According to media reports, Gill complained of difficulty in breathing and poor health due to alleged torture after which he was shifted to the jail hospital for a checkup.
The news report further suggests that Gill’s oxygen saturation level was recorded at 97. For normal people, a pulse oximeter reading for oxygen saturation level is between 95 per cent and 100 per cent. Moreover, a sample for Covid-19 diagnostic testing was also sent to the laboratory.
The doctors said that Gill’s health condition was found satisfactory in the initial medical examination.
Meanwhile, Punjab Home Minister Hashim Dogar said that Gill’s “life is in danger”. He had earlier confirmed that the politician’s health was fine and there was no sign of torture.
Earlier yesterday, an Islamabad district and sessions court remanded the senior PTI leader into police custody for 48 hours in its verdict on a review plea seeking his physical remand in the sedition case.
The Government of Sindh has announced a public holiday in Karachi and Hyderabad today (August 18, Thursday) due to heavy rainfall.
The decision has been taken amid heavy rainfall in most parts of the province.
The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has also rescheduled its annual exams for August 18.
In its latest forecast on torrential monsoon rains and urban flooding in Sindh and Balochistan, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) advised authorities to remain on high alert.
Honda Atlas Cars Limited (HACL) has reduced the prices of its entire lineup, like its rival Toyota.
According to a notification from the automaker, the latest price reduction is an outcome of the Pakistani rupee’s strengthening versus the US dollar, and the company wants to pass on the forex impact to its “valued” customers.
Here are the new prices of Honda cars in Pakistan, effective from August 17:
Model
Old invoice
New price
Decrease
City Manual 1.2L
Rs4,049,000
Rs3,769,000
Rs280,000
City CVT 1.2L
Rs4,199,000
Rs3,899,000
Rs300,000
City CVT 1.5L
Rs4,439,000
Rs4,139,000
Rs300,000
City Aspire Manual 1.5L
Rs4,609,000
Rs4,299,000
Rs310,000
City Aspire CVT 1.5L
Rs4,799,000
Rs4,479,000
Rs320,000
BR-V CVT S
Rs5,299,000
Rs4,939,000
Rs360,000
Civic 1.5L M CVT
Rs6,799,000
Rs6,349,000
Rs450,000
Civic 1.5L Oriel M CVT
Rs7,099,000
Rs6,599,000
Rs500,000
Civic RS 1.5L LL CVT
Rs8,099,000
Rs7,549,000
Rs550,000
Honda Cars Latest Price List – August 2022
Despite the most recent drop, the ‘cheapest’ Honda car still costs more than Rs3.7 million, making it out of reach for low-income individuals.
Actress Meera is known for her candour in interviews and press interactions, she always manages to land herself in a controversies. Now an old interview of Meera with Times of India is resurfacing on social media in which the Nazar actress made revelations about Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt.
The Main Sitara actor claimed that because of Mahesh Bhatt she had to leave Bollywood and when she tried to come back, he did not even allow her to return. She was quoted saying, “Working with Bollywood was a great experience. I got a lot of love from the Indian audience. But the journey of Bollywood was not easy for me. There were many difficulties but I did not give up. In the early days Bollywood was completely new to me. I didn’t know anyone in Mumbai except Mahesh Bhatt. It took a long time to get to know people. Mahesh Bhatt introduced me to the industry. I used to respect Mahesh ji a lot. He was my mentor and mentor. I will also give the credit of my success to him.”
Further in the interview, Meera told that when she entered the cinema world with the film Nazar, I got offers from many famous directors like Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam, Subhash Ghai. They wanted to work with me but Mahesh Bhatt did not want it. Bhatt wanted me to work only with him. Further, Meera told that one night when she met Subhash Ghai and she told this to Mahesh, he got very angry, shouted at her, and slapped her 2-3 times.
Talking about the time when Bhatt slapped her, she revealed “I got offers from many famous directors like Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam, Subhash Ghai who wanted to work with me. But Mahesh Bhatt did not want me to work with anyone other than him. One night I met Subhash Ghai. When I told this to Mahesh ji, he got very angry, shouted at me, and slapped me two-three times.”
The Naagin star also alleged that Mahesh used to call her his ‘special one’ and told her she was like ‘worship’ to him. However, the filmmaker had denied all such allegations and called Meera ‘bizarre’. Mahesh Bhatt also opined that Meera was a vulnerable person who was going through a vulnerable phase back then.
This time the Baaji diva has been trending on social media for an Eid special interview, that she did in 2017 with famous media personality, Sohail Warraich. The Baaji actress confessed in the interview that when she went to India for her film Nazar’s shooting, she was proposed to by the Murder 2 actor, Emraan Hashmi, which she declined.
Meera added that Mahesh Bhatt, her film’s producer also presented her with a marriage proposal by Ashmit Patel, who was her co-star in the film. She was quick to mention that her family had issues over their religious differences and she couldn’t go against the will of her parents.
Earlier this year, Meera shared a picture with Indian actor Neha Dhupia from a shoot done over a decade ago. Several people liked the picture, while many trolled the Baaji actor.
Indian filmmaker and actor Anurag Kashyap took to his Twitter handle to laud Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi starrer, The Legend of Maula Jatt‘s trailer. “Finally the film I’ve loved so much and the film you really want to see, the trailer is out!” the Gangs of Wasseypur director tweeted along with the link to the trailer on YouTube.
https://t.co/CieDpEwi6wFinally the film I’ve loved so much and the film you really want to see , the trailer is out!
Film critic Joginder Tuteja tweeted, “This is as huge as it gets! Imagine, the action drama was made before K.G.F! This can become one of the biggest blockbusters ever! Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Bilal Lashari, Ammara Hikmat – you have indeed made something spectacular!”
The Legend of Maula Jatt is the most expensive film to come out of Pakistan. This intense and epic hero origin story, with a screenplay by Bilal Lashari and dialogues by Nasir Adeeb, is a hard reboot of the 1979 cult classic Maula Jatt. The film is directed by Lashari as well, known for his directorial debut, the box office mega-hit Waar, and produced by Ammara Hikmat under the joint venture of Encyclomedia & Lashari films in association with AAA Motion Pictures.
The film, which was initially announced in 2011, has seen many hurdles along the way. Be it the prolonged legal battle or a pandemic, The Legend of Maula Jatt kept getting delayed for one reason or the other. Now, fans and critics are hopeful that the film will finally see the light of the day and will release on the recently announced date, October 13 of this year.
Pakistani stars Ushna Shah and Saba Faisal shot a commercial with Kashyap earlier this year in Belarus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ph1JpIiJw
The Baaghi actor recently took to Instagram and shared a video from Minsk where the team filmed the commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaORPAAiHc
“Today is the first day of why I am currently in Belarus,” the Qayamat star shared in a video. “You will get to see our upcoming project with a great director.”
Although the Balaa star mentioned in another story that she will announce herself when she will do a project with the Raman Raghav director.
In 2018, Anurag spoke about the ban on art in both countries, given the current political standpoint. Discussing the possibility of filming in Pakistan, Kashyap said, “I would love to film in Pakistan. I have always wanted to visit and attend the literature festivals but it never worked out. I have friends who have visited Pakistan and they tell me how badly they want to go again.”
McKinsey Global Institute has forecasted that demand for higher skills such as decision making, critical thinking, complex information process, and creativity will grow by 19% by 2030. If anything, this forecast translates into the fact that future careers will be way more challenging than the present ones. Why? Because the same will require cross-marketability skills and interdisciplinary knowledge. This is where STEP Schools steps in as it imparts 21st-century knowledge through the STEAM approach.
STEP Schools is part of the Punjab Group of Colleges, a name synonymous with educational excellence in Pakistan. The brains behind STEP Schools realized that the traditional methods of teaching relying on rote memorization and repetitive classroom lectures do not cater to the needs of an increasingly complex and tech-driven world. So, they designed a 21st-century curriculum driven by 4Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity) and incorporated the STEAM approach into it.
STEAM
The 21st-century method deployed by STEP Schools opts for a multi-dimensional approach to the student’s learning experiences both in and out of the classrooms. STEP Schools’ 4C-driven curriculum shifts focus on developing and fostering analytical, decision-making, critical, and creativity skills in children from an early age. Likewise, project-based learning increases students’ engagement and offers special attention to each student in the class.
The core of 21st-century learning is the notion that learning is a lifelong process.
Broad & Flexible Teaching Strategies
At STEP Schools, our teachers deploy a wide array of broad and flexible strategies vis-a-vis the needs of the students and the context of the situation. These strategies champion interdisciplinary & hands-on learning and student engagement over conferring information. At STEP Schools, teaching methodologies and approaches are based on inquiry, focused on conceptual understanding, and developed in local and global contexts; likewise, the same is informed by assessments and is designed to remove barriers to learning.
In STEP Schools’ 21st-century classrooms, educators are not just teachers. They are relationship builders, innovators, leaders, storytellers, designers, and artists.
Project-based Learning
At STEP Schools, Project-Based Learning (PBL) forms the core of our philosophy that steers students’ learning in a meaningful manner that reflects their interests and the needs of modern times.
PBL nurtures and fosters thinking, research, social, self-management, and communication skills – a holistic development that is imperative for the 21st-century workforce. PBL aims to empower learners to see learning as a dynamic and active process.
21st-century Classrooms
STEP Schools provide students with exposure to 21st-century classrooms. The classroom’s environment is designed to promote student-led and inquiry-based teaching and learning that ultimately leads to the wholesome development of students. Likewise, highly-experienced and qualified faculty creates an environment that sparks curiosity, encourages & empowers students’ communication, collaboration, and participation while supporting each student’s personal journey.
Likewise, each campus has a ‘Resource Room’ equipped with LEDs, multimedia, interactive whiteboards, sound systems, and other pieces of equipment. These resource rooms provide the most up-to-date education to children.
Technology-Enhanced Learning
STEP Schools employs technology-enhanced learning (TEL) to meet four main concepts: citizen science, mobile learning, openness, and learning at scale. TEL fosters students’ ability to engage with multiple texts in multiple modes of literacy; the same helps educators replace old teaching habits while sustaining the contemporary ones. It also helps both students and teachers to enhance. By incorporating technology in learning practices, it is ensured at STEP Schools that existing processes are carried out in a more time-effective and sustainable manner. It also improves outcomes of existing processes while introducing new practices at the same time.
Keeping aforesaid notions in mind, STEP Schools has developed platforms of:
STEP Portal
STEP E-learning program
STEP ICT curriculum
The purpose of educational technology at STEP Schools is to groom the students as creators and makers of tomorrow’s technology and innovation.
Admissions Open If you want to get your child exposure to 21st-century learning, register with our perspective school within your city to gain an advantage over your child’s future from an early age.
STEP Schools offer admissions to the junior school classes and middle classes as of now. But, the student already on enrolment will have an opportunity to complete the school education from Step 1 to Step 10.
STEP Schools offers:
21st Century learning with standardized curriculum and booklist
Scholarships, financial aid, and Indemnity (Educational insurance)
Sibling discount
Inter-school student transfer facility
Interactive learning environment along with smart education tools in classrooms
Emphasis on life skills
The continuous assessment process to evaluate the performance of each student.
Well optimized web portal to provide complete performance evaluation of students through dedicated portal IDs for the parents
Ease of access for parents to their child’s record through STEP Schools Mobile App
Regular intimation of attendance and other important notifications through SMS
Regular co-curricular activities such as arts & crafts, physical education, games, inter-school competitions, educational trips, and sports events
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership has strongly reacted to Islamabad district and sessions court’s decision of approving a two-day physical remand of PTI leader Dr Shahbaz Gill. The court was hearing a review plea seeking Gill’s remand in a sedition case.
Fragile state of mental & physical health because of the torture: Imran Khan
“He is in a fragile state of mental & physical health because of the torture inflicted on him when he was abducted & taken to undisclosed location & then again at the police station,” tweeted PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
Very concerned about Shahbaz Gill being sent into police remand again. He is in a fragile state of mental & physical health because of the torture inflicted on him when he was abducted & taken to undisclosed location & then again at the police station. This is part of conspiracy
He said that Gill’s remand is a “part of the conspiracy to target me and PTI by forcibly getting false statements against us similar to what they have been doing against social media activists”.
to target me & PTI by forcibly getting false statements against us similar to what they have been doing against social media activists.This is absolutely unacceptable. We will take all legal & pol actions to counter not only this torture being inflicted upon Shahbaz Gill
PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry criticised the order and said that “judges sending political workers in remand for torture while knowing everything are criminals”.
“Gill is being sent into police custody for torture instead of interrogation,” said Fawad.
وہ جج صاحبان جو جانتے بوجھتے تشدد کیلئے کہ پولیس سیاسی ورکروں کو تشدد کیلئے ریمانڈ مانگ رہی ہے ریمانڈُ پر بھیجتے ہیں وہ قومی مجرم ہیں انسانی حقوق کی جو دھجیاں پاکستان میں اڑائ جارہی ہیں اس کی مثال نہیں ملتی شہباز گل کو تفتیش کیلئے نہیں تشدد کیلئے پولیس کے حوالے کیا جا رہا ہے
Fawad said that there is no parallel to the way human rights are being “utterly destroyed” in Pakistan.
He refused to give a false statement against Imran Khan: Asad Umar
PTI Secretary General Asad Umar said that the reason behind the insistence on the physical remand of Gill is “more torture”.
“[I] met Shahbaz Gill in Adiala, [his] spirits are high. Despite the worst torture meted out to him in Islamabad, [Gill] refused to make a false statement against Imran Khan,” tweeted Umar.
شہباز گل سے اڈیالہ ملاقات ہوئی. حوصلہ ابھی بھی بلند ہے. بد ترین تشدد کے باوجود، جو اس پر اسلام آباد میں کیا گیا، عمران خان کے خلاف جھوٹا بیان دینے سے انکار کر دیا. فون اسے حراست میں لیتے ہوئے ہی پولیس نے لے لئیے تھے. سوائے مزید تشدد کرنے کے ریمانڈ مانگنے کی اور کوئی وجہ نہیں
Addressing a press conference, Umar said, “They [coalition government] forcefully want to get a statement by torturing Gill and we want to bring it on the record.”
Last Friday (August 12), a district and sessions court in Islamabad hearing a sedition case against Shahbaz Gill rejected the prosecution’s request to extend Gill’s physical remand. Instead, the court had sent him to jail on judicial remand. A plea was then filed by Islamabad Advocate General Jahangir Khan Jadoon in the Islamabad High Court on August 13 challenging the order.
Transgender rights activist Mehrub Moiz Awan was barred from speaking at TEDx International School Lahore (ISL)after some parents of students at the school came forward to complain about a transgender rights activist being included in the panel.
In a Twitter thread, Moiz wrote how the TEDx ISL admin informed her that she was being removed from the speaker’s panel because certain parents have stated that transgender individuals cannot speak to their children.
“I was informed that I am being removed from the speaker’s panel because some parents have stated that they can’t allow transgender people to speak to their kids. This is the International School Lahore btw. No objections to the talk, no additional censorship, just flat-out refusal because ‘parents ko aitraaz hai k koi transgender talk day’ were their exact words. Verbatim. Is this even legal? And if it is, is this censorship?” wrote Moiz.
Designer Maria B is also among those parents who complained about the activist being on the speaker’s panel.
Twitter is condemning the removal of Mehrub Moiz from the speaker’s panel. In solidarity, some other panelists have also decided to boycott the event.
Have a look at some of the reactions:
Pathetic! This is a huge loss for the young audience who would have gained fascinating insights from Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan’s talk. I was supposed to be a speaker at the event but will boycott it in solidarity with Dr. Awan and the trans community. https://t.co/OiLD1YDm6E
cuz meanwhile another trans activist Mehrub Moiz Awan @TMItalks is removed from the panel of TED x ISL only because the parents has requested the TED x ISL selection board to remove trans speakers. also all these parents were educated, sending their kids to the bets schools.
Upsetting. Totally unacceptable. Trans censorship is real but was not expecting it from platforms like @TEDxIslamabad. Its sheer discrimination, hatred and prejudice. Silencing voices of intellects like @TMItalks is dangerous for our Nation. #BoycottTEDxISL#mehrubmoizawanhttps://t.co/avB6BKNz8T
Transphobia is unacceptable and as an educator, these are not the values I want institutions to encourage. In solidarity with Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan who is being silenced for her trans identity, I am boycotting and will no longer be speaking at TEDx ISL. https://t.co/gyOYl93ZYk
The Pakistani rupee (PKR) finally lost for the first time since July 28, falling by 0.46 per cent to close at Rs214.88 against the US dollar.
The PKR was down by Rs1.01 or 0.46 per cent versus the US dollar at around 1:00pm, when it was quoted at Rs214.91.
In the interbank market on Tuesday, the local currency edged up slightly versus the US dollar, ending the day at Rs213.90, an increase of 0.04 per cent or Rs0.08. The rupee managed to increase for the eleventh session in a row, despite the smaller volume of the advance.
Remittances to Pakistan totaled $2.52 billion on Tuesday, with a small month-over-month dip reported.
It is worth noting that PKR has increased by 11 per cent this month, making it the world’s top gainer against the greenback. On the other hand, the stock index climbed by 9 per cent, making it Asia’s second-best performer behind Sri Lanka.
In order to get the IMF’s approval to resume its stalled bailout programme, Pakistan enacted austerity measures. This comes as frontier countries from Egypt to El Salvador struggle with the possibility of default.
Pakistan cricket team all-format captain Babar Azam has made another record. In the first One-Day International (ODI) against the Netherlands on Tuesday, Babar Azam broke South Africa’s great Hashim Amla’s record for the most runs in ODIs after 88 innings.
Though he managed to score only 74 runs during Tuesday’s match, they were enough to shatter record books.
In that innings, he crossed the 4,500-run mark in the ODIs and broke Amla’s record. Babar now has 4,516 runs to his name at an average of 59.42 in 88 innings. On the contrary, Amla had scored 4,473 runs after batting in the exact number of innings.
Pakistan will play the second ODI on August 18 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
