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  • Congressman Andy Ogles introduces bill to send protesting students to Gaza

    Congressman Andy Ogles introduces bill to send protesting students to Gaza

    Republican lawmaker Andy Ogles has decided that the violent detention of college students participating in Gaza solidarity protests isn’t enough of a punishment. Instead, he believes the only way to encourage the students to stop using their right to protest is to ship them off to Gaza.

    Ogles, a Tennessee Representative, introduced a new bill into the House proposing that students who were arrested for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza should be sent abroad to “provide community service” for a minimum of six months in the war-torn strip.

    He proposed this bill on Wednesday.

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    “Any person convicted of unlawful activity on the campus of an institution of higher education beginning on and after October 7, shall be assigned to Gaza for the purpose of providing community service… for a period not fewer than six months,” the bill reads.

    It is not currently clear what the exact parameters of the proposed community service would be, though the bill points to the term’s definition in U.S. Code, which are identified by universities “through formal or informal consultation with local nonprofit, governmental, and community-based organizations.”

    Even though it’s unlikely to gain momentum, the bill could impact approximately 2,100 students who were arrested while participating in peace protests in recent weeks.

    It’s at least the second time Ogles has hatefully condemned the citizens of Gaza and their American allies who want an end to the war. In February, the Tennessee Republican ruthlessly advocated for the complete extermination of Palestine while engaging in a fiery spat with an activist.

    “You know what? So, I think we should kill ’em all, if that makes you feel better,” Ogles, a self-described Christian, told a protester asking him about dead Palestinian children. “Everybody in Hamas.”

    “Hamas and the Palestinians have been attacking Israel for 20 years. And It’s time to pay the piper,” the lawmaker had remarked.

    Meanwhile, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 77,000 Palestinians have been injured in the conflict, according to data from the Gaza Health Ministry. Most of the victims have been women and children.

  • Imran Khan gives Arif Alvi important task

    Imran Khan gives Arif Alvi important task

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder chairman Imran Khan took a major step in his recent meeting with former president Dr Arif Alvi at Adiala jail by assigning an important responsibility to him.

    PTI secretary general and opposition leader in parliament, Omar Ayub Khan, confirmed to journalists that Alvi is working actively to bridge the gap between PTI and the establishment.

    The decision to assign the responsibility to Dr Arif Alvi came a day after the PTI founder refused to apologise for May 9 riots.

    However, Dr Arif Alvi said, while talking to the media, that Imran Khan is still ready to make sacrifices for the nation and the country. He also stated that some PTI workers were involved in the May 9 incidents, but wiping out the entire party was wrong.

    The May 9 violence was triggered across the country after deposed Prime Minister Khan’s arrest in the £190 million settlement case last year.

  • iCube Qamar’s moon images are out

    iCube Qamar’s moon images are out

    Pakistan’s first satellite mission ‘iCube Qamar’ has successfully entered the moon’s orbit and its first image has been released.

    Institute of Space Technology informed Geo News that iCube Qamar successfully entered lunar orbit on May 8 and has completed three orbits around the moon.

    The mission will orbit the Moon for about three to six months.

    According to the Institute of Space Technology, the first Pakistani satellite completes its orbit in 12 hours. Qamar’s signals will be received on Earth after traveling a distance of 360,000 to 400,000 km.

    The spokesman said that in-orbit testing of iCube Qamar’s controllers, subsystems, and protocols is ongoing. The mission will remain in experimental stages for five to six days after reaching the lunar orbit.

    iCube Qamar was sent into space with the Chinese mission Cheng 6 on May 3 from the Hainan Space Launch Site.

  • Marwat kicked out of PTI committees on Khan’s directions

    Marwat kicked out of PTI committees on Khan’s directions

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat has been kicked out of the party’s core and political committees on the direction of founder PTI Imran Khan, confirmed party Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan on Thursday.

    The development occurred a day after Marwat criticised PTI leaders and told journalists that he will not work under the new leadership of the party.

    “I refuse to work with Shibli Faraz and Omar Ayub […] they didn’t allow me to meet Imran Khan [in prison],” Marwat said while speaking to the media outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Wednesday.

    On the other hand, on Thursday, opposition leader and PTI’s Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan said while talking to the media that Imran Khan authorised the issuance of show-cause notice to Sher Afzal Marwat as he tried to “spoil” ties with Saudi Arabia.

    “The PTI founder said Marwat tried to damage his personal relations with the kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] as he has excellent ties with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman,” Ayub said.

  • Want PTI to apologise? Give us an independent May 9 commission and we will: Omar Ayub

    Want PTI to apologise? Give us an independent May 9 commission and we will: Omar Ayub

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan, while talking to Independent Urdu, said that May 9 was a conspiracy against PTI. In response to a question regarding apologising to the military, the PTI leader said, “Yes, we will apologise if an independent commission is made.”

    On the other hand, Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Aain (TTA) alliance leaders demanded a judicial investigation into the May 9 violent protests last year.

    TTA chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, while speaking at the event in Islamabad, warned that his party workers will protest on the streets across the country if martial law was imposed in the country, and the constitution was destabilised.

    Similarly, PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said sarcastically while addressing the same event that DG ISPR, in his recent press release, gave ‘facts like Form 47’.

  • UK girl’s hearing restored after groundbreaking Gene Therapy

    UK girl’s hearing restored after groundbreaking Gene Therapy

    An 18-month old British girl who was born completely deaf is believed to be the youngest person to have their hearing restored after undergoing groundbreaking new gene therapy.

    Several medical teams around the world including in China and the United States have been trialling similar treatments with good results for hereditary deafness that focuses on a rare genetic mutation.

    But UK ear surgeon Manohar Bance said the toddler, Opal, was the first person in the world to receive therapy developed by US biotech firm Regeneron and “the youngest globally that’s been done to date as far as we know”.

    Opal was treated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, part of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in eastern England.

    Bance called the results of Opal’s surgery “spectacular –- so close to normal hearing restoration. So we do hope it could be a potential cure”.

    He said it came on the back of decades of work and marked “a new era in the treatment of deafness”.

    The little girl, from Oxfordshire in south central England, has a genetic form of auditory neuropathy, which is caused by the disruption of nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain.

    Auditory neuropathy can be caused by a fault in the OTOF gene, which is responsible for making a protein called otoferlin. This enables cells in the ear to communicate with the hearing nerve.

    To overcome the fault, the “new era” gene therapy from Regeneron delivers a working copy of the gene to the ear.

    Bance said that following surgery last September, Opal’s hearing was now “close to normal” with further improvement expected.

    A second child received the gene therapy in Cambridge with positive results seen six weeks after the surgery.

    China has been working on targeting the same gene though Bance said theirs used a different technology and slightly different mode of delivery.

    Medics in Philadelphia have also reported a good outcome with a type of gene therapy on an 11-year-old boy.

    Opal was the first person to take part in a gene therapy trial being carried out in Cambridge by Bance.

    The trial consists of three parts, with three deaf children, including Opal, receiving a low dose of gene therapy in one ear only.

    A different set of three children will get a high dose on one side. Then, if that is shown to be safe, more children will receive a dose in both ears at the same time.

    Up to 18 youngsters from the UK, Spain and the United States are being recruited for the trial and will be followed up for five years.

    Bance said the current treatment for auditory neuropathy was implanted.

    “My entire life, gene therapy has been ‘five years away’… to finally see something that actually worked in humans… It was quite spectacular and a bit awe-inspiring really,” he said.

  • Internet buzzes over Mahira Khan’s mom’s witty response to question

    Internet buzzes over Mahira Khan’s mom’s witty response to question

    Pakistani actress Mahira Khan, renowned for her captivating performances, has once again charmed audiences with a recent social media update.

    In a video shared by the star, she proudly displays her nose ring, drawing attention not just to her accessory, but to her mother’s witty remark that stole the spotlight.

    Mahira, celebrated for her stellar roles in dramas like ‘Humsafar’, has often faced comments about her nose, with some suggesting she should consider surgery. However, the actress embraces her distinctive feature, standing firm against societal pressures.

    The video features her posing with a golden nose ring against the backdrop of a Punjabi song.

    When she asked her mother about getting her nose pierced, her mom humorously responded, “If your nose was small, I would definitely say yes.” Mahira Khan shared the amusing exchange along with the video, sparking a series of hilarious reactions.

    Former actress and host Sanam Jung also chimed in, sharing her own story of her father initially approving her nose piercing but later changing his mind, acknowledging that she looked perfect just the way she was.

    Mahira Khan’s post has garnered an overwhelming amount of love and support from fans and fellow artists, with many applauding her confidence and her mother’s sharp wit. The video has quickly gone viral, underscoring Mahira Khan’s nose ring as a symbol of self-love and individuality.

  • Crowd boos at Israel singers during Eurovision rehearsels

    Crowd boos at Israel singers during Eurovision rehearsels

    This week, all eyes are on the Eurovision Song Contest happening in Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city. Over 150 million people worldwide watch this yearly event, which organizers claim is not political. However, this year might be different.

    During the dress rehearsal, Israeli singer Edan Golan was booed on stage while performing. Some people in the audience loudly disagreed with Israel being part of the event and chanted ‘Free Palestine!’

    Videos shared on social media show the booing and chanting throughout Edan’s performance, almost drowning out her singing. Police at the Malmö Arena stepped in and stopped the people.

    An X user shared a video of the disruption, writing, “Israel getting booed at Eurovision. We love to see it.”

    Someone else wrote, “I’ve never heard so much booing at Eurovision before, but Israel didn’t face any big problems during the first show with a crowd.”

    The EBU expressed “regret” for letting Swedish singer Eric Saade perform at the opening of the contest after he wore a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf around his wrist. So far, organisers have refused to budge to demands that Israel be booted off the competition for its genocide in Gaza.

  • Alvi wants people from both sides of country to forgive each other

    Alvi wants people from both sides of country to forgive each other

    Former president and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, Dr Arif Alvi said on Wednesday that people from both sides of the political spectrum should forgive each other. This can be seen as an indirect message to the ‘poweful circles’ regarding the violent protests that occurred last on May 9.

    He gave this statement while talking to journalists after visiting an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, where he met multiple PTI leaders, including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Omer Sarfraz Cheema, and Ejaz Chaudhary.

    On May 9 last year, law enforcement agencies arrested PTI founding chairman Imran Khan for the first time in connection with a corruption case, triggering violent riots across the country in which several installations of the security establishment were attacked.

    Arif Alvi assured PTI leaders during the meeting that they don’t need to worry about the cases as the people of Pakistan are with them.

    PTI senior woman leader Dr Yasmeen Rashid told Alvi to convey her message to PTI founder Imran Khan that she is happy despite facing multiple challenges in jail.

  • Security forces kill six terrorists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    Security forces have killed at least six terrorists in separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Wednesday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in an issued statement.

    According to the military’s media wing, security officials conducted an intelligence-based operation on the presence of terrorists in the Dera Ismail Khan (DI) Khan district of KP.

    “During the conduct of the operation, five terrorists were successfully neutralised by the security forces and sent to hell,” the ISPR said in a brief statement.

    On the other hand, the security officials gunned down a militant named Inam Ullah in North Waziristan District.

    The military’s media wingj said that weapons, ammunition, and explosives were also recovered from the slain terrorists, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as innocent civilians.