Rights activist Jibran Nasir to join election race

Pakistani civil liberty activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir has confirmed that he will be contesting for the upcoming general elections from Karachi. Speaking to Geo.tv, the activist said that he will be filing his nomination papers as independent candidate for the National Assembly constituency NA-247, which had previously been NA-250, as well as provincial assembly constituency PS-11, previously known to be PS-113.“I am filing nomination papers for the national and provincial seats but will eventually contest from one seat when the campaign officially starts as per election schedule,” Nasir confirmed to Geo.tv.The politician had previously contested for the general elections in 2013 from the same constituencies but had failed to attain the seat.The 31-year-old is part of the legal team of numerous cases, including the team representing the father of Naqeebullah Mehsud, who was killed in a forged occurrence by the former SSP Malir Rao Anwar. He is also representing Khadija Siddiqi who was allegedly stabbed 23 times by her class fellow Shah Hussain. 

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Imran Khan?s political secretary makes new allegations against Reham Khan

ISLAMABAD: As war of words intensified between PTI and Reham Khan over her unpublished book, Imran Khan’s political secretary Awn Chaudry launched a scathing attack on the former spouse of PTI chairman, accusing of her of being greedy for money and power. In a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, Chaudhry said that time has come to make public Reham Khan’s “shenanigans” which he had personally witnessed during her 10-month marriage to Imran Khan. “Her greed for money & power were insatiable and she was in a hurry to get both. I witnessed her demanding Rs 1 crore from Aleem Khan for her movie,” he alleged.He further said that Ms Khan had approach one of PTI’s parliamentarians for the loan of furniture worth lakhs for her film and that the furniture was never returned. “I had to accompany her to Karachi only to discover she contacted a SKMT donor, a big businessman, demanding money,” he said.Chaudhry alleged that she had demanded $2 million in kickback in a deal for Safe City Project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.“She also sought to interfere in KP matters & right before my eyes she sought to make a deal for Safe City Project with a foreign company demanding $ 2m in kickback!,” he said.“That is when I felt compelled to inform Khan Sahab about what she was upto. He immediately put a stop to all her schemes - sending her into a hysterical rage,” she added. Reham Khan, on the other hand, said that she won’t be bullied by the PTI. “I am being bullied but [they] have [chosen] the wrong woman to go after. I will not tolerate baseless allegations by PTI. I challenge PTI to prove a single allegation against me," she told Geo on June 4. Reham questioned the joint-legal action by her former husband Ijaz Rehman, former cricketer Wasim Akram, British Pakistani businessman Zulfi Bukhari and British Pakistani female activist Anila Khawaja."I can't understand how can PTI serve a legal notice on behalf of Dr Ijaz Rehman. Is he a spokesperson, or hold a position” What you are saying is not a legal notice as far as I understand. It worth is nothing," she said.

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Thousands start observing Aitekaf in Pakistan today

Thousands of faithful will  start observing Aitekaf across the country at mosques from Tuesday (today) after Asar prayers. Aitkaf sitting is a Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) and carries a multitude of blessings of the Allah Almighty.Men observe Aitkaf in small cubicles, set up by hanging large cloth sheets inside mosques, whereas women observe it at any corner or quite place in the house which is not frequently visited by others.All major mosques have already completed the registration process for Aitekaf.Large city mosques became the centre of special prayers where hundreds of worshippers were set to gather for this religious duty; an intensive worship observed during the last 10 days of Ramadan, which also involves confinement of women to a small place inside a mosque or in the house.

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Heir to Bhutto dynasty seeking revival in Pakistan?s election

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s only major left-leaning political party is fighting for its electoral relevance and to preserve the legacy of the country’s best-known political dynasty weeks before the country heads to the polls.In his first election campaign, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the scion of the storied Bhutto family who now heads the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), is attempting to recapture the support his mother, two-time former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, enjoyed on her return from exile in 2007, before she was assassinated on the campaign trail.Party leaders insist the 29-year-old Bhutto, Oxford-educated like his mother and grandfather - also a former prime minister - brings a fresh new appeal to the party as it attempts to revive its waning fortunes in a general election called for July 25.“With Bilawal in the frontline of our campaign we hope to see a huge swathe of young people join us in our journey to turn back the tide of extremism, misgovernance and anti-democratic trends,” PPP Senator Sherry Rehman told Reuters.Whether his father, former President Asif Ali Zardari, will be an asset or an obstacle in that effort remains a source of keen debate in Islamabad.Some analysts and party insiders say Zardari’s tainted image, the result of numerous corruption allegations, could cost the party at the polls, where it will contrast with opposition rival Imran Khan’s relentless anti-graft message.On the other hand, the most likely route back to power could be a post-election alliance with the charismatic Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Infasf (PTI), which has seemingly eclipsed the PPP in the past five years, and the former president would be a key figure in any such negotiations.Once the country’s most popular party, the PPP finds itself on the brink of political irrelevance at the national level, and analysts believe it is more likely to be Zardari’s ability to cut a deal, rather than his son’s populist rhetoric, that will keep the party afloat.“Zardari is looking at himself as a post-election facilitator rather than a major player in the actual electoral battle,” political analyst Aamer Ahmed Khan said.Both PPP and PTI officials were cagey when asked about the possibility of an alliance, but did not rule it out.“MR TEN PERCENT”Zardari spent a total of 11 years in jail on charges of corruption and murder, though he was never convicted of any of the offences for which he was held and has always maintained his innocence.He was released in 2004 after an eight-year stretch behind bars, and returned to Pakistan from self-exile three years later alongside Benazir Bhutto in her bid to retake the prime minister’s office and end the military rule of General Pervez Musharraf.Bhutto was assassinated on the campaign trail three months after her return in a suicide attack, the tragic saga adding to the Bhutto family’s status as a Pakistani equivalent of America’s Kennedys and India’s Gandhis.Bhutto’s father Zulfiqar, who founded the PPP, was hanged by General Zia-ul-Haq in 1979 after being deposed in a military coup, while her brother Murtaza was gunned down in the southern city of Karachi in 1996 while she was in office. Zardari was accused of his murder but cleared by the courts.In a wave of popular support that was generated by Benazir Bhutto’s return and continued after her assassination, the PPP swept to power and Zardari found himself wielding considerable power from the president’s office.While all the allegations against him were ultimately dismissed, and despite overseeing the country’s first transition of power by a civilian government, Zardari retains a tainted reputation, often going by the nickname “Mr. Ten Percent”.“I think Asif Zardari has been a victim of massive negative propaganda against him,” former PPP senator Farathullah Babar told Reuters. “If any of this was true he would not have spent 11 years in jail without a single conviction.” KINGMAKER“We are seeing pre-poll election manipulation where people from all political parties are going and joining one political party,” former PPP senator Babar said.PPP leaders say their campaign, fronted by Bilawal Bhutto, will focus in battling extremism and intolerance in a country scarred by more than a decade of militant violence.“The People’s Party is going to forcefully and emphatically distinguish itself as the party that believes that in the state of Pakistan we must ... not distinguish or discriminate between the adherents of any religion,” senator Aitzaz Ahsan said.But while the PPP retains significant support in the traditional Bhutto-Zardari family stronghold of Sindh province, it appears to have lost ground nationally to the PTI. A Gallup nationwide poll in March put the party on 17 percent, with PTI on 24 percent and PML-N on 36 percent.That suggests the best chance for the opposition parties would indeed be some sort of alliance.Some in Islamabad believe Zardari has been quietly building ties with the military to that end - a suspicion enhanced in March when the PPP declined an opportunity to lead the Senate and instead helped elect an independent as Senate chairman.“Zardari believes when the time to cobble together a government arrives they will need ... someone like him,” said Khan, the political analyst. “And he will become the kingmaker.”

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PTI accuses PMLN leaders,Hussain Haqqani of being behind Reham's book

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Tuesday accused some key leaders of the  Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan's former ambassador to Washington Hussain Haqqani of being behind a book authored by  Imran  Khan's former wife Reham Khan.Speaking to media, PTI central spokesman  demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to ban the  book if it is possible."This is  the Raiwind Network which is being run by Hussain Haqqani," the spokesman said.He also asked the Islamic  Ideological  Council  to give  take up the issue as Reham Khan has attempted to damage the entire family system.Chaudhry asked Reham Khan to  tender apology for what  she had written in the book and cancel her plan to publish it.He said the Federal Investigation Agency's cyber-wing should take notice of the alleged exchange of emails between Reham Khan and former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal.Chaudhry said Imran Khan couldn't careless  about the "rubbish" written in the book.

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Internet sensation 'tarbooz wala' is actually a doctor-to-be!

KARACHI: Picture of a young 'tarbooz wala' surfaced on social media recently, and people are drooling over the watermelon-seller for his stunning looks, hazel eyes and the smile on his face. These people have been stating that the 'tarbooz wala' is in fact better looking than the Islamabadi 'chai wala' who went viral for his looks as well.But it turns out the good-looking fruit seller is NOT a fruit-seller but a medical student. The picture was taken while the doctor-to-be was preparing iftaar with his friends. The internet mistook him for a fruit seller, but the fact remains, he is indeed going viral on social media as we speak.Muhammad Awais also known as the 'tarbooz wala' is a future doctor studying at Ziauddin Medical College. Awais changed his profile picture on Facebook to the one which is going viral and captioned it: “Dr. Tarbooz Wala” acknowledging the fact that his picture has gone viral on social media.

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Chief Justice takes notice of acute water shortage in country

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar Monday took notice of the acute shortage of water supply throughout the country.Notices have been issued to Attorney General for Pakistan, Advocate General Islamabad, Secretary CADD, Mayor of Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad, Chief Commissioner of Islamabad and Chairman CDA.The matter has fixed in court at Islamabad and subsequently at respective Branch Registries with regard to such water shortage.The matter would be heard at principal seat Islamabad Court on June 7.

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Wasim Akram, Zulfi Bukhari, Ijaz Rehman send defamation notice to Reham in London

LONDON: Reham Khan’s former husband Ijaz Rehman, close aide of Imran Khan Zulfiqar Bukhari, former skipper Pakistan cricket team Wasim Akram and Pakistani origin British woman have sent a defamation notice to former wife of Imran Khan over malicious content in her upcoming book.The defamation notice has been served to Reham through a London-based law firm.The officials of the law firm told Geo News that the legal notice was served to Reham on the request of Zulfi Bukhari.In the legal notice, the law firm states that the manuscript of Reham Khan’s upcoming autobiography contains malicious and misleading information regarding its said clients which has hurt them and damaged their repute.The legal notice, sent on her email address, further says Reham should take back all her misleading and false allegations.However, it was unclear whether Reham has received the email yet or not.Legal Notice to Hamza Ali AbbasiMeanwhile, Reham Khan has served legal notice to Hamza Ali Abbasi, saying Abbasi has made propaganda against her.The notice further says Hamza Abbasi had alleged taking £100,000 from Shahbaz Sharif besides contacting with Ahsan Iqbal. She has demanded unconditional apology from Hamza over media or else she would file a defamation suit of Rs5 billion against him.Reham is making headlines again after the manuscript of her book was leaked online, angering PTI.

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President Mamnoon to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to boost ties

BEIJING: Within a period of two months, another high-level meeting is set to be held with Chinese President Xi Jinping to boost Pakistan China ties.President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain will meet President of China Xi Jinping to boost our relations, said Masood Khalid Pakistan ambassador to China.On April 10 Chinese President met with Pakistani formal Prime Minister Shahid Khanqan Abbasi during Boao forum.“Pakistan and China will sit together at the highest level and undertake to bilateral cooperation especially in the contest of China Pakistan Economic (CPEC) which is making smooth progress, but we have other areas of cooperation which are coming under CPEC, which would be discussed during the meeting” he added.The upcoming 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit will be held from 9-10 June in Qingdao Shandong province of China, Mamnoon Hussain would lead the Pakistani delegation.President of Pakistan will deliver the keynote speech during summit where he will define and outline Pakistan’s perspective on regional an international development and what kind of role Pakistan can play said, Masood Khalid.Masood Khalid further said “The role of SCO and its common objectives for better understanding and goodwill between the people of SCO member states through better connectively, economic and trade road and transportations and communication linkages, these are important objectives which would be discussed during summit”According to Ambassador, President of Pakistan is also expected to hold the bilateral meeting with other leaders of SCO member states, which we have an opportunity to review our relationship with SCO member states.Masood stated that SCO is taking in that place which we have extremely close and friendly tie. This is the first-time head of state-level summit which Pakistan is attending as a full member state of SCO, Pakistan and India were acknowledged as full members of the SCO at last year in Astana summit.“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has made remarkable achievements in the past” he added.SCO was founded in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, is composed of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. It also has Afghanistan, Iran, and Mongolia as its observer states whereas Belarus, Turkey, and Sri Lanka as dialogue partners.

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Khadija Siddiqi stabbing convict acquitted

ISLAMABAD: Lahore High Court on Monday acquitted a man accused of stabbing his female classmate 24 times. The convict Shah Hussain had been sentenced to five years in jail by a trial court on charges of stabbing Khadija Siddiqui.The Lahore High Court heard his appeal against the conviction on May 25 and reserved the verdict. According to Khadija Siddiqi, the court announced the verdict today and acquitted Shah Hussain. “Inna lilahi wa ina ilahi rajioon! Justice butchered. Shah hussain acquitted!,” Ms Siddiqi tweeted. Khadija had received the multiple stabbings in 2016 after she went to pick her sister up from school. The assailant had left her in a pool of blood in the middle of the road before fleeing.

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