Aroosa Khan’s child was talking on WhatsApp yet unexpectedly got himself the objective of “vigilante” examiners who blamed him for having committed obscenity on the web. The 27-year-old is one of hundreds of young men facing charges of making blasphemous statements online or in WhatsApp groups, a crime for which arrests have increased dramatically in recent years. Rights groups and the police claim that private “vigilante groups,” led by lawyers and supported by volunteers who search the internet for criminals, are bringing many of the cases to trial. Doctors, engineers, lawyers, and accountants’ families in Pakistan claim that their loved…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday that Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson were the winners of the Nobel economics prize in 2024 “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” The prestigious prize, which was previously known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last one that will be given out this year. It is worth 11 million Swedish crowns, which is equivalent to $1,1 million. One of the greatest challenges of our time is reducing the vast income disparities between nations. According to Jakob…
According to a new World Bank report released on Sunday, the 26 poorest countries in the world, which are home to 40% of the world’s poorest people, have more debt than ever before since 2006 and are becoming more susceptible to natural disasters and other shocks. Despite the fact that the rest of the world has largely recovered from the virus and resumed its growth trajectory, the report finds that these economies are on average poorer today than they were on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic. Delivered seven days before World Bank and Global Money related Asset yearly gatherings…
India’s capital New Delhi on Monday requested a “complete boycott” on firecrackers in a bid to check air contamination in a city where levels are consistently positioned among the most terrible on the planet. The most stringent restriction in a long line of restrictions on the extremely popular firecrackers has been widely flouted. The Delhi Pollution Control Committee issued a statement that stated, “There will be a complete ban on the manufacturing, storage, selling, […] and bursting of all types of firecrackers.” It stated that the “public interest to curb high air pollution” prompted the issuance of the order. It…
During an interview with The Lallantop, Bollywood star Alia Bhatt revealed that she has been diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Although her diagnosis, which was part of a psychological test, didn’t come as a surprise to her friends, it gave her clarity about her challenges and strengths. She recalled frequently “zoning out” of conversations as she considered how the condition has affected her behavior since childhood. Since childhood, I have avoided things by zoning out. I would lose focus in the middle of a conversation or in the classroom. I found out I have ADHD after taking a psychological test…
The dad of Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old young lady who was tracked down dead in her home in England, told police “I beat her up something over the top”, examiners said at his homicide preliminary on Monday. After what prosecutors describe as a campaign of “serious and repeated violence,” Sharif’s body was discovered in her home in Woking, southwest of London, in August 2023. Her dad Urfan Sharif, 42, his better half and Sara Sharif’s stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and the young lady’s uncle Faisal Malik, 29, are being investigated at London’s Old Bailey court accused of her homicide. The…
A US man with a stacked handgun, a shotgun and a high-limit magazine was captured beyond the site where previous president Donald Trump tended to allies, police declared on Sunday. Vem Miller, a 49-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada, resident, was the man arrested on Saturday, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Miller was taken into custody “without incident” at a checkpoint and booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Centre for possessing a handgun magazine with a high capacity and a loaded firearm. According to the police, neither Trump’s safety nor the safety of rally attendees in Coachella, California, were…
At least 27 people were injured after students clashed with a college’s security team and then with the police in Lahore during a protest against the alleged on-campus rape of a girl, rescue officials said on Monday. A day prior, a security guard was arrested after news related to the alleged rape of the student went viral on social media. According to a police statement, the suspect had been arrested and an investigation was underway. It, however, added that a first information report (FIR) of the incident had not been registered as the family members of the victim had not come forward…
Monday, India announced that it would be withdrawing its envoy to Canada due to Ottawa’s investigation of him and other diplomats as “persons of interest” following the murder of a Sikh separatist leader last year. After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that there were “credible allegations” linking Indian intelligence to the crime, the murder of Canadian Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023 shattered diplomatic ties with India. India’s ambassador’s decision to leave is a significant step up in the tensions that exist between the two countries. In a statement, the foreign ministry of New Delhi stated, “We have no faith in…
Ten police faculty were suspended on Monday for their “oppressiveness and abuse” of ladies dissidents at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) a day sooner, authorities said. In violation of Section 144, which grants district administrations the authority to temporarily prohibit a gathering of four or more people in a given area, police clashed with protesters outside KPC on Sunday. Dr. Shahnawaz Kunbhar, who was accused of sharing blasphemous posts on social media, was shot dead under mysterious circumstances during a gun battle with the police on September 19 in Mirpurkhas. The protesters had organized the “Sindh Rawadari March” to protest…
