People around the world are complaining about inflation and demanding to raise the salary of working-class people. Similarly, Pakistan is also facing inflation but the salary package remains the same for many people.

However, many Pakistanis think that the inflation in Pakistan is a direct effect of Global inflation not the incompetence of Imran Khan’s government. A survey was conducted by Gallup to know what Pakistanis think about inflation.

According to the Gallup survey, 18% strongly agree that government is not responsible for the inflation while 49% somewhat agree and 17% somewhat disagree that inflation in Pakistan is an effect of global inflation while 13% strongly disagree.

A citizen from Karachi marked an area on Google Map to aware the motorcyclists from the check post set by Sindh Police. To help the fellow motorcyclists, the pin location was marked as “be careful cops are here”.

Motorcyclists who get tickets due to the absence of safety helmets or not carrying their licence and registration appreciated this effort.

While law enforcement agencies (LEA) are trying to utilise technology to restore law and order, some people are using technology to dodge the law enforcement agencies.

Prominent Pakistani designer and businesswoman Maria B took to Instagram to share her opinion on rising homosexuality in Pakistan. She said no one wants to talk about the alarming situation causing due to homosexuality in our society.

Give an example of Sparta and Lud, the most developed Civilization destroyed because of the curse of homosexuality. She shared a YouTube video of Professor Ahmad Rafique Akhtar Islam and homosexuality and urged everyone to watch this and learn.

Moreover, she also reminded that God might punish all of us for not taking a stand against this problem. She ended by shaving another YouTube video of Abdul Hakim Murad Shaykh about “Homosexuality In Islam”.

Noor Mukadam, a 27-year-old and the daughter of former diplomat Shaukat Mukadam, was grisly murdered and beheaded on July 20th, 2021 in an upscale and posh neighborhood of F7/4, Islamabad. Noor’s body was found in the house of Zahir Jaffer, who is the prime murder suspect and an FIR has been registered against him at the Kohsar Police Station.

According to the initial reports, both were friends and Zahir had held Noor hostage for two days before killing her. An Investigation Team was created as soon as the issue started trending on social media and Prime Minister took notice. On July 25th, Zahir’s parents were arrested and the court sent the suspect on remand. On August 21, the court extended Zahir’s physical remand and moved him to Adiala jail. Moreover, on August 10, all suspects in the case were placed on Exit Control List (ECL). On September 11, a major turnout took place as the suspect, Zahir Jaffer confessed his crime and told that he murdered Noor because she refused to marry him.

The case is going on with emerging controversies every day including Zahir Jaffer’s mental health which was further declared ‘stable’ by the doctors at the jail and the fingerprints and the DNA report also place Zahir at the murder scene.

On 24th January 2021, IG Islamabad took a meeting to review the progress of the trial of the Noor Mukadam Case in the context of previous meetings and media reports. The meeting was attended by DIG Operations, Chief Prosecutor SSP Investigation, SP Investigation, DSP Legal and IO of the case. The case took another turn with the statements of the Investigation Officer, which he said during his cross-examination by the defence lawyer Advocate Sikandar Saleem.

He revealed three loopholes during the court proceedings:

1. No statements of any neighbor or guard were recorded.
2. CCTV footage was also not made part of the investigation.
3. No bloodstains were found on the accused’s pants.

Furthermore, the officer said in today’s hearing, presided over by Additional Session Judge Ata Rabbani that Zahir’s presence was not included on the crime scene map and the hair sample taken from the knife, presumed to be of the victim’s, was found to be “not suitable”.

Author: Shiza Safdar

Student of IR at National Defence University

Transparency International released a report on corruption perception index (CPI) 2021, On 25th January 2022. The report claimed that corruption levels remained at a standstill worldwide.

Pakistan lost 16 spots on the list over the last year and ranked 140 out of 180 countries. This shows that the government has failed to control corruption despite the popular Anti-Corruption rhetoric that PTI promulgated to gain power.

Pakistan scored 28/100 as compared to last year’s score that was 31/100. According to an official of transparency International in Pakistan, “Absence of rule of law has resulted in low CPI score of Pakistan”.

The leader of the opposition quickly tried to grab this opportunity to curse the government and demanded resignation from the government. He further added that Nawaz Sharif’s honest leadership had reduced corruption in Pakistan while Imran Niazi’s government has resulted in worldwide humiliation of Pakistan and called PM a thief.

Author: Abu Huraira Arain

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has always been vocal for Afghan people to raise their matter at the International forums. On Sunday, Imran Khan tried to raise the Afghan crisis issue on Twitter to amplify the needy voice of Afghan people.

Imran Khan launched a Twitter trend #SaveAfghanPeople. The trend was launched to seek help from the international community to prevent economic and humanitarian crisis.

However, PTI supporters on social media disapproved the campaign of Imran Khan. His supporters reminded him that they voted him to develop Pakistan, not for participating in a Twitter trend that too for another country.