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  • How to apply for PM Imran’s Kamyab Jawan programme?

    How to apply for PM Imran’s Kamyab Jawan programme?

    Kamyab Jawan Programme launched by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan last week is offering soft loans to the unemployed youth of the country for business and other self-employment opportunities.

    It is expected that over 52% of the Pakistanis can benefit directly through the Programme. 25 % of loans will be provided to young women entrepreneurs for starting small businesses. The government aims to facilitate over one million youngsters in the country with this programme.

    Here is who can apply for the loan:

    Kamyab Jawan Programme is only for the resident of Pakistan and the minimum age for the applicants under this scheme is 21 years at the time of application submission.

    It may lessen to 18 years in case of applicants applying for IT or e-commerce related businesses. The maximum age limit is 45 years at the time of application submission.

    There is no general requirement of minimum educational qualification. However, in case of businesses which compulsorily require certain qualification,  diplomas or licenses.

    Persons employed in private jobs, startups, as well as existing micro and small business enterprises, can also apply for loans.

    More than one person of the same family can apply for this loan individually and independently, however, a single person can only avail one loan at a time.

    Anyone guaranteeing a loan for another person cannot himself apply for a loan under this scheme.

    Applicant’s Husband/Wife/Father/Brother/ Son/ Daughter/ Son in law/ daughter in law/Father in law/Mother in Law cannot become his/her guarantor for the loan. A person can be the guarantee only for one loan/applicant.

    How to apply?

    To apply for this programme, all you need to do is visit the official website of “kamyabjawan.gov.pk” and apply for the loan.

    You cannot download the form so you have to apply online.

    Scroll down the homepage and press “Read More” button below the “Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (Yes)”  initiative.

    You will have to give your basic information with your CNIC number, a selected bank and the nearest branch to your given address will be automatically selected.

    You will receive a message on your given contact number with confirmation of application submission and details of your selected bank and assigned branch.

    Here is the official website:

    https://kamyabjawan.gov.pk/

  • ‘You don’t want change’: Meesha Shafi condemns critics of #MeToo

    ‘You don’t want change’: Meesha Shafi condemns critics of #MeToo

    In a rare social media interaction, Meesha Shafi slammed those criticising director Jami and the #MeToo movement in Pakistan.

    Taking to Twitter, Meesha said that she feels sorry for those who will believe everything except the victim and extended her support for Jami, who in an explosive social media post Sunday night revealed that he had been raped by a powerful media magnate.

    Meesha also addressed her own harassment case and explained why her petition was rejected by the Lahore High Court.

  • NAB officials step up to donate blood to ailing Nawaz

    NAB officials step up to donate blood to ailing Nawaz

    At least five officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) have stepped up to donate blood to ailing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, ARY News reported.

    According to reports, the blood group of the former prime minister (PM) is O+ve and Lahore’s Services Hospital — where Nawaz is admitted — has already cross-matched it with that of the five NAB officials.

    The jailed ex-PM was shifted to the hospital after a precarious drop in his platelet count on Monday night, requiring an emergency response.

    Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid has said that a six-member medical board comprising senior doctors is examining Nawaz and trying to figure out the cause behind his deteriorating health.

    A VVIP room of Services Hospital has been declared as sub-jail for the former premier, while PM Imran has wished him good health and ordered the provincial government to ensure best treatment facilities.

  • PTI govt denotifies prosecution team in Gen (r) Musharraf’s high treason case

    PTI govt denotifies prosecution team in Gen (r) Musharraf’s high treason case

    The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government on Thursday denotified the prosecution team in the high treason case against former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf.

    According to The Express Tribune, the prosecution team was hired in November 2013, during the tenure of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif.

    The special court — hearing the treason case against Musharraf for violating Article 6 of the constitution — adjourned the hearing without any proceedings on Thursday and was informed that the government had dismissed the prosecution team, reports said.

    The court was told that Reza Bashir — the government lawyer provided to the former dictator — was ill and was unable to attend the previous hearing.

    The three-judge special tribunal also summoned secretary interior on November 19.

    Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth asked the prosecutor if any notification was received, to which prosecutor Tariq Hassan said that he had not been notified.

    “Can the prosecution team be dismissed in this manner?” asked Justice Waqar Ahmed. “I sat all night preparing for this case,” responded the prosecutor.

    The court also asked to be informed under which law the prosecution team was denotified by the government.

    Approving the lawyers’ request, the court gave Reza Bashir one more chance to attend the next hearing on November 19.

    The former army chief, who took power in 1999, is facing a treason trial under Article 6 of the constitution as well as Section 2 of the High Treason Act on a complaint moved by the federal government.

    Article 6 of the constitution deals with matters of “high treason” and states that “any person who abrogates or subverts or suspends or holds in abeyance, or attempts or conspires to abrogate or subvert or suspend or hold in abeyance the constitution by use of force or show of force or by any other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason.”

  • Senior State Life official ‘jumps off’ Karachi building

    Senior State Life official ‘jumps off’ Karachi building

    A senior official of State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan (SLIC), allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 11th floor of a multi-storey building on Karachi’s I.I. Chundrigar Road on Wednesday, Dawn has reported.

    According to the details, Zafar Iqbal, age 55, was serving as the deputy manager administration at SLIC and was reportedly facing an inquiry over some “personal activities”.

    However, the family of the deceased has disputed the claim that Iqbal had committed suicide and suggested that his death was a murder.

    But City Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Muquddus Haider has said that initial investigation and eye-witness accounts showed that Iqbal, the father of four children, did commit suicide.

    SSP Haider also said that a guard deployed at the SLIC office tried to persuade Iqbal not to jump from the building, but the latter proceeded to do so anyway.

    “Further investigation into the incident is underway because the family had disputed the police version”, the police official added.

    The deceased official’s body was shifted to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi for autopsy and Mithadar Station House Officer Rizwan Patel has said that they were waiting for a doctors’ report to know more about the death.

  • ‘Am I the doctor?’ asks Imran Khan after hearing about Nawaz Sharif’s failing health

    Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s conditioned worsened as his platelet count fluctuated and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, who was earlier denied permission to meet him, was allowed to do so. After her meeting with her father, she was admitted in the same hospital but family sources are now saying that the government wants to take Maryam back to the hospital “at any cost”.

    Earlier, on Wednesday, a judge had denied Maryam’s request to meet her father but the government gave her permission last night.

    VIDEO: Maryam Nawaz reaches the hospital last night

    Senior leadership, including Nawaz’s brother, Shehbaz Sharif, also went to visit Nawaz at Services Hospital in Lahore.

    Sources say that Nawaz says that he wants to die in jail and that people have died in jail before. According to journalist Zahid Gishkori, doctors have said that Nawaz should get treatment abroad but the former PM is refusing to go out of the country. Reporters are also stating that a doctor has been flown in from Karachi to conduct further tests.

    Journalist and senior anchor, Meher Bokhari tweeted about PM Khan’s reaction to the news, saying that the Prime Minister asked how he could be blamed for Nawaz’s health. She said that when she asked him about it, he “threw his arms up with a bewildered look on his face,” and said, “Am I the doctor? Am I the court? How am I being blamed for this?” and then called “Buzdar to arrange for Maryam to see NS”.

    As #NawazneedsUNhelp starts trending on Twitter last night, people have also started Whatsapp groups to pray for Nawaz’s health and others are asking for international help, claiming that Nawaz has been poisoned.

  • Facebook rolls out dark mode for desktop

    Facebook has begun rolling out a new interface for desktop users, with an optional dark mode in addition to the traditional white design, Tech Radar reported.

    According to the details, after logging into the desktop site, some users have reported seeing a pop-up asking whether they would like to try the new design, which is referred to as ‘Facebook Beta’.

    Since the new update is on trial bases, therefore it is only available for a few people. The users who were invited to use the new interface have shared screenshots of the dark mode and they reveal that there are few problems with the new update.

    Users are facing problems in reading the text in the new dark mode on the desktop, so people who accepted the invitation and currently using the new interface.

    But they can also revert their decision by simply going to the quick settings option through your picture in the top right corner.

    Earlier in the Developer conference, the social media giant had announced to bring a new interface for Android and Desktop users just like Twitter. The dark mode, however, is not yet available to the Facebook mobile app users.

  • Polio in Pakistan

    Polio in Pakistan

  • Why Jami’s story was not taken seriously?

    Why Jami’s story was not taken seriously?

  • After Sindh, Buzdar’s Punjab ‘starts running out of rabies vaccine’

    After Sindh, Buzdar’s Punjab ‘starts running out of rabies vaccine’

    Following the shortfall of anti-rabies vaccine (ARV) at public hospitals across Sindh, Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar-led administration in Punjab has reportedly started running out of the same.

    According to a private media outlet, a minor girl in Sialkot was bitten by a dog earlier this week. Hadiya later passed away because there was no vaccine available at the Civil Hospital she was rushed to in the Kotli Loharan town of the district.

    Last month, a ten-year-old, who was bitten by a stray dog, died of rabies in Larkana.

    According to details, the minor, who was identified as Mir Hasan was first taken to a hospital in Shikarpur, however, he was not given the treatment because there was no vaccine available at the hospital.

    Hasan’s parents later rushed him to Larkana’s Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Hospital, but it had also run out of the required vaccine, resulting in the boy succumbing to the disease.

    The tragic development in Punjab comes amid the government’s inaction despite a rise in the number of dog-bite in Sialkot. Earlier this year, over 200 people were attacked by stray dogs in the district within a short span of two months.

    RABIES & VACCINE SHORTAGE:

    Rabies encephalitis is a dog-borne viral illness caused mostly by the biting of stray dogs, and if ARV is not administered to the affected person along with immunoglobulin, the patient suffers a miserable death due to hydrophobia and other complications of the disease.

    According to SAMAA, most anti-rabies vaccinations in Pakistan were imported from India, but they don’t want to export the vaccine to Pakistan anymore.

    The vaccine imported from India cost Rs1,000 whereas the one imported from Europe costs Rs70,000. At public hospitals, cases of dog bites are treated for free. Public hospitals use the Indian vaccine because it’s cheaper. Some private hospitals in the city use the expensive European vaccines.

    “The time has come to start producing this vaccine in Pakistan. If the government can’t find a cheap alternative to the European vaccine, the number of deaths due to rabies will increase,” SAMAA quoted Pakistan Medical Association member Dr Qaiser Sajjad as saying.