Male engineer caught impersonating woman in exam
Reported in Dunya (July 18, 2016) an engineer was arrested in Lahore for taking university exams for engineering students for money. He was caught when he tried to impersonate a woman.
Wedding guest becomes groom after dowry row
According to Nawa-e-Waqt (July 18, 2016) a wedding procession in Sargodha had to return home without the bride after the groom declined to pay a dowry (haq meher) of Rs 100,000. The bride was married to a man from among the wedding guests who agreed to pay Rs 100,000.
The government is scared of army chief: Pervez Elahi
Quoted in Dunya (July 19, 2016) former Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi said the government’s legs begin to shake when they look at banners praising army chief Gen Raheel Sharif. He said the Pakistani cricket team’s victory at a test match in Lords was the result of military training (army ki training nay asar dikhaya).
Break-in at Sassi Palejo’s apartment in Parliament Lodges
Nawa-e-Waqt reports (July 20, 2016) someone broke into Senator Sassi Palejo’s apartment at the Parliament Lodges in Islamabad. She found the window broken and her files on her bed. But nothing was missing. There was no cash or jewelry in the apartment. Not too long before that, cash and watches were stolen from MNA Talal Chaudhry’s apartment at the Parliament Lodges.
Human smugglers caught taking fake football team to US
A human smuggler was arrested at Islamabad airport when he was trying to take a fake football team consisting of minors to the US, reports Jang (July 19, 2016). He had charged three children Rs 1.2 million each to take them to the United States.
One-ton air conditioner in Qaim Ali Shah’s tiny elevator
Reported in Dunya (July 21, 2016) a one-ton air conditioner was installed in an elevator used by former Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah. The lift is for four people only, measures four feet by six, and the chief minister used to spend no more than 37 seconds in it.
Shahbaz Sharif on how to be a doctor
According to Nawa-e-Waqt (July 22, 2016) when a “position-holder” girl student from Sargodha told the Punjab chief minister during an award ceremony in Lahore that she wants to be a doctor when she grows up, Shahbaz Sharif said: ‘By all means, become a doctor, but don’t go on strikes and don’t carry out protests.’
Voter fails to show up at polling station set up only for him
A polling station had been set up in Larkana for one voter in the Azad Kashmir elections, reports Express (July 22, 2016). The polling staff waited for Mr Shamsuddin from 8 in the morning to 5 in the evening, but he did not show up.
Facebook swindler robs police officer
A trickster from Lahore robbed a deputy superintendent of police in Shortkot, after he hacked his friend’s Facebook account, Jang reports (July 23, 2016). Posing as the friend, the man told the police officer he was in Saudi Arabia and his wife was sick, and that he needed money. The police officer sent him Rs 10,000. The man then said he needed another Rs 50,000, which the officer also sent right away. The cop found out he had been robbed when his actual friend returned from Saudi Arabia.
‘Ban Indian films until the freedom of Kashmir’
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt (July 24, 2016) a lawyer has petitioned the Lahore High Court to ban the exhibition of Indian films in Pakistani cinemas until the freedom of Kashmir. He said watching Indian movies was the same as rubbing salts on the wounds of Kashmiris.