Category: World

  • Imran Khan’s wife Bushra most googled Pakistani in 2018

    Imran Khan’s wife Bushra most googled Pakistani in 2018

    Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Maneka has been the most searched person on Google in Pakistan in 2018. Known as Pinki Pir, the 50-year-old sufi spiritualist married 65-year-old Imran Khan in January 2018. A mother of five, she married Imran after divorcing her husband Khawar Farid Maneka. She is a revered sufi pir…

  • I was raped when I was 16, says Padma Lakshmi

    I was raped when I was 16, says Padma Lakshmi

    Salman Rushdie’s former wife and American model Padma Lakshmi says she was raped by her boyfriend when she was 16. “When I was 16 years old, I started dating a guy I met at the Puente Hills Mall in a Los Angeles suburb. I worked there after school at the accessories counter at Robinsons-May,’’ she…

  • Pakistan glorifies Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani with postal stamp

    Pakistan glorifies Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani with postal stamp

    India has cancelled the meeting of external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj with her Pakistani counterpart in New York after Pakistani-backed militants killed three police men in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan Post issued special postage stamps glorifying slain Kashmiri militant leader Burhan Wani as a ‘Freedom Icon’. The postal stamps worth eight Pakistani rupees carry…

  • Hindu leader tells Walmart to withdraw Ganesha Toe Ring

    Hindu leader tells Walmart to withdraw Ganesha Toe Ring

      Nevada-based American Hindu leader and priest Rajan Zed has urged Walmart to immediately withdraw `Ganesh Toe Ring’ from sale from its website, calling it highly inappropriate. Urging Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and Walmart Board Chairman Gregory B. Penner to withdraw `Ganesh Toe Ring’ from sale and offer a formal apology to Hindus, Zed said Lord…