Prior to this, the Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) had directed the Cabinet Division to “provide the requested information about the gifts received by PM Khan”.
However, the Cabinet Division argued that the matter did not fall under the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017.
“What is the harm in making it public if some country has given a necklace as a gift?” asked Justice Mian Gul Hassan Aurangzeb. He said that gifts received by the rulers of a country belonged to the nation and not to them, asking whether public officeholders would even receive those gifts if the public office did not exist.
Justice Aurangzeb asked: “Why doesn’t the government keep all the gifts in the museum? The government should make details of the gifts in the last 10 years public.”
He also said that the Centre should inform how many gifts had their valuation done by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). The government representative at the hearing requested time to respond, after which the court adjourned the hearing.
Earlier in September, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry revealed that Arab rulers who presented gifts to PM Khan “did not want their names to be made public”.
Toshakhana is a department established in1974 that stores precious gifts given to the rulers, parliamentarians, bureaucrats, and officials heads by the other governments and foreign dignitaries.
According to Dawn, it has valuables ranging from bulletproof cars, gold-plated souvenirs, expensive paintings, watches, ornaments, rugs and swords.
Police arrested a sweeper at a government school in Sheikhupura for raping a fifth-grader inside the school, Shahbaz Khan reported for Samaa News.
Younas Masih was arrested on Monday after the child’s mother reported the case at Housing Colony Police Station, Sheikhupura.
The mother alleged that after her child told her that she was assaulted by the sweeper at the school, she went to the police but they did not listen to her.
She then had to go to the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau who helped her register the case.
The child’s medical examination at the District Headquarters Hospital had confirmed the sexual assault
Police said the suspect has confessed to the crime.
The suspect said that he used to buy the child shawarmas. “One day I forcefully took her to the washroom.”
A report sent by the principal to the District Education Authority said that Younas was detained from the school gate on Monday around 10:30am.
The daughter of the late Benazir Bhutto and former president Asif Ali Zardari, Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday took to Twitter and informed her fans and followers with a health update, saying that her little baby boy is currently in a Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) but getting stronger.
Bakhtawar tweeted, “Thank you for all the love & celebrations welcoming our little baby boy to the world.”
Thank you for all the love & celebrations welcoming our little baby boy to the world 🙏💙🥰. He was due Nov 8th but decided his own birthday & surprised us all on Oct 10th – currently in the NICU but getting stronger every day ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ – do keep him in your prayers ❤️
“He was due Nov 8th but decided his own birthday and surprised us all on Oct 10th – currently in the NICU but getting stronger every day, do keep him in your prayers,” she tweeted.
She had posted a picture of a neonatal care unit at a UAE hospital on Instagram on October 12, indicating that the baby was born in the Gulf state.
Bakhtawar had announced the birth of her son on October 10.
Ali Gul Pir has hit out at a troll for questioning his masculinity. A netizen criticised the Waderay Ka Beta song. for his sense of humor by sharing a meme, which questioned his masculinity.
To which Ali replied, “I will wear what I want to, make want I want to and say what I want to. Nobody will define my masculinity or dictate my creativity. Don’t hate me because I make you feel insecure.”
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday took to Twitter and said, “The process of consultation between Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa over the appointment of the new Director-General (DG) of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been completed and the process for the new appointment is now underway.”
وزیر اعظم اور آرمی چیف کے درمیان نئے DG ISI کی تقرری پر مشاورت کا عمل مکمل ہو چکا ہے اور نئ تقرری کا پراسس شروع ہو چکا ہے، ایک بار پھر سول اور فوجی قیادت نے یہ ثابت کیا ہے کہ ملک کے استحکام، سالمیت اور ترقی کیلئے تمام ادارے متحد اور یکساں ہیں
“The civil-military leadership has once again proven that all institutions are united for the country’s stability, integrity, and progress,” said Fawad.
A doctor who allegedly made objectionable videos of nurses and lady doctors in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital has been arrested by the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) on Tuesday, Geo News reported.
According to FIA officials, a victim woman, a resident of Chongi Amrsadho Lahore, had registered a complaint against Dr Abdullah Haris of Jinnah Hospital Lahore in the Cyber Crime Wing.
The suspect was blackmailing her with obscene videos of the victim.
FIA officials said that the Cyber Crime Wing arrested the accused, Abdullah Haris, and seized two mobile phones.
Around 50 videos of several nurses and lady doctors were recovered from the doctor’s mobile. A case has been registered against the accused and further investigation is underway.
Actor Mizna Waqas recently appeared on Faizan Sheikh and Aadi Adeal Amjad’s The Mazedaar Show and opened up about an incident when senior actor Rashid Farooqi insulted her on-set and hurled abuses.
On the show, the Fitoor star shared a drama shoot’s experience, “I was shooting a scene with Rashid Farooqi and I had to cry for the scene which was not happening naturally or with the glycerin because my eye got too dry due to a medical condition. This angered him and he scolded me and insulted me by saying “I don’t know from where do you guys get such actors”.
She then acted out an abusive conduct to depict his behaviour.
Mizna made it clear with her following statements that later in her career when she was working with an acclaimed director, the Quddusi Sahab Ki Bewah actor met her and told her that look all those experiences have contributed to your professional success. She concluded by saying that then in her heart she repeated the same abuse for him at that moment.
She is famous for her role as Billo in Hum TV’s popular series Suno Chanda and its sequel Suno Chanda 2.
The Digest Writer diva was last seen in Qayamat co-starring Ahsan Khan and Neelum Muneer.
Actor Mira Sethi has hit back at trolls for scrutinising her choice of dressing at the 20th Lux Style Awards. The Dil Banjaara diva took to her Instagram account to post a lengthy note to address the backlash on her attire.
“It’s always fascinating to see trolls go nuts under photos of public-facing women in dresses or costumes or anything the trolls deem ‘vulgar’, wrote Mira in an Instagram post.
“Go home. I don’t dress for you, I don’t dress for anyone or anything other than my own sense of joy and play and expansion. The men of this country are obsessed with policing women, constantly defining their ‘honour’ in relation to women’s bodies and clothing and appearance. It is a small-minded, decayed, hateful thing to do. You want to disempower us because a deep part of you is hurting and angry. I get it. It’s societal and it is ugly,” added Mira
“To the women who continue to secularize public spaces with their words and clothes and defiance: you inspire me. On the face of it, it looks merely glitzy and silly, but only those subjected to the heat of abuse know that simply by being – by asserting with our voices and bodies – we are clawing back space from rotten hierarchies of power and control,” she added.
Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has stated in a recent interview that the greater problem in the Indian film industry is racism, even more than nepotism.
The Kick star while speaking to Bollywood Hungama praised his Serious Men co-star Indira Tiwari for her phenomenal role in the movie, hoped that she gets similar recognition in the future, blaming Bollywood for having a problem of racism.
“Sudhir Saab [Sudhir Mishra, director of film Serious Men] has immense knowledge about cinema, and his thought process is very practical. He cast her as the heroine, and I can guarantee you that there is so much racism in our industry,” said Nawaz
Sudhir Mishra did it, but what about the head honchos in charge? More than nepotism, we have a racism problem,” added the Bajrangi Bhaijaan actor
“I fought against it for many years, and I hope that dark-skinned actresses are made heroines; it’s very important. I’m not even talking about skin colour; there is a bias that exists in the industry which needs to end for better films to be made.”
“I was rejected for many years only because I’m short and I look a certain way, although I can’t complain now. But there are so many other great actors who fall prey to this kind of bias.”
Pakistan has been plagued by episodes of rape and abuse over the years that it has now become common to the extent that people have started normalising such acts.
Back in 2002, Mukhtaran Mai’s gang-rape was one of the most horrifying gang-rape incidents that were reported.
Another major incident that took place in 2014 was the Layyah gang-rape case, where a 20-year-old girl after being gang-raped, was found hanging from a tree. Such inhumane incidents haven’t stopped even now.
Two men stole her money and the jewellery she had on her. They then raped her in front of her two children in a nearby field and escaped.
The incident sparked national outrage but what happened next? Before the arrest of the two culprits, questions like “Why was she out on the motorway so late without a brother or husband? Why didn’t she check her gas tank before leaving the house? And if she had to travel, why didn’t she take the more public GT Road route?” were asked because, sadly, in our country ‘getting raped’ is the woman’s fault. Apparently, a woman gets raped because ‘she was driving alone, on the wrong road, at the wrong time, in the wrong place’.
Later, the motorway rapists were sentenced to death but rape cases continued to rise in Pakistan.
On October 12, 2020, our team started counting rape cases on a daily basis from 13 different sources, which included these newspapers: Dawn, The News, The Express Tribune, The Nation, Pakistan Today, Daily Times, Nawa-e-Waqt, Daily Jang. And from these websites: ARY News, Geo News Samaa News Dunya News Aaj News.
It is to be noted that the given stats only include the reported incidents, not the ones that go unreported.
During the process, we have included reported rape cases of girls, boys, women, men and transgenders. Moreover, we have divided the rape cases province-wise, according to which Punjab till date has the highest number of rape cases, i.e. 936 rape cases and 44 attempted incidents.
It has been a year since we have started posting our rape template daily to analyse the record of reported rape cases. We have collected the data of the entire year (October 12, 2020 to October 12, 2021) and prepared slides of reported cases of each month provinces-wise.
Provinces Categorisation:
Sindh
Till date, Sindh has recorded a total of 60 reported rape cases in which 10 are attempted incidents. 11.6 per cent of cases were reported in the month of April and August as per the graph.
Punjab
Punjab has recorded a total of 936 reported rape cases in which 44 are attempted incidents until now. 13 per cent of cases were reported in August.
Islamabad
The capital has recorded a total of 13 reported rape cases which no attempted cases until now. The reported cases are relatively low as compared to other provinces’ data. However, 38.46 per cent of rape cases were reported in June this year.
Balochistan
Balochistan has reported a total of 11 reported rape cases. Most of the months show zero reported rape cases, according to the graph.
KPK
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) has reported a total of 20 reported rape cases of which 2 were attempted incidents. The numbers throughout the months are quite the same.
Deaths (province-wise)
As per the graph, the death rate was high in the month of January i.e.14.5 per cent.
Numbers of the recorded cases after the highlighted incidents of 2021
After the following incidents, we noticed an increase in the reporting of rape cases.
Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman: sexual assault case
On June 17, police registered a criminal complaint against Mufti Aziz after a male student accused him of sexual abuse. In the aftermath of a viral graphic video that showed Mufti engaging in sexual intercourse with the male student, who was the victim, the action was taken against Mufti Aziz. After the incident, we noticed an increase of 10.7 per cent in the reporting of rape cases in the month of June.
Usman Mirza’s sexual assault on a couple
Usman Mirza was arrested on July 7. He was seen torturing and assaulting a couple. He was also seen stripping naked a woman in the video. The video sparked outrage across Pakistan. After the petrifying incident, an increase of 9 per cent was observed in the reporting of rape cases in the month of July.
Noor Mukadam’s murder case
On July 20, Noor Mukadam, daughter of former Pakistani diplomat Shaukat Mukadam, was raped, beheaded and murdered, in a posh neighbourhood of Islamabad in July. Noor’s murder led to nationwide protests. After her murder, as per the reported cases we have monitored, there was an increase of 12.6 per cent in the month of August.
There are many more cases that are still unreported due to various reasons.
According to The News, official statistics obtained from the Police, Law, and Justice Commission of Pakistan, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Women’s Foundation, and provincial welfare agencies in 2020 revealed that there are at least 11 rape cases reported in Pakistan every day with over 22,000 rape cases reported to the police across the country in the last six years.
