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    Rawalpindi Internet Cafe Scandal Clips

  • SC shown video clips of militants’ acts of savagery

    ISLAMABAD: The presence of heartbroken parents and the screening of video clips showing militants’ acts of savagery were the two distinct features of Wednesday’s hearing by a 17-judge full court of petitions challenging the establishment of military courts...

    The video clips showed Mullah Fazlullah inciting violence in Pushto language and asking people to wage war against Pakistan, and Daesh leaders referring to different cities of...

  • PIA plane clips wing of stationary aircraft at Toronto Pearson airport

    Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-790 from Toronto to Lahore was suspended after the plane clipped the wing of an Air France plane while taxiing to its gate Tuesday evening at Toronto Pearson International Airport...

    According to CityNews, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority spokeswoman Natalie Moncur said the collision happened around 6pm
  • NAB says audio clips being associated with its chairman are 'fake, based on lies'

    The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday denied that a series of audio clips aired by a private TV channel have anything to do with its chairman Javed Iqbal, branding them "baseless, fake and based on lies"...

    The bureau was referring to some footage and a few audio clips — first aired by the News One — in which a male can be heard talking to a woman, and making inappropriate remarks at various points...

  • Pemra serves notice to News One for airing 'defamatory' clips about NAB chairman

    The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued a show-cause notice to News One TV channel for airing what it termed as "defamatory" news items and clips in which National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Javed Iqbal was allegedly shown in conversation with a woman, it emerged on Friday...

    Some footage and a few audio clips — first aired by News One — in which a male could be heard talking to a woman and...

  • Maryam briefs Nawaz on judge’s video clips

    LAHORE: PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz met her father Nawaz Sharif in the Kot Lakhpat jail on Thursday and briefed him on the purported video clips of Islamabad accountability court judge Arshad Malik in which he claimed that he had been “pressurised and blackmailed” to convict him (Sharif) in the Al-Azizia reference...

    She released two more video clips in support of the first one...

  • Maryam releases more video clips of alleged meeting between accountability judge, PML-N rep

    PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday shared two more video clips on Twitter to corroborate her claim that Accountability Judge Arshad Malik allegedly met a PML-N ‘sympathiser’ to confess that he had been "pressurised and blackmailed" to convict her father, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, in the Al-Azizia reference...

    The veracity of the contents of either of the video clips could not be verified independently by Dawn...

  • Sanaullah calls on CJP to take notice of audio clips purportedly featuring Parvez Elahi

    Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday called on Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial to take notice of audio clips in which PML-Q leader Parvez Elahi is purportedly heard giving directives for fixing cases before a sitting Supreme Court (SC) judge...

    Earlier in the day, two alleged audio clips of Elahi surfaced on social media in which the ex-Punjab chief minister can be heard giving the directions to two men...

  • Imran urges judiciary to ‘save society’ from leaked clips

    LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has urged the superior judiciary to save society from the “scourge of blackmailing and violation of fundamental rights of privacy and dignity of people” from those involved in tapping phones and making “deepfake” videos to blackmail opponents...

    The PTI chief was addressing the nation on TV along with PTI Central Punjab president Dr Yasmin Rashid, whose phone call with the former...
  • Judge video scandal: FIA conducts raid at Rawalpindi house to arrest Nasir Butt

    The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) last night conducted a raid at a Rawalpindi house owned by Nasir Butt — a PML-N leader who is the central figure in the controversy surrounding leaked videos of accountability judge Arshad Malik, sources told DawnNewsTV...

    The controversy continued to make news after Maryam released two more video clips "in support" of the first one...

  • Khanabadosh Writers Cafe opens

    HYDERABAD: The Khanabadosh Writers Cafe established on the premises of the Sindh culture department’s Sindh Museum was formally opened on Sunday evening for providing some private space to writers, poets, intellectuals and creative minds...

    The cafe initiative was taken by Amar Sindhu, writer, teacher in Sindh University and woman rights activist...

  • Bangladesh marks first anniversary of cafe attack

    DHAKA: Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday at the site of one of the worst Islamist attacks in Bangladesh’s history to mark the first anniversary of the deadly attack on an upscale Dhaka cafe...

    Weeping mourners laid flowers outside the old premises of the Holey Artisan Bakery, the cafe which five young men armed with guns and knives stormed into on July 1, 2016, taking dozens hostage and killing 22 people...

  • Dhaka cafe attack suspect dies in custody after 'torture'

    DHAKA: A Bangladeshi teenager who police say was a suspect in last week's deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe has died in custody, with his family insisting he was a hostage and alleging torture by security forces...

    Meanwhile the country's police chief said Saturday that extremists from Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a local militant group blamed by the government for the cafe siege, were behind a separate attack on an Eid...

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