Tag: home-life
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Rs 1 lakh worth shoes stolen from outside mosque
We have all heard of shoes being stolen outside of mosques while people offer their prayers but a new shoe theft has set a new record of sorts. According to ARY News, a pair of shoes worth Rs 100,000 were stolen from outside a mosque in Lahore during prayers. Police say that Sheeraz Bashir went…
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And the word of the year is…
Climate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel existential to Dictionary.com’s word of the year. The choice reflects months of high-stakes threats and crises, real and pondered, across the news, the world and throughout 2019. “In our data, it speaks to this sense of…
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Plus-size fashion remains a distant dream in Pakistan
Like it or not, plus-size individuals very much exist. Fat-shaming and fatphobia are real and not just in Pakistan but across the world as well. People look down upon those who don’t fit the society’s standard of what a person should look like. ‘Thin-ess’ is equated to beauty and fat is considered ugly, no matter…
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VIDEO: Groom skydives into his wedding
We’ve always heard of innovative and unusual bridal entries but in this case, a bridegroom made headlines with his extraordinary shaadi entrance. Bridegroom Akaash Yadav, who was getting married in Los Cabos, Mexico joined the ‘baraatis’ by skydiving from an aircraft. The video, which went viral on social media showed Aakash, all strapped-in and wearing…
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JKT, Fawad Chaudhry attend Zainab Abbas’ valima
Zainab Abbas’ wedding festivities came to a close Sunday night with a grand valima. Among those in attendance were PTI’S Jahangir Khan Tareen, Fawad Chaudhry, Dr Yasmin Rashid and cricketer Mohammad Amir. Zainab’s mother, Andleeb Abbas is an integral member of PTI. Zainab looked ethereal in a lavender outfit by Élan. The glowing bride being…
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CJP says Supreme Court will soon get female judges
Chief Justice Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa has revealed that the judiciary is working towards inducting female judges in the Supreme Court. Addressing the concluding session of Women Judges Conference in Lahore, Justice Khosa said that more than 300 female judges are working in the district courts of Pakistan and that they are doing a brilliant…
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Karachi man sends 50,000 trees to Iraq to provide shade to pilgrims
A retired industrialist from Karachi sent thousands of saplings to Iraq on Friday to bring shade to pilgrims. Mohammedi Durbar, 85, wants to plant nearly 50,000 trees along the entire 80-km pilgrimage route between Iraq’s Najaf and Kerbala. In a conversation with Reuters, Durbar said the idea came to him when his relatives returned from…
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You will be able to fly to Baku directly next year
Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Pakistan, Ali Alizada, has said that direct flights between his country and Pakistan would start from next year, which will help strengthen the bilateral trade, economic relations and people-to-people contact. The capital of Azerbaijan, Baku is a popular holiday choice for Pakistanis. According to Dawn, the envoy revealed the information while…
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APS attack survivor Ahmad Nawaz receives the ‘Legacy Award,’ has tea with Prince William
APS attack survivor Ahmad Nawaz received the 2019 Legacy Award for the Diana Award on November 26. Prior to receiving the award from Lady Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, Ahmad attended a tea hosted by Prince William at Kensington Palace, where the Prince interacted with the recipients. Ahmad shared pictures from the event on his social…
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New study reveals all-girls holidays key to happiness
An exotic holiday with your best girlfriends sounds like a fabulous idea and not that you needed any reason to go on one, but new research has revealed that girls’ holidays are actually key to keeping happy – AND they have a positive impact on our overall health. According to social-personality psychologist William Chopik, friendships…