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  • No Bat for PTI ka matlab kya, jo bhi? PTI candidate election campaigns that scream creativity

    No Bat for PTI ka matlab kya, jo bhi? PTI candidate election campaigns that scream creativity

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has always remained ahead of others when it comes to the use of social media in Pakistan’s political landscape.


    Data shared in a report from Digital Pakistan 2023 states that the number of internet users in Pakistan swelled to a record 87.35 million in January last year, showing a 4.4 million increase between 2022 and 2023.


    The number of social media users also increased to a record 71.70 million in 2023, including 37.30 million users of Facebook, 71.70 million users of YouTube, 12.95 million on Instagram, and 16.51 million on TikTok.


    Similarly, about 11.95 million people are using Facebook Messenger, 9.30 million Linkedin, 25.70 million Snapchat, and 4.65 million users of X — formerly Twitter — in the wake of an increase in mobile connections to 191.8 million in January 2023 in Pakistan.


    The importance of social media is made very clear by the fact that there is news circulating that the internet might be shut down two days prior to the election. Young Pakistanis will be turning to social media for the truth on election day and if the election is to be seen as free and fair, social media will be the judge and the jury, senior producer and journalist Marium Chaudhary said while talking to TheCurrent.


    The results show the importance of social media in the election arena. Its power was fully exhibited when a huge number of supporters turned up online using VPNs when the internet was down during PTI’s virtual jalsa.


    Senior Journalist Benazir Shah recently tweeted that according to a google search, PTI has emerged as the most searched political party in the last fortnight.
    As the elections are approaching in less than a month, the party is in a crisis because they have been stripped from their preferred election symbol of a cricketing bat.


    The candidates however have been issued varying symbols from a human eye to an eggplant.


    PTI’s candidate Zain Pervaiz from PS-99 has been given the symbol of human eye and he used a creative way to propagate it. He made a rip-off of the famous Tahir Shah’s song Eye to Eye.


    In another video, a clip from a cartoon film is extracted to publicise the symbol of eye.


    The same candidate, Zain Parvez, came up with a clip from a Pakistani Drama where the heroine is seen saying that she will only what Zain wants her to do.


    As a candidate was allotted the symbol of a desi bed (charpayi), he got a charpayi painted in colours of the PTI flag. Along with that they were seen chanting the slogan, “Aye Aye Charpayi”.

    The same candidate got a charpayi made adorned with fairy lights and released a song titled, “Charpayi da nishan, Rakho yad meri jan”.


    The candidate alloted the sign of brinjal has taken a huge leap of creativity by releasing a “baingan song”. This symbol of is given to the candidate of PTI from NA 46.


    The meme brigade were tickled enough to promote the different election symbols including a wheelchair where the punch line was give vote to wheelchair to be able to get the system back on foot.


    The meme for the symbol tap, that is “Nalka” shows a clip from an Indian movie.


    Summing up the whole confusion folk singer Malko released a song with lyrics implying, whatever the symbol is, vote will be cast to Khan.


    Apart from the hilarious campaigns by PTI, the party is also seriously pursuing the upcoming elections by using social media. The party has launched an online portal containing detailed information of candidate names & symbols to avoid disinformation.

  • Pakistani-French woman accused of marrying girls disguised as boy

    Pakistani-French woman accused of marrying girls disguised as boy

    A French girl of Pakistani origin named Nargis has been accused of disguising herself as a boy to marry girls to take them abroad. She was arrested in Mirpur city of Azad Kashmir on charges of trafficking girls abroad on the pretext of marriage.


    According to Geo News, one victim’s family had filed an application with the police, on which a case was registered and an arrest was made.


    During the investigation, it was revealed that Nargis had created a fake identity in the name of Shaaban. Dressed up as a man, she would come to Kashmir to find relationships, get married, prepare travel documents, and send the bride abroad and sell her.


    This time when Nargis reached Pakistan, the victim’s family recognized her and immediately filed a complaint with the police.


    In a request registered with the police by the victim’s family, Nargis came to Pakistan as a boy and married their daughter. After the marriage, the daughter got a visa and sent her to France via Dubai, where it was learned that the son-in-law was not a boy but a girl. She was tortured by a gang who attempted to sell her in several locations. The family barely evacuated their daughter to safety in France.


    According to the police, the suspect is a French citizen of Pakistani origin and belongs to Jhelum.


    However, according to District Headquarters Hospital Mirpur, a medical report has proved that Nargis is a girl and not a boy.

  • Women’s Health Gap Costs $1 Trillion Worldwide: Report

    Women’s Health Gap Costs $1 Trillion Worldwide: Report

    The huge gap between how women and men’s health are treated costs $1 trillion a year worldwide, the World Economic Forum said on Wednesday.

    Women spend a quarter more of their lives suffering from poor health than men, a disparity that includes an unequal focus on men across medical research, diagnosis and treatment, the report said.

    Closing this gap would boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040 — a 1.7 percent increase in per capita GDP driven by women, it added.

    The report was released as the WEF hosts its 54th annual conference in Davos, Switzerland.

    The Swiss firm Ferring Pharmaceuticals and McKinsey Health Institute also contributed to the 42-page report.

    Every US dollar invested in women’s health would return three dollars in projected economic growth, the report said.

    A large part of this growth would come from sick women getting back into the workforce.

    The gender health gap causes around 75 million years of life lost due to poor health annually, equating to a week per woman every year, the report said.

    For example, addressing the inequities related to endometriosis and menopause — which only affect women and have long been considered under-studied — could contribute $130 billion to global GDP by 2040, it estimated.

    Research also suggests that fewer than half the women living with endometriosis have been properly diagnosed, the report added.

    The study also looked at how treatment and diagnosis has benefitted men more than women.

    Asthma inhalers, for example, have been found to be significantly less effective for women than men.

    Women are diagnosed later than men for 700 different diseases, previous research has shown. It also takes women two and a half years longer to be diagnosed with cancer.

    WEF healthcare head Shyam Bishen said the analysis demonstrates that “investing in women’s health must be a priority for every country”.

    “Beyond improving women’s quality of life, ensuring women have access to innovations in healthcare is one of the best investments that countries can make for their societies and their economies,” he said in a statement.

    The WEF announced it was launching the Global Alliance for Women’s Health, with $55 million pledged for women’s health.

  • Saas-Bahu fight now in Supreme Court

    Saas-Bahu fight now in Supreme Court

    A fight between a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law reached the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

    The Chief Justice of Pakistan rejected the appeal of the mother-in-law, reports Geo News.


    Sabiha Khanum filed an appeal against the order of the __ High Court to give 10 tolas of gold to her former daughter-in-law Sadia, which was heard by a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa.


    During the hearing, the Chief Justice asked why there were women on both sides in the case, specifically inquiring how the mother-in-law was related to this case. On this, lawyer Zulfikar Naqvi told the court that thecdispute is between the mother-in-law and her forner daughter-in-law over 10 tolas of gold.


    The Chief Justice asked if the daughter-in-law was divorced, how much was the dowry. On this, Zulfiqar Naqvi, the mother-in-law’s lawyer, said that she was divorced and had three children, and the dowry was Rs 2,000.


    Justice Qazi Faiz then said, “What is the problem in giving 10 tolas of gold to a mother of three children.”


    Later, the court dismissed the appeal of Sabiha Khanum, sending the saas disappointed back home.

  • Father in India kills newborn son

    Father in India kills newborn son

    A stone-hearted father killed his newborn in Madhya Pradesh in India, reportedly because he desired a daughter.

    The man named Anil Yuki already had two sons and was desirous of a daughter, police have said.


    Anil was intoxicated when he beat his wife in a drunken state, snatched the 12-day-old newborn from her, and strangled him to death, as per media reports.


    The police said that there were marks on the neck of the newborn. As soon as the incident was reported, the police arrested Anil and took the baby’s body, registering a case.


    During the investigation, Anil confessed to his crime and said that he wanted a daughter but a son was born for the third time, upon which he became upset and killed the child in a fit of rage.

  • Greta Thunberg supports Palestine again in coolest way possible

    Greta Thunberg supports Palestine again in coolest way possible

    Renowned climate justice activist Greta Thunberg recently took to Instagram and posted a recaptcha privacy which needs the user to testify that they stand with Palestine to be recognised as human.

    True to her no-holds-barred attitude, she captioned the image, “Verify that you’re a human”.


    Greta is an advocate for human rights along with the climate justice campaign. Since Israel started genocide in the Gaza Strip, Thunberg has voiced her support for Palestine multiple times.

    The cause is now regularly a part of her protests and strikes.

    To read more : Greta Thunberg calls for ceasefire in Gaza, freedom for Palestine

  • Teacher checking assignments on death bed goes viral

    Teacher checking assignments on death bed goes viral

    A picture circulating on social media in recent days shows a teacher’s hard work and honesty towards his profession, as he awards marks to his students while admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).


    A woman named Sandra Venegas took the photo of her father working on a hospital bed and shared it on social media to let people know the sacrifices a teacher makes and how dedicated he is to his profession.


    Despite serious health issues, the said teacher took the time to pack his laptop and charger, knowing that he was going to the emergency room, and on his deathbed, he graded all his students’ assignments.The next day when the teacher died, his daughter posted this picture on social media with the caption that teachers take time out of their work hours for children in their private lives but no one appreciates them.


    “Teachers put in so many extra hours, hours that many don’t realize. Even during a pandemic, even during a health crisis, teachers worry about completing their duties,” Venegas wrote in the caption of the post.


    This post has gone viral with a large number of users appreciating the services of the teacher, with some also condoling the death of her father.

  • Indian Americans Rise In US Politics, Navigate Identity

    Indian Americans Rise In US Politics, Navigate Identity

    Of the many attacks between this year’s US presidential candidates, some of the harshest have pitted Vivek Ramaswamy against Nikki Haley.

    Ramaswamy went so far as to hold up a sign at a debate calling the South Carolina former governor and UN ambassador corrupt over her corporate work — and she has hit back hard, calling him untrustworthy and berating him for mentioning her children.

    Personal attacks are routine in US politics, and both Haley and Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old entrepreneur who has never held elected office, are facing uphill climbs to wrest the Republican nomination from former president Donald Trump.

    But the two have something in common — they are children of Indian immigrants. Also expected on this year’s ballot is Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, whose mother came from India and whose father was born in Jamaica.

    Indian Americans are split on whether the Ramaswamy versus Haley feud channels larger community tensions, but what is uncontestable is that Indian Americans are more politically prominent than ever before — and increasingly wearing their identity proudly.

    It is another sign of success for the community, whose average household income is the highest of any US ethnic group.

    Raj Goyle, a former state lawmaker in Kansas and co-founder of Indian American Impact, a South Asian American political group, said that ethnic groups in the United States historically have waited for a greater comfort level and critical mass before entering politics.

    “Indian Americans actually have had a quicker journey than other immigrant communities in terms of political success,” he said.

    He noted that Indian Americans are unusual as an immigrant group in that many arrived as educated professionals, highly regarded by other Americans.

    “When the first wave of us were elected, we had to think about how voters would react to our ethnicity,” Goyle said.

    While racism still exists, “Now, I think there’s a very good argument to make that it’s a huge plus.”

    While few give Ramaswamy much chance of winning the presidency, his candidacy marks a watershed in his embrace of his religion.

    Asked at a debate in Iowa about his religion, Ramaswamy said: “I am a Hindu. I won’t fake my identity.”

    Ramaswamy, who has made his name as a Trump-style rabble-rouser denouncing “woke” politics, has cast his Hinduism as in line with conservative Christian beliefs and has voiced opposition to gay marriage.

    He also explained to voters in farm state Iowa, which holds the nation’s first caucus, how he is a vegetarian due to his religion.

    Meanwhile, a Trump campaign aide, Chris LaCivita, told voters to “beware” of Ramaswamy’s diet, also calling him a “fraud.”

    While few give Ramaswamy much chance of winning the presidency, his candidacy marks a watershed in his embrace of his religion.

    Asked at a debate in Iowa about his religion, Ramaswamy said: “I am a Hindu. I won’t fake my identity.”

    Ramaswamy, who has made his name as a Trump-style rabble-rouser denouncing “woke” politics, has cast his Hinduism as in line with conservative Christian beliefs and has voiced opposition to gay marriage.

    He also explained to voters in farm state Iowa, which holds the nation’s first caucus, how he is a vegetarian due to his religion.

    Meanwhile, a Trump campaign aide, Chris LaCivita, told voters to “beware” of Ramaswamy’s diet, also calling him a “fraud.”

    Despite the prominence of Republicans like Haley, Ramaswamy and Jindal, the community has overwhelmingly voted Democratic.

    Dipka Bhambhani, an Indian American writer based in Washington, said the feud between Haley and Ramaswamy showed a divide within the community.

    Haley grew up helping with the bookkeeping at her parents’ clothing store, while Ramaswamy, an Ivy League graduate, was born in Ohio to an engineer father and psychiatrist mother and later married an Indian American doctor.

    “When I first saw the animus from Ramaswamy toward Haley, I knew what it was about. There are wealthy Indians out there who malign other Indians for deviating, exercising American choice in who they marry, how they worship and the like,” Bhambhani said.

    “Ramaswamy criticizing Haley has been (a source of) anguish for so many of us in the Indian community. There are enough spears thrown at people of color in this country. Do we really need an Indian man to take up arms against his Indian sister?”

    But she said the Indian American candidates at the end of the day were Americans, even as they brought Indian values such as commitment to family.

    “It would be nice to see someone in the presidency who embodies those Indian values,” she said.

  • Passenger slaps pilot for delay in flight

    Passenger slaps pilot for delay in flight

    In a video that has gone viral, a passenger rose in fury from his seat to slap a pilot who was announcing a delay in the flight.

    The incident took place on IndiGo’s 6E2175 service from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport to Dabolim in Goa. The plane was scheduled to take off at 7:40 am but, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, departed at 5:33 pm, after prolonged delays, including heavy fog limited visibility, and an enforced change of crew due to flight duty time limitations.


    The disturbing video of the assault – widely shared online – also shows the IndiGo crew rushing to help the pilot and members of the cabin crew hysterically remonstrating with the passenger identified as Sahil Kataria, telling him (in Hindi), “You can’t do this… you can’t do this!”. To which he responded, “Why can’t I do this? Why can’t I?”


    Addressing the passenger, the air hostess said that what he did was very wrong. The other passengers also blamed Indigo for delaying flights.
    The passenger, later taken into custody by the security staff.


    The plane pilot lodged a complaint against the passenger with Delhi Police, based on which an FIR has been registered and further investigation is underway.
    In a lengthy post on X, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the “unprecedented fog” had led to, at times, “zero visibility” and this had forced authorities to shut down operations on the Delhi airport’s runways.

  • Ultimatum given to Indian Army by President of Maldives to leave his country

    Ultimatum given to Indian Army by President of Maldives to leave his country

    Amidst the ongoing tension between India and Maldives, Mohammad Muizzu, the President of the latter country, has given an ultimatum to India to withdraw its troops from his country by March 15.


    Muizzu, who recently returned from a visit to China, formally asked India to end its army presence in his territory, Abdallah Nazim Ibrahim, the public policy secretary to the president’s office, said at a press briefing.


    According to the latest government figures, there are 88 Indian military personnel in the Maldives. “Indian Military personnel cannot stay in the Maldives. This is the policy of the President and that of his administration,” he said.


    The Indian Ministry of External Affairs has not yet responded to the news.


    Relations between India and Maldives have been strained since the formation of the government of the new President in the island nation.


    Three months ago, Mueez raised the slogan “India out” in the election and demanded their withdrawal from Maldives.


    In a departure from tradition, Muizzu chose Turkey and China instead of India for his first visit, stating that his government reiterated its commitment to withdraw the Indian army from the strategically important region of the country.


    Indian troops were deployed at the request of the then government to protect against the threat of insurgency and the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers. The Indian troops have been stationed in the Maldives since 1988, for non-combat duties including flying, training, and surveillance.


    While foreign policy experts conclude that this change of policy is because of his tilt towards China, the President has declared, “We aren’t in anyone’s backyard. We are an independent and sovereign state”. Without naming any country, he said, “We may be small, but that doesn’t give you the license to bully us.”

    To read more: Why is Maldives trending on Twitter?