{"id":71523,"date":"2024-03-15T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/anwar-maqsood-rubbishes-rumours-of-torture\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:40:05","slug":"anwar-maqsood-rubbishes-rumours-of-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/anwar-maqsood-rubbishes-rumours-of-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Anwar Maqsood rubbishes rumours of torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s renowned scriptwriter Anwar Maqsood has dismissed rumours circulating about his alleged abduction and assault.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Anwar Maqsood&#039;s Exclusive Video Statement - \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc18 \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc24\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc20 \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc30\ud835\udc2c\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Lt7xbOLeGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a video statement released recently, Anwar Maqsood, 84, expressed gratitude for the concern shown by his fans and acquaintances but emphasised that the reports of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Lt7xbOLeGE\">abduction were entirely false<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past few days, certain news was circulating that made my life a living hell. I have admirers all over the world. I received a call from every city, every country asking how I am. I\u2019m perfectly fine. Whatever you\u2019re hearing has not happened, nor will it happen,\u201d Maqsood said in his video statement.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more: <\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a title=\"Anwar Maqsood\u2019s son says fake tweets, accounts put father\u2019s life in danger\" href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/anwar-maqsoods-life-is-in-danger\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Anwar Maqsood\u2019s son says fake tweets, accounts put father\u2019s life in danger<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am 84 years old. I won\u2019t survive after a slap. How could I be subjected to a heavy beating? It didn\u2019t happen. I am fine,\u201d he asserted. Anwar Maqsood added, \u201cI\u2019ve been writing, speaking for you all for 66 years. I love our soldiers who are at the borders giving up their lives for us. I\u2019m not being coerced to say this. I\u2019m saying this from my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anwar Maqsood highlighting the proliferation of fake social media accounts bearing his name and image, said: \u201cThis is the phone I have. It doesn\u2019t even have a camera. How will I tweet? There are 42 accounts with my picture, which are fake. I\u2019ve told everyone. I told FIA, the police to have them shut down. They said we cannot do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s renowned scriptwriter Anwar Maqsood has dismissed rumours circulating about his alleged abduction and assault. In a video statement released recently, Anwar Maqsood, 84, expressed gratitude for the concern shown by his fans and acquaintances but emphasised that the reports of his abduction were entirely false. \u201cIn the past few days, certain news was circulating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Anwar-Maqsood-rumours-abduction-torture-reject.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}