One of Pakistan’s hottest bachelors Hamza Ali Abbasi announced his wedding to actor Naimal Khawar Wednesday evening leaving the whole country divided over his announcement.
In case you missed it here’s Hamza’s announcement.
Yup, its true. P.S Massive respect to Naimal for being ok with a Ganja me on Nikkah 🙂♥️ pic.twitter.com/8z9Uns0xo3
As expected, Hamza’s announcement had Pakistanis on Twitter divided. While some congratulated the happy couple, others began to dissect his post and called him out for being a narcissist.
MashaAllah, what a beautiful way to express the meaning of marriage. Congratulations Hamza and Naimal 💗 Allah aap donon ke rishtey mein barkat ata fermaye aameen.
Meanwhile, others called out Hamza for his lengthy explanations of why he is marrying Naimal.
careful with his choice of words. He has romanticized emotional unavailability and is feeding into the notion of marriage being a religious/societal obligation only, rather than a union of affection and compassion. We don't need to propagate this toxic masculinity. It's 2019.
Hamza Abbasi is such a great caricature of the born-again, consumed-by-guilt-but-still-macho Muslim dunce. A fairly common breed in Pakistan, though sadly this one's become famous.
#HamzaAliAbbasi is marrying the most beautiful & young new tv star. Yet, goes on to give lengthy details, it's not cuz of love. Brother! No friendship between na mahrem man & woman, platonic or otherwise is allowed in Islam, if u wanna play strictly Muslim. #Hamzawedsnaimal
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has informed the Supreme Court (SC) that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President (VP) Maryam Nawaz has “distanced herself” from the video scandal of ex-accountability court judge Arshad Malik, Express Tribune reported Thursday.
Maryam on July 6 had presented to journalists a secretly recorded video of judge Arshad Malik and claimed that he was “forced to give the verdict against Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia reference case”.
According to latest reports, FIA presented before the court a 105-page report, wherein it said that Maryam has now distanced herself from the video and placed burden of the details and specifics of the video upon Nasir Mehmood Butt.
Butt is the person who reportedly recorded the conversation during which Malik had allegedly confessed convicting Nawaz under pressure.
The FIA report further said that PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has also distanced himself from the videotapes.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) had on July 12 removed Malik as a judge and directed the registrar to repatriate him to his parent department, the Lahore High Court (LHC).
A Pakistani named Bilal Khalid, currently living in the United Kingdom (UK) has claimed to be the founder of Bitcoin, originally known as Satoshi Nakamoto.
The true identity of Bitcoin’s founder is unknown and it is also said that Satoshi had a huge collection of coins worth almost $10 billion.
According to the details, Bilal in a series of blogposts has provided evidence to support his claim of being Bitcoin’s creator, along with his story on what inspired him to work on digital currency.
Bilal says that he derived the name Bitcoin from BCCI (the Bank of Credit and Commerce International) and wrote that he graduated from Al-Khair University in Pakistan, and later took online courses from Yale, Duke, and University of California-Irvine.
He also shared the story of how he lost his coins collection, which as of right now are 10,037,062,000.00 USD, and would have made him the richest Pakistani.
However, he says the loss was too big for him to take and that is the reason why he gave up on cryptocurrency.
There’s something fishy going on Twitter. Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said that they have contacted Twitter after the social media forum blocked over 150 Pakistani accounts for raising their voice for the Kashmiri people. PTA also said that Twitter “blocked Pakistani accounts under the influence of Indian lobbies”.
PTA’s press release via Twitter
The PTA made clear to Twitter that 178 accounts had been blocked for “advocating Kashmiri rights and condemning Indian forces’ atrocities in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” and also said that, “It appears that the Twitter administration is under influence of Indian lobbies is depriving Pakistani users.”
ARY’s prime time anchor, Arshad Sharif, also faced Indian social media aggression when India tried to get Twitter to ban his account.
ARY Anchor Arshad Sharif gives details on Twitter
The notice said that Arshad had been posting content that violates the law of India and requested him to remove the content.
Notice from Twitter to ARY Anchor Arshad Sharif
Arshad refused to do so and his Twitter account is banned in India.
In a social media update, Hamza Ali Abbasi put to rest all the speculations and confirmed that he is indeed tying the knot with actress Naimal Khawar in a “small Nikkah on August 25” followed by a valima on August 26.
Talking in detail about his spiritual journey, Hamza said, “When you realise that [life] is not fairytales and it is TRUTH that you have a Rabb & you will stand accountable infront of him after you die, it changes you. Your first priority becomes fixing yourself rather than changing the world.”
He continued, “You beg Allah for help and no matter how many times you fail you promise Allah that you will rather die trying and failing but you will never give up in your pursuit to do what pleases him and avoid what displeases him. Then one day, in one specific aspect of your life, Allah gets satisfied with the sincerity of heart & accepts your extremely flawed efforts for him and then HE TAKES OVER! He rewards you and opens your heart towards things that were unthinkable for you before.”
On marrying Naimal, Hamza said, “Some people get married for themselves because either they fall in love or because their lonely or maybe because of family or to have kids, these are also good reasons, but believe me when your sole reason is to please Allah then Allah makes a man like me, who could never sustain anything emotional with the opposite gender, could never comprehend the idea of marriage in his head, Allah makes that man go upto his very platonic friend of two years Naimal and tell her that he doesn’t want a relationship (that GF/BF nonsense) neither is he claiming to be in love with her but he wants to marry her with the intention of strengthening his very turbulent efforts to walk a path which pleases Allah and to my surprise she agrees not just to marry me but also expresses her joy in walking this path with me & now we can’t even breathe without each other.”
Yup, its true. P.S Massive respect to Naimal for being ok with a Ganja me on Nikkah 🙂♥️ pic.twitter.com/8z9Uns0xo3
Following Hamza’s declaration of love, people began to speculate about how the couple’s “love story” began. To this Hamza said that there is no “love story”, they were friends for two years before deciding to tie the knot.
Grateful for the flood of invites on TV shows to talk abt our "Love Story", but as disappointing as it sounds thr is none. We were just frnds for 2 yrs & recently Allah put it in my heart to ask her to marry me for reasons i mentioned and she said yes… Thts the entire story 🙂 https://t.co/lTl2xCVDYi
Net losses faced by Pakistan’s State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) rose to mammoth Rs191.5 billion during the fiscal year (FY) 2016-17 of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, The Newshas reported.
According to reports, during FY2014-15, Pakistan’s SOEs were running into net profits of Rs52 billion, but they later turned into net losses of Rs44.7 billion during FY2015-16, followed by whopping losses of Rs191.5 billion — witnessing a record surge by over 330 per cent — in just one year.
A report, prepared and released by the Ministry of Finance, admitted that among the top loss-making public sector entities were the National Highway Authority (NHA) by incurring that of Rs 133.488 billion, followed by Pakistan Railways (PR) with losses worth Rs40.702 billion and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) with Rs39.5 billion.
Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), that is now being revived through a public-private partnership, also clinched a spot among the top ten loss-making SOEs for suffering those worth Rs 14.852 billion during FY2016-17.
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO), Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO), Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO), Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) and Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) were also among the entities that faced the most losses.
Looks like hot, humid August is the month to be married in. And the biggest bombshell hit us last night when Actor Hamza Ali Abbasi’s wedding invitation went viral last night. People were asking anyone and everyone: is it true? If yes, who is Naimal Khawar? Believe it or not, you’ve seen her before.
Naimul’s mother is from Iran and her father is from Khyber Pakthoonkhua. She grew up in Islamabad and studied visual arts from the National College of Arts in Lahore.
She made her acting debut in Verna, alongside Mahira Khan.
She was discovered by Shoaib Mansoor who asked her to take an audition when he saw her pictures on social media.
In Verna, she played a supporting role as the hero’s sister.
She is also playing the role of Izzah in Hum TV’s drama Anaa. She plays a supporting role as the main character’s best friend.
Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari has written to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore regarding the Priyanka Chopra controversy.
As per the details, Dr Mazari has asked Fore to remove the Indian actor as UN’s Goodwill Ambassador for Peace as she has “made a mockery of the title” by supporting the Modi government’s unlawful actions in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK), besides “supporting a nuclear war”.
Sent letter to UNICEF chief regarding UN Goodwill Ambassador for Peace Ms Chopra pic.twitter.com/PQ3vwYjTVz
Chopra had come under fire for her patronising and dismissive comments when asked by a Pakistani-American activist Ayesha Malik about her support for war with Pakistan.
The fast bowler got married to Indian national Shamia Arzoo in a dazzling ceremony in Dubai on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by relatives and close friends including spinner Shadab Khan.
As per reports, the valima reception will be held in Dubai while a separate ceremony is scheduled in Pakistan too.
After pictures from the nikkah ceremony went viral, Hassan took to Twitter to thank everyone for their wishes.
Thanks to everyone for your wishes on this auspicious occasion which is very close to my heart. May Allah bless all the people who have shown love and support to us. Keep us in your prayers. #HassanWedsSamiyapic.twitter.com/eBVbLK2fR6
Hasan Ali is the fourth Pakistani cricketer to marry an Indian girl after Zaheer Abbas, Mohsin Khan and Shoaib Malik.
Congratulations poured in for the cricketer soon after the pictures went viral.
Congratulations Hassan ❤️ wish you both a lifetime of love and happiness .. this time you’ll have to treat us to more than Nandos though 😅😅 https://t.co/CEXysWNv4F
The government has initiated the revival process of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and is aiming to enhance its production capacity from 1.1 million to 3 million tonnes a year, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported.
According to the details, the government, under the new revival plan, wants to make PSM a profitable organisation through public-private partnership.
For the purpose, the government is inviting applications for PSM’s new chief executive officer (CEO) and is looking for a dynamic, results-oriented leader with immaculate credentials and experience.
Currently, PSM is the largest industrial mega-corporation. The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) had put PSM on the privatisation list, but the government had later decided against it and initiated the process of reviving the steel mills through a public-private partnership.
