The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to establish separate jails for women across the province, Dawn has reported.
Mr Shafiullah, Special Assistant to the Chief Minister for prisons, said a proposal for women’s jails had been mooted as part of the jail reforms project.
He said that after the CM’s approval, the home department will conduct a feasibility study to determine potential locations for the separate jails. He added that that female convicts have challenges due to a lack of facilities in jails.
According to the CM’s aide, there are currently 160 female detainees languishing in various jails, with 35 of them having been convicted and 125 cases pending in various courts.
The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards shortlisted 42 images for its 2021 competition after receiving entries of over 7,000 photos from every corner of the world.
The final 42 pictures include a laughing vine snake from India, a trio of strutting Gentoo penguins on the beaches of the Falkland Islands and a kangaroo performing a picture-perfect Pavarotti impersonation in Australia.
Laughing snake by Aditya Kshirsagar, India
Monday Morning Mood by Andrew Mayes, South Africa
Directing penguin by Carol Taylor, UK
Monkey riding a giraffe by Dirk-Jan Steehouwer, Netherlands
The Green Stylist by Gurumoorthy K, India
Operatic warm ups by Lea Scadden, Australia
Did I say you could take my picture? By Patrick Dirlam, USA
Co-founded in 2015 by professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, aimed to create a competition that focused on the lighter side of wildlife photography and help promote wildlife conservation through humour.
This year’s competition is supporting Save Wild Orangutans and is donating 10 per cent of its total net revenue to the charity.
Atif Mehmood, a Pakistani salesman based in Dubai, saved a pregnant cat stuck on the second-floor balcony of a residential building in Deira, the commercial hub of Dubai.
Atif, along with a Moroccan and an Indian man, spread a bedsheet and caught the cat after it jumped from the second floor.
The video shows the three men holding up the bedsheet for the cat, who initially hesitates, but then jumps into it and is saved.
Viewed over 1.1 million times, the video caught the eye of the ruler of Dubai who took to Twitter and asked people to help identify the “unsung heroes” so he could thank them.
Proud and happy to see such acts of kindness in our beautiful city. Whoever identifies these unsung heroes, please help us thank them. pic.twitter.com/SvSBmM7Oxe
“I got a call from the police and someone asked me, ‘Did you save a cat?’,” Mehmood toldArab News. “I got scared and said yes, I did, and then they asked me to visit the police station.”
He said he entered the police station to cheers and applause. Three days later, he was told he had been awarded AED50,000 (Rs 2,172,833) by the Dubai government.
“I did not believe it at first,” he said, “but it has become a reality.”
Mehmood, who is single, has already spent most of the reward money to buy a car for his father and help out his brother. He now plans to use the rest of the cash to try to set up a business in Dubai
A woman named Jameela fixes motorcycles to earn a living in Karachi, Shahjahan Khurram reported for Geo News.
Jameela has set up a small shop near the popular Lakhpati Hotel where she sells and changes motorcycle engine oil for customers.
“I have been doing this for the past 35 years,” she said. “I do it for my family — for roti, kapra and makaan,” she added.
Jameela Khatoon said that her business is the only legacy of her deceased husband. Jameela’s husband died of cancer and she lost her adopted son to a disease, after which Jameela had to become the sole breadwinner of her house.
Photo via Geo News
She used to have six labourers at her shop to help her out.
“But they wanted to take over my business by force. I could not let them do that,” she said
The workers threatened her she would “die hungry” if she let them go.
“I accepted their challenge and told them I will not let that happen. It is due to Allah’s will and His love for me that I am still earning my bread here.”
Photo via Geo News
Jameela Khatoon has to feed her four grandchildren and the widow of her adopted son.
“Hum sab saath mein chalte hain (we do everything together),” she said.
Life was easier when she had workers working for her. Now, she opens her shop at 10:30-11:00 am and works till midnight. Jameela Khatoon says people who come by to get their motorcycles serviced always treat her with respect.
“They all address me as khaala (aunt), amma (mother), aunty,” she says, but recalls that she faced catcalls and harassment when she was younger.
She says that shopkeepers nearby do not bother her.
“I don’t need their support — I give support to them,” she says, adding that if something were to happen to them, she would “stand by them like a wall”.
Jameela wants the government to support her financially to help her set up a bigger shop for her business.
“I wish the government would give me a loan or provide me a shop where I can carry out my work in a better way,” she says. “A shop where I can sell spare parts and fix punctures.”
“If the government is watching this video, then I hope it shakes their conscience a bit,” she says.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are reportedly planning to leave London and set up camp near Windsor Castle.
According to a Royal Expert, Katie Nicholl “Neither William nor Kate have ever been London people and have never enjoyed the chaos of the city.”
“Whilst their home at Kensington Palace is highly secure, they have often felt overlooked and that they lacked privacy. The older their children get, the more apparent this has become,” she added.
If the Duke and Duchess relocate they would be just a few minutes drive away from the Queen. Nicholl, in a video stated, “Windsor seems like the ideal situation. The castle is huge in itself and is the Queen’s permanent residence now but there are other housing options for them.”
Bringing their kids to school is also pretty difficult because of the busy London roads and moving to Windsor can make the family’s lives easier.
According to her, everything is on the table and up for discussion.
Currently, the royal pair reside in Anmer Hall, Norfolk where they will spent England’s third lockdown this winter.
Gaming has become the world’s largest entertainment industry, with global revenues of $170 billion in 2020. Yes, that’s billion, not million, and the industry is now almost three times bigger than both music and movies combined. So, it’s no surprise that game developers have become some of the most sought-after talent in the technology sector, and this holds true in Pakistan just as much as anywhere in the world. About 50 per cent of the world’s mobile games are made in Unity, so studios are scrambling to hire talented developers and artists who can join their team and perform at the highest level.
If you don’t believe us, listen to the CEOs of Pakistan’s top gaming studios who talk about the challenge to find quality game development talent for their companies:
The search for talent is on, and GameTrain is a Pakistani game development accelerator that is helping young computer science grads get on a fast track into the sector. They’ve partnered with the Foundation for Youth Employment Pakistan, a non-profit that specialises in creating employment bootcamps for different high demand industries.
Hear the CEO of GameTrain talk about the exciting pathway for CS talent to get employed into the gaming industry:
But we’re saving the most interesting reason for last: GameTrain and FYEP have brought Unity Technologies themselves onboard to sponsor a certified Jnr Unity Game Developer Program for 120 lucky new entrants! This is the first instructor led Unity Certified program in the world, and it is happening right here in Pakistan. Not only that, but employers have come on board to offer scholarships for the talent they aim to hire from this program, so each learner has to pay absolutely nothing for the entire training and just focus on investing their time and energy to build up their Unity development skills to the next level.
Hear what Unity’s own Program Manager for Inclusive Economic Opportunities has to say about the program:
If you’re a college graduate with any programming background, this is the career for you. Get on the fast track with this 12-week bootcamp and join the industry when you graduate. Don’t just play, change the game. Seats are limited, so click on the link below to apply now!
A new study has found that many people who lose their sense of smell due to coronavirus ultimately regain it, but some survivors have faced smell distortions and unexplained smells, Reuters has reported.
Researchers examined survey responses from 1,468 individuals who had been infected with Covid-19 between April and September 2020 and had suffered loss of smell and taste at the start of their illness. Early on, about 10 percent also reported smell distortions also known as parosmia, and unexplained smells, known as phantosmia.
At an average of six to seven months after the infection and first reporting loss of smell, roughly 60% of women and 48% of men had regained less than 80% of their pre-illness smell ability, and rates of smell distortions and imaginary smells had increased, the researchers reported on Tuesday on medRxiv.
Roughly 47% reported parosmia, saying, for example, “some things now smell like chemicals.” About 25% reported phantosmia.
“Sometimes I can smell burning but no one else around me can,” one respondent reported. Persistent smell problems were seen more often in survivors with more symptoms overall, “suggesting it may be a key marker of long-COVID,” the authors said.
A man has been arrested for raping his six-year-old cousin in Bahawalpur, Samaa News reported.
The minor girl’s mother lived with her sister and their children. The women of the family were at their neighbours’ house, while the children were at home. “When we came back, I heard my daughter’s screams from one of the rooms,” the complainant, who is the six-year-old child’s mother, told the police.
The suspect, Adnan, was raping the child while his brother Nadir was watching over the door. “When they saw us, they attacked us with punches and kicks and escaped from the scene,” the complainant added.
A case has been registered against the men under sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The suspects were arrested after a police raid on Friday. The investigation officer said that Adnan’s DNA sample will be tested and further inquiry is underway.
A billboard installed in Gujranwala wishing Korean band BTS’ youngest member JungKook happy birthday was taken down the same day it was put up.
The advertiser who owns the billboard, Younus Mughal, told Images that the ad was scheduled to be up for two days.
“The business centre of the chamber of commerce had asked us to put the billboard ad up for two days. They had the ad put up before we could do so ourselves.”
But the ad was removed from the billboard in a few hours, leaving many fans confused why the ad disappeared.
“We took it off later that same day in the evening. When we saw the ad while removing it, we didn’t really get what it was about, just that it showed someone’s face. Furqan Aziz Butt from the Jamaat-e-Islami had told us to take the ad off immediately,” Mughal explained.
“The advertisement was put up by a person from Lahore. They paid Rs100,000 to have it put up for this person’s [Jungkook’s] birthday.” But a member of the Jamaat-e-Islami who is contesting the PP-57 Gujranwala seat in the Punjab Assembly was behind the billboard being removed and also shared it on Facebook.
He claimed the singer in the poster supports homosexuality and hence he believed that the poster should be removed.
“It was a public complaint. We saw it posted on the Amazing Gujranwala [Facebook] group and went there immediately and had it taken down,” he said, saying that it was a 15-by-20-foot vertical board.
Director General Inter Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar on Friday paid rich tributes to the martyrs, Ghazi and their loved-ones for their indomitable spirit, patriotism and valour rendered to safeguard the homeland.
DG ISPR took his social media handle to share a special video with a special message of patriotism. He wrote on his official account, “Salute to the martyrs, Ghazi and ‘all’ related to them. Martyrs of Pakistan are our pride”.
The tweet was also followed by hashtags ‘#6 September’ ‘#ShuhadaKoSalam’. Earlier, the ISPR chief during his news briefing announced that this year’s “Defence & Martyrs Day” theme was “Our martyrs are our pride, salute to all the relatives belonged to Ghazi and Shaheed”. He said the ceremony for this year would be held under Covid-19 protocols with full national zeal and fervour.
