Mariam is a Pakistani national, is an education specialist at the World Bank, who set up not-for-profit GRID — Gaming Revolution for International Development — in 2016. Its aim is to create low-cost mobile games to educate, engage and empower people for positive social change. They include games on reproductive health, compassion for animals and climate change, amongst others. She claims total downloads have exceeded 15,000.”

    “The most successful is Nari Paila, a reproductive health game. One of Adil’s career highlights was presenting at sessions moderated by President Clinton at a Clinton Global Initiative University meeting. In March, she co-founded Gaming Revolution for International Development, which is building a platform that empowers people to create their own video games with no-code, at low-cost and lightning speed.”

    Mariam is the founder of the social-impact-gaming studio, GRID. Mariam holds two Masters Degrees, an MA in International Development Studies from George Washington University, USA and an MSc in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.

    Earlier, this year in April Pakistani musician Abdullah Siddiqui Forbes list of ’30 under 30′ 2021 Asia list and in the same month chef Zahra Khan, made it to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in the Retail and E-commerce category

  • Zulfi Bukhari will rejoin cabinet once his name is cleared in Rawalpindi Ring Road inquiry: Ghulam Sarwar Khan

    Zulfi Bukhari will rejoin cabinet once his name is cleared in Rawalpindi Ring Road inquiry: Ghulam Sarwar Khan

    Federal Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan revealed on Dawn News show ‘Live with Adil Shahzeb’ that former Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfi Bukhari was not being investigated in the Rawalpindi Ring Road project. “Right now, an inquiry is being conducted against government officials who changed the alignment, disbursement, and other issues. No political figure played any role in this. Zulfi’s name will be cleared God-willing once the inquiry concludes.”

    When anchorperson Adil Shahzeb asked if Zulfi Bukhari will be back in the cabinet, Ghulam Sarwar said that Bukhari’s resignation has not been accepted. “He is young and emotional so he offered his resignation but it has not been accepted.”

    Zulfi Bukhari stepped down from his cabinet position on May 17 due to the Rawalpindi Ring Road inquiry.

    Ghulam Sarwar Khan, who was also named by the Opposition in the Ring Road scandal, said that Prime Minister Imran Khan was “satisfied since day one” that he had nothing to do with it.