Tag: #MuftiQavi
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Remembering Qandeel Baloch on her death anniversary
Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan’s first female social media celebrity, who belonged to a working class rural family from the province of Punjab and had over 750,000 followers on Facebook alone, was strangled to death by her brother in what the police described as an “honor killing” on 15th July, 2016. Baloch’s exponential rise to fame began…
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Mufti Qavi lands in hot waters for declaring alcohol halal
Mufti Qavi declares alcohol consumption and beverages with less than 40% alcohol content halal. Qavi, who had featured prominently in the days leading up to the death of social media star Qandeel Baloch, recently told an interviewer from a web-based information portal that alcohol derived from minerals, such as spirits, petrochemicals and other substances,…