ARY News has reported on Thursday that well-known businessman Zulfiqar Ahmed has allegedly gone missing in Karachi.
Social media is peppered with images of an abandoned BMW car in the middle of a road. The car reportedly belonged to Zulfiqar Ahmed, the owner of Paracha Textiles, Meezan Oil, and Cola Next.
According to ARY News, armed men forced Ahmed and his partner, Qaiser, into a double cabin vehicle at gunpoint on Mauripur Road in Keamari.
Interestingly, the eyewitnesses reported that the other person, Qaiser, was released shortly after the capture.
More importantly, the family of the abducted individual is facing challenges in filing a First Information Report (FIR) at a police station. The police have yet to file the FIR.
A video of a cleric mercilessly beating up a student in a Faisalabad seminary went viral on social media leading to Thikriwala police arresting the man.
Qari Rizwan Liaqat of Saifabad locality of Faisalabad has also been accused of threatening the child’s father after he complained.
Rashid Bashir stated in his first information report that Qari Rizwan had severely beaten his 14-year-old son Saqlain at Jamia Ghousia Rizwia. Dawn reported that Iqbal Division SP Imran Munir Saifi visited the victim’s house and assured the father of justice for his son.
Pakistan Foreign Office spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch has ruled out the possibility of downgrading the country’s relationship with China in order to improve relations with the United States, saying, “For us, relations with the United States and relations with China are both important.”
China is Pakistan’s all-weather strategic ally, Baloch stated, adding that the country will continue to strengthen this relationship.
When asked about Pakistan’s relations with the US, she said, “We would like to develop this relationship on the basis of sovereign equality, mutual respect, and non-interference in each other’s domestic affairs.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Office statement comes after US diplomat Donald Lu sought a $101 million assistance package for Pakistan from US Congress, saying, “China is the past in terms of investment, and we are the future.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently addressed the US Congress, and during his speech, he mentioned some Israeli soldiers who participated in the assault of Gazans after the October 7 events.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a speech to the US Congress, “Another Israeli is with us here today…this is Master Sergeant Ashraf al Bahiri. Ashraf is a Bedouin soldier from the Israeli-Muslim community of Rahat. On October 7th, Ashraf too killed many terrorists. First, he defended his comrades in the military base, and he then rushed to defend the neighbouring communities, including the devastated community of Kibbutz Be’eri.” Ashraf is of Ethiopian descent.
Netanyahu continued to say, “Like Ashraf, the Muslim soldiers of the IDF fought alongside their Jewish, Druze, Christian and other comrades in arms with tremendous bravery.”
More than 39,000 people in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces over the last 10 months of genocide.
Bollywood stars gave some amazing gifts on the wedding of Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. The wedding ended on July 14 in Mumbai with many famous people in attendance.
Here are some of the standout gifts:
• Shah Rukh Khan and his wife, Gauri Khan, gifted the couple a luxury apartment in France worth INR 400 million. • The Bachchan family gave an emerald necklace worth INR 300 million. • Salman Khan gifted a sports bike worth INR 150 million. • Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone gave a customized Rolls Royce worth INR 200 million. • Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor gave a Mercedes car worth INR 90 million. • Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra gifted a handmade shawl worth INR 2.5 million. • Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal gave a gold chain worth INR 1.9 million. • Akshay Kumar, though he missed the wedding due to illness, gave a gold pen worth INR six million at the reception.
The wedding saw Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Rajinikanth, Ranveer Singh, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas dancing at the baraat. International celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Nick Jonas, and John Cena also attended.
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has received a unique honor from the Grevin Museum in Paris, becoming the first actor to be celebrated with customized gold coins. Known as King Khan, he has had a distinguished career in film, spanning over three decades with many acclaimed movies.
In 2018, the Grevin Museum first recognized his influence with a gold coin featuring his likeness. This August, SRK will also receive the Career Achievement Award at the Locarno Film Festival, where his film Devdas will be screened. He will be honored at the festival’s 77th edition from August 7-17, with his award presentation on August 10.
Khan’s legacy includes wax statues in 14 locations worldwide, highlighting his significant impact on cinema and his enduring global fan base.
The Lahore High Court on July 25 declared former Prime Minster Imran Khan’s physical remand in 12 cases in the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) related to May 9 null and void.
The hearing on the petitions against the physical remand in 12 cases of the PTI founder was conducted by Justice Tariq Saleem and Justice Anwar-ul-Haq, two members of the bench. During the hearing, the Prosecutor General of Punjab presented arguments.
During the hearing, Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh remarked that the “accused could not be forced to undergo a photogrammetric test.”
Earlier, Khan refused to take forensic tests, including polygraph, photogrammetry and voice matching tests, as Lahore police tried to interrogate him in these 12 cases.
In his arguments, the prosecutor stated that the facility for the photogrammetric test is available within the jail and does not require outside transportation.
He emphasized that denying the prosecution the full opportunity to present its case would be unfair, adding that the prosecution is entirely responsible for any failures in the case.
The Prosecutor General noted that Imran Khan created a specific narrative through tweets, and retrieving the phones used for tweeting and WhatsApp messaging is impossible without an investigation.
The court responded by pointing out that judges often receive threats. Justice Anwar-ul-Haq questioned how the accused could be taken anywhere for investigation when he is in jail, making phone recovery impossible.
In the end, the court decided to declare Imran Khan’s physical remand in the 12 cases null and void and also nullify the notification for his video link appearance as the PTI founder.
Different media sources have revealed Britain’s future King, Prince William’s salary. They claim that the British royal earned a whopping $31 million in the year 2023 in his new role as the owner of the Duchy of Cornwall estate, which he inherited when King Charles III became the monarch.
An Annual Integrated Report published by the Duchy of Cornwall shows a distributable surplus of £23.6 million ($30.4 million) for the last financial year 2023-2024.
This amount covers the official, charitable and private expenses of Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three children.
Prince William is a working member of the royal family who doesn’t receive a traditional income. So, his annual expenses are largely covered by the Duchy of Cornwall, an estate established by King Edward III in 1337 to provide funds for the heir to the throne.
The estate is worth over $1 billion, spans 130,000 acres across 23 counties in England and Wales and includes land, farms, houses and other assets to support the heir and his family.
However, the Prince pays income tax on all his earnings from the estate after subtracting household expenses, which have not been specified. When King Charles acceded to the throne in 2022, Prince William became the new Duke of Cornwall and head of the estate.
A young man claiming to be in love with a married woman kidnapped and killed the woman’s five-year-old son in the suburbs of Sargodha.
A police report reveals that the suspects kept sending messages to the woman’s husband through an anonymous phone saying, “If you want the child back, divorce your wife,” even though he had murdered the child by then.
However, the police have arrested the suspect after about nine months.
Five-year-old Shahzeb’s father, Rehman Ali, worked as a labourer while the mother was allegedly romantically involved with the suspect Mukarram.
Police investigations reveal that the mother of the five-year-old had an extra-marital affair with Mukarram. It is claimed that she had left her husband and children several times to elope with Mukarram, as they wanted to marry each other. However, Mukrram’s parents were not ready to accept the woman’s condition that the young boy Shahzeb would also stay with them.
Mukarram then abducted the toddler, seeing him as an obstacle to the marriage, but strangled him afterwards and threw the body into a canal.
Mobile data investigations have confirmed that Mukarram turned out to be Shahzeb’s killer.
Shahzeb’s mother was completely unaware of her son’s murder.
The five-year-old was kidnapped in September last year, and the suspect was arrested after nine months of raids and investigation, which, according to the police, was a big success.
Several videos of an armed UK cop holding a taser over a man lying face down on the floor are going viral on social media. The cop can be seen striking the man twice while other officers shout at onlookers in Manchester Airport.
Onlookers can be heard shouting in the video as the cops proceed to kick and stamp on the man’s heads. The chaotic scene continued as another person is heard yelling “move back”, while a female officer is seen turning her taser towards other individuals present.
Other voices in the video plead, “Stop kicking people”, and a slew of expletives as multiple officers surround the men on the ground.
Reports suggest the men being beaten by police officers are British Pakistanis.
Videos of two young men who were arrested and then released by the police have also emerged online. Their lawyer has confirmed that Fahir and Ammad were assaulted by the police at the airport in front of their mother who could be seen protecting one of them in the video that went viral. The lawyer claimed that they were arrested by the police and upon their release they themselves went to the hospital for first-aid whereas it was the duty of the police to provide them with medical help. The lawyer stressed that a “complaint has been filed against the police officers that have assaulted both Fahir and Amaad and their elderly mother who was just there as a bystander”.
The same Twitter thread claimed that someone at the airport had hit the trolley of the boys’ mother, and this escalated a fight, adding that the boys were released by the police because of the lack of evidence.
Dawn’s Atika Rehman reports that the incident happened on Wednesday afternoon (July 24).
Greater Manchester Police responded to the viral video by saying that an armed officer had been attacked while attempting to arrest someone, following a fight in Terminal 2 of the airport on Tuesday.
Police issued a statement following the release of the video on social media that four men were arrested at the scene on suspicion of assaulting emergency service workers.
The police said that a female officer suffered from a broken nose, and other officers required hospitalisation.
BBC News quoted Assistant Chief Constable Wasim Chaudhry as saying: “We know that a film of an incident at Manchester Airport that is circulating widely shows an event that is truly shocking, and that people are rightly extremely concerned about. The use of such force in an arrest is an unusual occurrence and one that we understand creates alarm.”
The IOPC said it would assess GMP’s referral “and decide what further action is required”.
A protest was held following the footage release where one of the protesters had told the crowd they were “no longer going to settle” for “police brutality”, the Manchester Evening News reported.
People from the British-Pakistani community expressed their disappointment at the police for mistreating the boys. A criminal lawyer in UK, Attik Malik posted a video of him expressing the disgust he felt after the videos and pronounced, “enough is enough.”
