The International Energy Agency stated on Wednesday that while low-emission sources will generate more than half of the world’s electricity before 2030, the global deployment of clean energy is “far from uniform.” According to the IEA’s annual World Energy Outlook, demand for oil, gas, and coal is still expected to reach its peak by the end of the decade, possibly leading to a surplus of fossil fuels. Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, stated, “We have witnessed the Age of Coal and the Age of Oil in energy history.” He stated, “We’re now moving at a rapid pace into the…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
On Wednesday, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz called “rumors spread on social media” regarding the alleged on-campus rape of a Lahore student a “fabricated story.” A security guard at the college who was allegedly involved in the incident was arrested last week after news of the student’s alleged rape went viral on social media. Students mobilized on social media in response to the alleged incident and staged protests outside several city colleges. During one of the fights, conflicts broke out between the dissenters and the security group of a school. Later on, students and police got into a fight, which…
The US, in a proclamation on Tuesday, clarified that Pakistan has the independence to line up with any local groupings yet exhorted that such affiliations must “stringently comply to worldwide regulation and not disregard the sway of different countries.” The US strategy articulation comes as Pakistan has the high-stakes Shanghai Participation Association (SCO) culmination in Islamabad, including key part like Russia, China, India, Iran, and key Focal Asian states. During a press preparation, US State Division Representative Matthew Mill operator stressed the significance of consistence with worldwide standards, expressing, “The US regards every country’s sovereign right to partner groupings fitting…
Amnesty International stated on Wednesday that “as human rights violations and abuses remain rampant,” Pakistan is scheduled for its second review by the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva on October 17 and 18. The rights group said in a statement that the review falls under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the nation is a party. According to Babu Ram Pant, the Deputy Regional Director for South Asia of Amnesty International, “Pakistan’s review comes at a crucial time for the country, as human rights violations and abuses remain rampant.” “In the past month alone,…
As part of an Israeli plan to eliminate Hezbollah, weaponized pager batteries arrived in Lebanon at the beginning of the year. They contained powerfully deceptive features and an Achilles’ heel. According to a Lebanese source with first-hand knowledge of the pagers and teardown photos of the battery pack seen by Reuters, the agents who built the pagers designed a battery that concealed a small but potent charge of plastic explosive and a novel detonator that was invisible to X-ray. According to a Reuters review of web archives, they created fake online stores, pages, and posts that could deceive Hezbollah due…
odel and cosmetics craftsman Nadia Hussain has settled on a public decision for data with respect to the supposed assault of an understudy at a Lahore school a week ago. The incident at a Punjab Group of Colleges campus in Lahore went viral on social media, resulting in the arrest and investigation of a campus security guard. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has since described the incident as a “fabricated story” after it sparked widespread student protests at PGC campuses. After the girl’s father also denied reports of sexual assault, ASP Shehrbano Naqvi posted a video on Tuesday that Hussain shared,…
The prestigious University of Oxford in Britain announced on Wednesday that 38 candidates are competing for the position of chancellor, but imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan is not one of them. The candidates are competing to succeed Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong who resigned in June after 21 years in office. Since 1224, the ceremonial post has been occupied continuously. William Hague, a former leader and foreign secretary of the Conservative Party, Peter Mandelson, a former EU trade commissioner for the Labour Party, and Dominic Grieve, a former attorney general, are among the notable candidates to…
On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that the government was considering imposing sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two far-right Israeli ministers. Starmer responded when asked in parliament whether the government would approve the pair: We are looking into that because, without a doubt, infuriating remarks and other really worrying activities in the West Bank are taking place. Public safety Pastor Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, the money serve, are vocal allies of repayments in the West Bank, which are viewed as unlawful under worldwide regulation. Smotrich has also sparked outrage across the globe by suggesting that it would…
A police official stated that on Wednesday, an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near a police van in the Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, injuring four officers, including the post’s chief. Addressing Dawn.com, the representative to the Buner locale cop, Israr Ahmad, said, “A police vehicle was on its standard watch in the Nawagai region, and when it arrived at the Kankai Chowk, an IED detonated.” According to the official from the police, the attack injured the in-charge of the police post at Ambela, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASP) Shahid Zada, the driver, Constable Noor Mohammad, Constable Iftikhar Ali, and Constable Altaf…
A national emergency agency spokesman told AFP on Wednesday that more than 140 people were killed when a fuel tanker exploded in northern Nigeria. In the town of Majia in the state of Jigawa, victims were burned to death on Tuesday while trying to collect fuel that had spilled from the crashed vehicle. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)’s spokesman, Nura Abdullahi, stated that “more than 140” people had been buried in a mass grave and that the death toll was likely to rise further. The episode happened in Majia town in the Taura neighborhood government region, around 530 kilometers…
