Qandeel Baloch murder case: Police gains access to Mufti Abdul Qavi's mobile data

MULTAN:  Police on Thursday gained access to mobile data of Mufti Abdul Qavi, which showed that the last contact between Qandeel Baloch and him took place on June 22.

The records also showed that telephonic contact between the two took place even before June 22.

Police said that Qavi would record his statement on Friday. Officials said that a 14-point questionnaire has been prepared to interrogate Qavi upon his arrival.

Earlier today, a taxi driver named Basit presented himself for arrest before police in Qandeel Baloch murder case.

Police had already included Qandeel Baloch’s parents and brother-in-law in the investigation.

Police also started questioning the social media star’s relatives in the case. The ongoing investigation had revealed that more than one person was involved in the murder.

The mother of slain model Qandeel Baloch had also claimed that Mufti Abdul Qavi had provoked her son into murdering her daughter.

Earlier, Qandeel’s brother Muhammad Waseem admitted to strangling her to death for the "honour of the family".

Waseem said he gave a 'tablet' to Baloch to subdue her and then strangled her in their family home over the weekend.

Police had said that Waseem along with his cousin Haq Nawaz had plotted the murder. Basit, another relative, had waited in a car at a distance from the house. After committing the murder, the three had fled in his car.

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Negligence shown by police in initial investigation of Samia murder case

JHELUM: Police showed negligence in the initial investigation of the alleged honour killing of British girl Samia Sahid. As a result the case is getting complicated to solve with pressure mounting on the Pakistan government by authorities in the United Kingdom.

Sources close to the case told Geo News that the report filed by the medico-legal officer is vague. It took four days for the police to register an FIR of the incident.

Meanwhile, Samia’s first husband Chaudhry Shakeel has not been arrested yet. Her father has been arrested by the police.

Police is conducting raids in Mangla Cantt area, where the murder reportedly took place, to search for evidence.

Samia’s mother and sister have left for UK.

British Pakistani Labour MP from Bradford West Naz Shah has called on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take interest in a case of alleged “honour killing” involving a British Pakistani girl who married a Pakistani national of her own free will.

Samia Shahid, 27, married Syed Mukhtar Kazam, less than two years ago, against her family's wishes and went to live with his family in Dubai. This month Samia Shahid, originally from Bradford, went to visit her father in a village called “Poteh” near Dina on the 14th of July. Her family, who are also British nationals and Naz Shah MP’s constituents, were in Pakistan following a bereavement within the family.

It is understood that after marrying Syed Mukhtar Kazam, the couple had faced death threats. A family source told The News that Saima Shahid’s sister asked her to come to Pakistan citing her father’s illness. After Saima’s death in mysterious circumstances, her husband was told she died of a heart attack but the parents lodged a statement saying she committed suicide. Her husband lodged an FIR in Jhelum alleging foul play. In the FIR seen by The News, the husband alleged that his wife was buried without his knowledge.

Syed Mukhtar said that he spoke to Samia on the day she died and she was stressed. He says he then called her again and no answer, he then sent an SMS and also tried to contact her sister through What’s App. The messages showed they were opened and read, he said. Then a British cousin Mobeen spoke to him that evening many hours later and said she'd had a heart attack.

The husband claims that the family buried her before they even told him that she was dead. He has confirmed that Mobeen had threatened him and Samia both that he would kill them when they married.

Syed Mukhtar Ali believes his wife was murdered in an "honour killing" by her parents and family. He wants the body to be exhumed and an independent autopsy/post mortem be held to establish the real cause of death.

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Negligence shown by police in initial investigation of Samia murder case

JHELUM: Police showed negligence in the initial investigation of the alleged honour killing of British girl Samia Sahid. As a result the case is getting complicated to solve with pressure mounting on the Pakistan government by authorities in the United Kingdom.

Sources close to the case told Geo News that the report filed by the medico-legal officer is vague. It took four days for the police to register an FIR of the incident.

Meanwhile, Samia?s first husband Chaudhry Shakeel has not been arrested yet. Her father has been arrested by the police.

Police is conducting raids in Mangla Cantt area, where the murder reportedly took place, to search for evidence.

Samia?s mother and sister have left for UK.

British Pakistani Labour MP from Bradford West Naz Shah has called on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take interest in a case of alleged ?honour killing? involving a British Pakistani girl who married a Pakistani national of her own free will.

Samia Shahid, 27, married Syed Mukhtar Kazam, less than two years ago, against her family's wishes and went to live with his family in Dubai. This month Samia Shahid, originally from Bradford, went to visit her father in a village called ?Poteh? near Dina on the 14th of July. Her family, who are also British nationals and Naz Shah MP?s constituents, were in Pakistan following a bereavement within the family.

It is understood that after marrying Syed Mukhtar Kazam, the couple had faced death threats. A family source told The News that Saima Shahid?s sister asked her to come to Pakistan citing her father?s illness. After Saima?s death in mysterious circumstances, her husband was told she died of a heart attack but the parents lodged a statement saying she committed suicide. Her husband lodged an FIR in Jhelum alleging foul play. In the FIR seen by The News, the husband alleged that his wife was buried without his knowledge.

Syed Mukhtar said that he spoke to Samia on the day she died and she was stressed. He says he then called her again and no answer, he then sent an SMS and also tried to contact her sister through What?s App. The messages showed they were opened and read, he said. Then a British cousin Mobeen spoke to him that evening many hours later and said she'd had a heart attack.

The husband claims that the family buried her before they even told him that she was dead. He has confirmed that Mobeen had threatened him and Samia both that he would kill them when they married.

Syed Mukhtar Ali believes his wife was murdered in an "honour killing" by her parents and family. He wants the body to be exhumed and an independent autopsy/post mortem be held to establish the real cause of death.

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Court initiates action to confiscate Musharraf's property in Karachi

KARACHI: A district and sessions court ordered four properties of former president General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf to be seized on Thursday.

District Judge South (Karachi) Nazir Amin Memon initiated action based on the Special judge Islamabad’s prior ruling, in which the court had ordered freezing of Musharraf’s assets and properties.

The district judge ordered seizing of four bungalows belonging to the former president. Musharraf has four bungalows and plots in the city.

The district judge in a letter asked the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) to take action and submit a response in three days over the matter.

The properties of the former president which fall under the court’s ruling include a house on Zamzama street, two houses in DHA phase 8 and a plot in Clifton’s Army Housing Scheme.

The Special Court in its earlier ruling, had ordered the revenue and other authorities to confiscate the details of the former president’s property.

In March 2014, Musharraf was formally indicted over treason charges for imposing emergency and the Provisional Constitutional Order on November 3, 2007.

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Police presents report on missing children to SC

LAHORE: Police on Thursday presented a report on missing children to the Supreme Court.

The court had asked the Punjab police for the report on Wednesday, after it began hearing of a suo moto case over incidents of child kidnapping reported in Lahore as well as the rest of Punjab.

According to the report 766 children were kidnapped in Punjab in the past seven months, of whom 715 have been found. Police is working on complaints related to sale of organs of kidnapped children in Gujrat and surrounding areas, the report stated.

The court said that parents of missing children raise hue and cry at police stations but are not able to register a case. When the state fails to protect the life and property of its citizens then the judiciary has to intervene, the court added.

Two more incidents of missing children surfaced in Lahore on Thursday. The latest victims are 10-year-old Sohaib Kashif who went missing two days ago from Nishtar Colony, and 11-year-old Tooba who went missing from Railway Colony. Tooba reportedly went to a shop to buy something yesterday evening after which she did not return.

A wave of anxiety has gripped the region following kidnapping of 600 children from Lahore and other parts of Punjab within a short span of time. However, Punjab police has said that most of these children fled from domestic violence.

Incidents of missing children from Punjab have been on the rise recently. More than a dozen children went missing from Badami baagh (garden) in the past few months alone. Last week, a child was discovered dead in the same area, who had reportedly been murdered after being tortured.

The police, meanwhile, maintains that not all of the missing children were kidnapped. Additional Inspector General Police Shahzada Sultan, citing statistics, said that during 2015 kidnapping cases of 1,134 children were registered in Punjab, of whom 1,093 were recovered. This year 681 cases have been registered, whereas 640 children have been recovered already.

Many of the missing children belong to poor families.

 

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Can?t feed Oysters to people who want Chicken Karhai, stylist Nabila

It is a matter of taste. You could be an oyster/escargot kind of person or you could be a hardcore karahi fan. Either way, you can’t convince one type to feed on the other. As Nabila aptly puts it, “People who want karahi should go to Laal Qila.”

What in the world is she talking about? She’s referring to the Lux Style Awards red carpet and how it has deteriorated over the years. I, for one, remember the ceremony in 2003 as the highest in fashion excellence; it was a year when the stars dressed up impeccably and each and every one of them was red carpet worthy. Over the years the red carpet has become a) a pavement on which every Tom, Dick and Harry walks (i.e., it isn’t exclusive to celebrities) and b) everyone looks the same. There is hardly any high fashion or individuality left. And we have seen enough ball gowns with gota work, bridal makeup and sonay ke set to dress all of Lollywood circa the ‘80s.

Nabila’s creative team works at the back end (back stage) at the Lux Style Awards each year but she absolves herself from taking any responsibility for the decline in how the stars look these days. She explains that while celebrities world over have style teams managing their appearances, celebrities in Pakistan insist on devising their own looks, often walking out as sartorial disasters.

“Anyone is welcome to come to us for LSA styling,” she says specifically about the upcoming event.” But if stars want to do their own thing then they’re very welcome to. I can’t feed oysters to people who want chicken karahi.”

We actually don’t mind either. But there are days for escargot and there are occasions for chicken karahi. And you get the worst kind of concoction when you attempt to mix the two, which is a mistake most celebrities make. Combining the two could result in a culinary, or in this case, a sartorial disaster.

This year several celebrities showed up at the event dressed in awkward clothes. Case in point:

Umm..Waqar Zaka wanted to stand out

Momar Rana, spare us the low neck

 

Sarwat Gilani showed up looking like a character from Adam's Family

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A baby named after a Pokemon monster? No thanks

Pokémon Go has literally taken over people?s lives, yes, literally.

After a spate of armed robberies, pranks, car crashes and what not ? all thanks to the latest Pokémon Go mania ? people are now naming their babies after Pokémon characters. How crazy is that?

US parenting website BabyCenter has seen a remarkable increase in baby names inspired from the Pokémon franchise. According to the website, which tracks baby names, Roselia, Ash, Onyx and Eevee have shot in popularity ever since the augmented-reality game Pokémon Go became the new cool.

Roselia and Ash are still pretty decent names, to be honest. But Bulbasaur? It isn?t exactly clear yet how many parents are going to name their babies after the sick green monster, but the possibility cannot entirely be ruled out. For all we know, a child named Bulbasaur may already be playing somewhere in the world right now. Wartortle, Butterfree, Pidgeotto, Rattata? All we can hope for the future babies? sake is, no. Just no.

Here?s how some of the Pokémon-inspired names have risen in popularity from last year, according to BBC:

Roselia - up 5,859 spots

Onyx - up 2,184

Star - up 2,040

Eevee - up 1,377

Ivy ? up 1,287

Ash - up 248

Shay - up 64

 

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