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  • Indian media mistakenly names Atif Aslam’s son as ‘Alhumdulilah’, apologises later

    Indian media mistakenly names Atif Aslam’s son as ‘Alhumdulilah’, apologises later

    Atif Aslam took to social media to announce the arrival of his baby boy with the caption ‘Ladies and gentlemen our new arrival Alhamdulilah. Both mother and baby are fine. Keep us in your prayers and don’t forget to say Mashallah’.

    Atif was thankful to God so he wrote Alhumdulilah. But someone who works in an Indian tabloid surely did not know what the term means.

    And soon people started trolling the post.

    However, the writer accepted the mistake and also corrected it.

    Desi Martini also posted an apology for the mistake.

  • Mehwish Hayat wants Michelle Obama to be next US president

    Mehwish Hayat wants Michelle Obama to be next US president

    Mehwish Hayat wants the ex-first lady of United States Michelle Obama to become the next president of the country.

    Taking to Twitter, the actor praised the former first lady for efficiently running Obama Foundation and expressed her admiration for her.

    Michelle recently visited schools in Vietnam and Malaysia where she praised the efforts of women there to promote girl’s education.

    In October, Mehwish was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for girls’ rights by the Ministry of Human Rights.

  • Feroza Aziz is back with another hidden message

    Feroza Aziz is back with another hidden message

    A video by a beauty vlogger went viral on TikTok. Video of Afghan-American TikToker, Feroza Aziz has a hidden message about the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA 2109). The video starts with a skincare routine and then Feroza starts talking about Indian CAA that violates human rights.

    According to the Indian government, CAA 2019 is supposed to grant citizenship to religious minorities that have taken refuge in India till 2014. Except for the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB 2019) makes it a point to exclude Muslims. The law requires Indian Muslims to prove their origins in India otherwise they will lose their citizenship.

    This 17-year old TikToker made a video with the hidden message about China’s treatment of Xinjiang Uighur Muslims before.

  • Peshawar’s first 3D cinema to open on Dec 26

    Peshawar’s first 3D cinema to open on Dec 26

    After a long wait, Peshawar is finally getting its first 3D cinema on December 26. The city’s historic Naz Cinema, built in 1942, is being renovated and converted from a normal theatre to a cineplex.

    According to a report in Samaa News, the screen test of the cinema has been completed and the work on seating, carpeting and the cafeteria will be completed in few days.

    The cinema’s owner, Jawad Raza hopes that the cinema will appease to the movie lovers who will get a chance to watch films with the latest technology. He said that the cinema will also provide “a pleasant atmosphere to families,” and that their comfort is top priority.

    Raza shared that for the security for families 32 secret cameras and round-the-clock security guards will be in place.

    A Naz Cinema mobile app will also be introduced for online booking of tickets.

    Most film lovers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa often go to cinemas in Islamabad but Naz Cinema will give them an opportunity to enjoy movies in the city.

    Over the years, the cinema industry of KP had witnessed a sharp decline because of terrorist attacks and various other reasons. However, things are looking up now. 2019’s highest-grossing film Superstar, featuring Bilal Ashraf and Mahira Khan has also been shot in the city.

  • Special hunting permit issued to King of Bahrain for rare houbara bustard

    Special hunting permit issued to King of Bahrain for rare houbara bustard

    Special permits have been issued by the federal government to King of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad bin Isa bin Salman al Khalifa and five of his family members to hunt the internationally-protected houbara bustard during the 2019-20 hunting season. The permits were delivered to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain in the federal capital and had the names of hunters and the areas allocated to them.

    According to a report in Dawn News, the king and his hunting party which includes his uncle, his country’s interior minister, adviser on defence, cousins, and other people have been granted special permission to hunt the endangered bird in different districts of Pakistan including Jamshoro district, Sujawal district, Naushahro Feroze district in Sindh, Jaffarabad district in Balochistan, Tando Mohammad Khan, Hyderabad and Malir (excluding Malir Cantonment and Dhabeji areas) districts.

    Under a code of conduct issued by the foreign ministry, a hunter can hunt 100 houbara bustards in a 10-day hunting spree during the three-month-long hunting season between Nov 1, 2019 and Jan 31, 2020.

    Though the houbara bustard belongs to the colder central Asian region, every winter it migrates southwards towards the relatively warm environment here.

    Ruthless hunting by Arab hunters has resulted in a sharp decline in its population because of which it is protected under various international nature conservation conventions and a ban on its hunting has been imposed – Pakistanis are not allowed to hunt this bird.

    Previously, Prime Minister Imran Khan had been very critical of Nawaz Sharif’s government for permitting the hunting of the rare bird.

  • Exactly 10 years ago my life changed: Mahira Khan

    Exactly 10 years ago my life changed: Mahira Khan

    There is no denying that Mahira Khan is the ultimate queen. The superstar is loved and appreciated by people across the world.

    Mahira, who recently celebrated her 35th birthday, in an Instagram post recounted her last ten years and expressed her love for her son, who turned ten this year. She also thanked her fans and followers for being there for her as well as for their birthday wishes.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B6c8sNNhLsA/

    Following her post, members of the industry sent love her way.

  • Lahoris, want a blow-dry on a budget?

    Lahoris, want a blow-dry on a budget?

    Blow drys have gotten SO expensive. To make life easier and cheaper for Lahori women, we spent two weeks reviewing salons in different areas that offer cheap blow-drys. The results are:

    Pinhaan Bridal Salon and Institute

    Location: F-Block Moon Heights, Johar Town

    Experience: The worst experience. Don’t go here

    Pro: The only pro I could think of is that at the time I got the blow dry, I felt like it would be good (?)

    Con: The girl doing the blow-dry pulled my hair so badly, it still hurts. The hair mousse that made my hair super sticky. I had to wash my hair the next day and the girl who did the blow dry pulled it so hard, it still hurts.

    Charges

    Inwards: Rs 700

    Outwards: Rs 800

    Raheela’s Salon

    Location: Q9 Model Town, Link Road

    Experience – Average though the lady who washed my hair Habiba was very charming

    Pro – Curls stayed for a longer time

    Con – “Haircut ki zaroorat hai aap ko.”  Will this ever stop?

    Charges:

    Straight blow dry: Rs 600

    Outwards/Inwards: Rs 800

    Asma T Salon

    Location: MM Alam Road, Block C1 ,Gulberg III

    Experience – Better than the rest

    Pro – The girl was gentle with the hair. It did not hurt at all.

    Con – No volume

    Charges

    Straight blow dry: Rs 600

    Outwards/Inwards: Rs 1,000

    Color Me Up

    Location: Plaza # 77, Block-DD CCA, Phase 4, DHA

    Experience – The best out of all

    Pro – Staff was really nice. After two days, my hair did not look bad or messy. Curls stayed even after two days.

    Con – N/A

    Charges – Rs 800

  • ‘Ahsan Iqbal should be hanged for 3 days’: Faisal Vawda

    ‘Ahsan Iqbal should be hanged for 3 days’: Faisal Vawda

    Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda had said on Monday that Ahsan Iqbal should be hanged for three days.

    In a tweet, Mr. Vawda said: “Ahsan Iqbal alias Aristotle alias hypocrite is a bigger thief than Nawaz Sharif. He should have been arrested first but he was caught so late. I will bring forward the list of his front companies and relatives. Their looting [corruption] has brought our country to the edge of destruction. Such people should be hanged for at least 3 days.”

    Read also: ‘If found dead, Musharraf’s corpse should be dragged to D-Chowk, hanged for three days’

    Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ahsan Iqbal was arrested on Monday by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in relation to the Narowal Sports City Complex case

    Ahsan Iqbal is accused of using funds of the federal government and the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for a sports city being established in Narowal, which is a multi-billion-rupee project.

    Iqbal while speaking to the media before heading to NAB had said that when the PML-N came to power in 2013, he, as planning minister, had taken up several projects that were incomplete and sports city was one of them.

    He said that the funds spent on NSC were approved by the cabinet, parliament and the National Economic Council (NEC).

  • Shahid Afridi deletes tweet supporting Uyghur Muslims in China

    Shahid Afridi deletes tweet supporting Uyghur Muslims in China

    Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi has deleted his tweet in which he implored Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan to speak up against China’s persecution of the minority.

    Afirid had on Sunday posted a tweet in which he wrote, “Hearing of atrocities committed against the Uighur Muslims is heartbreaking. I request Imran Khan to speak up against this; talk of uniting the Muslim ummah includes our brothers & sisters in China too”.

    The cricket star in his tweet also requested the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan to address the issue.

    China has been facing criticism for detaining around one million Uighurs and other Muslims in internment camps in Xinjiang. The activists in Uighur had claimed last month that they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by the country to detain members of the ethnic group.

    Moreover, according to Samaa, a Washington-based group, East Turkistan National Awakening Movement gave the geographic coordinates of 182 suspected “concentration camps” where Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their culture.

    The organisation after researching images from Google Earth, said it also spotted 209 suspected prisons and 74 suspected labor camps in the country.

    Chinese foreign ministry, however, has denied these allegation, terming them “baseless.”

  • Police say waiters at Cafe Aylanto guilty of supplying liquor

    The investigation into a raid at Lahore’s popular Cafe Aylanto on MM Alam Road in September has held three of its waiters guilty.

    According to a report in Dawn News, the police concluded the case by holding three waiters responsible after a joint raid was conducted by the excise department and police at the restaurant in September. The police have submitted the investigation report to the court for further proceeding. No further details regarding the incident have been shared as to why the waiters have been held responsible instead of the owner.

    Cafe Aylanto was sealed on September 7 after a raiding party, led by Excise and Taxation Officer (ETO) Masood Bashir Warraich and Model Town assistant commissioner, had claimed recovering imported liquor from the restaurant. An FIR [First Information Report] had been lodged and interestingly did not include the restaurant owner’s name and only 13 employees — mostly waiters — were arrested at the time. Several bottles of liquor were also seized and a criminal case against the outlet’s administration was lodged.

    Warraich had earlier been accused of deliberately delaying the renewal of liquor licences of four hotels in Lahore after their managements allegedly refused to pay him 30 percent commission from daily liquor sales.

    “I am being accused of corruption just because I implemented the rules,” Warraich had said while rejecting the claims, adding that before he took charge, all four hotels were selling over 100,000 liquor bottles each illegally every day which reduced to about 8,000 each after he intervened.

    After the incident, Gulberg circle ASP Abdul Wahab and Warraich had been transferred from their position. However, later it was revealed that the officers had committed no violation and their transfers were politically motivated.

    A source said that many in police circles believed that someone in Islamabad’s power corridors took up the matter, ensuring the officer’s ouster from Punjab knowing that he had committed no mistake.

    The case was lodged against the café on an application submitted by excise inspector Akhtar Zaman Sindhu. Before taking action against the ASP, an impression was created that the contents of the first information report (FIR) were changed in favour of the café owner.

    However, during the investigation, the allegations were proved false as the contents of the application and the FIR appeared the same, the source added.