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  • Apple Watch saves 78-year-old man’s life

    Apple Watch saves 78-year-old man’s life

    An Apple Watch saved the life of a 78-year-old man using a fall detection feature after he fell on his driveway. His watch sent an alert to the emergency services after he did not move for 45 seconds.

    Mike Yager, from Summerfield in North Carolina, United States fell  unconscious on his driveway. His watch detected the fall and automatically called 911.

    “The first thing I asked [the officer] was, ‘How did you guys know to get here?’ and he said, ‘Your watch sent us a message,’ and I said ‘What?’” Mike Yager told Fox8.

    Read More: Groom carries bride on shoulders across a flooded river

    “The Summerfield Fire Department showed me his log thing and it said, if I remember correctly, male, possibly unconscious. Then it gave the location and then it said reported by Apple Watch. Whenever he showed that to me, I was speechless. I didn’t know what to say,” Mike’s wife Lori said.

    The feature in the Apple Watch detects a hard fall, it taps you on the wrist, sounds an alarm and displays an alert. The watch allows you to contact emergency services. If the watch detects movement, it waits for you to respond. However, if you don’t move for a minute, it alerts the emergency services.

  • Zulfi Bukhari to send defamation notice to Bilawal Bhutto

    Zulfi Bukhari to send defamation notice to Bilawal Bhutto

    Former Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari says he has decided to move ahead with defamation proceedings against Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari after consulting with his legal team.

    Bhukari tweeted, “His [Bilawal Bhutto’s] poor understanding about most things again made him blurt out things fed to him, provoking issues he knows nothing about.”

    Bilawal Bhutto had recently called on the government to bring “all the facts” about Bukhari’s alleged visit to Israel before the public.

    Speaking to reporters in the parliament, Bilawal Bhutto said it would be “very easy” for the government to make public the flight manifest and flight path of the airplane that allegedly carried Bukhari to Israel during those dates.

    “If the [airplane] did not pick up Zulfi Bukhari, then who was taken on board” he asked, adding that he felt “something is fishy.”

    After Bilawal Bhutto’s statement, Zulfi Bukhari shared a clip of Bilawal’s speech and asked: “Someone who called Jews ‘brothers’ is now asking me to answer rumours.”

    Earlier this week, an Israeli publication alleged that Bukhari paid a secret visit to Tel Aviv as a messenger of Pakistani leader, a claim that was instantly denied by the government and personally by Bukhari.

  • We accept the Chinese version on Uyghurs in Xinjiang: PM Khan

    We accept the Chinese version on Uyghurs in Xinjiang: PM Khan

    Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday said that the relationship between Pakistan and China is very deep. “It’s not just the governments, but it’s a people-to-people relationship.”

    “Whatever will happen…[the] relationship between our two countries, no matter what pressure is put on us, is not going to change,” PM Khan said in response to a question.

    Speaking to Chinese journalists as Beijing marked the centenary of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), the premier said the Chinese version about the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang was completely different from what was being reported in the western media.

    “Because of our extreme proximity and relationship with China, we actually accept the Chinese version,” added PM Khan.

    He said that it was hypocritical that while the Uyghur situation and Hong Kong were being highlighted, attention was not being given to the human rights violations in Indian-Occupied Kashmir.

    “It is hypocritical. There are much worse human rights violations taking place in other parts of the world such as in occupied Kashmir. But western media hardly comments on this,” he said.

    PM Khan praised the Communist Party. He said that until now, it was believed that electoral democracy is the best way to bring leaders on merit and hold them accountable.

    “But China’s process to hunt talent and then polish it is better than any electoral democracy.”

    PM Khan also praised President Xi for his success in the fight against poverty and corruption in China.

    “China has lifted 700 million people out of poverty in a few years, which is a great achievement. We want to further develop political, economic and trade relations between the two countries.”

    PM Khan said that Pakistanis are impressed by the Chinese president’s fight against corruption and consider him “a great politician of modern times”.

    “President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is effective and successful.”

    PM Khan said that it is unfair of the US and western powers to expect countries like Pakistan to take sides. “Pakistan will not downgrade its relations with China.“

    “The United States expects Pakistan to choose a side. This is not appropriate,” he added.

  • VIDEO: Groom carries bride on shoulders across a flooded river

    VIDEO: Groom carries bride on shoulders across a flooded river

    A groom in Bihar, India carried his new bride on his shoulder to carry her across a monsoon river in spate.

    As per reports, the incident happened in Sindgmari Ghat in Dighalbank block in Bihar’s Kishanganj district. The entire area has been flooded by the overflowing Kankai river.

    The groom, Shiv Kumar Singh and his relatives were returning from a village located on the other side of the river. After the marriage ceremony, the couple and all the guests were travelling on a boat. After travelling some distance, the boat got stuck in the sand.

    “We had no option but to travel by boat to dry place on the bank of river. So I immediately decided to travel the distance carrying her on my shoulder,” Singh said.

    “The bridge on Kankai river near Singhmari was proposed some 10 years ago. The people of Kishanganj and adjoining districts are forced to use boat to cross the river. The state government is callous,” the groom’s relative Rahul Singh said.

    Read More: Bride slaps groom after getting out of car at in-laws’ house on wedding day

    “This incident is an example of development of Bihar claimed by the Nitish Kumar government. Road connectivity to most of the villages adjoining rivers is cut off from the rest of the state. Hence, boat is the only option for us. Such a situation is arising in almost every place affected by the monsoon flood,” Rahul Singh said.

  • In-camera briefing for lawmakers on Afghanistan, national security

    In-camera briefing for lawmakers on Afghanistan, national security

    Speaker National Assembly (NA) Asad Qaiser has summoned a session of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security on July 1 at 3pm for a briefing on the latest regional situation in light of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    Speaker Asad Qaiser will chair the in-camera meeting. The meeting will discuss the situation in Afghanistan and its impact on Pakistan. Leader of the Opposition in NA Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and other lawmakers will attend the meeting. Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Defence Minister Pervez Khattak will also be part of the in-camera meeting from the government’s side. Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani will also attend the meeting as well as other parliamentarians.

    Bilawal Bhutto tweeted that he had demanded on the floor of the house that the parliament be briefed on the Afghanistan situation by the relevant departments and institutions. “We welcome Speakers decision and will participate in NSC committee meeting on the topic.”

  • ‘DID NOT go to Israel’: Zulfi Bukhari denies reports of secret visit to Israel, again

    ‘DID NOT go to Israel’: Zulfi Bukhari denies reports of secret visit to Israel, again

    Former Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari has denied going to Israel again, after Israel Hayom — an Israeli national Hebrew-language daily newspaper and news website — claimed on Monday that Zulfi Bukhari paid a brief visit to Israel in the last week of November 2020. The reported cited an unnamed source in Islamabad. Zulfi Bukhari tweeted that he did not go to Israel.


    This is Bukhari’s second denial regarding an alleged visit to Israel, months after Middle East Monitor claimed in a report that an adviser of PM Imran Khan visited Tel Aviv in November on his British passport. Middle East Monitor later apologised to Zulfi Bukhari for misreporting. “We accept Mr Bukhari’s refutation of the claims made in the report and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience it has caused,” concluded the letter dated December 23.


    Today, Zulfi Bukhari tweeted: “DIDNOT go to Israel. Funny bit is Pakistani paper says I went to Israel based on ‘Israeli news source’ & Israeli paper says I went to Israel based on a ‘Pakistani source’-wonder who this imaginative Pakistani source is.” He further added,” Apparently, I’m the only one who was kept out of the loop.”

    Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Sherry Rehman and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khurram Dastgir Khan asked for a clarification from the government despite Zulfi’s denial.

    In November 2020, PM Imran Khan had said that the United States and some Muslim states, which he cannot name because of good ties with them, have been pressuring Pakistan to recognise Israel. However, PM Khan reiterated that Pakistan will never establish relations with the “Zionist” state until a just settlement of the decades-long Palestinian issue.

  • UK health secretary resigns after kissing his colleague amid lockdown

    UK health secretary resigns after kissing his colleague amid lockdown

    United Kingdom (UK) Health Secretary, Matt Hancock resigned from his position on Saturday after being filmed kissing his colleague, in breach of coronavirus social distancing rules.

    The former secretary in his letter of resignation wrote to the British Prime Minster Boris Johnson “owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down”. The PM said he was “sorry” to receive the resignation, reported BBC.

    The 42-year-old, reportedly, was under a great deal of pressure from his fellow Conservative party members when a local tabloid revealed that he is having an affair with Gina Coladangelo, a friend from his days at Oxford University who he hired as an adviser in March last year. Mr. Hancock has also ended his 15-year marriage.

    Hancock routinely appeared on television urging Britishers to follow strict rules. Earlier this month plans to ease lockdown in England further got delayed because of concerns over the Delta variant of Covid.

    Recently, the country’s former finance minister Sajid Javid has been appointed as the new Health Secretary. He was born to Pakistani immigrant parents in 1969, who are originally from Toba Tek Singh, Punjab.

  • ‘No mutton, no marriage’: Groom calls off wedding

    ‘No mutton, no marriage’: Groom calls off wedding

    A groom called off his wedding after the bride’s family did not serve mutton to the wedding guests in India on Wednesday. The groom later married another woman from the area.

    As per reports, Ramakant Patra, the 27-year-old groom from Rebanapalaspal, reached Bandhagaon village with the wedding guests for his wedding on Wednesday afternoon.

    The bride’s family gave a warm welcome to the groom’s family and friends. Once the rituals were done, the wedding guests were invited for lunch.

    The guests demanded to eat mutton before the lunch was served. When the lunch was served, they found out that there is no mutton, after which they got into an argument with the bride’s family.

    When Patra discovered that mutton had not been served, he called off the marriage.

    Read More: Bride slaps groom after getting out of car at in-laws’ house on wedding day

    The bride’s family tried to convince the groom to go ahead with the wedding but he did not agree. The groom and his family left the venue.

    Patra later married another woman of the area the same night before returning to his home.

    No complaint about the incident was reported to the police.

  • Bride slaps groom after getting out of car at in-laws’ house on wedding day

    Bride slaps groom after getting out of car at in-laws’ house on wedding day

    A bride in India slapped her husband after reaching her in-laws’ house on her wedding day. She then changed her bridal dress and returned to her parents’ house wearing casual clothes.

     As per reports,the incident happened in Lavayen village, Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district on Sunday.

    The groom’s family was preparing to welcome the bride after the wedding ceremony but the bride returned to her parents’ house.

    According to a initial inquiry, the bride slapped the groom because of a love affair.

    Read More: Bride refuses to marry as groom chewed ‘gutka’

    The wedding guests were warmly welcomed when it reached the bride’s house for the wedding rituals. The bride did not say anything even at the time of her ‘rukhsati’. However, she slapped her husband when the women of the groom’s family were about to take their newlywed daughter-in-law inside the house.

    When the families of the bride and groom could not handle the issue, they called the police. The cops tried to sort the matter but were unsuccessful.

  • Student in US harrased for highlighting Palestinians, Uighurs in her graduation speech

    Student in US harrased for highlighting Palestinians, Uighurs in her graduation speech

    Huda, a Muslim student, in the United States (US) became the target of racial insults by parents and students for highlighting the plight of Palestinians and Uighurs in her graduation speech.

    “Our lips are yet free. Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves and stand up for any injustice that you see,” Huda said in her speech

    “Educate yourself about international dilemmas including the ethnic cleansings of Palestinians and Uighur Muslims. Families are continuously torn apart and real human lives are being lost but ignored. Educate yourself on the widespread issues that plague our planet and threaten our very existence in the long run,” she added.

    Huda further said, “Consider global warming with the gravity that it needs to be looked at with and never stop speaking about these issues until they are resolved.”

    Huda was asked to ‘go back to Pakistan’ and was harassed by fellow students and their parents.

    One of the students can be heard in the video saying, “Why did not you say anything about Hamas? Hamas would have been nice.”

    Read More: UK media regulator fines Indian channel over hate speech against Pakistan

    As per reports, Huda’s speech was approved by the school but later the principal claimed that it wasn’t. The principal also apologised to the students and parents who targeted Huda with racial insults and sent them e-mails claiming that she “changed her speech”.

    A disclaimer was also added in the video that this line was not “approved by the Wheatley Speech Selection Committee”.