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Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi passes away in Lahore

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ISLAMABAD, Nov 19 (APP): APP Digital NewsAllama Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan breathed his last Thursday night at Lahore, his party announced. He was 55.

No reason for his death was given. His party officials said he was rushed to a hospital after he had problem breathing and had fever for past few days. However he was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital.

Senior TLP leader Syed Inayat-ul-Haq Shah also confirmed the news and asked the TLP workers to proceed to Lahore to participate in his last rites. The Tehreek-e-Labbaik announced that his funeral would be held on Saturday at 10 in the morning at Minar-e-Pakistan.

Videos on several social media accounts showed large number of his followers rushing to his home and crying over his sad demise.

The fire brand clerk was known for his protest marches, that often became violent and created law and order problems. His last protest was relatively shorter at Faizabad and ended only after a two day blockade of the twin cities on Monday.

Immediately after the confirmation of the news condolences poured in from all sections of society; including the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, Information Minister, Chief of Army Staff, Chief Minister Punjab and political leaders of many parties.

Prime Minister Imran Khan in a tweet expressed his grief over the sad demise of Allama Khadim Rizvi and conveyed condolences to his family.

Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa also conveyed his condolences over the demise of the TLP leader.

 

Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Information in Punjab also expressed grief over his sad demise.

Amir Jamat Islami also expressed his grief and prayed to Allah Almighty to bless the departed soul.

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s consistent stance on Kashmir

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Prime Minister Imran Khan’s stance on Kashmir at international fora to highlight gruesome human rights violations by India

 

Indian media’s fake “civil war” in Pakistan, falls flat on face

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In an abortive attempt to create diversion from Narendra Modi’s human rights abuses in Kashmir, the Indian media went berserk by propagating fake news about a “civil war” like situation in Karachi, triggering a hilarious response from the twitterati in Pakistan, who enjoyed every bit of the ridiculous reports.

#CivilWarInPakistan and #KarachiCivilWar were in no time the top trends, with the young twitter users going crazy by posting video clips from action movies, comics, images of the Indian MiG pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, shot down by Pakistan Air Force inside Pakistan’s territory, as scenes from the Civil War, getting an equally enthusiastic response with numerous retweets and likes.

The arrest of PML-N leader Captain (Retd) Safdar on charges of political sloganeering at Quaid’s Mausoleum and leave applications by senior police officers was exploited by the top Indian news channels, who portrayed an administrative issue as a “civil war” and went to the extent of even reporting casualties, and armed clashes.

Indian Media ditches professionalism to dip at to its lowest 

#FakeNews CNN18News
#FakeNews CNN18News

The news reports were part of a persistent barrage of fake news from Indian mainstream media and its RAW controlled assets on social media over the past few months. The trend has witnessed a sharp spike as part of India’s fifth generation war (5GW) against Pakistan.

Pakistan’s Foreign Office on the “malicious and fabricated propaganda” by Indian mainstream and social media claiming civil unrest in Pakistan, said planting such baseless stories were reflective of the “Pakistan-obsessed BJP-RSS” mindset.

“Needless to say that Indian media continues to hit new lows,” he said, when asked to respond over the series of fake news flashed as breaking news across the Indian media about a “civil war in Pakistan”.

“Indian media continues to hit new lows”: FO

The Spokesperson said through “peddling fake news and running propaganda machinery”, India could not wash away the truth about its own gross and systematic human rights violations in Indian Ilelgally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

“Rather than reporting on humanitarian crisis in IIOJK, the Indian media chooses to spread fake and sensational news about Pakistan to detract from core issues,” he said.

5th Gen War – Twitterati bust RAW’s #Fake letter attributed to COAS

 

#FakeNews - Yet another figment of imagination of Indian Media
#FakeNews – Yet another figment of imagination of Indian Media

The Indian media tried hard to appease its own consumers and to create a diversion from its human rights abuses in occupied Kashmir. However in its abortive attempt it created history by churning out fake news overpowered by the anti-Pakistan hysteria, undermining its professional ethics and credibility.

#FakeNews - India Today with its concocted news story
#FakeNews – India Today with its concocted news story

The unleashing of the Indian media did not go unnoticed, as Michael Kugelman, deputy director at the @AsiaProgram and South Asia senior associate @TheWilsonCenter in a tweet pointed that the Indian disinformation accounts were exploiting Pakistan’s current political crisis, and “falsely claiming that the country is no experiencing urban warfare.”

He described the trend as “dangerous and disturbing”, as several of these accounts were verified and had huge followings.

Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari said the Indian media was in “hyper drive with fake news on Pakistan” and regretted that it was “unfortunate that Twitter is [deliberately ignoring it].”

All major media outlets in so-called world’s biggest democracy decimated all journalistic norms as none bothered to fact-check such a huge gaffe. India’s News18, India Today, Zee News, India.com and several others quoted the International Herald which showed old videos of bomb explosions in Pakistan and portrayed it as the ongoing civil war.

#FakeNews - Indian International Herald tweet
#FakeNews – Indian International Herald tweet

The Institute of Policy Research in a report said their data indicates a pattern of Indian propaganda against Pakistan on digital media that grew exponentially after 2018 General Elections in #Pakistan. The propaganda hovers around largely 4 key themes.

IPRI Timeline of Indian Propaganda
IPRI Timeline of Indian Propaganda

Minister for Ports and Shipping pointed that the Indian propaganda was at its peak and “sadly fueled by the PDM Circus.” He said the food inflation was artificially manufactured, but was being brought under control.

Minister for Kashmir Affairs also lambasted the “fake, fabricated and malicious propaganda campaign to malign State institutions of Pakistan. He urged @Twitter to take action against Indian accounts for #FakeNews against Paksitan.

However, this idiocy of Indian media gave the Twitterati a perfect chance to enjoy as the microblogging site was flooded with messages to ridicule the Indian media’s insanity.

“Karachi civil war has gotten so bad that my food panda delivery boy had to crawl through mine fields carrying his AK47, RPG & 9mm along with my nihari and Biryani. This thing is getting so serious. Multiple cows have been killed & people are dying of over eating. #IndianMedia,” commented renowned singer Fakhr-e-Alam.

Besides numerous other fake photos, the Indian media also used an image of a building collapsed following a gas leakage blast in Karachi earlier in the day to substantiate its fake news of civil war.

“A little investigation would have informed Zee News that it wasn’t a bomb blast in ‘civil war’ in Pakistan but the result of a  gas leak in Karachi. Whither truth, objectivity, balance and fairness in reporting?,” said Farhatullah Babr, former senator of Pakistan Peoples Party which rules Sindh province.

“An Aircraft shot during civil war in Karachi… and the pilot captured…,” commented another Twitter user Fasihuddin while sharing the images of Indian aircraft MiG-21 and captured injured pilot Abhinandan following an aerial dogfight during India-Pakistan standoff in 2019.

Chairman Senate Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani offers fateha on the sad demise of the mother of Faisal Nisar, MD Utility Stores, and Amir Nisar, Federal Government Inspector of Railways

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Chairman Senate Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani offers fateha on the sad demise of the mother of Faisal Nisar, MD Utility Stores, and Amir Nisar, Federal Government Inspector of Railways
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Australia’s batter Mitchell Marsh bowled out by Shaheen Afridi during the third Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and Australia at the Gaddafi Stadium

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Australia's batter Mitchell Marsh bowled out by Shaheen Afridi during the third Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and Australia at the Gaddafi Stadium
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Australia's batter Mitchell Marsh bowled out by Shaheen Afridi during the third Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and Australia at the Gaddafi Stadium
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President calls upon citizens to value, protect, manage wetlands as living cultural, ecological assets 

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Asif Jalal
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 01 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari while reaffirming the commitment to the conservation and sustainable management of wetlands, urged all citizens, especially youth, local communities and policymakers, to value, protect and sustainably manage wetlands as living cultural and ecological assets.
“This day marks the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands, also known as the Ramsar Convention, in 1971. Pakistan is a signatory to this landmark agreement, which promotes the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands and their resources for present and future generations,” the president said in a message on the observance of World Wetlands Day on February 2.
He said the World Wetlands Day 2026 theme, “Wetlands and Traditional Knowledge: Celebrating Cultural Heritage,” reminded them that wetlands were not merely ecological systems.
“They are living cultural landscapes shaped over centuries by local communities. Across Pakistan, traditional knowledge and practices linked to wetlands have supported livelihoods, food security, biodiversity conservation and a balanced relationship with nature,” President’s Secretariat Media Wing, in a press release, quoted the president as saying.
President Zardari said water security in the region depended on responsible and lawful transboundary cooperation.
“Pakistan remains concerned over unilateral actions by India affecting the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, a legally binding agreement that has governed equitable water sharing in the Indus Basin for decades,” he added.
He said the suspension of treaty mechanisms, including the sharing of hydrological data, undermined trust and predictability when climate pressures required greater cooperation.
“Water must never be used as a tool of coercion, and the weaponisation of water as an instrument of war against Pakistan must be rejected, as the disruption of river flows threatens millions of lives, livelihoods, and food systems in a country reliant on the Indus Basin,” he emphasised.
The president observed that healthy wetlands reduce floods, protect coasts, sustain livelihoods and cut emissions, adding that neglecting them multiplies climate losses, while restoring them delivers high returns for resilience, the economy and ecology.
He said Pakistan was among the countries least responsible for climate change yet most exposed to its consequences. “Our wetlands are frontline climate defenders against floods, droughts, heatwaves and sea-level rise,” he added.
Pakistan’s diverse wetlands, the president said, ranging from riverine floodplains and alpine and glacial lakes to inland wetlands and coastal and mangrove ecosystems, played a critical role in biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, water regulation and disaster risk reduction.
Across the country, he said wetlands faced mounting pressures: erratic monsoons, glacial melt variability, heatwaves, shrinking flood buffers and climate-amplified pollution.
Sindh bore a disproportionate burden due to wetland degradation, historical water stress and sea-level rise, he said, adding  the Indus Delta and mangrove forests, once among the world’s richest, now faced salinity intrusion, coastal erosion and loss of fish breeding grounds.
“Inland wetlands such as Keenjhar, Haleji and Manchar are experiencing reduced freshwater inflows, prolonged droughts and concentrated pollution, affecting fisheries, drinking water and migratory bird routes,” he observed.
The president said for millions of the country’s citizens, wetlands were part of everyday life. They provided fish for households and markets, grazing for livestock, reeds and vegetation for shelter and fuel, and natural protection for villages during periods of heavy rainfall or water scarcity.
When wetlands degraded, families faced loss of income, rising food costs, unsafe water and greater exposure to floods and droughts. Protecting these ecosystems was therefore both an environmental responsibility and a matter of public welfare and national resilience, he stressed.
He said wetlands were also cost-effective climate solutions. They absorbed floods more effectively, stored carbon, especially mangroves, protected coastlines naturally, and reduced the need for costly disaster recovery.
“Sustainable wetland management, integrating indigenous and community knowledge, contributes directly to Pakistan’s climate and biodiversity goals and international environmental commitments,” he added.
The president further said protecting wetlands was not only about nature; it was about people, livelihoods and national resilience. Pakistan would continue to advocate that climate justice meant safeguarding those ecosystems that protected them, he added.

Pakistan’s captain Salman Ali Agha receives the trophy from PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi after winning the series and the third Twenty20 international cricket match against Australia at Gaddafi Stadium

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Pakistan’s captain Salman Ali Agha receives the trophy from PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi after winning the series and the third Twenty20 international cricket match against Australia at Gaddafi Stadium
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Pakistani players and management pose for a group photograph with PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi after winning the series and the third Twenty20 international against Australia at Gaddafi Stadium

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Pakistani players and management pose for a group photograph with PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi after winning the series and the third Twenty20 international against Australia at Gaddafi Stadium
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Pakistani players and management pose for a group photograph with PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi after winning the series and the third Twenty20 international against Australia at Gaddafi Stadium
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A large number of buffaloes return after bathing at Phuleli Canal

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A large number of buffaloes return after bathing at Phuleli Canal
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DG UNESCO visits Taxila Heritage site

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Asif Jalal
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 01 (APP): Director General UNESCO Dr. Khalid El-Enany visited the Taxila World Heritage Site.
He was received by Dr. Syed Tauqir Hussain Shah, Assistant to Prime Minister and Representative of Pakistan to the UNESCO Executive Board.
He was briefed on the Taxila Museum, the historical legacy of Taxila and ongoing excavation and conservation efforts.
Dr. Khalid El-Enany visited the archaeological sites of Bir Mound and Sirkap at Taxila, observed the excavation work, and appreciated the dedication of student archeologists to heritage research.
He emphasized South–South cooperation and academic collaboration in archaeology and preservation of heritage.

Shaheed Muhammad Shazaib MGT-I laid to rest with full military honours

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ISLAMABAD, Feb 01 (APP): Shaheed Muhammad Shahzaib MGT-I was laid to rest with full military honours in his native village Isa Khel, District Mianwali.
The namaz-e-janaza was attended by officers and personnel of Pakistan Navy, civil and military officials, and family members, said a news release issued by Directorate General Public Relations (Pak Navy).
Shaheed Muhammad Shazaib MGT-I laid to rest with full military honours
Shaheed Muhammad Shahzaib MGT-I sacrificed his life while defending against a cowardly terrorist attack at Pasni, demonstrating exceptional courage and devotion to duty, it further said.
Shaheed Muhammad Shazaib MGT-I laid to rest with full military honours
Pakistan Navy pays rich tribute to the supreme sacrifice of the Shaheed and extends heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.

Information Minister, Australian High Commissioner watch Pak-Aus T20I

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LAHORE, Feb 01 (APP): Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ataullah Tarar, Governor Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Syed Mehdi Shah and Australian High Commissioner Timothy Kane watched the third and final T20I of the series between Pakistan and Australia at the Gaddafi Stadium, here on Sunday.
Pakistan beat Australia by 111 runs and completed whitewash of the Kangroos for the second time in a T20I series.
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Mohsin Naqvi welcomed the distinguished guests.
Australian High Commissioner Timothy Kane appreciated the excellent arrangements made at Gaddafi Stadium and said that the discipline and passion of the cricket fans were exemplary.
He said that he was very impressed to witness passion for cricket of the Pakistani fans in the stadium.
Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi said that the people of Pakistan have great love for sports, especially cricket.
He said that Pakistan is a peaceful country and the people here are peace-loving and love cricket immensely.
The distinguished guests admired the overall atmosphere of the match, the enthusiasm of the fans, and the arrangements.

Babar, Saim, Nawaz help Pakistan whitewash Australia 3-0

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LAHORE, Feb 01 (APP): Half centuries by ace batter Babar Azam, all-rounder Saim Ayub and a fifer by Muhammad Nawaz helped Pakistan complete whitewash of Australia 3-0 as they beat the Kangroos by 111 runs in the third and final T20I of the series at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday evening.
Pakistan scored massive 207-6 through half centuries by Babar Azam 50 (36), Saim Ayub 56 (37) and a cameo by Shadab Khan 46 (18) which included five massive 6s. Babar Azam returned unbeaten.
This is the second occasion that Pakistan have whitewashed Australia in a T20I series as they had outclassed Australia 3-0 in a T20I series in Dubai in 2018.
Half centuries by Babar Azam, Saim Ayub and cameo from Shadab Khan propelled Pakistan to 207-6 in the last T20I of the three match series against Australia at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday. Pakistan had raced to 96-2 by the middle of their innings with Saim Ayub batting at 54 (32) and Babar Azam unbeaten 27 (18) and reached 151-4 in 16 overs with a six from Shadab Khan’s bat.
Salman Agha, whose heroics contributed to Green Shirts’ domination in the three match series, Salman Agha won the toss for the third time in the series and elected to bat first on the Gaddafi stadium turfs which have tended to go slow as the match progresses.
More than 32,000 cricket fans watched the match at the historic ground in Lahore and created a great atmosphere. The fans not only encouraged the Pakistani team but also appreciated the excellent performance of the Australian players. During this, slogans were also raised enthusiastically regarding international competitions.
After winning the toss, Pakistan scored a huge total of 207 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, in which the top and middle order batsmen played a prominent role.  Young opener Saim Ayub batted aggressively and scored 56 runs off 37 balls, which included six fours and two magnificent sixes. Fakhar Zaman gave the team a fast start by scoring 10 runs off seven balls, while captain Salman Agha played a short innings.
Former captain Babar Azam showed responsible batting and scored an unbeaten 50 runs off 36 balls and provided stability to the innings in the middle overs. Khawaja Nafi scored 21 valuable runs off just 12 balls, while vice-captain Shadab Khan played an aggressive style and played a smoky innings of 46 runs off just 19 balls, which included five sixes and two fours. Faheem Ashraf scored 10 unbeaten runs in the last overs to take the team’s total beyond 200.
The Australian bowlers failed to control the Pakistani batting line.  Ben Dovarshis took two wickets while Matthew Cohenman, Cameron Green, Matthew Short and Cooper Connolly took one wicket each.
Chasing a tough target of 208, the Australian batting line-up proved to be a sand wall for the Pakistani bowlers. The visitors were unable to cope with the early wickets and Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Short and Matt Renshaw were soon dismissed.
Left-arm fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi got the team off to a good start by taking two crucial early wickets, but all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz bowled brilliantly, taking five wickets for just 18 runs in four overs and destroying the Australian batting line-up. Abrar Ahmed and Naseem Shah also played important roles by taking one wicket each.
The Australian team was bowled out for just 96 runs in 16.5 overs.  Cameron Green (22) and Marcus Stoinis (23) tried to resist but could not last long against the Pakistani bowling attack.
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