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  • Mehdi Kazmi, wife will meet daughter for the first time in six months

    Mehdi Kazmi, wife will meet daughter for the first time in six months

    Mehdi Kazmi and his wife will meet their daughter tomorrow (Thursday) at the Child Protection Centre on the orders of Sindh High Court (SHC).


    “Finally after six months on directions of Hon’ SHC Mehdi Kazmi & his wife will meet with their daughter tomorrow at the Child Protection Centre & Sec Health has been directed to appoint two Mental Health Experts to evaluate the child for any trauma and mental state,” lawyer Jibran Nasir wrote in a tweet.

    Their 15-year-old daughter was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi. She married Zaheer Ahmed in Lahore. The court had earlier sent the girl to a shelter home following her recovery from Punjab.

  • Malala Yousafzai visits school in Karachi

    Malala Yousafzai visits school in Karachi

    Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited a school in Karachi on Tuesday. She spent an hour at an elementary school in Karachi’s Central District, on her first day of visit to Pakistan.


    On Wednesday, she will go to Sindh’s Dadu area, which has been devastated by flooding, and meet the victims.


    Malala Yousafzai, accompanied by her parents, arrived in Karachi to visit the flood-affected areas.

    She is expected to donate flood relief aid from the Malala Fund.


    As many as 33 million people of the 220 million South Asian nation have been affected in some way by the floods that swept away houses, roads, railways and bridges and submerged around 4 million acres of farmland.

    Yousafzai recently announced the launch of her production company, Extracurricular.

  • 24th man charged in sexual abuse case

    Detectives investigating allegations of historic child sexual abuse in Bradford have charged another man, bringing the total number to 24.

    The man named Omar Taj, 35, has been charged with the rape of a child. He appeared at Bradford Magistrates Court on Friday, 7 October.

    Twenty-three men have already appeared in court to face charges relating to the same victim. The alleged offences happened in the Bradford area between 2007 and 2011.

    The offences, including rape and child prostitution, are said to have taken place between 2007 and 2011 and involve one victim.

  • Pakistani speed cameras: How do they work?

    Pakistani speed cameras: How do they work?

    Rough driving and overspeeding are major causes of fatalities and serious accidents on the road. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), 12,894 vehicles were involved in roughly 9,701 traffic incidents between 2019 and 2020.

    About 12,317 individuals were injured in these accidents, while 5,436 people lost their lives.

    Speed cameras are frequently installed in locations known for having frequent accidents as a means of minimising speed-related injuries and fatalities.

    Drivers can be caught in perfect detail up to one kilometre away using the speed camera technology of today.

    However, most of cameras employ road markings to calculate your speed and track the distance travelled over time. The average speed over a range of 75 metres to 20 kilometres can be determined by SPECS average speed cameras. They appear one after the other on highways spaced at least 200 metres apart.

    Long Rangers are high-tech cameras that can record images and videos of vehicles up to one kilometre distant.

    We all think that anyone exceeding the 120 km/h set speed limit for cars or light transport vehicles (LTV) on the highway will be issued an overspeeding challan. Motorway police won’t stop you if you are travelling at speeds of 120 to 130 km/h, or sometimes 131 km/h. However, if you are inside the range of a speed camera, you will be pulled over for overspeeding as soon as you reach 132 km/h.

    Motorway speed guns can measure speed from a distance of 95 to 100 feet. But don’t assume you can dodge them just because you caught a distant view of the speed gun. Your speed is already on record. This reality is mostly due to the fact that speed traps are frequently placed on highways near sharp curves, leaving you with little time to take evasive action.

    Near Teriyaki, Chakkri, and Salt Range are the three locations with the most speed cameras. The bulk of citations are given in the salt range for exceeding the 50 km/h speed limit.

  • Which famous Hollywood celeb just posted a Pakistani meme?

    Which famous Hollywood celeb just posted a Pakistani meme?

    Chrissy Teigen,  American model and television personality has shared this famous Pakistani meme on her Instagram story. She shared famous Pakistani disappointed meme along with the caption, “The spiders in my house watching me put spider decorations after killing their brother.”

    The disappointed Pakistani cricket fan Sarim Akhtar’s meme has also been featured in Hong Kong’s Museum of Memes.

    His ‘disappointed face’ after Asif Ali dropped David Warner’s catch in Pakistan vs Australia became a meme, and it was widely shared by social media users.

  • World Mental Health Day: Phrases we should avoid using

    World Mental Health Day: Phrases we should avoid using

    World Mental Health Day is observed on October 10 every year. The theme for World Mental Health Day 2022 is, “Make mental health and well-being for all a global priority”.


    In 1992, the World Federation for Mental Health began observing the day. Raising awareness of mental health concerns and mobilising support for mental health are the goals of World Mental Health Day.

    Here is a list of five things you should not say casually about mental health:


    “Pagal ho?” (Are you crazy)

    Calling someone Pagal or crazy is not right. They might be going through a tough period that we do not know is affecting them and to what extent. Calling them crazy can further aggravate their mental health.


    “Mujhe OCD ho rahi hai” (This is triggering my OCD)

    Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is real, and the condition can hinder the life of the patient. Casually self-diagnosing yourself with OCD and equating personal obsession of cleanliness with OCD is not funny. If anything, it’s nothing less than insulting and dismissive to those who are actually plagued by the real-life symptoms of the disorder.

    “It’s all in your head”.


    Contrary to popular belief, depression is not the same as sadness. It is, in fact, a very serious mental illness. Telling someone that their mental health is not a genuine disease and it’s all in their head reinforces the misconception — that a person with a mental illness is somehow being dramatic and would feel better if only they could stop thinking about it.

    “I have gone through the same thing“


    If someone is going through something, saying that you have gone through the same thing is not helpful. Even if our intention is to help them, this phrase can be perceived wrongly and it can make them feel that they are not being heard.

  • School van attacked in Swat, day after the 10 year anniversary of attack on Malala

    School van attacked in Swat, day after the 10 year anniversary of attack on Malala

    Gunmen opened fire on a school van on Monday in Swat, killing the driver of the vehicle and injuring two students, reports ARY.

    According to details, the incident took place in Swat’s Char Bagh area.


    The school vehicle’s driver, who was slain, was the target, according to the police who confirmed that there were almost 10 to 11 students in the van when the shooting occurred.


    Police are investigating the case.

    All private school management in Swat has announced the closure of all educational institutions tomorrow.

    It is pertinent to mention here that the attack came just a day after the ten year anniversary of the attack on Malala Yousafzai. The education activist was attacked on her way home from school in Mingora, the region’s main town on October 09, 2012.

  • WHO assures assistance in essential healthcare in flood- affected areas

    WHO assures assistance in essential healthcare in flood- affected areas

    World Health Organization’s (WHO) Country Representative Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala on Saturday said that essential healthcare services will be provided in flood-affected areas.


    During a media briefing on the WHO’s role in relief efforts in flood-hit areas, he said that WHO was working on a plan to aid in establishing effective healthcare systems.
    The WHO country director stated that his agency was fully aware of the destruction brought on by the recent floods in Pakistan, stressing that the flood seriously harmed the delivery of health-care services, leading to a variety of health hazards.

    He continued by saying that numerous diseases like cholera, malaria, dengue fever, skin infections, and typhoid were on the rise in the impacted areas.

    “In order to prevent mortality due to malaria, WHO is providing rapid diagnostic kits and anti-malarial medicines worth $2.5 million while technical support is also being provided to the federal and provincial governments to deal with malaria outbreaks. As larvicidal preventive measures are not possible in flood-affected areas, prophylactic treatment and post-exposure treatments are being arranged to treat malaria patients”, he added.
    WHO will hire an additional 107 technical specialists and staff to help manage the health emergency in Pakistan’s flood-affected regions.

  • PFA seizes 1,600 kg outdated meat and expired edibles during a raid in Lahore

    PFA seizes 1,600 kg outdated meat and expired edibles during a raid in Lahore

    On Saturday, the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) foiled an attempt to move a massive stock of unhygienic and expired food from cold storage to some other facility.

    According to The News, PFA Director General Mudassar Riaz Malik and an enforcement team raided a cold storage at Bhobatian Chowk, Lahore based on vigilance-based evidence, and they seized a vehicle (a chiller truck) that was entirely loaded with 1,600 kg of outdated meat, 150 kg of expired butter, and 20 kg of cheese.

    He claimed that unhealthy food was being transported around just to avoid the PFA’s action, however the officials were able to foil the fraud mafia’s plans. Selling or providing expired stock along with new food is illegal and deceptive, according to the PFA DG.

    He asked everyone in the food industry to work with the PFA to comply with the law and fulfill the objectives of the reform.

  • Islamabad to soon get electric buses

    Islamabad to soon get electric buses

    Electric buses for intra-city travel will shortly be introduced by the Capital Development Authority (CDA). Electric buses will be used on six distinct public transportation lines, according to CDA authorities. The department will also make room for bus charging stations.

    CDA will open the tender for bus consultancy on 12th October. By the end of December, the first shipment of electric buses will arrive in Islamabad. Three e-bus base stations will be built by CDA.

    The introduction of electric buses has been a recent priority for CDA. The government started testing these buses in the Twin Cities, and now the project might soon see a concrete follow-up.

    Capt. (Ret.) Usman Younis, CDA Chairman, said that the first phase will involve the provision of transportation on six congested roads. The administration would purchase buses for seven more routes in the second phase, he added.