Memes are some of the best things to see on your social media feeds. Several meme trends are successful in tickling our funny bones and this time memers are comparing white vs brown things that are not only funny but also relatable.
Check out some of the funniest ones below:
Prime Minister Imran Khan has defended his U-turns once again, saying that going back on one’s words is fine as long as it doesn’t compromise “ideology”.
This is not the first time Imran has tried to defend the actions that saw him walk away from his promises. In 2018, he had said: “A leader who does not take ‘U-turns’ [in the best interests of the nation] is not a ‘real leader’.”
APP, the state-run news agency, reported the PM as saying that the idea of making “compromises to reach the ultimate goal was never bad until one compromised the ideology”. “I will never make a compromise on an NRO. The U-turn is when you give up your goal,” he remarked.
In an interview with Dunya News on Friday, the PM also talked about his statement wherein he had said that he was not prepared to run the country. “My statement that I was not prepared was completely misunderstood,” he said, adding: “I have never made any excuses that I was not prepared.”
According to the premier, only a “fool would not know about the problems of the country”. The PM said the two years have passed with great “difficulty” but now things are looking better. “Good times are soon to come.” “People will decide about my performance after five years [and] God willing, Pakistan will soon have great times.”
Speaking about economy, Imran said expenditure is on the rise as opposed to the income. “Reducing expenditure at home can become a pain,” he said, adding that half of tax revenue is spent on debt servicing.
The current government has paid back $20 billion worth of loans over the past two years and the current account deficit has also been in positive for the past five months, he added.
The remittances and exports have increased as well, the PM said, referring to a boost in the textile industry.
Emma Alam from Pakistan has won the 29th World Memory Championship which saw 300 contestants participate from across the globe.
The three-day competition included competitors from China, Canada, UK, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, Algeria, the United States, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Libya, Qatar, and Iraq.
Alam and Syeda Kisa Zehra from the Pakistani team also broke multiple World Records in this year’s championship.
World Memory Championships was founded in 1991 by an English author Tony Buzan and English journalist and author Raymond Keene to shine a global spotlight on the power of human memory.
The late Tony Buzan was among world’s top five speakers, as per Forbes Magazine. He was the one who promoted the idea of mental literacy. Raymond Keene is Grandmaster of Chess and an appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by her majesty Queen Elizabeth.
The participants with the best, fastest and sharpest memory skills competed to show their intellectual power and set new heights of the potential of human memory.
Global President of The World Memory Sports Council Raymond Keene, in an official statement, said: “The field consisted of an impressive 300 competitors from 16 countries and from this extensive field the winner, the world champion from the 29th World Memory Championship, emerged from the Pakistan team, so excellently and expertly trained by Sania Alam.”
He congratulated the winner and said that “one of the great sporting achievers for Pakistan, a unique heroine in the pandemic-stricken 2020 and supreme grand world memory champion for 2020.’’
Meanwhile, Alam said that she was excited to have won.
“I had aimed to give my best in WMC 2020, backed by a lot of daily practice for the past two years with my coach and the institute,” said the winner. “I plan on competing again next year with even better performance. I congratulate all those amazing competitors who competed from across the globe.”
Alam has also competed in many memory championships before including the 3rd Asia Pacific Memory Championship in Malaysia and the 28th World Memory Championship in China and has won several medals and trophies. She is currently completing her studies through homeschooling.
Another member of Team Pakistan, Abeerah Ather, achieved 7th position in the 2020 global rankings.
Emma Alam and Team Pakistan were skilled under the Institute of Human Memory Development International (IHMD).
Model Farwa Ali Kazmi, who tested positive for COVID-19 in October, has revealed that she had a miscarriage earlier this year.
Sharing a picture of her ultrasound on social media, Kazmi opened up about the painful experience and said she felt that people need to talk more about it.
“While everyone looks back at this year and shares good memories, I am sharing my story that doesn’t have a happy ending,” wrote the model. “I went through something called a ‘missed miscarriage’.”
“People seldom talk about miscarriage because a lot of guilt, shame and pain is attached to it,” she said. “I feel we need to speak more about the uncomfortable and difficult topics because not talking about it makes it feel worse. Losing a child is monumental and should be mourned for as long as one wants. It’s not the mother’s fault nor in her control.”
The model further wrote: “I was scrolling through my notes today and came across a love letter that I had written for my baby that was never born and I couldn’t even look at it. It brought back all the painful memories from the day I ended up in labour room.”
Kazmi added that she “does not want to go into details of it but it’s unimaginable pain and loss for someone who hasn’t gone through it.”
“What it feels like, to think at one moment that you’ll be bringing a baby home in seven months and the next second you know that you won’t because your embryo doesn’t have a heartbeat. It’s doesn’t end here. The process of terminating a pregnancy is like the worst nightmare,” she said. “It’s like so much pain without any gain. I’m still dealing with complications after the miscarriage.”
Thanking her friends and family for their support during this difficult time, Farwa said that she prayed for 2021 to be kinder, happier and prosperous for all.
In the past year, several known personalities such as Chrissy Teigen and the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle have opened up about their own experiences of miscarriage.
|
An Indian surgeon removed a nine-inch long toothbrush from a patient’s stomach after a surgery.
According to reports, doctors at the Medical College and Hospital (Ghati Hospital) in Aurangabad removed the toothbrush under the supervision of Muslim surgeon Junaid M. Sheikh.
Rajesh Jadho, 33, had swallowed a toothbrush by mistake. After his ultrasound and MRI were conducted, Dr Junaid, after consulting with other doctors, recommended him to get an operation done immediately.
Sheikh told Indian media that Rajesh was brought to Ghati Hospital on December 26 at 11 am. The surgeon said that if the brush had not been removed from the abdomen on time, it could have resulted in an internal rapture.
The rupture could have been life threatening, he said.
After a picture of Gigi Hadid’s spice cabinet went viral on social media, Shan Foods has released an ad featuring the supermodel.
“People ask us if we are the best. We say ‘Ji, Ji‘,” says the ad as a box of Seekh Kabab Masala peeks from the side.
Gigi’s love for Shan Masala came to the spotlight when the model took the ‘Post a Picture of’ challenge on Instagram. When a follower asked her to share a picture from September 15, Gigi shared a picture of her spice cabinet which was full of desi masalas including zeera, haldi, garam masala and tandoori masala. Pakistanis were also quick to the spot the box of Shan Seekh Kabab masala on the side. The supermodel shared that she ate them during her pregnancy.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has removed Lahore police chief Umar Sheikh from his post.
Ghulam Mehmood Dogar, who was serving as DIG, Technical Procurement, CPO, Punjab, will be the new Capital City Police Officer (CCPO).
Whereas, the notification issued by the government said that Umar Sheikh will be “posted as Deputy Inspector General of Police/Deputy Commandant of Punjab Constabulary, Farooqabad, against a vacant post”.
Sheikh was posted as the Lahore police chief in September. Since then he has been involved in a number of controversies.
Soon after his posting, he allegedly told his subordinates that on any sensitive issue, the Lahore police must seek his permission even if they receive directions from the Central Police Office (CPO).
This had irked IGP Shoaib Dastgir, who refused to work as the IG till the removal of Sheikh. However, the government removed the IG following a standoff between the two.
Sheikh had also blamed the rape survivor in the motorway rape case. The CCPO had said rape survivor should have been more careful and taken a safer route to avoid the rapists.
“I am shocked… you are a mother of three and the only driver late at night… [she] should have taken the GT [Grand Trunk] Road instead, which is densely populated,” he had said while speaking to Dunya News.
Sheikh went had further said that the woman should “at least have checked her fuel before taking the motorway”.
Recently, CCPO Sheikh was in the crosshairs of the Lahore High Court that had sought record of the CCPO’s interviews after he criticised the courts for freeing criminals.
Reacting to the statement of the CCPO Shaikh in which he said the criminals detained by the police were given bail by the courts, the chief justice had said the suspects are granted bail in line with the constitution.
He had said such statements by CCPO Shaikh were akin to committing contempt of court and asked the Punjab advocate general to give details of his interviews in 15 days.
With the world officially into 2021, Pakistani celebrities among others reflected upon their past year and looked forward to the upcoming one.
Sharing some photos of herself and her family, Mirza wrote: “Buh-bye 2020. You’ve been difficult, to say the least, but you have taught us so much, to be grateful for the little things, to be grateful for health, for family, you have taught us simplicity is enough, you have taught us to find joy in moments we forgot we needed to enjoy, in a year that saw so many hardships you will be special cause I made my dream comeback after becoming a mother, so yeah 2020 you were hard, and even evil at times but you taught us to find joy even when things were so so hard.”
Later, she and Shoaib Malik also posted a video in which they wished their fans a happy new year.
In her year end post, Ayeza expressed love for her husband Danish Taimoor.
“No words can describe my love for you and how much I need you every second of my life. I can’t thank you enough for the joy and peace you bring to my world,” wrote Ayeza. “Thanks for being part of my family and always being there for us when we need you.”
Read more – Sonya Hussyn reveals the best thing that happened to her in 2020
Momal said that she is “leaving all my troubles behind”.
Yashma posed with the last sunset of 2020 and wrote: “Can’t wait for this new year to bring joy, prosperity and contentment in everyone’s life.”
