Sunday, April 29, 2018

No Nuclear Arms . North and South Korea agree for A final Peace .

North korean leader Kim Jong- Un and South Korean president Moon Jae-in
Seoul,South Korea : The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on 27th April to work to remove all nuclear weapons from Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to Korean War which ravaged the Peninsula from 1950 to 1953.

At a historic summit meeting , the first time a North Korean leader had ever set foot in the South,  the both leaders vowed to negotiate a treaty to replace a truce that has kept an uneasy peace on the divided Korean Peninsula for more that 60 years .A peace treaty has been one of the incentives North Korea has demanded in return for dismantling its Nuclear Program .

“South and North Korea confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete demilitarization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula,” read a statement signed by North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and the South’s president, Moon Jae-in, after their meeting at the border village of Panmunjom .

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Former cricketer Imran khan's third marriage with Bushra Maneka could soon end in divorce .

Former Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan's third wife Bushra Maneka whom he had married couple of months ago , has reportedly returned back to her maternal home following a domestic feud concerning Imran's pet dogs .

Pakistan Thereek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan had secretly married his spiritual mentor Bushra Maneka , a divorcee who has 3 daughters and 2 sons from her ex husband .

According to a report of Times of Islamabad, Maneka had ordered the expulsion of Imran's pet dogs from his palatial house since they were interfering with her religious practices.


Another report has claimed that Imran also  had a skirmish with Maneka over the fact that her son with former  husband has been staying at Imran's Bani Gala residence, though it had been agreed before marriage that no one from Bushra Maneka's family would stay for a longer period of time at Bani Gala.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Brides and Brothels: The Rohingya Trade

Thousands of Rohingya girls continue to face sexual exploitation , forced marriage and trafficking in refugee camps .

They have survived rape and the slaughter of their families . Hundreds of thousands Rohingya girls and women fled Myanmar in order to escape a military crackdown .

In Bangladesh's refugee camps they thought they would be safe. But inside the tents that house almost a million Rohingya refugees, women and girls are being bought,sold and given away.

Girls are being forced into marriage because relatives can't afford to feed them, or are being lured to brothels with the promise of good jobs and good  future .

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Heatwave in Karachi similar to 2015 expected this year .

People are trying to find relief from heatwave in Karachi in Pakistan.
The director of Karachi health office has issued an  alert to the hospitals for heatwave, saying the situation will be similar to 2015 this year in which more than hundreds of people lost their lives due to escalating temperatures .

The general notice was issued to the executive director of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and medical superintendents of Civil Hospital and general hospitals in Korangi, Ibrahim Hyderi, Saudabad and Liaquatabad, Qatar Hospital in Orangi Town, children’s hospital North Nazimabad and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital among others.

The alert directed hospitals to keep their departments ready to cope with such a situation arise . They are also directed to establish heatstroke treatment  and stabilization centers to provide emergency medical treatment .

Syrian President Assad can still gas attack despite US lead airstrikes .

A Syrian girl holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant .
Western air strikes have done little to degrade President  Assad's arsenal and his regime has the capabilities of inflicting major damages .

Brigadier-General Zaher al-Sakat, who served as head of chemical warfare in the powerful 5th Division of the military until he defected in 2013, said the most strategic sites were not hit in Saturday's strikes .

The Pentagon said that it believed the raids " attacked the heart of the Syrian chemical weapon program " significantly hampering the government's ability to use gas weapon again . 


Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Facebook says the number of users affected by Cambridge Analytica data leak is 87 million

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook said on 4th April wednesday the number of users whose information was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica is 87 million .

Facebook issued the number in a lengthy post by CTO Mike Schroepfer about its privacy changes, which include restricting third-party app access and deleting phone call and text information that's over a year old.

 Cambridge Analytica was accused of improperly gaining access to personal information of Facebook users, spurring legal probes and changes to Facebook's privacy policies.

Mark Zuckerberg CEO of social media giant, refused to rule out legal action against the British company and insisted that he remained the best man to lead the tech firm, flatly denying he had been asked to resign.

BJP calls Bangla Bandh on demanding cheif minister to resign .

Unrest west bengal demanding chief minister to step down. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a 12-hour general strike in West B...