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  • Mathira wishes to adopt a Palestinian child, give them a ‘safe place’

    Mathira has expressed her wish to adopt a Palestinian child and offer them a “safe place called home”.

    “I would love to adopt a child and give him/her all the love that he/she has lost, and a safe place called home,” wrote Mathira on Instagram.

    “If there is away for adoption available, please do DM me,” she asked her followers.

    While many appreciated Mathira for her gesture, others said that the model was just pulling a publicity stunt prompting, Ayesha Omar to step in to defend her.

    According to details, at least 58 children have been killed by the Israeli forces in the new wave of violence. Dozens of children have also been injured and orphaned in the attacks. In a video that has gone viral on social media, a baby girl in Gaza praying during the bombardment by Israeli forces.

    In a report released last month, the Human Rights Watch said Israeli authorities are committing crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution. The 213-page report titled, A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution should be read by every world leader in order to understand the gravity of the situation, said the human rights body.

  • ‘Your country was forced on the world,’ Asim Azhar calls out Israel’s claims

    ‘Your country was forced on the world,’ Asim Azhar calls out Israel’s claims

    Ever since Israel launched fresh airstrikes in Gaza and Palestine, the official Twitter account of the country has been actively propagating and justifying its acts. Asim Azhar recently responded to one of their tweets and told them to “stop the terrorism”.

    Responding to Israel’s claims that they were founded 3,000 years ago, Azhar said: “Your ‘country’ was literally founded, sorry I mean forced on the world in 1948. Humse bhi aik saal chotay ho, aide tussi 3,000 years kay (You are one year younger than Pakistan and yet you claim you’re 3000 years old).”

    “Stop the terrorism,” he added.

    Asim’s tweet comes as tensions escalate in Palestine, where the Jewish state has dropped bombs on Palestinians killing hundreds. According to reports, Israeli fighter jets continued to pummel the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday, flattening residential buildings and killing at least four Palestinians, including a journalist.

    Read more – Sheheryar Munawar urges people to speak against injustice in Palestine

    Furthermore, reports have stated that Israel has dropped close to 122 bombs on Gaza in 25 minutes on Wednesday.

    Earlier, Israeli forces shot dead four other Palestinians and wounded scores more during protests and a historic general strike in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

    At least 220 Palestinians, including 63 children, have been killed in Gaza since the latest violence flared on May 10. About 1,500 Palestinians have been wounded.

  • Eleven children receiving trauma care killed in their homes by Israeli airstrikes

    Eleven children receiving trauma care killed in their homes by Israeli airstrikes

    The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has confirmed that eleven children going through treatment to help them deal with trauma were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in recent days.

    As per reports, all children between 5 and 15 years old were killed in their homes in different areas of the city while many of their relatives also either died or were injured.

    “We are devastated to learn that 11 children we were helping with trauma were bombarded while they were at home and thought they were safe,” said NRC’s Secretary General Jan Egeland.

    “They are now gone, killed with their families, buried with their dreams and the nightmares that haunted them. We call on Israel to stop this madness. Children must be protected. Their homes must not be targets. Schools must not be targets. Spare these children and their families. Stop bombing them now,” she asserted.

    Read more – Infant reunited with father after miraculously surviving Israeli airstrike

    The children NRC assisted included Lina Iyad Sharir, 15 who was targeted with both of her parents in their home on May 11 in Gaza City’s Al Manara neighbourhood. Her two-year-old sister Mina got third-degree burns and is in critical condition.

    13-year-old Hala Hussein al-Rifi was killed on the night of May 12. The attack also killed four-year-old Zaid Mohammad Telbani and his five month pregnant mother Rima. Zaid’s sister is now reportedly missing.

    Multiple air raids on May 16 killed six children that NRC worked with.

    The same attacks also killed Rula Mohammad al-Kawlak and many other children along with their family members.

    NRC works with 118 schools in the Gaza Strip approaching more than 75,000 students under its psycho-social intervention, the Better Learning Programme.

    “As an urgent measure, we appeal to all parties for an immediate ceasefire so that we can reach those in need and spare more civilians,” Egeland said.

    “But the truth is that there can be no peace or security as long as there are systemic injustices. The siege of Gaza needs to be lifted and the occupation of Palestinians must end if we are to avoid more trauma and death among children and new cycles of destruction every few years.”

  • ‘No place for those who do not trust PM Khan,’ says Qureshi

    ‘No place for those who do not trust PM Khan,’ says Qureshi

    Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI) has no place for the ones who do not trust Prime Minister Imran Khan. Qureshi said this on ‘Geo Pakistan’.

    He said that all the elected members of the party are committed to Imran Khan’s discipline.

    “No elected member could violate the party discipline over the vote of confidence and the finance bill,” he said, further adding that the membership of those who do not adhere to the government’s stance will get affected.

    Qureshi said that PM Khan had invited the pro-Tareen group members and heard their concerns. PM assured them that there will be no injustice.

    Without taking any names, Qureshi hinted that Jahangir Tareen must show faith in his leader. “Those who no longer have faith in the PM should not stay in the party,” he stated.

    Nazir Chauhan, a prominent member of JKT group, criticized PM on ARY News Programme, ’11th hour.’

    “So if there is no Imran Khan, there will be no PTI?” Nazir questioned angrily. He further added, “We gave 12 years to the party . Are we mad or are we slaves?”

    Chauhan asked, “Is PTI only Imran Khan?”

    Shortly after this, #IStandWithImranKhan started trending on Twitter. Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar also took to Twitter to show support for PM Khan.

    Jahangir Tareen denied reports that he was forming a forward bloc in the party.

    Tareen said, “We were part of PTI, and we will continue to remain part of PTI.”

    




    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Pakistan to send coronavirus relief assistance to Palestine
    
			
    Pakistan to send coronavirus relief assistance to Palestine
    
			
    

    Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Tuesday that Pakistan would send coronavirus and medical emergency relief assistance to Palestine on humanitarian grounds.
    




    This decision was taken during the cabinet meeting held on Tuesday. Fawad said the cabinet thoroughly discussed the prevailing situation in Palestine and expressed indignation over the unfortunate situation of Palestinians.
    




    “Pakistan was the first country that took a strong, clear, and unflinching stance on Palestine,” said Chaudhry.
    




    Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi went on an official visit to Turkey, where he held a meeting with his Turkish counterpart on the Palestine issue.
    




    


    




    Foreign ministers of different Islamic countries including Pakistan, Turkey, Sudan, and Palestine will leave for New York in a group form to attend the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine, he said.
    




    


    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Mahira Khan urges Shireen Mazari to protect minorities, ‘lead by example’
    
			
    Mahira Khan urges Shireen Mazari to protect minorities, ‘lead by example’
    
			
    

    Mahira Khan has urged Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari to “lead by example” and look into giving protection to minorities after a 200-strong mob attacked a Christian family in Okara.
    




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    The actor tagging Mazari in a tweet wrote: “Dear Shireen Mazari, your attention needed here please. We need to lead by example.”
    




    


    




    According to reports, Christian boys were beaten in a Muslim-majority village in the Okara district of Punjab following which a mob of villagers attacked the Christian community in the area. 
    




    Father Khalid Mukhtar, parish priest of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Chak 5 said the attack was sparked following an attack on Catholic youngsters on May 14.
    




    “The boys were cleaning the church when one of the Muslim landlords, passing by the church, accused them of throwing dust on him. They attacked the boys and then raided 15 houses of our community the next day,” said the priest.
    




    Mangta Masih, a labourer lost his thumb when the mob attacked his house.
    




    “We hid our women inside while they tried to break in,” said Masih. “One of them grabbed me from behind and another struck with a sickle blade. I tried to prevent the blow with my right hand. I fell down and they kept beating us with batons.”
    




    He further shared that the attackers were “armed with glass bottles, stones, axes, batons and bricks”.
    




    “Others used stairs to climb to our roofs and started breaking our furniture. We pleaded to spare the women but the attack continued for half an hour,” said Masih.
    




    Another woman who was wounded in the attack said that the mob “broke the locks, grabbed our hair and pulled us out one by one”.
    




    “Young girls were assaulted and left with torn clothes,” said the woman, detailing the horror. Christian activists have been sharing disturbing footage of the attack on social media.
    




    Following the attacks, Father Mukhtar conducted a meeting of parish committee members on May 16 at St. Thomas Church, gathered statements of the injured and filed a complaint at the local police station.
    




    The local deputy superintendent of police visited the site and assured locals that a first information report (FIR) would be registered against the assailants under Section 452 (house trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) of the Pakistan Penal Code. 
    




    Meanwhile, Osman Khalid Butt also urged the Federal Minister to take notice and protect religious minorities in the country. 
    




    


    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    ‘We will continue to remain part of PTI,’ says Tareen
    
			
    ‘We will continue to remain part of PTI,’ says Tareen
    
			
    

    Disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen on Wednesday denied reports that he was forming a forward bloc in the party.
    




    “We were part of the PTI, and we will continue to remain part of the PTI,” Tareen announced outside the banking court where he had appeared for a hearing. He said that the like-minded group was established three months ago. 
    




    Tareen said that his supporters had decided to form a separate group after the Punjab government initiated “revenge actions” against them.
    




    Tareen said his ‘supporters’ were standing with him as far as, what he referred to as the “fake” FIR lodged against Tareen. The pro-Tareen group had met the prime minister recently.
    




    On Tuesday night, Jahangir Khan Tareen hosted a dinner at his residence and announced a ‘group of like-minded people’. The newly formed group has appointed PTI’s Raja Riaz as Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly while PML-N’s Saeed Akbar Nawani will lead in the Punjab Assembly.
    




    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    VIDEO: Car catches fire after driver uses hand sanitizer while smoking
    
			
    VIDEO: Car catches fire after driver uses hand sanitizer while smoking
    
			
    

    A car burst into flames in Maryland after a driver used hand sanitizer while smoking a cigarette.
    




    According to officials, the fire was caused by the “driver using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette,” which he cites as a “bad combo in an unventilated area like a car.” 
    




    


    




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    The car is badly damaged and cannot be recovered, Fire control officials took the driver to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor burns and injuries. 
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Bill Gates admits affair with Microsoft employee
    
			
    Bill Gates admits affair with Microsoft employee
    
			
    

    Bill Gates has admitted via a spokeswoman that he had an extramarital affair 20 years ago with a Microsoft employee that was investigated by Microsoft.
    




    According to details, the affair ended ‘amicably’ and is not connected to his decision to step down from the company’s board.
    




    The company’s board did an investigation into the affair after a female employee sent a letter in 2019 alleging that she and Gates had a ‘sexual relationship’ over the years.
    




    “Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” Shaw said in an emailed statement.
    




    “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.”
    




    It is not clear what role the investigation or the affair played in the decision of Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage. The couple announced their divorce earlier this month.
    




    Read more – Bill Gates quits Microsoft board of directors
    




    In a divorce filing that day, French Gates called the marriage “irretrievably broken.”
    




    French Gates’s divorce lawyer, Robert Cohen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    




    Gates is ranked as the fourth on the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Forbes estimates Gates’s net worth at $128.3 billion.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    ‘PTI is Imran Khan’: PTI reacts to Jahangir Tareen’s new political group
    
			
    

    On Tuesday night, Jahangir Khan Tareen hosted a dinner at his residence and announced a ‘group of like-minded people’. The newly formed group has appointed PTI’s Raja Riaz as Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly while PML-N’s Saeed Akbar Nawani will lead in the Punjab Assembly.
    




     




    PTI’s Nazir Chohan has claimed that the new JKT party has eight members of the National Assembly and 32 members of the Provincial assembly with them. However, the names of the members of the ‘like-minded’ group are yet to be revealed.
    




    He further added that the whole group will resign if any of their members are disqualified. 
    




    A few hours after the news broke, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s close aide, Senator Faisal Javed Khan in a tweet wrote, “Imran Khan is PTI and PTI is Imran Khan,” which started speculation on social media that the tweet referred to the official breakup between JKT and PM Khan and the signalling of a new party.
    




    


    




    Following the sugar inquiry commission report last year, the friendship between Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) and Imran Khan ended with JKT leaving for London and returning with rumours that he was leaving the party.