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Pakistan cricketer Haider Ali suspended amid rape investigation in England
Pakistan batsman Haider Ali is under criminal investigation in England, his country’s cricket board says while Greater Manchester Police say an arrest has been made following a rape allegation.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Pakistan batsman Haider Ali is under criminal investigation in England, his country’s cricket board said Thursday while Greater Manchester Police said an arrest has been made following a rape allegation.
The Pakistan Cricket Board said an investigation “involving cricketer Haider Ali” stemmed from “an incident that reportedly occurred during the Pakistan Shaheens’ recent tour of England.”
The PCB did not specify the nature of the investigation into the 24-year-old Ali.
Greater Manchester Police told The Associated Press that on Monday they received a report of a rape and that “we have arrested a 24-year-old man.”
“It’s alleged that the incident occurred on Wednesday 23 July 2025 at a premises in Manchester,” the police statement added. “The man has since been bailed pending further enquiries.”
Pakistan's rights group demands withdrawal of terror charges against a 7-year-old boy in Balochistan
Pakistan’s independent human rights commission has called on authorities to drop terrorism charges against a 7-year-old boy.
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s independent human rights commission on Friday called on authorities to drop terrorism charges against a 7-year-old boy, a day after police in the southwestern province of Balochistan sought his arrest for sharing an anti-government speech by a rights activist on social media.
The case has sparked outrage among human rights defenders, who say applying anti-terror laws to a minor highlights an intensifying crackdown on dissent in the volatile region.
Mortar kills 2 children, mother in northwest Pakistan where troops are targeting militants
KHAR, Pakistan: A mortar struck a home and killed two children and their mother in a northwestern Pakistani region where security forces are carrying out a “targeted operation ” against the Pakistani Taliban, residents and a hospital official said Wednesday. It was not immediately clear who was...
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KHAR, Pakistan: A mortar struck a home and killed two children and their mother in a northwestern Pakistani region where security forces are carrying out a “targeted operation ” against the Pakistani Taliban, residents and a hospital official said Wednesday.
I have been proved wrong more than once, but I will again venture out and say - this event starts a timer. With fireworks when the timer hits zero
TLDR - Pak went to International Court on IWT. India did not show up, Court ruled by default in Pak's favor. Pak struts around like a peacock. India says it changes nothing on the ground and also India does not believe in the court's jurisdiction.
TLDR - Pak went to International Court on IWT. India did not show up, Court ruled by default in Pak's favor. Pak struts around like a peacock. India says it changes nothing on the ground and also India does not believe in the court's jurisdiction.
‘Sheikh Chilli’- Nomics: The Mirage of Pakistan’s US Trade Deal
Pakistan’s US trade deal sparked triumph over India—but the fine print reveals more glitter than gold, with little real gain for Islamabad.
The euphoria in Pakistan following its recent trade deal with the United States (US)—on seemingly more favourable terms than those accorded to arch-rival India and other regional competitors—has given way to the sobering realisation that the deal, in fact, doesn't do much for Pakistan. The initial flush of excitement over US President Donald Trump’s post on his social media handle was fuelled not only by his announcement that the US will help develop Pakistan’s “massive oil reserves” but also by his comment to India to buy the oil produced in Pakistan.
‘Sheikh Chilli’- Nomics: The Mirage of Pakistan’s US Trade Deal
Pakistan’s US trade deal sparked triumph over India—but the fine print reveals more glitter than gold, with little real gain for Islamabad.www.orfonline.org
The euphoria in Pakistan following its recent trade deal with the United States (US)—on seemingly more favourable terms than those accorded to arch-rival India and other regional competitors—has given way to the sobering realisation that the deal, in fact, doesn't do much for Pakistan. The initial flush of excitement over US President Donald Trump’s post on his social media handle was fuelled not only by his announcement that the US will help develop Pakistan’s “massive oil reserves” but also by his comment to India to buy the oil produced in Pakistan.
For the millionth time Pak will wake up to the realization that Johns say many things during the tumble in the hay but no John ever married a working girl.
There are many here that might need to learn a thing on two from what often happens across the border. Plenty of willing fools here as well.
Militant attacks on Pakistani police kill 5 as government hunt for insurgents displaces thousands
A series of attacks against Pakistani police by militants left five officers dead and eight wounded in the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Pakistan’s Independence Day.
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A series of attacks against Pakistani police by militants left five officers dead and eight wounded in a region where a government operation against insurgents has displaced 100,000 people, officials said.
There were four attacks with three resulting in officer casualties Thursday, police said. Most died or were injured in a single attack in the Upper Dir district when armed men ambushed a police van early Thursday. Three officers died and seven were injured during the routine patrol, police official Ismail Khan said.
What inbreeding does to people.
So....before you call us out. Read your hindu religious text. Cousin marriage is totally allowed and very widely done in Hindu culture.
If you call us *censored* due to that. So are you.
Your Indian inferiority complex makes yiu try to copy the Christians of Europe and elsewhere, who call us *censored* due to cousin marriage, which we do.
But they don't do that because its forbidden in Christianity.
Not the genetic humbug.
For context the entire Afghanistan and central Asia does cousin marriage, and look at their physique.
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From drone to Scalp cruise missile to now HQ 16 
......... Both allows highest degree of separation which is necessary to be considered as a valid Hindu marriage.... Little to no chance of inbreeding........ So we are not same.
Hindu follow sapinda & gotra marriage system, go have a read on it
......... Both allows highest degree of separation which is necessary to be considered as a valid Hindu marriage.... Little to no chance of inbreeding........ So we are not same.
LOL. Ask the avg Hindu what he or she thinks of any Abrahamic culture including Christianity or goras in general. Hint hint: it's not good feelings at all.
Physique is not the only measure of human capability, it's also intelligence which those regions you listed AND your own country severely lack. Pakistan a country of 250 million people can't even produce it's own self designed car or even motorcycle. Reason? Bcus of this:
Bangladesh is Muslim too but take a look at their cousin marriage data. It's uniquely Pakistani to engage in ape breeding behavior in the subcontinent.
Although this isn't related to the thread in question, the stance that maamu takes is one that most Paxtanis employ to defend consanguineous marriages.
I'd answer this by referring the reader to what I read sometime back about the Modus Operandi ( MO) of the Tableeghi Jamaat ( TeJ) . This organization was founded early last century to eliminate impurities ( read Hindu influences ) which were part of the way Muslims practiced their religion in the sub continent.
Their missionary activities were essentially focused on the Muslims of Nuh or Mewati Muslims who going by the standard definition of Muslims were only nominal Muslims.
They hardly read the Quran, had no Alims or Maluanas amongst them to guide them in Islamic practises & so on . As a result they celebrated both Hindu & Muslim festivals, kept the Ramadan fast which again wasn't universal among them , made the Haj if possible , indulged in intoxicants , didn't observe halal mostly or sacrificed for Eid al Azha & if they did, didn't sacrifice a cow but abstained from beef & consanguineous marriages or cousin marriages.
There were a lot of other points of differences with Orthodox Islam apart from the ones listed but for the purpose of this post I'm exercising brevity . Incidentally this is where the term Ganga Jumni tehzeeb comes from. It symbolises the half conversion to Islam.
Sufi missionaries who indulged in such conversions were often criticised by the ulema for these half baked conversions. The Sufis on the other hand were more pragmatic. Their thought was if we get them to partially convert that's one foot in the doorway. Eventually full conversion would follow. Events proved them right for a whole host of reasons that will require discussion for another day as it'd be a pretty elaborate one .
Coming back to the MO employed by the TeJ which in turn was something out of the playbook of early Islamic missionaries, the first task was the feeding of beef to the new convert after the proclamation of the Kalma Shahada.
This was important for the first test of a true convert was the casting away of ritual taboos of the previous religion to establish sincerity of conversion. In Iran the convert was supposed to torture or kill a dog since a dog is considered holy in Zoroastrianism.
Incidentally in late medieval India after the Gurus when Sikhi was faced with annihilation & they began to aggressively proselytize to increase their numbers, they used to feed neo converts with pork apart from ensuring the meat of any animal they had ( goat sheep fowl other birds) were slaughtered thru jhatka as opposed to halal. This meat was sanctified as kutha meat. This was also done to prevent spies getting into their fold .
The next item on the agenda was to arrange cousin marriages since this was a taboo among caste Hindus then & now. The logic was the same as the one on getting the convert to eating beef which is to break down old taboos & ensure full conversion to Islam .
These were the steps the TeJ missionaries adopted to ensure full conversion to Islam. As late as the 1970s those missionaries themselves admitted to being only partially successful aa they got the Mewatis to eat beef, abjure alcohol, become namaazis but couldn't pursuade the bulk of them to indulge in consanguineous marriages. And this was after 4-6 centuries after their nominal conversion to Islam.
So maamu here belongs to an Indic group who were more fully converted to Islam as compared to other groups . This is subjective as sub continental Muslims are also grave worshipers something you won't find in Arabia except for among the Shi'as which is an entirely different story altogether.
It's another matter that maamu's compatriots love their sisters a little too much even by Islamic standards since consanguineous marriages in Paxtan are among the highest in the Islamic world. Let's just say that's how Paxtanis celebrate Raksha Bandhan .
BTW consanguineous marriages are present in South India among few Hindu communities & there too it's among maternal cousins or maternal uncle & niece marriages although it's a dying tradition unlike what it is in Islam especially Paxtan where the trend is growing .
Finally Christianity doesn't prohibit consanguineous marriages it just became out of fashion before it was deemed to be medically unsafe to do so. Having said that it also wasn't custom among the majority of trbes or peoples of Europe who followed Christianity to indulge in consanguineous marriages even before their conversion nor were there considerations to do so like what the TeJ indulged in. The Renaissance & Enlightenment opened up Christian societies who did observe these practices essentially in the Middle East & possibly Southern Europe to change like no other.
Incidentally European Royalty practiced consanguineous marriages till the 20th century . The kings of Germany & UK were first cousins IIRC at the onset of WW-1 & the Russian king too was related to both kings being either their first or second cousin .
Interestingly the late Queen Elizabeth & her husband Prince Philip were distant cousins.
I'd like to think your usage of the term working girl wasn't entirely innocent. Even otherwise , Maamu @safriz here wouldn't understand the term for the life of him.