The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has inaugurated an IT lab at the Baba Guru Nanak School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in Peshawar in an attempt to make Sikh students more tech-savvy, Samaa reported.
According to the details, the lab was inaugurated by Special Assistant to the KP Chief Minister on Science and Information Technology Kamran Bhangash and Adviser to the KP Chief Minister on Education Ziaullah Bangash.
Kamran Bangash said, “Students here will be taught early-age programming, early-age robotics, and early-age stemming”.
The classes at the lab have commenced on Monday, November 18. The students are initially being taught the basics of using a computer.
“We have learned how cartoons and films are made and how dance parties are shot,” said a student of the institute. “We have also learned how to use different softwares.”
A cake celebrating the 550th birthday of Sikh spiritual leader, Baba Guru Nanak, was also cut at the inauguration. Kamran said that the lab was a gift from the KP government to the Sikhs on this occasion.
Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs, Ali Haider Zaidi, sharing a video of Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif walking out of Heathrow Airport, expressed that Francis Ford Coppola who co-wrote and directed 1970s classic The Godfather should “do a film on the Sharif family of Pakistan.”
It is pertinent to mention here that Francis Ford Coppola did not write The Godfather. While he co-wrote the script and directed the film, the film was based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel of the same name.
Francis Ford Coppola who wrote the GodFather should do a film on the Sharif Family of Pakistan.
May Allah bless all who fight & struggle for this great country & it’s people.
The video shows the former prime minister walking out and hugging his son and the leader of the opposition, Shehbaz putting his best fashion front forward sporting a British bowler hat.
Nawaz reached London yesterday in an air ambulance via Doha, accompanied by Shehbaz and personal physician Dr Adnan.
The Godfather is an American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel of the same name. The film’s plot is centred on Don Vito Corleone who is the head a mafia family. Corleone decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son Michael, a decision that puts the family in jeopardy.
Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain, who has been declared an absconder by Pakistan in murder, terrorism and hate-speech among others cases, has sung an the popular Indian national song “Sare Jahan Se Acha” on an Indian news channel.
Speaking to India’s Republic TV, Altaf said there was no difference between people of Pakistan and India, “We used to visit each other on Eid and Diwali and share each others’ pain.”
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The MQM founder further said that he was compelled to leave Pakistan as “there existed a nexus of the military and politicians in the country and assassins had been hired to kill him”.
The 66-year-old politician is living in London for more than two decades now and was recently banned from appearing on any form of media in the UK or Pakistan by the Westminster Magistrates’ Court, after Scotland Yard charged him with a terrorism offence in the incitement speech inquiry against him.
Altaf was charged with encouraging terrorism after a 2016 address to supporters in Karachi that was followed by violent protests.
He faces several years imprisonment for the speech which was “likely to be understood” as encouraging supporters to acts of terrorism or was “reckless” of the possible consequences.
Altaf had earlier requested Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi to help him by giving him asylum in India besides financial help to him and his companions. Meanwhile, Lawyers are assessing whether Hussain has breached his bail conditions by asking the Indian premier to let him stay in India while he awaits trial of his case.
Bollywood actor Priety Zinta, in a social media post, shared with her fans a picture from the first day of her new upcoming project: an American sitcom titled Fresh Off The Boat.
The picture she posted along with the update was of her and another lady who upon the first look looks a lot like Pakistani actor Mahnoor Baloch.
Amazing how a change of scene can make U feel like a newcomer! On location to shoot Fresh Off The Boat. Now that the first day of shoot is over & I’m still alive & not shaking with nervous energy here’s a photo Loving & absorbing it all. #day2#Fotb#abcnetwork#foxstudios#tingpic.twitter.com/dyFCFaeHoQ
Initially, we thought that we’re the only ones who noticed the familiarity and couldn’t help but wonder if the two are actually working on a project together.
However, it appears that some other users thought the same and even commented to ask whether that was actually Mahnoor or not. Priety clarified that the woman with her in the picture was actually the head of the makeup department and that her name is Cindy.
So the matter is settled.
Fresh Off The Boat is an American sitcom that revolves around the Huang family. The Taiwanese-American family constitute of Louis and Jessica, their children Eddie, Emery, and Evan, and Louis’s mother Jenny. According to reports, Preity along with comedian Vir Das will play an Indian couple, whose daughter attends school with Eddie. Priety will be making a guest appearance in some of the episodes.
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khan Khosa has said that it weren’t the courts that allowed ailing former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif to leave the country and PM Imran Khan should refrain from making such statements.
“The PM should not blame the courts for Nawaz’s departure by saying we wrapped up the case of an influential person because, for us it is only the law that is all-powerful,” the top judge said while addressing a gathering in Islamabad.
He said that the premier had mentioned “powerful and the weak” in his speech without realising that the judiciary had wrapped up around 3.6 million cases of those who were neither powerful nor influential.
CJP Khosa further said that both the powerful and the weak were equal for the judiciary and these were the same courts that had sentenced one PM and disqualified another.
“Only the law is powerful to us,” the top judge said, adding that he would not comment over any subjudice matter unlike the premier, but “whoever left the country was allowed by PM Imran himself”.
“Another verdict is about to come,” he said in what appeared to be a hint at the forthcoming ruling on former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf’s high-treason case.
A private media outlet’s microphone hits Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Shehbaz Sharif in the face. The former Punjab chief minister is rather infamous for his signature “mic drops” as emotions take over while addressing gatherings.
Over a week after Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s Adviser on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh claimed that tomatos were “being sold for Rs17 per kilogram (kg) in Karachi”, latest reports have revealed that the prices have soared to Rs400/kg from Rs300-320/kg last week.
Speaking to media personnel, the PM’s adviser had said that people were lying when he was told that tomatoes were being sold at Rs240/kg. He told reporters that they were being sold at Rs 17/kg at Karachi’s sabzi mandi [vegetable market].
A journalist then asked, “Which sabzi mandi, sir?” To which, Dr Sheikh responded, “You go and check it out yourself!”
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According to Dawn, in the absence of any landed price of the Iranian tomato, greedy traders also brought the price of Swat and Sindh crop at par with the Iranian tomato rate to make huge profits. But the local administration, like its past practice, quoted an unrealistic retail rate of Rs253 per kg compared to Rs193 per kg.
In the first week of November, the official retail rate of tomato was Rs117 per kg and Tuesday’s official price clearly indicated that the government itself was revising the price upward.
Traders said a box containing 13-14 kg of tomato was available at Rs4,200-4,500 depending on the quality, thus forcing many traders to suspend purchasing.
The government had last week issued a permit for importing 4,500 tonnes of tomato from Iran, but the arrival of the red fruit had yet to pick up pace in the market, resulting in a persistent hike in the rates in view of rising demand.
Of the 4,500 tonnes, only 989 tonnes had arrived in the country so far, a trader said, adding that he could not confirm whether more quantities arrived at the Taftan border on Tuesday.
Police have arrested a man who tried to kidnap children in Lahore by giving them candies after the locals complained about him.
As per reports, the police were alerted by locals when a man in the city’s Hanjarwal neighbourhood attempted to kidnap two children from their school by tempting them with candies. As the kidnapper walked away, the residents of the area found him suspicious and called police on him.
Police later arrested the man and recovered both the children from him. The kids were returned safely to their parents.
How to keep your child safe from strangers?
Teach your kids that adults don’t need help from kids
If an adult need help to find a place or anything else, they should be seeking help from another adult, not a child.
Educate your child about the law
Kids should know that no one has the right to touch their private parts or to ask children to touch theirs because it’s against the law. Also, tell them that threatening a child is also illegal. Kids need to be told that adults who do this will be punished.
Tell your child that it’s OK to scream, and say no to an adult if they feel uncomfortable or scared
We teach children to listen, be obedient and respect the elders but there are times when they should disobey and be loud. Teach them that if someone tries to take them forcefully they must say no, scream and run away.
Have a code word phrase
This is a phrase that you would teach your children and that will be a secret between you, your kid and some other trusted members. They should speak that code phrase whenever someone tries to behave strangely with them. Make it something funny or personal so it’s easy for the kids to remember. Also, a child should only go with someone who tells them that phrase.
Look
for a mother with kids
Tell your kids to find a mother with kids or an officer in the uniform if they get lost somehwere. A shopkeeper at a counter is also safe. Tell them to find someone where they can more people.
A trans comedian from Lahore, Anaya Sheikh was harassed on stage with abusive slurs by a Youtube prankster Shahrik Shah at a comedy night organised at a cafe in Johar Town.
According to Anaya, a theatre artist, researcher and trans comedians in an improv group, Shahrik repeatedly came too close to the stage during her performance, made her uncomfortable and passed transphobic and petty comments about Anaya’s physical appearance.
“I wore a top which said ‘We Should All Be Feminists.’ I started with jokes about women empowerment and then I replied to those jokes, which were based on trans people. Then Shahrik Shah of Lahori Prankstar, and another comedian named Usman made fun and used the derogatory terms like khusra and shemale while the whole audience was enjoying my performance,” Anaya wrote on Facebook.
Anaya further shared: “He forcibly tried to come onstage. I asked him to leave. He kept showing me his middle finger and I said even my fingers are not worthy of you but he kept abusing me.”
“I completed my performance and I was shivering when I left the stage,” Anaya wrote recounting her traumatising experience.
The event organiser, Lahorified, has since come out in Anaya’s support and apologised to her.
Speaking to a private media outlet, Anaya said, “I love my audience but I can’t go through this stress and shame which I just faced. I have the video but I don’t have the courage to watch it, and the more I think that many people were recording it, the more I feel depressed and angry. I know this will be out and I’m imagining how happy that will make transphobes.”
Though the Youtuber was reportedly removed from the venue by the organisers who also apologised to Anaya, Anaya said that the society’s mindset in this era still upsets her.
“I was excited obviously [to perform that night]; it was a new audience. I kept thinking I’ll do a different set and the moment I went on stage, I broke the ice and everyone laughed out. They were enjoying the performance so much. I was scared when I was called again onstage [for the encore] but had to do it — the audience kept shouting ‘Once more, Anaya’. I took a breath and went back, but I was shivering so I had to end it,” she said.
“There were some people who laughed at Shahrik’s comments, which made me think that people still find us as a joke. There should’ve been a pin-drop silence. This was not a joke. I was not a joke. I work hard to write stuff to make them laugh to give them a good time, even in such stressful times. I was shocked that such people are still existing in this society and people follow them,” she said.
Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain, who has been declared an absconder by Pakistan in murder, terrorism and hate-speech cases among others, has called the country a suppressed nation where his life is in danger.
Speaking to a India’s Republic TV, Altaf said he was compelled to leave Pakistan as “there existed a nexus of the military and politicians in the country and assassins had been hired to kill him”.
The 66-year-old politician is living in London for more than two decades now and was recently banned from appearing on any form of media in the UK or Pakistan by the Westminster Magistrates’ Court, after Scotland Yard charged him with a terrorism offence in the incitement speech inquiry against him.
Altaf was charged with encouraging terrorism after a 2016 address to supporters in Karachi that was followed by violent protests.
He faces several years imprisonment for the speech which was “likely to be understood” as encouraging supporters to acts of terrorism, or was “reckless” of the possible consequences.
Altaf had earlier requested Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi to help him by giving him asylum in India besides financial help to him and his companions. Meanwhile, Lawyers are assessing whether Hussain has breached his bail conditions by asking the Indian premier to let him stay in India while he awaits trial of his case.
