Actor Muneeb Butt in his recent interview with host Tabish Hashmi, made some revelations about his caste. The Daldal star stated that his cast, pronounced as ‘Butt’ in Pakistan, is originally Bhatt. However when the Kashmiris migrated to Pakistani Punjab from India, the caste name became Butt from Bhatt due to the Punjabi dialect.
“Originally it is Bhatt, not Butt, when Kashmiris migrated here, the name became Butt. People in Punjab pronounce words differently, such as bhai (brother) became paen. They don’t use B and H together.”
Earlier in an interview with Waseem Badami did not hesitate to call out the government, which promised to give a Rs 2,000 monthly subsidy to all citizens earning less than Rs40,000.
Shedding light on inflation, the Qarar hero had a hilarious response to what the government has to offer to the needy. He joked sarcastically and said he will marry off his daughter with that Rs2,000.
“I have kept them in the bank. I will buy a plot with the remaining amount.”
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In June 2022, Butt took to his Twitter handle to slam the ruling party after another increase in petrol prices.
He also termed PML-N as a “weak party”.
The Baandi hero also slammed writer and former journalist, Reham Khan on twitter amidst her recent controversy with actor Mishi Khan.
Butt sarcastically told her that he wants to cast her as naagin (snake) in his forthcoming serial.
Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh grabbed all the eyeballs when he shared his nude photoshoot for an international magazine on social media. The Bajirao Mastani hero’s pictures went viral, and while many had nice things to say about them, the actor received a lot of trolling and backlash for it too. Ranveer became the center of controversy after he shot nude photographs for Paper Magazine. An FIR was filed by a city-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that said Ranveer had hurt the sentiments of women in general and insulted their modesty by posting nude photographs on social media platforms.
Recently, Ranveer was summoned to appear before the police on August 22, but he could not appear in front of the Police on the given date due to his professional commitments. On Monday, Ranveer appeared before the Mumbai Police to record his statement in connection with the FIR registered against him between 7 am and 9.30 am. As per ETimes, a source close to Mumbai police revealed that in his statement to the police officers, the actor maintained that he had not uploaded the controversial photos. Furthermore, also said that he didn’t realise that the nude photoshoot would create trouble for him.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Ranveer was last seen in Jayeshbhai Jordaar which also starred Shalini Pandey, Boman Irani, and Ratna Pathak Shah. Apart from this, the Dil Dhadakne Do actor will be seen next in Karan Johar’s film, Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani with Alia Bhatt, Dharmendra, Shabana Azmi, and Jaya Bachchan in the lead, which is slated to release in the cinemas on 10 February 2023. Ranveer also has other projects including Rohit Shetty’s Cirkus co-starring Jacqueline Fernandez, Pooja Hegde, and Varun Sharma.
On being asked recently about her opinion on the naked photoshoot and the FIR against Ranveer Singh, Bollywood star Vidya Balan said, “Arre kya problem hai? Pehli baar koi aadmi aisa kar raha hai, hum logo ko bhi aankhein sekhne dijiye na (What’s the problem. A man is doing it for the first time, let us also please our eyes).”
According to the latest list by Forbes, these are the world’s richest people who have made it to the top 10.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, who is in the news because of his battle with Twitter, has a net worth of $263.4 billion.
SpaceX is valued at almost $100 billion and Tesla is the world’s most important automaker.
Bernard Arnault and Family
Europe’s richest man who earned a $100 billion fortune last year, the chairman and CEO of LVMH, Bernard Arnault, is second on the list with a net worth of $167.7 billion. The family owns more than 70 brands.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon and has a net worth of $162.7 billion. Even though he transferred much of his wealth to his wife after their divorce, the e-commerce giant remains the third richest.
Gautam Adani and family
India’s Gautam Adani has diversified Adani Group into multiple sectors, including aerospace, logistics, and energy. At $142.7 billion, he is now the fourth richest person in the world.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates has a net worth of $113.4 billion.
Larry Ellison
With a net worth of $108.5 billion, Larry Ellison — the founder of software firm Oracle — stands at the sixth position. Ellison has also been on Tesla’s board after he bought three million shares in 2018, reported Business Insider. Almost all of the Hawaiian island Lanai belongs to Ellison.
Larry Page
Google’s co-founder Larry Page has a net worth of over $100 billion. Among other interesting projects, he is funding “Flying Car”.
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is the co-founder and board member of Alphabet. He also co-founded Google. He has a total net worth of $97.0 billion.
Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani with a total net worth of $94.2 billion is at the 10 position in the world. He owns Reliance Industries and has been the richest person in Asia.
Netflix premiered the new Resident Evil series featuring Pakistani star Ahad Raza Mir in July this year. The Hum Tum star’s performance and appearance in the show made his Pakistanis and Indians explode on Twitter with joyful tweets, expressing their excitement. His fans were ecstatic to see him in the new sci-fi horror series. Ahad essayed ‘Arjun Batra’, an Indian refugee following the global T-virus pandemic.
However, Netflix has now opted not to renew Mir’s Resident Evil for a second season. The news comes a month and a half after it debuted on the site on July 14.
On Friday, Deadline reported that the show did not have a strong enough showing on Netflix’s worldwide top 10 ratings, nor was its cost versus views on the streaming site high enough, a criteria for any show to be renewed.
Falling behind Stranger Things, which was released at the same time, Resident Evil, which starred Charlie’s Angels actor Ella Balinska, debuted at the second spot on the worldwide trends list with 72.7 million hours viewed on its opening weekend. However, the show did not deliver big for the second week. For the third week, the show dropped, falling out of the top 10 ranking.
Deadline reported that the latest Resident Evil incarnation also logged an underwhelming 55 percent from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a total of 26pc audience scores.
Based on a video game, Resident Evil hails from showrunner Andrew Dabb and is placed in the future in 2036, 14 years after a virus that causes a global apocalypse, and Balinska’s Jade Wesker fights to survive in the new world of blood-thirsty creatures.
The series also stars Lance Reddick, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph Connor Gosatti, and Turlough Convery. Resident Evil was produced and written by Mary Leah Sutton of Time After Time.
When the series was released, Mir’s fans took to social media to praise his performance and celebrate his appearance as the first Pakistani actor to star in a major Netflix show.
Two young sisters were kidnapped, kept in confinement and then raped for four months allegedly by a landlord and his employee.
The horrifying incident took place in the Khaur police station area of Pindigheb town in Attock.
According to the survivors’ father, who is a labourer, his 16-year-old and 18-year-old daughters were abducted by the local landlord and his personal employee four months ago.
He said that the suspect kept his daughters in illegal confinement and raped them. Later, the girls escaped from confinement, reached their home and narrated the whole incident.
After a medical examination by the police, it was confirmed that the teenagers were raped, which led to the registration of a case against the suspects.
However, no arrest has been made so far.
In Lahore, another incident took place where a 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped and then murdered. The murdered girl allegedly went swimming at a pool with her brother and five-year-old sister.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) directed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday to submit his reply in the Toshakhana case against him by September 7.
Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, the counsel for the PTI chairman, appeared before an ECP bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja and appealed for some more time to file a reply.
He said that Khan’s lead counsel Barrister Ali Zafar is in Lahore, which is why he was unable to consult with him regarding the case. He assured the ECP bench of submitting a reply at the next hearing.
The CEC observed that since everything was part of the record, it must not take so much time to submit a reply.
However, the bench granted a week’s time to the PTI chief and the hearing was adjourned till September 7.
Earlier this month, National Assembly (NA) Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf sent a reference to the ECP seeking Imran Khan’s disqualification. In the reference, it was stated that Khan did not declare the gifts taken from Toshakhana in his assets and the detail of the amount he had received by selling those state gifts.
In April, an investigation by news organisation Fact Focus revealed that Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi kept all 112 presents worth Rs142.02 million from the Toshakhana of Pakistan.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan held an international telethon for the flood-affected. In three hours, Khan collected Rs5 billion in pledges.
Khan said entire Pakistan had been affected by the floods due to relentless rains. “More than 1,000 people have died due to devastating floods and the damages are expected to cross Rs1,000 billion,” he said.
“The sole solution to prevent the catastrophes caused by a flood is to construct dams.”
Khan also said that he is struggling for real independence besides assisting the flood victims across the country.
The PTI chairman took Twitter and thanked the people of Pakistan, and expats for donating so generously.
I want to thank the people of Pakistan, especially our Overseas Pakistanis, for donating so generously last night. In the three hours of our Telethon we had pledges of Rs. 5 billion.
Actors Hamza Ali Abbasi and Aisha Khan have always maintained that they have been the best of friends even prior to working on projects like Man Mayal and Jawani Phir Nahi Aani.
The on-screen duo recently had a reunion in Islamabad along with their respective spouses. Going by the pictures, they seem to have a great evening together.
Aisha and her husband Major Uqbah Hadeed Malik recently welcomed their second child, a baby boy. The couple has one older daughter, who was born in 2019. Aisha and Uqbah tied the knot in 2019.
On the other hand, Hamza is gearing up for his forthcoming movie The Legend Of Maula Jatt‘s theatrical release, whereas Naimal Khawar also recently hinted at the possibility of her comeback to the showbiz in another year.
Actor Naveen Waqar is currently promoting her forthcoming film Carma, which will be released on 2nd September across Pakistan.
She rose to fame after starring in the popular series Humsafar with Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan in 2011. Naveen later married the comedian and actor Azfar Ali in 2012, but they later divorced for unspecified reasons.
The Ainee Ki Ayegi Baraat star recently discussed how her marriage and divorce affected her in an interview. “Of course, it was difficult for me to go through this tough time during my career, because I was somebody who just started out. My first play was Humsafar and it just skyrocketed, giving me the spotlight”, says Navin.
She added, “It was a very difficult transition to go from there and then pull yourself out of it and stand up again. It required a lot of strength. This whole situation made me realize how strong I was to be able to step out of that and then build myself up again. It was a great transition period for me and yes that has absolutely made me into that person where I don’t want to share my personal life with others.”
It was alleged that Azfar didn’t divorce his first wife while tying the knot with Waqar but falsely told her that he was divorced already.
Last year, while speaking in a live Instagram session, Waqar mentioned, “There is nothing wrong with being single, first of all,” she began. “It is one of the most important phases in a woman’s life where she is independent, where she is getting to live her dreams, achieve her goals, live life to the fullest. I think there is nothing wrong with that.”
Navin went on to highlight the obsession many have with women getting married. “If God forbid, I attend a wedding or an engagement, so many aunties ask me when I am getting married. So, I’m just thinking to myself, ‘Why am I being asked this question relentlessly? There are 15 men behind me who are balding and aging. Nobody says anything to them.’ I usually just respond that it is better to stay single and happy than marrying the wrong person.”
She remarked that if someone is supposed to get married, if that’s in their fate, then nothing will get in the way of it. “So, don’t listen to any kind of trash talk that comes your way. Understand that life is a gift and you are on this earth to do beautiful and amazing things and you do not have to get married in order to achieve that,” said the actor. “If anybody who is single right now, I think it’s a great time to make a bucket list and achieve all the things you want.”
In 2015, Azfar also shared why they parted ways. He said, “I don’t think the reason behind the divorce is important, it’ll be enough to say that we were not getting along and if things are not happy at home, there is no point in dragging them on.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends his condolences to the families of the flood victims in Pakistan.
“Saddened to see the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, the injured and all those affected by this natural calamity and hope for an early restoration of normalcy,” tweeted Modi.
Saddened to see the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, the injured and all those affected by this natural calamity and hope for an early restoration of normalcy.
The devastating effects of floods across the country continue to rage on as monsoon rains have killed over 1,000 people and disrupted the lives of more than 5.7 million people.
The federal and provincial governments are currently providing assistance to the displaced families and now the international community has also poured in their support.
The Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha expressed “deep sorrow over the casualties, massive destruction of property and loss of life resulting from floods in Pakistan”.
The United Nations (UN) is set to launch a Flash Appeal in support of Pakistan. The international platform will reportedly launch a $160 million appeal.
Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said that the appeal will be launched on Tuesday, August 30.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that the country is currently providing support to Pakistan. “Like many Canadians across the country, I’m thinking of everyone affected by the devastating flooding in Pakistan. Canada is providing support through UNCERF and Red Cross Canada – to provide food, clean water, and other essential services as quickly as possible,” he tweeted.
Like many Canadians across the country, I’m thinking of everyone affected by the devastating flooding in Pakistan. Canada is providing support through @UNCERF and @redcrosscanada – to provide food, clean water, and other essential services as quickly as possible. https://t.co/jwEjiIEilJ
During a telephonic conversation between President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed with Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif, the UAE President offered condolences and sympathy to the victims of the floods.
H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, during a telephonic call to H.E. Shahbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, offers condolences and sympathy to the victims of floods and torrential rains in several Pakistani provinces https://t.co/fkTiaXaB2W
PM Sharif thanked Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan for their support. Both country leaders had telephonic conversations with the premier.
I extend my profound gratitude to His Excellency Syed Ebrahim Raisi, President of Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷 , for his message of support and solidarity to the government and people of Pakistan 🇵🇰. We gratefully acknowledge his offer of support at this difficult hour.
Grateful to my brother His Excellency President @RTErdogan for his expression of sympathies to people of Pakistan 🇵🇰 on the loss of precious lives. Turkey 🇹🇷 has always stood by Pakistan. We derive great comfort from this bond of love & acknowledge his offer of support.
President @RTErdogan spoke by phone with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan.
President Erdoğan conveyed his get-well wishes over the flood caused by heavy mansoon rains in Pakistan.
— Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye (@trpresidency) August 27, 2022
President Raisi and President Erdogan conveyed solidarity with Pakistan and assured support in relief assistance in all areas affected by heavy floods and rains.
Moreover, PM Sharif thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for his support for the flood affectees.
In a tweet, he said, “Grateful for President Emmanuel Macron’s message of support for the people of faced with devastating floods. We appreciate France’s solidarity and offer of help for the affected people in this hour of need.”
Grateful for 🇫🇷President @EmmanuelMacron’s message of support for the people of 🇵🇰 faced with devastating floods. We appreciate France’s solidarity and offer of help for the affected people in this hour of need.
