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  • ‘We don’t see ourselves building our broad relationship with Pakistan’: US Deputy Secretary of State

    ‘We don’t see ourselves building our broad relationship with Pakistan’: US Deputy Secretary of State

    United States (US) Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, while speaking at an event in Mumbai, said, “We (the US) don’t see ourselves building our broad relationship with Pakistan and we have no interest in returning to the days of a hyphenated India, Pakistan. That’s not where we are, that’s not where we are going to be,” reports The Print.

    “But we all need to know what’s going on in Afghanistan. We all need to be of one mind in the approach to the Taliban. We all need to make sure that we have the capabilities that we need to ensure everybody’s security, including India’s, of course. So I am going to have some very specific conversations, continuing conversations that Secretary (Antony) Blinken has had (with Pakistan),” she added.

    Wendy Sherman is in Pakistan to meet officials during her October 7-8 visit.

    Sherman said that her trip to Islamabad is only for a “specific and narrow purpose”.

    Taking to Twitter, Sherman wrote, “I met yesterday evening with Pakistani National Security Advisor, Moeed Yusuf to discuss Afghanistan and areas of cooperation in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship.”

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    Ahead of her visit to Pakistan, Sherman told reporters, “We seek a strong partnership with Pakistan on counterterrorism and we expect sustained action against all militant and terrorist groups without distinction.”

    “Both of our countries have suffered terribly from the scourge of terrorism and we look forward to cooperative efforts to eliminate all regional and global terrorist threats,” she said.

  • All educational institutions to start normal classes from Monday: Asad Umar

    All educational institutions to start normal classes from Monday: Asad Umar

    Educational activities across the country will resume from Monday (October 11) next week. Due to Covid, educational activities across the country were affected for over a year.

    Asad Umar announced that the decision has been taken in view of a drop in the Covid-19 cases and a stepped-up national vaccination campaign by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).

    “Based on the reduced level of disease spread and the launch of the school vaccination program, it has been decided in today’s NCOC meeting to allow all educational institutions to start normal classes from Monday the 11th of October” tweeted Umar.

    The country reported less than 1,000 daily coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours for the first time in over three months.

    The latest data from NCOC shows that Pakistan reported 912 cases after 45,619 tests. The country last recorded a daily case count below 1,000 on July 6 at 830 cases.

  • ‘Human rights activist’ yells at restaurant chef who asked for her vaccination certificate

    A woman at Okra Test Kitchen in Karachi yelled at a chef who reportedly asked her for her Covid vaccination certificate.

    The video shows the woman, who was not even wearing a mask, filming the chef and arguing with him. The woman can be heard saying, “Who are you to ask me about my medical record?” She also accused the chef of being in violation of the Constitution of Pakistan because he was asking for her medical records.

    The woman called herself a “human rights activist” while exiting the venue.

    Twitterati were quick enough to call out the woman for misbehaving with the chef.

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  • VIDEO: Firdous Ashiq Awan lashes out at crowd

    VIDEO: Firdous Ashiq Awan lashes out at crowd

    Former Assistant to Chief Minister (CM) Punjab, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, addressed a rally in Rasoolpur, Sialkot, when people started chanting slogans against her and expressed their complaints and reservations, reported Geo News.

    At first, the former aide tried to calm the crowd but eventually, things got out of hand.

    In response to the crowd’s slogans, Firdous said: “If you people had employed similar efforts [during the elections] as you are doing now, I would have still been part of the assembly.”

    In response, people said that they had voted for her.

    She argued that there is some conspiracy against her. She said, “I will work for my constituency, as no one else will.”

    Rasoolpur is Awan’s constituency, from where she lost her National Assembly (NA) seat on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) ticket to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Chaudhry Armaghan Subhani.

    Earlier in May, Awan humiliated Assistant Commissioner (AC) Sialkot Sonia Sadaf during a visit to Ramzan Bazaar in Sialkot.

    In June, Awan made headlines when she slapped Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) MNA Qadir Khan Mandokhel. The incident took place off-air after the two were seen brawling with each other on Express News‘ talk show, ‘Kal Tak with Javed Chaudhry’.

  • Young doctors boycott hospital services across the country

    The Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) on Wednesday boycotted Out-Patient Department (OPD) services across the country, Daily Times reported.
    They are protesting against torture of their colleagues in Islamabad during a protest outside Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC).


    According to the YDA spokesperson, only emergency services are being provided at the hospital. The move comes a day after police manhandled their fellow doctors in the federal capital during a protest against National Licensing Examination (NLE).


    They criticised the government and the doctors said that this is the first time in the country’s history that the police brutally attacked doctors.


    The protests are causing severe difficulties to the patients coming to the hospitals.
    Services Hospital Lahore have suspended their services.


    In Faisalabad, the doctors from the YDA platform have suspended OPDs and also the operation theatre services at the Allied Hospital. They also staged a protest and strongly condemned the torture and arrest of their colleagues in Islamabad. They vowed not to accept NLE law at any cost.


    Hundreds of young doctors across the country have been protesting against the PMC. The doctors have demanded that the compulsion to sit the National Licensing Exam should be withdrawn.


    The Pakistan Medical Commission has announced that in order to practice in Pakistan, doctors will have to take a licensing exam after completing five years of education.

    Young doctors say the additional examination was unfair as they had already passed the same exam to obtain their MBBS degrees.


    On Tuesday, at least 20 doctors were arrested after they tried to enter the PMC building. The Islamabad police baton-charged the protesters.

  • Delivering verdict in two months goes against rights of suspect: Zahir’s parents approach SC

    Delivering verdict in two months goes against rights of suspect: Zahir’s parents approach SC

    Zahir Jaffer’s parents have challenged Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) bail rejection by approaching the Supreme Court (SC), reported Geo News.

    Zahir is the prime suspect in Noor Mukadam’s murder case.

    Advocate Khawaja Harris filed a petition on behalf of his clients Zakir Jaffer and Asmat Adamjee, arguing that delivering a verdict in two months goes against the rights of the suspects and the principles of a transparent trial.

    According to the petition, a complete challan of the case has not yet been presented in the trial court, while the high court went beyond its jurisdiction by directing to complete the trial in two months.

    Furthermore, the petition argued that the police investigation was biased and not impartial. According to Zahir’s parents’ lawyers, the defendants will not be able to defend themselves properly in prison as it will be difficult for them to communicate with them being in prison.

    Last week, the IHC had rejected the bail pleas of both of Zahir’s parents and also ordered the court to complete the trial within eight weeks.

    However, in IHC’s detailed verdict, it was ruled that both Zakir and Asmat committed the crime of aiding Noor’s murder.

  • ‘No action against cabinet members named in Pandora Papers till found guilty’: Fawad Chaudhry

    ‘No action against cabinet members named in Pandora Papers till found guilty’: Fawad Chaudhry

    Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday said the federal cabinet members, whose names appeared in the Pandora Papers, would not be removed from their positions unless proven guilty.

    “Action will be taken once they are proven guilty,” said the minister.

    Chaudhry criticised the owners of media houses and said, “I see the photos of [Finance Minister] Shaukat Tarin and [Industries Minister] Khusro Bakhtiar being aired on TV channels, but not of media house owners, who have also been named as owners of offshore companies.”

    Prime Minis­ter (PM) Imran Khan on Monday formed a high-powered cell to investigate the 700 Pakistanis named in the Pandora Papers, including federal cabinet members, politicians, retired generals, owners of media houses, and others in establishing offshore companies.

    The cell will categorise the named individuals into four groups: those who have declared their offshore companies in Pakistan; those who have not declared their companies here and committed tax evasion; those who used their companies for money laundering and individuals who have not shown their offshore companies as part of the assets owned by them while declaring their wealth, reports Dawn.

  • Woman arrested for throwing acid on ex-husband

    A woman was detained for throwing acid on her ex-husband in Lahore, Samaa News reported.

    According to the victim, Sajid Khan, his ex-wife attacked him outside his house near Band Road. The couple separated three years back. A week ago, Khan got married for the second time.

    “On September 30, I remarried. While I was on my way back home, she [the suspect] threw acid on me. There were two people with me who witnessed the attack,” he told the police.

    The investigation officer told Samaa that the woman disguised herself as a beggar to track Khan. “He has sustained third-degree burns on his back, neck and hands,” he added.

    Police have arrested the woman while an investigation is underway.

  • Scholarships for Pakistanis at Oxford University

    The British High Commission of Pakistan in London launched the Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP), which includes graduate scholarships, visiting fellowships, and special lectures.

    Founded by two Oxford alumni, Haroon Zaman and Talha Pirzada, this initiative aims to provide opportunities for bright students, academic and research scholarships for Pakistanis, reports Saama.

    The head of the programme and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford Adeel Malik said in a tweet, “Oxford Pakistan Programme will generate scholarship opportunities for Pakistani students & consolidate Pakistan-related academic activities.”

    An annual Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal lecture on Eastern Philosophy has been announced under the OPP. The lecture will be delivered by a leading global intellectual every year.

    Pakistanis in the United Kingdom (UK) have pledged over £500,000 for this programme.

    The event launch of OPP was attended by a large number of Oxonians, senior Oxford academicians, scholars, and writers, including Malala Yousafzai.

    Malala has also announced an additional scholarship under the OPP, which will allow one Pakistani girl from an underdeveloped background to study at Oxford every year.

  • Social media flooded with memes after WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram outage

    WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook were not working all around the world on Monday night. A lot of users were unable to send or receive messages.

    WhatsApp outage was reported around 8:39pm (Pakistan Standard Time).

    People across the globe took to Twitter to not only share the problems they were facing but also made memes about the situation.

    Read More: #PetrolPrice: Memes break the internet

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