Music Video - #SamFischer​ #DemiLovato #WhatOtherPeopleSay Sam Fischer, Demi Lovato - What Other People Say

Video Report - Bernie Sanders - Republicans have turned their backs on the needs of working families.

Video Report - 03/10/21: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Roberta Jacobson

Video Report - President Biden Hosts an Event with the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson and Merck

Video Report - Vice President Harris Swears In Marcia Fudge as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Music Video - Zeba - Mohammad Ali - Kisi Mehrban Ne Aa Ke - Shama 1974 - Naheed Akhtar

Pakistani film star Zeba Begum shifted to ICU after her health deteriorates

Veteran Pakistani actor Zeba Begum was hospitalized on Tuesday after her health deteriorated.

According to the film star’s family, she was shifted to the hospital’s intensive care unit where she is being treated.

It was further revealed that Zeba Begum, widow of late Pakistani superstar Muhammad Ali, has been suffering with cardiac issues. 

 https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/801510-veteran-actor-zeba-begum-hospitalized-owing-to-cardiac-issues

Hard to find greater a 'hypocrite' than Imran Khan

Washington [US], October 30 (ANI): As Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan raised the issue of Islamophobia and attacked French President Emmanuel Macron over his remarks on Islamist radicalism, analysts have questioned Khan's "hypocrisy" and selective outrage over the "hatred against Muslims" as he has remained tight-lipped on Chinese treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang till date.

Imran Khan, recently, wrote a letter to leaders of Muslim states, asking them to act collectively to counter the growing Islamophobia in non-Muslim states especially Western states. The letter comes in the wake of Macron's criticism of radical Islam after a school teacher, was beheaded by an 18-year-old for showing cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in class.

The European leader pledged to fight "Islamist separatism", which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France.

Macron remarks did not go well with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who slammed the French President, saying that he has "chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims.

Khan, many times, has been asked about his views on Chinese brutalising the three million Uighurs. However, he has ignored all the questions and remained silent on the issue that has been condemned by most of the world.

"All of the (undeniable) Islamophobia in the West doesn't come even close to what China is doing to Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province. China is a close ally of yours, Mr Prime Minister, so maybe write them a letter instead/as well?" political analyst Mehdi Hasan tweeted.

Meanwhile, Washington Post journalist Ishaan Tharoor called the Pakistan Prime Minister a "hypocrite".

"It's really hard to find a greater hypocrite in all this than Imran Khan. He claims to not know enough about what's happening across his border in Xinjiang to speak about it but has no qualms broad-brushing the situation in Europe," he tweeted. Prime Minister Khan's selective outrage against Islamophobia has time and again has received a lot of criticism. When it comes to China's treatment of Muslims, Pakistan has been silent and when asked to comment on it, the Pakistan PM tries to brush it aside saying that there is a lot going on in his own country.

The United States had also asked Pakistan to express the "same level" of concern about Muslims detentions in Western China as they do for Kashmir.

China put a million or more Uighurs and other Muslim minorities into detention camps and prisons in Xinjiang over the last three years under President Xi Jinping's directives to "show absolutely no mercy" in the struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism", revealed leaked documents released in US media.

However, China regularly denies such mistreatment and says the camps provide vocational training.

People in the internment camps have described being subjected to forced political indoctrination, torture, beatings, and denial of food and medicine, and say they have been prohibited from practising their religion or speaking their language.

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/266834787/hard-to-find-greater-a-hypocrite-than-imran-khan

Imran Khan's 'Naya Pakistan' is endgame: Report

 With political turmoil in Pakistan worsening with every passing day, the end seems to be in sight for Prime Minister Imran Khan's 'Naya Pakistan' courtesy rising inflation in the country.

According to Imad Zafar, a political commentator for various media outlets and think tanks, the Prime Minister is finding it tough to steer the country out of its political and economic crisis.

Khan won a vote of confidence from the National Assembly (NA). Khan needed that vote to confirm his majority in the lower house of parliament after his party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Senate at the hands of the Pakistan Democratic Alliance, a coalition of opposition parties.

Zafar pointed out that not only did the PDM manage to get ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani elected to the Senate, defeating the incumbent finance minister Hafeez Shaikh, but it also managed to secure a majority in the upper house.

"Though Khan somehow managed to thwart the crisis for the time being by getting a vote of confidence from the NA, for sure the storm is not over for him. The rising inflation and increasing poverty in the country are only making his Naya Pakistan (New Pakistan) project a nightmare for the masses," Zafar wrote for The Asia Times.

He added, "Such is the state of affairs that even the military establishment is unable to run the country from behind the scenes."The frustration of the elite, he said, was evident on the day of the vote of confidence, when parliamentarians of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) were attacked by a mob of supporters of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

"Imran Khan is trying everything possible to stay in power. The question remains, however, how he will survive the onslaught of the opposition at a point when the establishment is about to ditch him and is looking for a new puppet to rule the country on its behalf," the commentator wrote for the Asia Times.

He added, "For Khan the game is almost over, as perhaps a few generals will still support him, but he does not enjoy the unconditional support from the establishment that he had after his relaunch in politics in 2011. So probably he knows this is his first and last time to enjoy power, so he is trying everything to stay in charge."The question is how long a few generals will be able to save him from the inevitable, as the growing anger in the masses about inflation, unemployment, and economic turmoil is growing with the passage of time, Zafar said further.

He pointed out that this is "perhaps the first time" that the doctrine of the military establishment to rule the country indirectly has backfired, and it has happened in only two and a half years.

"Though the majority of the mainstream media was behind the hybrid regime, still the opposition managed to produce counter-narratives through international media and digital news platforms, and the inability of Khan and his backers to manage the economy and governance doomed the Naya Pakistan project," he said.

Zafar added, "The endgame has started, and the interesting thing is that Khan cannot even get rid of the government until both Sharif and Zardari agree to topple him."This comes as Pakistan's financial debt continues to mount because the Imran Khan government received USD 6.7 billion in gross foreign loans in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, including a new commercial loan of USD 500 million from China last month.

According to The Expresss Tribune, Ministry of Economic Affairs reported that during the July-January period of fiscal year 2020-21, the government obtained USD 6.7 billion in external loans from multiple financing sources. The gross loans were higher by 6 per cent or USD 380 million over the same period of the last fiscal year.

Pakistan's foreign debt and liabilities have mounted by USD 3 billion or 2.6 per cent during the six months period ended in December last year, the central bank's data reported in February. 

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/268063504/imran-khan-naya-pakistan-is-endgame-report

چیئرمین پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی بلاول بھٹو زرداری کی الیکشن کمیشن کے نوٹیفکیشن کے اجراءکے فیصلے پر سید یوسف رضا گیلانی کو مبارکباد

چیئرمین پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی کے بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے الیکشن کمیشن کے نوٹیفکیشن کے اجراءکے فیصلے پر سید یوسف رضا گیلانی کو مبارکباد دیتے ہوئے الیکشن کمیشن کے فیصلے کو خوش آئند قرار دیا ہے۔ میڈیا آفس سے جاری ہونے والے بیان میں چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا کہ الیکشن کمیشن کے فیصلے کے بعد پی ٹی آئی حکومت کا آخری حربہ بھی ناکام ہوگیا ہے اور پی ٹی آئی حکومت الیکشن سے بھاگ نہیں سکے گی۔ بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا کہ پی ڈی ایم کے امیدوار سید یوسف رضا گیلانی آج ایک بار پھر سرخرو ہوئے ہیں۔ چیئرمین پیپلزپارٹی بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے رکن قومی اسمبلی امیر علی شاہ جیلانی کی رہائشگاہ پر ان کی عیادت کی۔ امیر علی شاہ جیلانی گذشتہ دنوں ٹریفک حادثے میں زخمی ہوگئے تھے۔ چیئرمین پیپلزپارٹی نے امیر علی شاہ جیلانی کی جلد مکمل صحتیابی کے لئے نیک تمناﺅں کا اظہار کیا

https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/24439/