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2012 Kohistan Video Case
The Kohistan video case is an honour killing case that took place in May 2012 in Palas Valley, Kohistan, Pakistan. It involved the honour killing of up to five girls, of whom a video had emerged on the internet. The video featured a boy dancing while four girls clapped and sang along. It is claimed that, when the footage became public, a tribal jirga was held shortly afterwards where it was decided that the participants as well as the boy who filmed the video should be killed. Afzal Kohistani, the elder brother of the two boys involved in the video, went against local tribal tradition and brought the case to national attention; first asking for the participants' protection and subsequently claiming that the girls in the video had already been murdered. Kohistani campaigned for over seven years to keep the case in the public eye until he was murdered in March 2019. In September 2019, three men were convicted of murdering three of the girls from the video and were sentenced to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komila
Komila ( ur, کمیلہ) is an administrative unit, known as Union councils of Pakistan, union council of Kohistan District, Pakistan, Kohistan District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. District Upper Kohistan has four tehsils namely Dassu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dassu, Kandia, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kandia, Bhasha, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bhasha and Subdivisions of Pakistan, Seo. Each Tehsil comprises a certain number of Union councils of Pakistan, Union councils. There are 17 Union councils in district Upper Kohistan. Komila is the central commercial city of the upper Kohistan District. It has a large population, and all the regional castes can be found there. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government officially declared it as a city in 2011. The postal code is 20100. See also * Kohistan District, Pakistan External linksKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower Dir [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolai-Palas District
Kolai-Pallas District ( ps, کولئ پالس ولسوالۍ , ur, ضِلع کولئ پالس ) is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was a sub division of Kohistan district of Hazara division till it was made a separate district in 2017. Overview and history Kolai-Pallas Kohistan was carved as District out of the District Lower Kohistan by Upgrading the old Pallas Sub-Division in 2017. On 31 May 2018, Battera Kolai was carved out of Pallas tehsil making two tehsils in total for Kolai-Pallas. Farhatullah Khan Marwat (PMS) was posted as the first ever Deputy Commissioner (Administrative Head) of the District by the Provincial Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Demographics At the time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 274,923, of which 149,104 were males and 125,814 females. The entire population was rural. 7 people in the district were from religious minorities. The region is dominated by Dardic peoples speaking K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Scandals In Pakistan
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 In Pakistan
Events in the year 2012 in Pakistan. Incumbents Federal government * President – Asif Ali Zardari * Prime Minister – Yousaf Raza Gillani (until 19 June), Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (starting 22 June) * Chief Justice – Abdul Hameed Dogar (until 21 March), Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (starting 21 March) Governors * Governor of Balochistan – Nawab Zulfikar Ali Magsi * Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan – Pir Karam Ali Shah * Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Syed Masood Kausar * Governor of Punjab – Latif Khosa (until 22 December); Syed Ahmed Mahmud (starting 25 December) * Governor of Sindh – Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan Events * Spring - The four women and two men were killed in Kohistan after a dance party in Kohistan. The incident became known as the 2012 Kohistan video case. January * 2 January: India-Pakistan exchange a list of their nuclear installations. * The death toll of a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital in Lahore reaches 112. February *Iranian consulate o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viral Videos
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.Lu Jiang, Yajie Miao, Yi Yang, ZhenZhong Lan, Alexander Hauptmann. Viral Video Style: A Closer Look at Viral Videos on YouTube. Retrieved 30 March 2016. Paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lujiang/camera_ready_papers/ICMR2014-Viral.pdf Slides: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lujiang/resources/ViralVideos.pdf For a video to be shareable or spreadable, it must focus on the social logics and cultural practices that have enabled and popularized these new platforms, logics that explain why sharing has become such common practice, not just how. Viral videos may be serious, and some are deeply emotional, but many more are centered on entertainment and humorous content. They may include televised comedy sketches, such as ''The Lonely Island''s " Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box", '' Numa Numa'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime In Pakistan
Crime in Pakistan is present in various forms and occurs everywhere, especially in the many major cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Peshawar, Multan, Hyderabad, Islamabad and Quetta. Among other general crimes, it includes major crimes such as murder, rape, gang rape, sexual abuse of a minor, kidnapping, armed robbery, burglary and carjacking. For example, in the city of Lahore 379 murders, 500 attempted murders, 2,650 abductions and 55 rapes have occurred in 2019. Organised crime Organised crime in Pakistan includes fraud, racketeering, drug trafficking, smuggling, money laundering, extortion, ransom, political violence, etc. Terrorist attacks became common during the 2000s, especially in North-West Frontier Province, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Balochistan, Karachi and Lahore. Vehicle theft is common, particularly in the large cities. Opium production Pakistan falls under the Golden Crescent, which is one of the two maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandals In Pakistan
A scandal can be broadly defined as the strong social reactions of outrage, anger, or surprise, when accusations or rumours circulate or appear for some reason, regarding a person or persons who are perceived to have transgressed in some way. These reactions are usually noisy and may be conflicting, and they often have negative effects on the status and credibility of the person(s) or organisation involved. Society is scandalised when it becomes aware of breaches of moral norms or legal requirements, often when these have remained undiscovered or been concealed for some time. Such breaches have typically erupted from greed, lust or the abuse of power. Scandals may be regarded as political, sexual, moral, literary or artistic but often spread from one realm into another. The basis of a scandal may be factual or false, or a combination of both. In contemporary times, exposure of a scandalous situation is often made by mass media. Contemporary media has the capacity to sprea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice Media
Vice Media Group LLC is an American-Canadian digital media and broadcasting company. , the Vice Media Group included five main business areas: VICE.com (digital content); VICE STUDIOS (film and TV production) VICE TV (also known as VICELAND); VICE News; and VIRTUE (an agency offering creative services). It was cited as the largest independent youth media company in the world, with 35 offices. Developing from ''Vice'' magazine, originally based in Montreal and co-founded by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes, Vice expanded primarily into youth and young adult–focused digital media. This included online content verticals and related web series, the news division Vice News, a film production studio, and a record label among other properties. Vice re-located to New York City in 2001. Vice Media originally broadcast their news programs on HBO, which broadcast the Emmy-winning weekly documentary series ''Vice'', which premiered in April 2013. ''Vice'' features segment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayman Udas
Aiman Udas was a singer and songwriter in Peshawar, Pakistan. Udas had frequently performed on PTV television and AVT Khyber a private pashto channel in Pakistan. Her first song that she performed was ''Zma da mene na toba da bya ba nakon mena'' (in the Pashto language.) She won considerable acclaim for her songs but had become a musician in the face of bitter opposition from her family, who believed it was sinful for a woman to perform on television. In 2009, ashamed of her growing popularity, her two brothers are reported to have entered her flat while her husband (who is believed to be her 2nd husband) was out and fired three bullets into her chest, killing her. Neither has been caught. Her final song was titled, “I died but still live among the living, because I live on in the dreams of my lover.” See also Honour killing in Pakistan: * 2012 Kohistan video case * Qandeel Baloch * Stoning of Farzana Parveen * Samia Sarwar * Death of Samia Shahid On 20 July 2016, Samia Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of Samia Shahid
On 20 July 2016, Samia Shahid, a 28-year-old British Pakistani woman, was found dead in Punjab, Pakistan. Although involved in a dispute with her family, she had travelled to Pakistan alone as she had been told that her father was critically ill. Relatives claimed that she had died of natural causes, whereas her husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, believed that she had been murdered in a so-called "honour killing"; an autopsy and forensic examination concluded that she had been raped and strangled. Her former husband, Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, was arrested on suspicion of her murder and while in custody allegedly confessed to drugging and strangling his ex-wife. Samia's father was held on suspicion of being an accessory to murder, he was released on bail in December 2016 and died in January 2018. As of 2020, the case against Shakeel remains untried. Background Described as "a jolly, bubbly person, (who) always had a smile on her face", Samia Shahid was from Manningham, Bradford. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samia Sarwar
Samia Sarwar (1970 – 6 April 1999) was a Pakistani woman, who was shot dead in her lawyers' office in Lahore in an "honour killing." Samia Sarwar was a married woman with two children, belonging to an affluent family of Peshawar. She claimed to have suffered marital abuse and eloped with Nadir Mirza, an army officer, leaving her children behind with her parents. The runaway couple cohabited for some days at a five-star hotel in Lahore before Nadir Mirza abandoned Sarwar and returned to his army posting. Samia then sought the help of the Lahore-based sisters Asma Jehangir and Hina Jilani, who are well-known human rights lawyers. Shortly afterwards, at a meeting between Samia and her mother at their chambers in Lahore, Samia was shot dead by an assassin hired by her own parents. They had arranged the murder of their daughter because they felt that she had brought shame upon the family by eloping with a lover, abandoning her husband and children, and making allegations of marital ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoning Of Farzana Parveen
Farzana Parveen Iqbal was killed on 27 May 2014 outside a court in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Her father, two brothers and former fiancé were among the nearly twenty attackers. Farzana, who had eloped with a man of her own choice, and was pregnant by him, was killed in the tradition of honour killing. Incident Muhammad Iqbal and Farzana had been secretly engaged for many years. When she became pregnant, they decided to marry. By this time, Farzana's family had betrothed her to a man they considered worthy and suitable. When Farzana revealed her love affair (but apparently not her pregnancy) to her parents, they were shocked. However, they agreed to meet Muhammad Iqbal. At the meeting, Farzana's father, Muhammad Parveen, indicated that he would consent to the wedding on condition that Iqbal settle a large amount of money in Farzana's name as '' Mehr'' (which is an integral part of any Muslim wedding ceremony). The money would ensure that Farzana would have a back-up in case the marria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
