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26/04/2022

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday, in a big move to facilitate the general public, announced an end to load-shedding of electricity across the country from May 1.

The prime minister, also famed as ‘Shehbaz Speed’ for his efficiency to deliver at a fast pace, declared that the government had operationalized 20 out of 27 major power producers, which were shut down for a year.

Chairing a high-level meeting to devise a policy to address the shortage of electricity, PM Sharif said the step was an ‘Eid gift’ for the public who had been suffering frequent power outages in summers.

The prime minister directed the authorities concerned to resolve all the issues pertaining to load-shedding by April 30 so as to ensure a smooth and uninterrupted power supply to consumers.

He stressed establishing an integrated and sustainable fuel system to meet the requirements of power generation and also a plan keeping in view the hot season in particular.

PM Shehbaz called for a long-term effective plan to eliminate the loss of feeders of the power distribution companies.

26/04/2022

KARACHI: The video statement of missing Karachi girl, Dua Zehra, has surfaced in which the teenage girl announced that she was married of her own will to Zaheer Ahmed, ARY News reported.

In a video message, Dua Zehra made stunning revelations about herself, saying she was not kidnapped and left home herself and married Zaheer Ahmed of her own will. The missing girl also claimed that her family was forcing her to marry someone else.

The teenage girl also blamed her parents for domestic violence and added that they were fixing her marriage with her cousin without her consent.

“I was not kidnapped. I left home because my family wanted me to marry someone else against my will,” she said in a video statement.

Dua Zehra also claimed that her father shared her age wrong. “I am not 14. I am an adult, my age is 18,” she added.

The couple were reportedly staying at Zaheer’s uncle’s home.

Earlier, the Karachi police claimed to have traced the 14-year-old girl. The police said the girl married a man named Zaheer Ahmed in the Punjab capital, adding that the Lahore police would soon recover the girl and move her to Karachi.

Dua Zehra’s family had approached police, hours after she went missing from near her house in Alfalah Town on April 16, and had appealed through a number of channels including a welfare organization for help in finding their daughter.

26/04/2022

Last week Elon Musk announced his bid to fully acquire Twitter and take it off the stock market, and initially it seemed like the company would politely (or not so politely) decline. However, a few days later it appears as it did some more thinking and today it officially announced that it's accepting Musk's bid.

This means that Twitter has now "entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk", according to the company's press release. The price is $54.20 per share in cash (which means not shares in SEC-speak, and not actual cash, by the way). Thus the total value of the transaction is approximately $44 billion. Upon completion (which could take months because of all the regulatory scrutiny it's bound to come across), Twitter will become a privately held company and will no longer have its shares traded on any stock exchange.

This was Musk's initial plan after all, and it looks like it's all coming together quite nicely for him. The price per stock he's paying represents a 38% premium over Twitter's closing stock price when its shares were last traded.

"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated", Musk said. "I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it", he continued.

Musk has secured $25.5 billion of "fully committed debt and margin loan financing" and is using about $21 billion of his own equity on top of that to finance the purchase.

26/04/2022

The United States (US) announced on Friday to commence a four-year $23.5 million project in Pakistan to steer efficiency in the power sector.

The project aims to increase the share of green energy in Pakistan’s energy mix, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Julie A Koenen said in a statement.

The US government, through the USAID, is partnering with the Pakistani government to launch a four-year $23.5 million power sector improvement project to address climate change and increase the share of green energy in Pakistan’s energy mix.

Through technical assistance to the government and private sector, the project will also improve the management and operations of power transmission and distribution systems, increasing the financial viability, reliability, and affordability of Pakistan’s power system.

“The US looks forward to advancing the partnership with Pakistan to build a clean, efficient, and reliable electricity generation sector, laying a foundation for sustainable and inclusive growth,” Koenen said at the launching ceremony.

“Through this new initiative, USAID will partner with the government of Pakistan to support the transition to a truly competitive wholesale power market.”

26/04/2022

KARACHI/LAHORE: The parents of missing Dua Zehra denied the police claims of tracing their daughter in Lahore, details of her nikahnama, and termed the reports of her recovery ‘fake’, ARY News reported on Monday.

In a press conference, Dua Zehra’s father said that they came to know about her nikahnama along with her daughter’s photo through media but he did not get any copy of the marriage certificate as yet.

He also denied the media reports of Zehra’s legal age for marriage. He added that her daughter will turn 14 after four months, whereas, her age on her alleged marriage document (nikahnama) was mentioned as 18.

A journalist questioned the father whether he has suspicions over the police’s delaying tactics to resolve the case due to a dispute about the legal age of marriage in Sindh and Punjab provinces. To this, he replied that he could not blame anyone but only to say that her daughter was not recovered so far.

He said that the police departments of both provincial capitals, Karachi and Lahore, are coordinating with each other to trace and recover her daughter.

Earlier in the day, Alfalah police claimed that the missing girl has been “traced” and is right now in Lahore city of Punjab.

Police said the girl has married a man named Zaheer Ahmed in Punjab’s capital, adding that the Lahore police will soon recover the girl and move her to Karachi. Asghar Ali and Shabbir Ahmed have been mentioned as witnesses in Zehra’s alleged nikahnama.

26/04/2022

LONDON: Pakistani Embassy in London on Monday has been issued a passport to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, ARY News reported.

It may be noted that the passport of the former prime minister was revoked on Feb 16, last year, who is in London in connection with his treatment.

The PML-N supremo has been issued a Pakistani passport in the normal category for 10 years. After a change of government in Pakistan, the passport of Nawaz Sharif has been renewed on the directions of PM Shehbaz Sharif.

New government instructed the relevant authorities to issue a passport to former prime minister and he is free to travel to Pakistan

Ordinary Passport was issued on 23rd of April 2022 in Islamabad. According to Sharif family sources, the travel date is not planned yet. Nawaz Sharif had an appointment at Pakistan High Commission London on the 23rd of April which was cancelled at the last minute and sources claim his fingerprints were taken at his residence by Pakistan High Commission staff.

Nawaz Sharif’s visa was refused by The Home Office and his appeal’s initial bearding held at the First Tier Tribunal (Asylum and Immigration Chamber) on 18th of February this year.

Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif had directed the interior ministry to issue a diplomatic passport to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo.

Shehbaz Sharif after assuming charge of his office got a briefing from the diplomatic staff about the issuance of a passport to the PML-N supremo.

Pakistan’s mission in London was directed to issue diplomatic passports to former prime minister and former finance minister Ishaq Dar.

However, the diplomatic staff said only Nawaz Sharif can be issued a diplomatic passport, not Ishaq Dar, on which PM Shehbaz Sharif directed to issue a normal Pakistani passport to Dar.

24/04/2022

There will be a Partial Solar Eclipse at midnight between 30th April and 01st May 2022 according to Pakistan Standard Time (PST).

This first solar eclipse of the year 2022 will not be visible in Pakistan, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department.

This partial solar eclipse will be visible in southern parts of South America, parts of Antarctica, and over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

The Partial Solar Eclipse will begin at 23:45 PST (30th April 2022), the Maximum Eclipse will be at 01:42 PST (01st May 2022) and the eclipse will end at 03:38 PST (01st May 2022).

The last solar eclipse of the year 2021 on December 04 was also not visible in Pakistan.

The solar eclipse was visible in South Australia, South Africa, South America, the Atlantic region, the Indian Ocean, and Antarctica.

This celestial spectacle was sighted in its totality in the Antarctica region.

Annular eclipses occur when the Moon — passing between Earth and the Sun — is not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure the sunlight, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible.

A solar eclipse always occurs about two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into Earth’s shadow. Lunar eclipses are visible from about half of the Earth’s surface.

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24/04/2022

On Thursday, a division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) headed by Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi refused to hear a petition filed by Maryam Nawaz, Vice President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), seeking the return of her passport so that she could travel to Saudi Arabia next week to perform Umrah.

After a two-member bench led by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi granted her post-arrest bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case in 2019, the PML-N leader surrendered her passport to the high court and submitted surety bonds.

Maryam asked the court to order the deputy registrar (judicial) to return her passport, which she had surrendered in accordance with the LHC's order dated October 31, 2019, in a petition filed by lawyer Ahsan Bhoon.

However, the bench said that it could not entertain the petition and asked to approach the relevant bench. Bhoon responded that they had argued for fixing it before the relevant bench but to no avail. The bench sent the file to the LHC chief justice so that the matter could be forwarded to the relevant division bench.

24/04/2022

The former prime minister and Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday demanded immediate elections in the country and asked the people to get ready for his call to gather in Islamabad in the next stage of the “real freedom” movement.

Addressing a mammoth public gathering at the historic Minar-e-Pakistan, Imran underlined that the PTI was a democratic party and it strongly believed in democracy and added that it would never accept any “imported rule” in the country.

24/04/2022

The Lapsus$ hacking group stole T-Mobile’s source code in a series of breaches that took place in March, as first reported by Krebs on Security. T-Mobile confirmed the attack in a statement to The Verge, and says the “systems accessed contained no customer or government information or other similarly sensitive information.”

In copies of private messages obtained by Krebs, the Lapsus$ hacking group discussed targeting T-Mobile in the week prior to the arrest of seven of its teenage members. After purchasing employees’ credentials online, the members could use the company’s internal tools — like Atlas, T-Mobile’s customer management system — to perform SIM swaps. This type of attack involves hijacking a target’s mobile phone by transferring its number to a device owned by the attacker. From there, the attacker can obtain texts or calls received by that person’s phone number, including any messages sent for multi-factor authentication.

24/04/2022

Instagram’s testing out a new feature, called Templates, that will let creators make Reels by borrowing formats from other videos on the platform, according to a report from Insider (via TechCrunch). The feature appears somewhat similar to TikTok’s own templates tool, which allows creators to drop their own content into a premade sequence.

Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted an early version of Templates in January, while marketing manager and influencer Josephine Hill has already gotten to experience the feature. In a screenshot posted by Hill in March, it looks like users can swap their own clips into preset frames, as well as add their own audio. This could save users from using third-party templates from sites like Canva, or having to closely follow online tutorials to achieve a specific format, something Hill pointed out to Insider.

26/03/2022

With the increase in political temperature in the federal capital ahead of no-trust voting against Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has declared an emergency in all public hospitals, ARY News reported on Saturday.

According to a notification, the capital administration has imposed emergency in all public hospitals of federal capital including PIMS, Polyclinic, and CDA hospital from March 26 till April 3.
Medical and paramedical staff won’t be given any leave during this period, the notification stated.

In addition, the federal government has decided to summon additional contingents of Rangers and Frontier Corps (FC) for maintaining the law and order in Islamabad ahead of power shows of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the opposition parties.

Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed chaired a high-level session to review the law and order situation ahead of public gatherings in Islamabad.

Rasheed said that public movement should not be affected due to the public gatherings in Islamabad. He directed the local administration to ensure that the public gatherings will be held at their venues.

It has been decided to summon additional contingents of police forces from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to Islamabad, whereas, more contingents of Rangers and FC will be deployed in the federal capital to maintain law and order.

A control room has been established at the Ministry of Interior to monitor the security arrangements of the political rallies besides keeping a close eye on all activities.

26/03/2022

Hamtramck, the city of the US state Michigan has become the first city in the US to be led by an all-Muslim government.
A city of mostly Polish-Americans for 99 years, locals say the population has gradually shifted to now be over half Arab-Americans. And in its 100th year, the city’s leaders reflect that change.
“It was a historic achievement that’s never happened before for the Arabs and immigrants,” Amer Ghalib, Hamtramck mayor, told Arab News.
“There is no difference because we are all bound by the city regulations and the country’s constitution, with laws and regulations that we cannot violate, all religions promote virtue and our noble Islam promotes doing good and abandoning evil and respecting others and treating them well,” said Muslim Mayor of Hamtramck.

26/03/2022

Pakistani Fashion Designer Deepak Parwani shared his opinion on how the shift away from more Western silhouettes is a downgrade, “At the time, we didn’t have this social media bu****it where people start commenting on everything…"

"30 years down the line, I should be making even more progressive clothes than what I was making then. Now, I make everything full sleeves because that’s the only thing that sells. In 1994, we’d sell only Western cuts. So, the market hasn’t progressed, it has regressed.”

On this Nadia Khan retorted, “That’s something else. That’s the moral brigade… Please, keep fashion and religion separate.” Deepak added, “If they haven’t seen the world, how is that our fault? They’re sitting at home on their computers. Go out, see the world and then judge.”

24/03/2022

Ahead of Ramazan 2022, the Power Division has decided zero load-shedding on special timings of Sehri, Iftar, and Taraweeh prayer across the country, ARY News reported on Thursday.

Sources told ARY News that the Power Division has sought details of demand and supply from all power distribution companies to formulate a strategy for zero load-shedding during the special hours of Ramazan 2022.

It is pertinent to mention here that the Ramazan crescent is likely to be sighted on Saturday, April 2, in accordance with the prediction of the Met Department. Pakistanis will observe the first fast of Ramazan 2022 on April 3, Sunday, if the moon is sighted on April 2, Saturday.

On March 16, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had announced that the new moon is expected to be sighted on April 2 and the first Ramadan to be on April 3, 2022.

The department added that the month of Shaban is expected to be of 29 days this year which would mean that the new moon of Ramadan would be sighted on April 2.

According to the Meteorological department, the weather on April 2 would be clear with partial clouds, which would ease the sighting of the new moon.

Last year, the Ramzan moon was sighted on April 14 and thus the holy month began on Wednesday, April 15, 2021.

24/03/2022

Apple is reportedly working on selling iPhones and iPads themselves as part of a hardware subscription service, according to a new report from Bloomberg, whose author Mark Gurman writes the service could arrive next year.

The move would fit into Apple’s ongoing push towards subscription services as a whole. Over the past several years, Apple has increasingly been emphasizing recurring subscriptions like Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple News Plus, Apple Fitness Plus, and Apple Arcade as key new revenue streams for the company. Many of those services have already been bundled together into the company’s Apple One bundles, too.

We’ve already seen a similar shift on the hardware front: Apple added a monthly subscription model for its AppleCare extended warranties back in 2019. And Apple has offered its iPhone Upgrade Program — which allows customers to pay for the combined cost of AppleCare and an iPhone over 24 months and the option to trade in their device after 12 months of payments — since 2015. Both those programs already resemble a hardware subscription in many ways.

24/03/2022

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24/03/2022

Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has a message for the nation, reported by Dawn News. COAS said that if people keep electing the same faces then how will the country's problems get resolved?
What do you think, COAS was trying to say?

24/03/2022

The Saudi government has decided to resume Aitekaf at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah during Ramazan after two years, according to a report by the Saudi Gazette on Wednesday.
The announcement was made by Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, in an annual meeting held to launch the presidency's plan for this year's Ramazan.
He said that the presidency will soon start issuing permits through its official website. "They will be in line with specific conditions and set criteria," Al-Sudais added.
The presidency, earlier, launched an online portal to provide guidelines and registration facilities to worshippers intending to perform Aitekaf.

23/03/2022

A few of Apple’s services experienced another outage on Tuesday, just one day after a good chunk of Apple’s services and online infrastructure were knocked offline on Monday. Apple’s system status page says that the issues with Apple Music, Podcasts, Books, and the App Store have been resolved, almost two hours after they began affecting some users.

Thankfully, iMessage, iCloud, Apple Maps, and Apple TV didn’t go down as they did on Monday. During the outage, Apple also warned that there were issues with Weather, Game Center, Apple Card, and the iCloud Web Apps, saying that they may be “slow or unavailable.” Those issues are also now marked as resolved.

During the outage, Apple Music worked for some Verge staff but not for others, and quite a few of us encountered issues trying to download apps or updates from the App Store. Usually, the progress circle would just spin continuously and then return to a download or update button after failing. Now, some Verge staff report that Apple Music is back up and running for them, and I was able to download around 30 app updates without any issues.

23/03/2022

Okta, an authentication company used by thousands of organizations around the world, has now confirmed an attacker had access to one of its employees’ laptops for five days in January 2022 and that around 2.5 percent of its customers may have been affected — but maintains its service “has not been breached and remains fully operational.”

The disclosure comes as hacking group Lapsus$ has posted screenshots to its Telegram channel claiming to be of Okta’s internal systems, including one that appears to show Okta’s Slack channels, and another with a Cloudflare interface.

Any hack of Okta could have major ramifications for the companies, universities, and government agencies that depend upon Okta to authenticate user access to internal systems.

23/03/2022

The hacking group Lapsus$, known for claiming to have hacked Nvidia, Samsung, and more, this week claimed it has even hacked Microsoft. The group posted a file that it claimed contains partial source code for Bing and Cortana in an archive holding nearly 37GB of data.

On Tuesday evening, after investigating, Microsoft confirmed the group that it calls DEV-0537 compromised “a single account” and stole parts of source code for some of its products. A blog post on its security site says Microsoft investigators have been tracking the Lapsus$ group for weeks, and details some of the methods they’ve used to compromise victims’ systems. According to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), “the objective of DEV-0537 actors is to gain elevated access through stolen credentials that enable data theft and destructive attacks against a targeted organization, often resulting in extortion. Tactics and objectives indicate this is a cybercriminal actor motivated by theft and destruction.”

23/03/2022

After imposing a ban on Telegram, Brazil has decided to unban the platform. The ban came after the Supreme Court of the country tried to block the application given its failure to respond to past judicial orders when it was asked to freeze accounts that spread misinformation regarding its decisions.

According to The New York Times, the court decided to go back on the ban after the platform made numerous changes that can help keep fake news and misinformation at bay, specifically classified information regarding the Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and deletion of accounts such as those of Allan dos Santos, a staunch supporter of Bolsonaro and an activist accused of spreading misinformation.

23/03/2022

The CEO of AirLink estimates that smartphone prices could fall by as much as 35% as by June 2022, the local assembly is expected to meet 90% of the total demand for smartphones in Pakistan.
According to Aamir Allawala, CEO of Techno Pak Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Pakistan’s young smartphone sector has already created 60,000 jobs since the implementation of the Mobile Industry Policy in July 2020.
In addition, the company has the capacity to manufacture about 10 million smartphones each year. In Pakistan, it assemble phones from Infinix, Tecno, iTel, and Nokia.

22/03/2022

Ghulami Main Na Kaam Aati Hain Shamsheerain Na Tadberain
Joo Hoo Zuq-e-Yaqeen Paidaa
Tu Kaat Jaati Hain Zanjerain.

22/03/2022

SUKKUR – A man brutally killed a girl for turning down his marriage proposal in southeastern Pakistan’s province of Sindh.

Reports said that the accused, identified as Wahid Bux Lashari, wanted to marry Pooja Kumari, 18, after converting her to Islam.

On the day of the incident, Lashari broke into Kumari’s house in Ghotki city of Sukkur district in an attempt to abduct her.

However, he got enraged after she showed resistance and opened fire on her, leaving the girl dead on the spot.

Police said that the prime suspect has been arrested and he had confessed to the murder of the Hindu girl.

Meanwhile, relatives of Pooja Kumari have staged protests on a road against the brutal murder and demanded stern action against the accused.

Social media users have also joined the protest as “ ” has become a trend on Twitter.

A user wrote, “Until and unless the government does not take stern action against the killers of Pooja Kumari another Pooja will be murdered brutally tomorrow. Murderers must be punished accordingly”.

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22/03/2022

Many had expected the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block the acquisition of MGM by Amazon, but in a surprise move, they chose not to do so. Bigger fish to fry? FTC chief Lina Khan has made it known that she is unhappy with how large some of these tech companies like Amazon have become, and in fact issued a letter to Amazon that the FTC will continue to investigate the purchase of MGM.

She wrote a very popular article while at Yale Law School that argued that U.S. antitrust law has failed to restrain Amazon.com. The studio does have some great film & TV titles in its library including “The Hobbit”, the James Bond franchise, and the “Handmaid’s Tale”. However, its small size in comparison to other motion picture distributors made it an unlikely transaction for the FTC to block.

Ms. Khan did not have enough votes on the commission to back a lawsuit, but she could if President Joe Biden can get his nominee Alvaro Beydoya through the Senate. That means this deal could actually be unwound in the future, although that would be tricky logistically (they could likely force Amazon to sell all or part of MGM).

22/03/2022

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned encrypted messaging service that boasts over two billion users worldwide, is adding emoji reactions in beta on Android. WABetaInfo, a reliable source of upcoming WhatsApp features, reports that emoji reactions have started appearing in beta version 2.22.8.3 of the service’s Android app, giving users a quick and easy way to respond to incoming messages.

With a long-press of a received message, the feature lets users react with one of six emoji: thumbs up, heart, crying, laughter, shocked face, or folded hands (usually taken to mean “thank you”). WhatsApp appears to be rolling out the feature on Android in phases, and we were unable to get it to appear ourselves.

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KARACHI: The video statement of missing Karachi girl, Dua Zehra, has surfaced in which the teenage girl announced that she was married of her own will to Zaheer Ahmed, ARY News reported. In a video message, Dua Zehra made stunning revelations about herself, saying she was not kidnapped and left home herself and married Zaheer Ahmed of her own will. The missing girl also claimed that her family was forcing her to marry someone else. The teenage girl also blamed her parents for domestic violence and added that they were fixing her marriage with her cousin without her consent. “I was not kidnapped. I left home because my family wanted me to marry someone else against my will,” she said in a video statement. Dua Zehra also claimed that her father shared her age wrong. “I am not 14. I am an adult, my age is 18,” she added. The couple were reportedly staying at Zaheer’s uncle’s home. Earlier, the Karachi police claimed to have traced the 14-year-old girl. The police said the girl married a man named Zaheer Ahmed in the Punjab capital, adding that the Lahore police would soon recover the girl and move her to Karachi. Dua Zehra’s family had approached police, hours after she went missing from near her house in Alfalah Town on April 16, and had appealed through a number of channels including a welfare organization for help in finding their daughter. #thependu #pendupk #karachi #karachigirl #karachities #pakistan #DuaZehra

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