KARACHI: Police on Saturday said that the suspect arrested in connection with the rape and murder case of a six-year-old girl in Korangi neighbourhood of Karachi will undergo DNA testing today, ARY NEWS reported.
DIG Police East Saqib Ismail while identifying the suspect as Zakir said that he would undergo a DNA test today in order to ascertain if he was involved in the entire episode.
“He is constantly changing his statement,” the DIG said and added that they would verify the statement with other sources also.
On Friday, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail announced that the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a six-year-old girl Maham in the Korangi area of the city has been arrested.
The governor Sindh Imran Ismail made this announcement while talking to media outside the home of the victim in Karachi’s Korangi neighbourhood.
“The prime suspect is arrested but his identity will only be revealed after the DNA matching process,” governor Imran Ismail said adding that they stand alongside the family in their period of grief.
I have no words to express my outrage on the incident which saw sexual assault against the six-year-old girl and then her murder, the governor said adding that it was their government’s responsibility to eliminate fear among the public owing to such frequent incidents.
It is pertinent to mention here that the incident was reported on July 28 when a six-year-old girl, who went missing from Karachi’s Korangi, was found dead after being raped.
The world was shocked when Simone Biles withdrew from the women’s Olympic gymnastics team finals on Tuesday.
I, Karen Braun, wasn’t.
As soon as she completed only a one-and-a-half twisting Yurchenko vault instead of her normal two-and-a-half, I immediately knew something was not right and wondered, should she continue in the competition?
Simone, the most decorated female gymnast on the world stage, has a history of toughing it out. She won six medals – the maximum possible for a female gymnast – at the 2018 World Championships while suffering kidney stones.
My “gymnast instinct” told me this time was different. I was a competitive gymnast for well over a decade, and although I was far off elite level, I can attest to the mental aspect of the sport.
The official statement from USA Gymnastics said Simone Biles withdrew from the event to focus on her mental health, raising more questions than answers for some. But as soon as I heard her mention the “twisties,” it made complete sense to me – because I have unfortunately experienced them.
When you have the twisties, you suddenly have no idea where you are or what your body is doing. Confusion mounts. In some cases, especially if performing a vault as difficult as Simone’s, the mental block could cause severe injury or even death.
The twisties damaged my relationship with floor exercise. In my teens, I competed with three tumbling passes. The first and last ones were both round-off, back handspring, back laid-out full twist. The sequence had never been a struggle since I learned it. I could do it in jeans with no warm-up if I had to. I could even do a double twist at one point.
Then one day when I was a senior in high school, I started twisting to my face. I would take off from the floor into my back full and then a second later be on my hands and knees. I thought maybe I was off in practice one day, but it kept happening.
Every now and then I would make a good one, but I could never tell whether a good or bad one was coming. I was never able to identify what exactly I did differently during the successful attempts.
I felt lost in the air. Was I trying to twist too early? Too late? Was I not getting enough air? Am I suddenly trying to twist the wrong way? These confusing thoughts compounded in my head almost to the point I became afraid of the skill.
Any gymnast at any point can get the twisties. The worst part is that it is sudden and unexplainable. A gymnast may or may not overcome them, but usually, it requires a break from whatever skill or event is causing the issue.
Gymnastics is as much a mental sport as it is physical, and split-second mental errors can have devastating consequences, much more than in most other sports.
I was fortunately never injured on my full twist, but I stopped doing twisting tumbling after high school and I still don’t understand the whole thing to this day. The twisties forever ended my enjoyment of the floor.
Front twisting was not a problem. I did a front laid-out full twist off the end of the balance beam for my dismount. I competed that all the way through college on the club gymnastics team.
I was also able to twist on the vault in college. It wasn’t a flipping twist, but a twist nonetheless. I never figured out the floor though and to be honest, I never tried. I was too traumatized.
Twisting is not the only element where gymnasts have mental blocks. But the problem skills are often the flipping or twisting ones where you briefly lose sight of the apparatus.
USA’s Simone Biles reacts during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
Luckily, the floor twisties were never too consequential in my career. I was a much bigger fan of the beam, anyway. But I can’t imagine something similar happening on the biggest stage as it did to Simone.
My experience in the sport suggests to me that if the twisties were the main reason for Simone’s withdrawal, then she made the right choice in prioritizing physical and mental safety over anything else.
And a difficult decision like that should never take away from the inspiring and unmatched contributions she has made in the sport of gymnastics.
KARACHI: Police on Saturday said that the suspect arrested in connection with the rape and murder case of a six-year-old girl in Korangi neighbourhood of Karachi will undergo DNA testing today, ARY NEWS reported.
DIG Police East Saqib Ismail while identifying the suspect as Zakir said that he would undergo a DNA test today in order to ascertain if he was involved in the entire episode.
“He is constantly changing his statement,” the DIG said and added that they would verify the statement with other sources also.
On Friday, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail announced that the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a six-year-old girl Maham in the Korangi area of the city has been arrested.
The governor Sindh Imran Ismail made this announcement while talking to media outside the home of the victim in Karachi’s Korangi neighbourhood.
“The prime suspect is arrested but his identity will only be revealed after the DNA matching process,” governor Imran Ismail said adding that they stand alongside the family in their period of grief.
I have no words to express my outrage on the incident which saw sexual assault against the six-year-old girl and then her murder, the governor said adding that it was their government’s responsibility to eliminate fear among the public owing to such frequent incidents.
It is pertinent to mention here that the incident was reported on July 28 when a six-year-old girl, who went missing from Karachi’s Korangi, was found dead after being raped.
The world was shocked when Simone Biles withdrew from the women’s Olympic gymnastics team finals on Tuesday.
I, Karen Braun, wasn’t.
As soon as she completed only a one-and-a-half twisting Yurchenko vault instead of her normal two-and-a-half, I immediately knew something was not right and wondered, should she continue in the competition?
Simone, the most decorated female gymnast on the world stage, has a history of toughing it out. She won six medals – the maximum possible for a female gymnast – at the 2018 World Championships while suffering kidney stones.
My “gymnast instinct” told me this time was different. I was a competitive gymnast for well over a decade, and although I was far off elite level, I can attest to the mental aspect of the sport.
The official statement from USA Gymnastics said Simone Biles withdrew from the event to focus on her mental health, raising more questions than answers for some. But as soon as I heard her mention the “twisties,” it made complete sense to me – because I have unfortunately experienced them.
When you have the twisties, you suddenly have no idea where you are or what your body is doing. Confusion mounts. In some cases, especially if performing a vault as difficult as Simone’s, the mental block could cause severe injury or even death.
The twisties damaged my relationship with floor exercise. In my teens, I competed with three tumbling passes. The first and last ones were both round-off, back handspring, back laid-out full twist. The sequence had never been a struggle since I learned it. I could do it in jeans with no warm-up if I had to. I could even do a double twist at one point.
Then one day when I was a senior in high school, I started twisting to my face. I would take off from the floor into my back full and then a second later be on my hands and knees. I thought maybe I was off in practice one day, but it kept happening.
Every now and then I would make a good one, but I could never tell whether a good or bad one was coming. I was never able to identify what exactly I did differently during the successful attempts.
I felt lost in the air. Was I trying to twist too early? Too late? Was I not getting enough air? Am I suddenly trying to twist the wrong way? These confusing thoughts compounded in my head almost to the point I became afraid of the skill.
Any gymnast at any point can get the twisties. The worst part is that it is sudden and unexplainable. A gymnast may or may not overcome them, but usually, it requires a break from whatever skill or event is causing the issue.
Gymnastics is as much a mental sport as it is physical, and split-second mental errors can have devastating consequences, much more than in most other sports.
I was fortunately never injured on my full twist, but I stopped doing twisting tumbling after high school and I still don’t understand the whole thing to this day. The twisties forever ended my enjoyment of the floor.
Front twisting was not a problem. I did a front laid-out full twist off the end of the balance beam for my dismount. I competed that all the way through college on the club gymnastics team.
I was also able to twist on the vault in college. It wasn’t a flipping twist, but a twist nonetheless. I never figured out the floor though and to be honest, I never tried. I was too traumatized.
Twisting is not the only element where gymnasts have mental blocks. But the problem skills are often the flipping or twisting ones where you briefly lose sight of the apparatus.
USA’s Simone Biles reacts during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
Luckily, the floor twisties were never too consequential in my career. I was a much bigger fan of the beam, anyway. But I can’t imagine something similar happening on the biggest stage as it did to Simone.
My experience in the sport suggests to me that if the twisties were the main reason for Simone’s withdrawal, then she made the right choice in prioritizing physical and mental safety over anything else.
And a difficult decision like that should never take away from the inspiring and unmatched contributions she has made in the sport of gymnastics.
KARACHI: Police on Saturday said that the suspect arrested in connection with the rape and murder case of a six-year-old girl in Korangi neighbourhood of Karachi will undergo DNA testing today, ARY NEWS reported.
DIG Police East Saqib Ismail while identifying the suspect as Zakir said that he would undergo a DNA test today in order to ascertain if he was involved in the entire episode.
“He is constantly changing his statement,” the DIG said and added that they would verify the statement with other sources also.
On Friday, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail announced that the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a six-year-old girl Maham in the Korangi area of the city has been arrested.
The governor Sindh Imran Ismail made this announcement while talking to media outside the home of the victim in Karachi’s Korangi neighbourhood.
“The prime suspect is arrested but his identity will only be revealed after the DNA matching process,” governor Imran Ismail said adding that they stand alongside the family in their period of grief.
I have no words to express my outrage on the incident which saw sexual assault against the six-year-old girl and then her murder, the governor said adding that it was their government’s responsibility to eliminate fear among the public owing to such frequent incidents.
It is pertinent to mention here that the incident was reported on July 28 when a six-year-old girl, who went missing from Karachi’s Korangi, was found dead after being raped.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has boosted its vaccination drive to curb COVID-19 with maximum inoculation of vaccine doses in a day as the fourth wave of the pandemic rages in the country, ARY News reported on Saturday.
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday said that the country administered record 9,04830 vaccine shots in a day.
Pakistan has geared up its vaccination campaign to vaccinate maximum population to contain Covid-19 in the country.
On the previous day, 8,67,226 vaccine doses were administered in 24-hour-period, which was also record number of shots in a day.
Total vaccination numbers have reached to 2,96,48,055, the NCOC said in its statement.
NCOC earlier, revised its guidelines, allowing Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for general public in a bid to inoculate more people.
According to new guidelines issued by the National Ministry of Health, the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine can be administered to the general public after July 31.
The vaccine would be available for people at all vaccination centres of the country, sources said.
Separately in its fight to resist flagrant Covid spread, the Sindh government has imposed lockdown in Karachi till August 08.
Pakistan continues to record a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases as the country has registered 4,950 new infections over the last 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Saturday.
The NCOC said that the country’s number of overall confirmed cases has risen to 1,029,811, including 940,164 recoveries, adding that the positivity rate of infections was recorded at 8.46 per cent.
The COVID-19 claimed 65 more lives across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 23,360, the NCOC said, adding that 3,187 people are in critical condition.
Veteran actor/screenwriter Syed Mohammed Ahmed’s timely message in light of the recent cases of violent abuse against women in the country has deservedly gone viral.
As the country reels from the horrific murder of Noor Mukadam at the hands of Zahir Jaffer and new cases of violence emerge every day, the Ruswai star shared a thought-provoking message on his Instagram.
“Stop keeping your clothes and shoes for special occasions,” Ahmed wrote. “Wear them whenever you can. Nowadays, being alive is a special occasion.”
The 64-year-old has since been reshared a number of times on people’s Instagram stories, and also made its way to numerous Facebook walls and Twitter feeds.
Earlier this year, Syed Mohammed Ahmed’s remarks about what made him unpopular with studio execs also made headlines.
“The women in my serials don’t cry without a reason. I won’t focus on deaths, divorces, issues with in-laws and such. I can’t treat the women in my work the way they are conventionally treated (destitute). Maybe this is why,” he explained, after sharing that studio execs don’t particularly like him.
Actor Syed Mohammed Ahmed also highlighted how everyone has a social responsibility and pandering to the audience is not the best idea.
“The public also likes to and wants to watch pornography, can we do that? A majority of the population is abusing drugs, should we start supplying that to them? What is our moral responsibility here? We’ve made emotionally desensitizing content so common and accepted that if we see a dead body on the road, people would pass by,” he said.
LAHORE:District katchery on Saturday sent Pro-Jahangir Tareen group MPA, Nazir Chohan to jail on Judicial remand by rejecting Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) plea to extend physical remand.
MPA Nazir Chohan was presented before Judicial Magistrate, Yousuf Abdul Rehman by the FIA team as his two days physical remand expired today.
The Federal Investigation Agency pleaded the court to extend physical remand of the accused, but the court reserved its verdict in the case.
Later, announcing the verdict, the court rejected FIA’s plea to extend the physical remand and send MPA Chohan to jail on judicial remand.
The police have been asked to present the accused before the court again on August 14.
The FIA presented MPA Nazir Chohan before the court of Judicial Magistrate, Yousuf Abdul Rehman. The district katchery, on the request of the FIA, approved the physical remand of the lawmaker.
The case was registered in the FIA Cyber Crime Unit on the complaint of Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) Shahzad Akbar. Javed Butt and Waseem Raja, who are said to be journalists on social media, were also named in the case.
Akbar in his FIR had stated that MPA Nazir Chohan allegedly targeted his religious belief and did a speech on social media to create hate against him.
It is to be noted, Nazir Chohan, was arrested by police on Tuesday in a first information report (FIR) registered on the complaint from Adviser to the prime minister on accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar at Lahore’s Race Course police.
Later, a session court in Lahore had granted bail Chohan.
Huawei has officially confirmed that the Harmony OS 2 is installed on over 40 million devices, meaning that eight users are upgrading every second.
If you are unaware, the software was booting on over 10 million devices within a week of its launch. News broke out that within a month it was booting on over 25 million Huawei phones. Now, with the 40 million milestone, Huawei’s Harmony OS has accomplished a higher position across phone operating systems.
At this pace, the OS seems to compete head-to-head with other operating systems. Huawei has also been adding open source components to the OS and it had recently added 400+ open source components.
Apart from this, Huawei is expected to bring the HarmonyOS 2 on all of its smartphones. Some of the premium phones to get the update would be Huawei’s Mate 40 series, P40 series, Nova8 phones, MateX2, and MatePad Pro.
It is pertinent to mention here that China’s Huawei Technologies announced the launch of its new Harmony operating system for smartphones in its biggest move yet aimed at recovering from the damage done by US sanctions to its mobile phone business.
The use of its own operating system will mean it will no longer be reliant on Android. U.S. sanctions banned Google from providing technical support to new Huawei phone models and access to Google Mobile Services, the bundle of developer services upon which most Android apps are based.
Hamza Ali Abbasi and wife Naimal Khawar Abbasi are celebrating their firstborn Mustafa’s first birthday today, July 31, and the couple penned heartfelt notes for their little one.
Taking to her 1.9 million strong Instagram to share a series of adorable photos of their tiny tot, Naimal wrote, “Today the light of our lives, my beautiful son Mustafa turns one. May Allah guide you to the straight path and bless you with many more, my darling.”
She also requested her fans and followers to pray for his health and wellbeing.
The Abbasi’s boss baby had a Boss Baby themed cake to himself for his birthday, and was also seen crawling around with balloons – we can’t get enough of the cuteness!
Hamza also shared a casual family picture on his own Instagram account which boasts close to a million followers. “Happy Birthday my son. May you become an acha banda (good man) of Allah,” he prayed.
“I am forever grateful to God for his blessings. Please make a little prayer for Mustafa on his birthday,” he added.
The couple, who tied the knot in August of 2019, welcomed their first child, son Mustafa, in July 2020, and announced the news to their fans in August of the same year with an adorable Instagram post.
“The most pure form of love,” read Naimal’s birth announcement, with a close-up of her hand holding Mustafa’s tiny hand.
While Hamza announced on Twitter: “Allah has blessed me and Naimal with a baby boy, Muhammad Mustafa Abbasi. I pray that he becomes a grateful servant of Allah… Please pray for us.”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bob Odenkirk, best known as the sardonic, morally conflicted criminal defence lawyer on Better Call Saul, said on Friday he was recovering from a mild heart attack after collapsing on the set of his show earlier this week.
Odenkirk, 58, fell ill in New Mexico on Tuesday during the production of the sixth and final season of his darkly humorous AMC cable network series and was taken to a hospital in Albuquerque for treatment.
Representatives for the performer issued a statement the next day saying he was listed in stable condition “after experiencing a heart-related incident.”
In a pair of Twitter posts on Friday, Bob Odenkirk was a bit more specific, saying, “I had a small heart attack. But I’m going to be OK thanks to Rosa Estrada and the doctors who knew how to fix the blockage without surgery.” The reference to Rosa Estrada was not explained.
He also thanked the AMC network and producers Sony Pictures Television for their support, and family and friends for “the outpouring of love,” adding, “I’m going to take a beat to recover but I’ll be back soon.”
Longtime friend and former HBO sketch comedy co-star David Cross tweeted earlier that he had spoken earlier by telephone with Odenkirk, whom he described as “doing great” and “joking, japing and joshing.”
Bob Odenkirk began his career as a comedy writer for several shows in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, including Saturday Night Live. And he has since appeared in a number of motion pictures.
But he is best known for the TV role he originated in 2009 on the hit AMC drama Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman, the shrewd, sharp-witted criminal defence lawyer for that show’s protagonist – high school teacher-turned-methamphetamine chemist Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston.
Odenkirk’s character proved so popular that producers created a spin-off series, Better Call Saul, which traces the transformation of Bob Odenkirk’s character from a onetime two-bit scam artist and struggling public defender named Jimmy McGill into the sleazy criminal attorney Saul Goodman.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has boosted its vaccination drive to curb COVID-19 with maximum inoculation of vaccine doses in a day as the fourth wave of the pandemic rages in the country, ARY News reported on Saturday.
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday said that the country administered record 9,04830 vaccine shots in a day.
Pakistan has geared up its vaccination campaign to vaccinate maximum population to contain Covid-19 in the country.
On the previous day, 8,67,226 vaccine doses were administered in 24-hour-period, which was also record number of shots in a day.
Total vaccination numbers have reached to 2,96,48,055, the NCOC said in its statement.
NCOC earlier, revised its guidelines, allowing Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for general public in a bid to inoculate more people.
According to new guidelines issued by the National Ministry of Health, the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine can be administered to the general public after July 31.
The vaccine would be available for people at all vaccination centres of the country, sources said.
Separately in its fight to resist flagrant Covid spread, the Sindh government has imposed lockdown in Karachi till August 08.
Pakistan continues to record a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases as the country has registered 4,950 new infections over the last 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Saturday.
The NCOC said that the country’s number of overall confirmed cases has risen to 1,029,811, including 940,164 recoveries, adding that the positivity rate of infections was recorded at 8.46 per cent.
The COVID-19 claimed 65 more lives across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 23,360, the NCOC said, adding that 3,187 people are in critical condition.
Veteran actor/screenwriter Syed Mohammed Ahmed’s timely message in light of the recent cases of violent abuse against women in the country has deservedly gone viral.
As the country reels from the horrific murder of Noor Mukadam at the hands of Zahir Jaffer and new cases of violence emerge every day, the Ruswai star shared a thought-provoking message on his Instagram.
“Stop keeping your clothes and shoes for special occasions,” Ahmed wrote. “Wear them whenever you can. Nowadays, being alive is a special occasion.”
The 64-year-old has since been reshared a number of times on people’s Instagram stories, and also made its way to numerous Facebook walls and Twitter feeds.
Earlier this year, Syed Mohammed Ahmed’s remarks about what made him unpopular with studio execs also made headlines.
“The women in my serials don’t cry without a reason. I won’t focus on deaths, divorces, issues with in-laws and such. I can’t treat the women in my work the way they are conventionally treated (destitute). Maybe this is why,” he explained, after sharing that studio execs don’t particularly like him.
Actor Syed Mohammed Ahmed also highlighted how everyone has a social responsibility and pandering to the audience is not the best idea.
“The public also likes to and wants to watch pornography, can we do that? A majority of the population is abusing drugs, should we start supplying that to them? What is our moral responsibility here? We’ve made emotionally desensitizing content so common and accepted that if we see a dead body on the road, people would pass by,” he said.
LAHORE:District katchery on Saturday sent Pro-Jahangir Tareen group MPA, Nazir Chohan to jail on Judicial remand by rejecting Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) plea to extend physical remand.
MPA Nazir Chohan was presented before Judicial Magistrate, Yousuf Abdul Rehman by the FIA team as his two days physical remand expired today.
The Federal Investigation Agency pleaded the court to extend physical remand of the accused, but the court reserved its verdict in the case.
Later, announcing the verdict, the court rejected FIA’s plea to extend the physical remand and send MPA Chohan to jail on judicial remand.
The police have been asked to present the accused before the court again on August 14.
The FIA presented MPA Nazir Chohan before the court of Judicial Magistrate, Yousuf Abdul Rehman. The district katchery, on the request of the FIA, approved the physical remand of the lawmaker.
The case was registered in the FIA Cyber Crime Unit on the complaint of Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) Shahzad Akbar. Javed Butt and Waseem Raja, who are said to be journalists on social media, were also named in the case.
Akbar in his FIR had stated that MPA Nazir Chohan allegedly targeted his religious belief and did a speech on social media to create hate against him.
It is to be noted, Nazir Chohan, was arrested by police on Tuesday in a first information report (FIR) registered on the complaint from Adviser to the prime minister on accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar at Lahore’s Race Course police.
Later, a session court in Lahore had granted bail Chohan.
Huawei has officially confirmed that the Harmony OS 2 is installed on over 40 million devices, meaning that eight users are upgrading every second.
If you are unaware, the software was booting on over 10 million devices within a week of its launch. News broke out that within a month it was booting on over 25 million Huawei phones. Now, with the 40 million milestone, Huawei’s Harmony OS has accomplished a higher position across phone operating systems.
At this pace, the OS seems to compete head-to-head with other operating systems. Huawei has also been adding open source components to the OS and it had recently added 400+ open source components.
Apart from this, Huawei is expected to bring the HarmonyOS 2 on all of its smartphones. Some of the premium phones to get the update would be Huawei’s Mate 40 series, P40 series, Nova8 phones, MateX2, and MatePad Pro.
It is pertinent to mention here that China’s Huawei Technologies announced the launch of its new Harmony operating system for smartphones in its biggest move yet aimed at recovering from the damage done by US sanctions to its mobile phone business.
The use of its own operating system will mean it will no longer be reliant on Android. U.S. sanctions banned Google from providing technical support to new Huawei phone models and access to Google Mobile Services, the bundle of developer services upon which most Android apps are based.
Hamza Ali Abbasi and wife Naimal Khawar Abbasi are celebrating their firstborn Mustafa’s first birthday today, July 31, and the couple penned heartfelt notes for their little one.
Taking to her 1.9 million strong Instagram to share a series of adorable photos of their tiny tot, Naimal wrote, “Today the light of our lives, my beautiful son Mustafa turns one. May Allah guide you to the straight path and bless you with many more, my darling.”
She also requested her fans and followers to pray for his health and wellbeing.
The Abbasi’s boss baby had a Boss Baby themed cake to himself for his birthday, and was also seen crawling around with balloons – we can’t get enough of the cuteness!
Hamza also shared a casual family picture on his own Instagram account which boasts close to a million followers. “Happy Birthday my son. May you become an acha banda (good man) of Allah,” he prayed.
“I am forever grateful to God for his blessings. Please make a little prayer for Mustafa on his birthday,” he added.
The couple, who tied the knot in August of 2019, welcomed their first child, son Mustafa, in July 2020, and announced the news to their fans in August of the same year with an adorable Instagram post.
“The most pure form of love,” read Naimal’s birth announcement, with a close-up of her hand holding Mustafa’s tiny hand.
While Hamza announced on Twitter: “Allah has blessed me and Naimal with a baby boy, Muhammad Mustafa Abbasi. I pray that he becomes a grateful servant of Allah… Please pray for us.”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bob Odenkirk, best known as the sardonic, morally conflicted criminal defence lawyer on Better Call Saul, said on Friday he was recovering from a mild heart attack after collapsing on the set of his show earlier this week.
Odenkirk, 58, fell ill in New Mexico on Tuesday during the production of the sixth and final season of his darkly humorous AMC cable network series and was taken to a hospital in Albuquerque for treatment.
Representatives for the performer issued a statement the next day saying he was listed in stable condition “after experiencing a heart-related incident.”
In a pair of Twitter posts on Friday, Bob Odenkirk was a bit more specific, saying, “I had a small heart attack. But I’m going to be OK thanks to Rosa Estrada and the doctors who knew how to fix the blockage without surgery.” The reference to Rosa Estrada was not explained.
He also thanked the AMC network and producers Sony Pictures Television for their support, and family and friends for “the outpouring of love,” adding, “I’m going to take a beat to recover but I’ll be back soon.”
Longtime friend and former HBO sketch comedy co-star David Cross tweeted earlier that he had spoken earlier by telephone with Odenkirk, whom he described as “doing great” and “joking, japing and joshing.”
Bob Odenkirk began his career as a comedy writer for several shows in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, including Saturday Night Live. And he has since appeared in a number of motion pictures.
But he is best known for the TV role he originated in 2009 on the hit AMC drama Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman, the shrewd, sharp-witted criminal defence lawyer for that show’s protagonist – high school teacher-turned-methamphetamine chemist Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston.
Odenkirk’s character proved so popular that producers created a spin-off series, Better Call Saul, which traces the transformation of Bob Odenkirk’s character from a onetime two-bit scam artist and struggling public defender named Jimmy McGill into the sleazy criminal attorney Saul Goodman.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has boosted its vaccination drive to curb COVID-19 with maximum inoculation of vaccine doses in a day as the fourth wave of the pandemic rages in the country, ARY News reported on Saturday.
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday said that the country administered record 9,04830 vaccine shots in a day.
Pakistan has geared up its vaccination campaign to vaccinate maximum population to contain Covid-19 in the country.
On the previous day, 8,67,226 vaccine doses were administered in 24-hour-period, which was also record number of shots in a day.
Total vaccination numbers have reached to 2,96,48,055, the NCOC said in its statement.
NCOC earlier, revised its guidelines, allowing Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for general public in a bid to inoculate more people.
According to new guidelines issued by the National Ministry of Health, the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine can be administered to the general public after July 31.
The vaccine would be available for people at all vaccination centres of the country, sources said.
Separately in its fight to resist flagrant Covid spread, the Sindh government has imposed lockdown in Karachi till August 08.
Pakistan continues to record a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases as the country has registered 4,950 new infections over the last 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Saturday.
The NCOC said that the country’s number of overall confirmed cases has risen to 1,029,811, including 940,164 recoveries, adding that the positivity rate of infections was recorded at 8.46 per cent.
The COVID-19 claimed 65 more lives across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 23,360, the NCOC said, adding that 3,187 people are in critical condition.
Veteran actor/screenwriter Syed Mohammed Ahmed’s timely message in light of the recent cases of violent abuse against women in the country has deservedly gone viral.
As the country reels from the horrific murder of Noor Mukadam at the hands of Zahir Jaffer and new cases of violence emerge every day, the Ruswai star shared a thought-provoking message on his Instagram.
“Stop keeping your clothes and shoes for special occasions,” Ahmed wrote. “Wear them whenever you can. Nowadays, being alive is a special occasion.”
The 64-year-old has since been reshared a number of times on people’s Instagram stories, and also made its way to numerous Facebook walls and Twitter feeds.
Earlier this year, Syed Mohammed Ahmed’s remarks about what made him unpopular with studio execs also made headlines.
“The women in my serials don’t cry without a reason. I won’t focus on deaths, divorces, issues with in-laws and such. I can’t treat the women in my work the way they are conventionally treated (destitute). Maybe this is why,” he explained, after sharing that studio execs don’t particularly like him.
Actor Syed Mohammed Ahmed also highlighted how everyone has a social responsibility and pandering to the audience is not the best idea.
“The public also likes to and wants to watch pornography, can we do that? A majority of the population is abusing drugs, should we start supplying that to them? What is our moral responsibility here? We’ve made emotionally desensitizing content so common and accepted that if we see a dead body on the road, people would pass by,” he said.
