Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada

— Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir on the American airlift during the 1973 War: “Things did not go particularly well for Israel over the next couple of days. However, as Israel started to push back the daily advances, the Nixon administration initiated Operation Nickel Grass, an American airlift to replace all of Israel’s lost munitions. This was huge because planeloads of supplies literally made it possible for munitions and other supplies to appear again for the Israeli countereffort. During the airlift, 567 missions were flown, dropping more than 22,000 tons of supplies. By sea, another 90,000 tons of material were…

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Pakistan’s performance in meeting goals for the July-September quarter under the $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will be the primary focus of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) review of the country’s economic progress. This month’s review will evaluate Pakistan’s compliance with its obligations and set the tone for the program’s continuation. Independent economists have criticized the PML-N coalition government for failing to meet key benchmarks, such as revenue targets. This has raised concerns that the IMF may propose additional measures for the October-December quarter that may not be popular. The upcoming EFF review’s inclusion of the National Fiscal Pact…

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, the third and final day of the third and final test in Mumbai, New Zealand won by 25 runs to complete an unprecedented 3-0 series sweep of India. The Black Caps bowled the hosts out for 121 on a tricky wicket, securing the victory. India’s last home defeat came in a two-match series against South Africa in 2000. Before a difficult five-match series against Australia, Rohit Sharma’s team will be under pressure. After the hosts were reduced to 29-5 on a turning track at Wankhede Stadium, Rishabh Pant was the only Indian batsman to show resistance. He scored a…

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US :, three days before Election Day, thousands of women poured into Washington in a passionate show of support for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her demands for access to reproductive health care. The vice president has made abortion rights a central tenet of her White House campaign against Republican Donald Trump, and protesters at the annual Women’s March frequently brought up the topic. Leah Brooker, 19, who came to the event from North Carolina, stated, “Voting for the candidate that will support our rights as women is the most important thing to me.” “Very empowering that my first vote…

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IRAN: According to reports in the media and online videos, a young woman on Saturday stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university in apparent protest against the country’s strict religious dress code. A video posted via virtual entertainment showed safety officers at a part of the Islamic Azad College confining the unidentified lady. “At the police station […] it was found that she was under severe mental pressure and had a mental disorder,” university spokesperson Amir Mahjob stated on X. But some people on social media said that the woman’s action was a planned protest. Lei La, a user…

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Pakistan : Grenlit Studios has acquired the rights to Shark Tank, a well-known reality television series, in this context. The launch of Shark Tank in Pakistan, according to the show’s creators Usman Malik, Rizwan Siddiqui, and Tariq Qazi, may aid in the search for a solution. Based on the Japanese show Dragon’s Den, Shark Tank premiered in the United States in 2009. The format of Shark Tank, one of the most (if not the most) internationally acclaimed business-themed series, allows aspiring and established entrepreneurs to pitch innovative business ideas to a panel of six established investors (sharks). If they decide…

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US Election 2024 In a frantic last push less than 48 hours before Election Day in the historically close campaign, Kamala Harris targets the Rust Belt, while Donald Trump heads to the biggest swing states in the United States on Sunday. More states are functionally tied in polls at this point than in any election comparable, with 75 million people having cast early ballots prior to Tuesday’s climax. According to RealClearPolitics’ polling averages, neither candidate led by more than three points in any of the seven battleground states that will determine the next president as of Saturday evening. Harris was…

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Pakistan: Lahore government announced that primary schools in Lahore would be closed for a week due to record levels of pollution. This was done to avoid exposing millions of children to smog that was several times higher than what is considered to be dangerous levels. Smog, a mixture of fog and pollutants brought on by low-grade diesel fumes, smoke from seasonal agricultural burning, and winter cooling, has enveloped Lahore’s 14 million residents for days. According to data from IQAir, the air quality index, which measures a variety of pollutants, exceeded 1,000 on Saturday, well above the 300 level that is…

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Intezar Hussain Panjutha, the lawyer for PTI founder Imran Khan, was reported missing on October 8 but was found last night by Punjab police, according to reports in the early hours of Sunday. The party called the development staged and demanded that a first information report (FIR) be filed against Pakistan’s Attorney General, Mansoor Usman Awan. Awan told the high court that Panjutha would be brought to court within 24 hours, implying that he knew where he was. The PTI leader was allegedly being transported when he was found by police in Attock. He was later moved to the hospital…

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 Iranians gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran to commemorate the hostage crisis in 1979, which shaped relations between Washington and Tehran for decades. The Islamic revolution that toppled the Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, led by Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in November 1979 sparked the hostage crisis. Khomeini-supporting students stormed the embassy and held 52 employees hostage for 444 days, demanding that Washington hand over Iran’s recently overthrown shah, who was receiving cancer treatment in the United States. Midway through the crisis in 1980, Washington officially severed ties with Tehran, and those ties have remained…

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