Facebook shut down internet sensation Qandeel Baloch's fan page after she was killed by her brother in an alleged honour killing this month.
Qandeel Baloch had over 700,000 fans on her Facebook page.
As part of its policy, the social media website adds 'remembering' to the profile of a person who has died. In case of fan page Facebook blocks it if it does not have more than one administrator.
Qandeel was the sole administrator of her page. And so Facebook has taken her page off the platform.Â
SAN DIEGO: "Game of Thrones" showrunner David Benioff told fans at Comic-Con International on Friday a delay in screening the new series had been unavoidable, because "winter is here."
The hit fantasy epic has been teasing winter´s arrival since its pilot episode, and with the season six finale titled "The Winds of Winter," the camera crew has been forced to wait for colder weather.
"Winter is here, and we've got to shoot in places with trees and wait for the leaves to turn," Benioff told Comic-Con´s packed 6,5000-seat Hall H.
He was joined at the San Diego fanfest by cast members including Liam Cunningham, Sophie Turner and the departing Kristian Nairn, as well as director Miguel Sapochnik.
Benioff and co-showrunner D.B. Weiss had already announced a shortened run of episodes for the final two seasons while HBO has confirmed season seven will return in the summer of 2017.
The show usually premieres in April, but Benioff said the later start would allow more time to film during colder weather.
He told the Comic-Con crowd the show would not finish shooting until February and that "there´s no way to get the show out there until summer."
"Game of Thrones" tells the story of noble families vying for control of the Iron Throne, all the while keeping one eye on the "White Walkers" leading hordes of the undead toward an invasion from the North.
It enjoyed a record-breaking season six with more than 25 million viewers a week and 23 Emmy nominations, including best drama, which it won last year.
Season six of "Game of Thrones" was the first to move beyond George R.R. Martin´s "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels.
"It's still ultimately George´s imagination that gave us these characters, that gave us this world... Hopefully we´re still living out the spirit of George´s imagination," Benioff said.
Nairn received a standing ovation from the Comic-Con crowd, who chanted "Hodor, Hodor" in honor of one of the show´s best loved characters.
"I did not expect it to be so crazy, I´m really, really flattered it´s blown my mind," the 40-year-old Northern Irish actor said.
The panel were asked who would win the Iron Throne and Sapochnik answered that he "would be very happy if they shared it, but I don´t think that is going to happen."
Iwan Rheon, who plays the sadistic Ramsay Bolton, got cheers from the audience when he said he would "melt the thing down and have a democracy."
The Comic-Conners were treated to teaser footage showing a Lannister flag unfurling, the crew preparing for season seven by building a new set and a line-up of weapons used on the show but no new footage.
SAN DIEGO: "Game of Thrones" showrunner David Benioff told fans at Comic-Con International on Friday a delay in screening the new series had been unavoidable, because "winter is here."
The hit fantasy epic has been teasing winter´s arrival since its pilot episode, and with the season six finale titled "The Winds of Winter," the camera crew has been forced to wait for colder weather.
"Winter is here, and we've got to shoot in places with trees and wait for the leaves to turn," Benioff told Comic-Con´s packed 6,5000-seat Hall H.
He was joined at the San Diego fanfest by cast members including Liam Cunningham, Sophie Turner and the departing Kristian Nairn, as well as director Miguel Sapochnik.
Benioff and co-showrunner D.B. Weiss had already announced a shortened run of episodes for the final two seasons while HBO has confirmed season seven will return in the summer of 2017.
The show usually premieres in April, but Benioff said the later start would allow more time to film during colder weather.
He told the Comic-Con crowd the show would not finish shooting until February and that "there´s no way to get the show out there until summer."
"Game of Thrones" tells the story of noble families vying for control of the Iron Throne, all the while keeping one eye on the "White Walkers" leading hordes of the undead toward an invasion from the North.
It enjoyed a record-breaking season six with more than 25 million viewers a week and 23 Emmy nominations, including best drama, which it won last year.
Season six of "Game of Thrones" was the first to move beyond George R.R. Martin´s "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels.
"It's still ultimately George´s imagination that gave us these characters, that gave us this world... Hopefully we´re still living out the spirit of George´s imagination," Benioff said.
Nairn received a standing ovation from the Comic-Con crowd, who chanted "Hodor, Hodor" in honor of one of the show´s best loved characters.
"I did not expect it to be so crazy, I´m really, really flattered it´s blown my mind," the 40-year-old Northern Irish actor said.
The panel were asked who would win the Iron Throne and Sapochnik answered that he "would be very happy if they shared it, but I don´t think that is going to happen."
Iwan Rheon, who plays the sadistic Ramsay Bolton, got cheers from the audience when he said he would "melt the thing down and have a democracy."
The Comic-Conners were treated to teaser footage showing a Lannister flag unfurling, the crew preparing for season seven by building a new set and a line-up of weapons used on the show but no new footage.
SUKKUR: A local court on Saturday sent Asad Kharal, alleged frontman for Sindh government on a 14-day judicial remand.
He was arrested from Shikarpur Road during snap checking by the Rangers on Thursday.
He has been accused of owning illegal weapons and interfering in government affairs.
Meanwhile, Sindh Interior Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal distanced himself from Kharal. “I or my family have no link to Asad Kharal,†he said.
Earlier he escaped Rangers custody after a mob of his supporters helped him flee.                              Â
SUKKUR: A local court on Saturday sent Asad Kharal, alleged frontman for Sindh government on a 14-day judicial remand.
He was arrested from Shikarpur Road during snap checking by the Rangers on Thursday.
He has been accused of owning illegal weapons and interfering in government affairs.
Meanwhile, Sindh Interior Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal distanced himself from Kharal. ?I or my family have no link to Asad Kharal,? he said.
Earlier he escaped Rangers custody after a mob of his supporters helped him flee.                              Â
SRINGAGAR: Academics and activists accused Facebook on Friday of censoring posts about Indian-administered Kashmir as a curfew in the region extended into its 14th day following unrest that has left 48 protesters dead.
Facebook users posting on the violence in Kashmir in Britain, the US, India and Pakistan told AFP their posts had been removed or their profiles permanently deleted by the Silicon Valley giant citing "violation of community standards".
Wide-scale protests against Indian rule have flared across the Muslim-majority territory since the killing on July 8 of popular rebel leader Burhan Wani in a firefight with government forces.
Professor Huma Dar, a Kashmiri-origin academic at the University of California Berkeley, said her profile was permanently disabled after she posted photos of Wani and a video of his funeral attended by tens of thousands of mourners.
"We will not reactivate it for any reason," Dar said Facebook informed her.
Professor Dibyesh Anand of London's Westminster University said his posts about the actions of Indian security forces, which have drawn criticism for their heavy-handed tactics, were removed twice.
"They (Facebook) apologised. But they blocked a second time within a day, again for 24 hours for a mild post," Anand told AFP from London.
"When a conspicuous number of posts relating to Indian state violence in Kashmir gets removed by Facebook and profiles of academics and writers blocked, it is clear that there is censorship," Anand said.
More than 3,000 people, hundreds of them police officers, have been injured in the clashes, overwhelming hospitals in the region's main city of Srinagar.
Indian authorities have imposed a curfew, suspended mobile networks and internet in large parts of the territory and seized newspapers in a bid to quell protests.
US-based social activist Mary Scully said her posts were also removed on more than one occasion, citing community standards.
She and Anand along with others have started a petition urging Facebook to investigate.
"None of the posts removed have violated Facebook's community standards of hate speech or incitement to violence but have only portrayed the violence being perpetrated against the Kashmiri people," the petition states.
Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
According to Facebook data, India ranks second only to the US for the number of requests for user data and content restriction made every year to the company.
Residents of Indian Kashmir have regularly complained of Facebook removing their posts since 2010 when large protests roiled the territory.
"My account was permanently disabled when I posted a video of Indian paramilitaries ransacking a hospital," said Kashmir valley resident Rayees Rasool.
Burhan Wani was the leader of rebel group Hizbul Mujahideen, one of the several fighting some 500,000 Indian troops deployed in the region since 1989, demanding independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistan.
Both India and Pakistan claim in full the Himalayan territory that has been divided between the rivals since their independence from British rule in 1947.
LARKANA: Asad Kharal, an otherwise nobody has been making headlines for the past one week. He was arrested last week by the Rangers in a raid near Hyderabad, days after he escaped from their custodyâ€"assisted by a mob of his supporters.
In the next few days one saw the Sindh government spring to action. The Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah in a meeting with Corps Commander Karachi Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar on Friday expressed dissatisfaction over the Rangers exceeding powers in Sindh. The two-hour long meeting held in the CM House discussed the Larkana incident, Rangers stay in Sindh and arrest of Asad Kharal in detail, sources told Geo News.
 Who is Asad Kharal and when did he become so influential? Geo News dug deep.
His real name is Muhammad Ali and he was born to Ghulam Mustafa at a poor household at Goth Puranabad, a village in Larkana district. He spent most of his teenage years selling kebabs at kiosk in Pakistan Chowk at Larkana.
In 2008 a favour from an influential personality landed him a job as a cleaner in Larkana Municipal Corporation. A transfer sent him to Baqrani Town Committee and he was promoted to the position of a junior clerk. To this day he draws a salary from the department without reporting for duty.
When the Pakistan People’s Party came into power the same year he became  close to the now Sindh Interior Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal and his brother Tariq Siyal.
Asad Kharal had now become a frontman for the two brothers. Under his name several construction companies were established, sources confirmed. These companies were give government construction contraction worth billions of rupees.
The present government allotted most contracts for the Rs90 billion approved for the Larkana Development Package to construction companies owned by Asad Kharal. None of these contracts have been completed physically. But on paper they are shown as completed projects.
Between 2008 till 2013 this illgotten money was transferred to top PPP leadership in Dubai. And the transfers continue to this day, sources confirmed.
His close connection to the interior minister has given him powers to transfer police officers, get them hired or fired, or suspended.
His network has spread to illegal occupation of land.
Asad Kharal has been rewarded for his work. He owns a farmhouse in Larkana, land worth billions of rupees, and two bungalows- one in Larakana and another in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority.
Asad Kharal has gotten very close to the PPP. He also working as frontman for Asif Ali Zardari’s sister Faryal Talpur. Despite that very few even in the PPP know his real name.
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