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  • ‘ISI woman agent’ honey-trapped two soldiers into leaking sensitive data: Indian media

    ‘ISI woman agent’ honey-trapped two soldiers into leaking sensitive data: Indian media

    Police have accused an unidentified woman of being an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent and allegedly posing as a captain in the Indian Army’s Nursing Corps to honey-trap at least two soldiers and an army aspirant.

    According to Indian media reports, soldier Ravinder Kumar Yadav of Mahendergarh district, Somveer Singh of Rohtak and an army aspirant Gaurav of Sonepat were among those duped by the woman in the past 15 months.

    Narnaul police arrested Ravinder Yadav on July 10 from a dhaba for allegedly sharing secret information with the suspected agent, who introduced herself as Capt Anika Chopra, reports said.

    In April 2018, the Rohtak police arrested a 23-year-old youth, Gaurav Kumar, a resident of Ganaur in Sonepat, for purportedly passing information to Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency about Indian army camps he visited for recruitment tests.

    It was also reported that the woman trapped sepoy Somveer Singh, 22, a resident of Bhaini Maharajpur village in Rohtak, in January this year. Singh was posted in the armed corps in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district. He is currently lodged in the Jaipur jail.

    “It appears the woman’s Facebook account was fake and the ISI agent with the same identity had trapped the other two men in a similar fashion. The woman had used Indian numbers for WhatsApp and we had sent the jawan’s phones to the cyber cell,” Narnaul DSP Vinod Kumar said.

    A police official, seeking anonymity, said the agent had befriended the two jawans and the army aspirant through social media.

    “She had deposited Rs 5,000 in the bank accounts of the three accused. In Ravinder’s case, the woman had been regularly asking the jawan about his movement and showed concern for his personal life.”

    The woman claimed she is posted in Gujarat. She only texted him on WhatsApp and both of them had regularly shared their pictures. However, the woman’s pictures were not clear, the police official said further.

  • The Current Exclusive: The Book PM Khan is currently reading

    The Current Exclusive: The Book PM Khan is currently reading

    Believe it, Prime Minister Imran Khan is an avid reader. According to a source, who is very close to him, PM Khan reads a few books at a time and instead of watching T.V., he spends his time reading.

    Picture of PM Khan reading “Mr and Mrs Jinnah: The Marriage that Shook India” by Sheela Reddy

    A fan of non-fiction, the book he’s reading right now is:

    “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” by Peter Frankopan.

    The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan

    The book, is an international bestseller and has a 4.2 rating on GoodReads. It focuses on taking a different view of history by focusing on the East. Frankopan, a British historian, relates how the East and the West first met, deepened their relationship through trade, wars, and the spread of ideas and cultures. The book highlights how the West: its rise, fall and rise has intrinsically been linked to the East.

  • Second marriage sends Lahori man to jail

    Second marriage sends Lahori man to jail

    The debate surrounding a man’s second marriage has gone on for long. The Islamabad High Court recently ruled that a man needs permission from an arbitration council even if his first wife allows.

    A Lahori man got himself into trouble by contracting a second marriage without the permission of his first wife. First wife Shamim Bibi filed a case against her husband and stated in her appeal that her husband cheated on her and did not take permission from her for second marriage.

    The first wife said that this is still less punishment for him.

    Islamabad High Court (IHC) had made it compulsory to take permission from the reconciliation council for second marriage after asking the first wife. If a man’s first wife grants him permission but reconciliation council does not approve his second marriage then that marriage can cost him a fine and a punishment.

  • ‘Storm Adiala’: Facebook event on July 21 to ‘rescue jailed Nawaz’

    ‘Storm Adiala’: Facebook event on July 21 to ‘rescue jailed Nawaz’

    With hundreds of thousands of people signing up for the event titled ‘Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us’, a local version of the plan, ‘Storm Adiala to Save Nawaz’, has been created on Facebook.

    Over 600,000 people have signed up to the Area 51 event that invites attendees to gather before entering the air force base obsessing alien conspiracy theorists for long.

    The Pakistani version of the event, on the other hand, calls on the participants to raid the Rawalpindi Central Jail aka Adiala Jail to save former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif.

    It is highly unlikely that the event is not a joke since the ex-PM, convicted in corruption references, is not even locked up there. He was transferred to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail after a court, last year, accepted his application to be incarcerated in Punjab’s provincial capital instead of Rawalpindi.

    The satirical event, however, has received over 943 signatures, including that of social media influencer and comedian Junaid Akram. Over 1,500 have also marked themselves as interested in attending the event.

    It is scheduled for July 21 (Sunday) at 6 pm, whereas the person behind the event is not yet known.

  • VIDEO: PTI leader showered with dollars, euros, riyals upon arrival in hometown

    VIDEO: PTI leader showered with dollars, euros, riyals upon arrival in hometown

    Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) leader Sohail Zafar was showered with foreign currency notes as he reached his hometown on Sunday.

    According to reports, the leader was welcomed with euros, United States (US) dollars and riyals besides Rs5,000 currency notes by the party’s local leadership in Gujranwala, over his appointment as Punjab Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) chairman.

    WATCH VIDEO:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs6TfGVxoNI

    It was Zafar’s maiden visit to his hometown since the appointment by PTDC Board of Directors last month.

    Cheema’s caravan entered the boundary of his hometown Machike Sandhuan when PTI leader Shahid Iqbal Naghra showered him with foreign currencies, whereas the party members received him by dancing and tossing flower petals, reports said.

    Party workers were also reported to be collecting the currency notes on the ground as was seen in the video that went viral on social media.

  • VIDEO: ‘Adil told me Allah was with us’, English captain after World Cup win

    VIDEO: ‘Adil told me Allah was with us’, English captain after World Cup win

    Irish and British cricketer Eoin Morgan, who steered the England cricket team to victory in the 2019 World Cup on Sunday, has said that “Allah was with them”.

    After a sensational win against New Zealand in the World Cup final held at Lord’s, Dublin-born Morgan was asked whether England team enjoyed the famed luck of the Irish.

    “I spoke to Adil (England leg-spinner Adil Rashid), he said Allah was definitely with us,” he said in response.

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    “It actually summarises our team. Quite diverse backgrounds and cultures and guys grow up in different countries and to actually find humour in the situation we were in at times was pretty cool,” Morgan added.

    Earlier, England lifted their maiden World Cup. Both the Englishmen and Kiwis scored 241 runs which led to a first-ever Super Over in the World Cup final.

    Both teams scored 15 runs each, however, England was declared the winner based on boundary count in the match.

  • Lahore board announces matric 2019 result, check yours here

    Lahore board announces matric 2019 result, check yours here

    Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore on Monday announced the result of 2019 matriculation examinations.

    Students can check their result from here.

    A day earlier, the board announced names of the top position holders. Danish Athar clinched the overall first position in both sciences and humanities groups by scoring 1,092 marks out of 1,100.

    Anoosha Zikriya, Syed Hassan Abbas and Muhammad Affan Amir shared the second position with 1,090 marks each and Saba Iqbal and Saira Hayyat shared the third position.

    A prize-distribution ceremony in the honour of the position holders will also be held today at a local hotel where Provincial Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Humayun Sarfraz will be the chief guest.

  • Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as minister from Punjab cabinet

    Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as minister from Punjab cabinet

    Indian cricketer-turned-politician and a close friend of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Navjot Singh Sidhu, has resigned from the Punjab Cabinet. Though he did not cite the reason for his departure, Indian media report that his rising differences with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was the reason behind his resignation.

    Sindhu made the announcement on Twitter by sharing his resignation letter sent to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on June 10.

    “I hereby resign as minister from the Punjab cabinet,” read the letter.

    He added that he will be sending his resignation to the Chief Minister, Punjab.

    According to The Hindu, after the Cabinet reshuffle on June 6, Sidhu was relieved from his portfolios of Local Bodies, Tourism and Culture and allocated the Power and New and Renewable Energy Sources portfolios.

    However, Sidhu, instead of taking charge of the new Ministry, approached party’s Central leadership to express his displeasure and appraised the “high command’’ of being singled out “unfairly”.

    CM Amarinder and Sidhu’s differences emerged in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. It began Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu accusing Capt. Amarinder of blocking her Lok Sabha ticket from Chandigarh. Later, the Chief Minister blamed Sidhu for not handling his department well, which he claimed had resulted in the Congress’s “poor performance” in urban areas in the general election.

  • Airports to allow only one visitor per passenger

    Airports to allow only one visitor per passenger

    Are your relatives coming from abroad? Or are you planning to go? If you are, then you should know that the Airport Security Force (ASF) has decided to limit the number of visitors coming along with passengers.

    The decision has been taken keeping in mind security concerns and the fact that Hajj flight operations are currently underway. In most cases, families in large numbers come to see off or receive Hajj passengers.

    Officials of the ASF informed the public that only one family member or a friend would be allowed to receive or see off passengers at Jinnah International Terminal, Karachi and Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore. They also said that the step was being taken to limit crowds at the airport and to prevent security breaches.

    Earlier this month two people were gunned down at the Lahore airport’s international arrival gate.

  • Female celebrities speak up against online abuse

    Female celebrities speak up against online abuse

    While scrolling through social media, you often come across abusive and vile comments, targeted at female celebrities, which make you shudder if they catch your eye for even a moment. Recently, several popular female celebrities have spoken up about being abused online and have called for a stop on it.

    Here are all those who have expressed their anger online.

    Mahira Khan

    This is not the first time Mahira Khan has opened up about online abuse and its repercussions.

    Hania Aamir

    Hania Aamir has spoken up on more than one occasion about being bullied online but her recent Instagram story was directed at Hina Altaf who commented that Muneeb Butt is a bad actor.

    Ayesha Omar

    Ayesha Omar is currently vacationing in Greece but it appears that Pakistani citizens are not having with her vacay style and are voicing their disapproval in the comments section. That propelled Ayesha to post this in her Instagram stories.

    Iqra Aziz

    In just the past week, Iqra Aziz has talked about cyber abuse twice. Once before her engagement to Yasir Hussain and once after. In her first post, Iqra talked about how it takes a few words to bring someone down and tell them that they aren’t good enough. In her second post, post-engagement, she said that she is shutting out all those who are spreading hate and vitriol online.

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