Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi aggressively responded to Afghan National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib’s statement that Pakistan is a brothel house. He said Pakistan will refrain from dialogues with you in middle of this peace talk if you maintain this low language and accusations against Pakistan.

Pakistan Foreign Minister’s statement came after Afghan national security advisor called Pakistan a brothel house, he gave these anti-Pakistan remarks in a speech when he visited Eastern Nangarhar province near Pakistan border this month.

Qureshi stated Afghan NSA is deliberately creating room for conflict in middle of ongoing peace deal, hence Pakistan will not consider any dialogue with Afghan Advisor. He also added those Afghanis who wish peace process to meet it’s completion should urge Advisor Hamdullah Mohib to correct his behavior as Pakistan is not going to tolerate such remarks.

Prime Minister’s office has issued a statement to use Urdu language, the notification says Urdu language should be used in all events and programs that Prime Minister will attend.

Concerned Departments and Officials have been notified to take necessary steps to implement Prime Minister’s direction. Special Assistant to Prime Minister Shahbaz Gill took on the micro-blogging site Twitter to inform that the Government Officials and Ministers will also use the National language to deliver their speeches or statements.

Shahbaz Gill stated that Prime Minister wants, Ministers and government officials to deliver statements related to general public of Pakistan only in Urdu language, he added PM wants everyone to respect the language that majority understands in our country.

The National Assembly’s standing Committee on Law and Justice approved chemical castration for sexual crimes as proposed in Criminal law bill 2020. The National Assembly’s body on law approved the Anti Rape (investigation and trial) Bill 2020, aimed at changing the definition of rape and Criminal law amendment bill 2020 ensuring exemplary punishments for habitual rapists; chemical castration. It was moved by Minister of Law and Justice Mr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem.

Under the Law a special Court, Anti rape cell and special Committee would be set up to deal with rape cases. The Purpose of the amendment is to provide speedy justice to the victims and giving strict punishment to the offenders by substituting the Section 375 of the Pakistan Penal code.

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has published its 2nd Follow-Up Report (FUR) on Pakistan’s progress on account of recommendations of FATF and the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) which was published in October 2019. Pakistan has made notable progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.

Pakistan requested a re-rating of its compliance for several recommendations by FATF which was undertaken by Asian Pacific Group (APG) experts and thus prepared this report. Pakistan requested a re-rating of 23 recommendations out of which 22 have been re-rated.

Out of 23 recommendations, 5 have been re-rated COMPLIANT from PARTIALLY COMPLIANT, 15 have been re-rated LARGELY- COMPLIANT, only 1 recommendation has been re-rated to PARTIALLY COMPLIANT while 2 of them remained NON-COMPLIANT based on insufficient progress.

Since the last Follow-Up Report which was published in February 2020, Pakistan has taken further steps in respect of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA). Substantial efforts have been made to address deficiencies identified in the Mutual Evaluation Report (MER). Several frameworks have been revised and measures have been strengthened. The scope of the progress is mostly in line with FATF requirements.

Pakistan will expedite from enhanced to enhanced follow-up and will continue to report back to the Asian Pacific Group (APG) on progress to strengthen the implementation of Anti-Money Laundering/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism measures

Shaheer Sialvi, a student leader and president of the State Youth Parliament, recently criticized Malala Yousafzai on her latest statement regarding marriage in an interview with Vogue Magazine. He said that both Malala and her father had a sick mentality due to which she gave this controversial statement. He asked: “If we do not get married, then from where will we have our children, from Daraz or Alibaba.com?

He mentioned that we belonged to such a culture where if a little boy goes to the bazaar with his sister, he walks in such a way that no body would dare to look at his sister, but you people are talking nonsense.

He added that Malala’s father never spoke against any foreign minister or official, but he gave many statements against the Pakistan army and the Prime Minister of Pakistan, it shows their bias. He also said that they never condemned Israel about the Palestinian crisis because of their interests in America and Israel.

He further stated that when Malala had to write a book, she wrote so much against the Army that it’s “character less”. After seeing a bearded guy, you take him as “Firaun” and much more. He said at the end that “after speaking against their own country, they got Noble Prize”.

The highly controversial Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, who claims to know about the stories that emerge from inside the homes of Army Generals, who was the first one to identify Ajmal Qassab’s house, and the one who managed to reach Bin Laden for an exclusive interview. The same Hamid Mir has asserted that he was unaware that a verified Facebook page named after him was being run (From India!) for the last couple of years.

The fact that Hamid Mir’s verified Facebook page was being handled by Indian editors was first brought to the notice of general public by a young Pakistani journalist, Makhdoom Shahab Ud Din.

Shortly after Makhdoom Shahab Ud Din exposed Hamid Mir, Indian editors were removed from Hamid’s verified Facebook page and few minutes later Hamid’s verified Facebook page disappeared from social media as if it never existed.

Hamid Mir, caught off guard, responded by claiming that he had no idea about the verified Facebook page under his name. Mir blamed Facebook and demanded an investigation saying that how could the tech giant which has a notoriously tough procedure for getting a page verified, allow a verified page in his name, a page he claims he has never used.

The Military’s Unified Communications Agency, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) and Hum TV jointly launched Pakistan’s first-ever military reality show.

Hum TV will broadcast a reality show under ISPR’s banner, the show is written by Umer Mukhtar. With great efforts done jointly, this is an important milestone in Pakistan’s entertainment media. According to reports, there will be 4 international teams and 8 local teams in the next reality show.

Hum TV finished shooting the show with 120 cameras outdoors, and finally moved to indoor shooting. Previously, ISPR collaborated with Hum TV in the production of Ehd E Wafa, which was a story of a group of four friends with different goals and fields but stood together throughout their journey for sake of friendship.