London: PTI leaders and supporters gathered outside London’s Middle Temple near Chancery Lane to demonstrate against the former Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa. The former CJP was in London for a prestigious event at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court, which is a group of lawyers who are the only ones in the UK who can call students to the Bar. On Tuesday, a dinner in London was held for members of the Inn and Benchers, who are in charge of running the Inn. At the dinner, a ceremony was held to welcome newly…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
As their tightening race for the presidency entered its final week, Democrat Kamala Harris warned tens of thousands of attendees at her largest rally in Washington that her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, was seeking unchecked power. On Tuesday evening, Harris addressed an estimated 75,000 attendees at an outdoor rally near the White House, where Trump addressed his supporters on January 6, 2021, prior to their attack on the US Capitol. Harris stated, “We know who Donald Trump is.” She claimed that the president at the time attempted to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election by sending an “armed…
Ahmed Tobasi portrays the realities of living under occupation and how it affected him and those around him in his play And Here I Am. On October 25, the Freedom Theatre’s Palestinian art director performed his play entirely in Arabic as part of the Arts Council’s World Culture Festival in Karachi. He was born and raised in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, so the play is a reflection of his own life. Tobasi redefined the term “resistance” beyond the standard definition in his dialogue with Images and in the play. The play, which was first written in 2017,…
Maryam Nawaz, the chief minister of Punjab, reiterated on Wednesday her call for climate diplomacy with India in order to address the growing problem of smog on both sides of the border. Each year, when temperatures drop and the cold air traps construction dust, vehicle emissions, and smoke, the New Delhi region battles pollution. Officials say that most of the pollution comes from the neighboring breadbasket states of Punjab and Haryana. Lahore scored 708 points on the AQI, making it the world’s most polluted city as of Monday night. Today, as indicated by IQAir, Delhi held the high level with…
The first governor of Iran’s fractious Sistan-Baluchistan province from the Baluch minority was appointed by the government on Wednesday. Following a cabinet meeting, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said, “Mansour Bijar was chosen as the governor of Sistan-Baluchistan.” Bijar, 50, is from the Baluch community, which is mostly Sunni Muslims and lives in a country with a Shia majority. His appointment comes after the militant group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) claimed responsibility for an attack in Sistan-Baluchistan that resulted in the deaths of at least ten police officers. Sistan-Baluchistan is one of the Islamic republic’s poorest provinces, bordering Afghanistan and…
COKE STUDIO: At the P3 Gold Awards in Norway, oke Studio’s massive hit “Piya Piya Calling,” which got everyone grooving with the Quick Style dancers, is up for Song of the Year! Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan, more commonly referred to as Xulfi, the producer and curator for this season, shared the information on his Instagram story, stating that “P3 is Norway’s biggest radio channel.” The Norwegian musical duo Karpe, singer Delara, and Pakistani singer Kaifi Khalil perform the song, which has received over 14 million views on YouTube. The Quick Style, a hip-hop dance group started by twin Pakistani-Norwegians and their…
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Investment, Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Aziz Al Faleh, confirmed that the number of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) signed during his October visit to Pakistan had increased to 34, with five of them already in effect. The Saudi investment minister and a Pakistani delegation led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made these remarks on the sidelines of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) event in Riyadh: “When we came to Pakistan, we concluded, in three days, 27 MOUs at 2.2 billion dollars and I mentioned at that time during various events that this was only the beginning.” “And…
As he appeared in court on Wednesday to face new charges, the teen suspect in the July knife murders of three young girls that sparked anti-immigration riots refused to speak. While appearing for a brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video from a London prison, 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana wore his sweater over the lower half of his face. When he was asked to confirm his name, he did not respond, and a security guard who was with him at the prison told the court that he had decided not to speak. Stan Reiz, his attorney, stated: Mr. Rudakubana has…
Authorities in the eastern region of Valencia reported on Wednesday that torrential rain on Tuesday submerged roads and towns, killing at least 62 people in the deadliest flooding in Spain in 30 years. Television images from the town of Utiel showed that rescuers using dinghies worked in the dark to scour the floodwaters and rescue several people. Emergency services were still attempting to reach the most affected areas. “For the people who right now are as yet searching for their friends and family, the entire of Spain sobs with you,” Top state leader Pedro Sanchez said in a broadcast address.…
If you spend a lot of time online and are interested in the dramatic lives of Pakistani celebrities, you may have heard about Aima Baig and Sara Raza Khan’s fight on the internet. Let us tell you what’s been going on in case you are neither of those things. There has been a lot of back and forth, similar to a tame tennis match. When Khan appeared on Zabardast with Wasi Shah, she was asked how many current singers were performers and how many were actually singers. We believe that’s not a leading question. Khan, on the other hand, was…
