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The last two pandemic years have shown us what we can bear, may this coming year remove all this negative energy and enlighten our lives. (Ameen)

ore temperature records were broken in B.C. Monday as most of the province remains blanketed by extreme cold and Arctic outflow warnings. On Boxing Day, 21 records were broken for low temperatures and on Monday, another 21 records fell, according to preliminary data from Environment Canada. Warnings have been in place for multiple days as some B.C. regions are dealing with “a bitterly cold airmass,” while others are feeling the impacts of an Arctic ridge of high pressure. According to Environment Canada, wind chill of at least -35 C is expected Tuesday evening and heading into Wednesday in northern and central B.C. In Metro Vancouver, it

could feel as cold as -20 C. Monday’s frigid temperatures saw Vancouver’s record break when it got as low as -15.3 C. The previous record of -12.8 C was set in 1971.

Other temperature records broken in B.C. according to Environment Canada’s pre-

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France Orders Mosque Closed after ‘Unacceptable’ Preaching

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rance has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of the radical nature of its imam’s preaching, regional authorities told AFP on Tuesday.

The mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 people some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Paris, will remain shut for six months, according to

the prefecture of the Oise region where Beauvais is located. It said the sermons there incite hatred, violence and “defend jihad”.

The move on the mosque, which has a congregation of about 400, comes two weeks after Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he had triggered the procedure to close the site because the imam there “is targeting Christians, homosexuals and Jews” in his sermons. This, the minister said, was “unacceptable”.

Local authorities were legally bound to observe a 10-day period of information-gathering before taking action, but told AFP on Tuesday that the mosque would now be shut within two days. Local daily Courrier Picard reported this month that the mosque’s imam was a recent convert to Islam. A lawyer for the association managing the mosque told AFP that it had filed for an injunction to overturn the ban.

The lawyer, Samim Bolaky, said there would be a court hearing on the appeal within 48 hours.

The authorities said the imam, who the association claims had preached only occasionally and had now been suspended, was in fact a regular presence at the mosque, according to the official document citing the reasons for the closure seen by AFP. It said the imam had called the jihad, a term for war against the enemies of Islam, a “duty”, and had glorified its fighters as “heroes” who protected Islam against Western influence.

He had also labelled non-Muslims as “enemies”, it said. “The terrorist threat remains at a very high level” and the closure had “the aim of forestalling acts of terrorism being committed”, the document said.

The French government announced earlier this year that it would step up checks of places of worship and associations suspected of spreading radical Islamic propaganda.

The crackdown came after the October 2020 To be Continued at page 6

17pc tax on number of items proposed; Shaukat Tarin dismisses inflation fears • Govt withdraws Rs343bn sales tax exemptions • Finance minister says sales tax on machinery and pharma adjustable, refundable • Terms SBP autonomy essential for overall growth of economy • Tax exemption retained on basic food items • Bill proposes advance income tax on screening of foreign TV drama serials • Tax on transfer of newly purchased vehicles increased to discourage own-money

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SLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin presented in the National Assembly on Thursday the Finance (Supplementary) Bill 2021 envisaging withdrawal of sales tax exemptions worth Rs343 billion on machinery, pharma and imported food items.

The bill also proposes an increase in rates of federal excise duty, income tax and sales tax on services in the federal capital territory. Mr Tarin explained that sales tax on machinery

and pharma sector is adjustable and refundable. He said the levy of 17 per cent sales tax on several hundred items, which would directly or indirectly affect the people, would raise around Rs71bn for the national kitty.The withdrawal of tax exemptions includes Rs31bn on luxury goods and Rs31bn on business goods. Irfan Khan“Elites, not the common man, are beneficiary of these exemptions,” Mr Tarin said, To be Continued at page 6

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f a i t h Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) as saying I am most akin to Jesus Christ among the whole of mankind, and all the Prophets are of different mothers but belong to one religion and no Prophet was raised between me and Jesus. [Sahih Muslim 2365b]

The Muslim Father of Robotics By: Basheer Ahmed

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oday, most of the modern world has become familiar with robots. Part of this global development in the field of robots revolves around the concept of automation. This in turn, began with the mechanization of manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.

And while robotics is considered a relatively new field of science, with the public’s consensus that it is the creation of 20th-century scientists, it would be surprising to know that the field has its roots in the medieval era nearly a millennium ago.

One of the most important medieval figures within the field was Badi-az- Zaman al Jazari. Al-Jazari, a Muslim scholar, mathematician, engineer, and above all, an innovator was born in Jazaria [in modern-day Turkey] during the Artuqid Dynasty, he was famous for creating ingenious pre-modern robots controlled by various hydraulic-gear systems. He invented many devices that were precursors to today’s robots, and his knowledge of automation in the 12th century inspired several generations of scientists.

Within his various books, Al-Jazari gave step-by-step instructions about building many of these machines and devices.

His books contain an invaluable store of knowledge about early Muslim engineering.

Unlike other peers of his time, they were unique because he had meticulously described each detail of his machines. Moreover, these instructions were so well organized that many future craftsmen were able to build upon his mechanical creations without much difficulty.

In his most famous work, “The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Kitab fi ma’rifat),” written in 1206, Al- Jazari meticulously detailed the blueprints of over 100 mechanical devices.

These devices included but were not limited to clocks, fountains, hand-washing devices, musical instruments, automated moving peacocks, and gates.

Detailed within this work was Al Jazari’s most famous creation, an Elephant Water Clock. This clock consisted of a weightpowered water clock in the form of an ancient elephant. The various elements of this clock were located on the top of the elephant seat, known as howdah. The timing mechanism was based upon the filling of a water-filled basin hidden inside the elephant’s belly. Through an ingenious system of hydropower and gravity, time was able to be tracked.

Numerous reproductions of the Elephant Clock have been created by the “1001 Inventions” organization in London as

robot/automata in the 15th century, in favor of Al-Jazari.

In 1974, eight centuries after the death of Al-Jazari the British historian Donald Hill translated Al-Jazari’s book from Arabic to English. Hill realized that various engineering techniques utilized by Jazari were later reproduced by European inventors, thereby illustrating AlJazari’s far-reaching legacy. It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of Al-Jazari’s work in the history of engineering, as it [according to Hill], “provides a wealth of instructions for design, manufacture, and assembly of machines”

(Hill). Al-Jazari’s work is truly a testament to the impact of Muslim thought and innovation seen today in the modern world.

Al- Jazari’s legacy and life’s work in many ways are overlooked, as many [within the scientific community] have never given enough due credit to Jazari’s feats in engineering and mechanics. Yet it is perhaps his innovation in robotics that should be highlighted the most.

The modern world has yet to comprehend the depth of Muslim scientific development still influencing today’s age.

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well as in the Ibn Battuta shopping mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Other reproductions are located within the Musée d’Horlogerie du Locle in Le Locle, Switzerland, the Museum of Science and Technology in Islam in Saudi Arabia, and in Kasmiye Madrese, Mardin, Turkey.

Some of Al-Jazari’s contraptions were so modern in appearance and ability that it is hard to believe that they were built eight centuries ago. One such example of this is the creation of an automated waitress serving drinks. Through a reservoir, various drinks were able to be served on a timed basis in a drip system. He also described building hand-washing devices to perform ablution, a peacock ence, roaming around parts of India, e asked the Muslim youth about fountain in which automated servants I was surprised at the amount of hatred a parthe issues that concern them .Here would offer soap and towels to guests ticular ethnic group has for the other. is what the youth saywhen they are done with washing their hands. In many of his creations, Al-Jazari 1. Lack of employment opportunitiesMany youth want to study deen Unfortunately, this is prevalent even utilized a system of pulleys, levers, and but because of lack of employment among muslims here to quite aome degree. weight to build his devices. He demonopportunities,they put their energy in 10. Stress & Time Management strated ingenuity and a level of skill that Managing the pressure to succeed in evesecular studies. is well-respected, even today.

2. Pornography and masturbation ry area of life and finding time to do it all :It’s something literally every young- seems to be one of the biggest challenges ster with a smartphone has had con- facing the youth today. Young people are tact with but nobody educates them/ expected to be successful, yet few of them are aware of effective time management. us about these things.

3. Riba it is literally everywhere at this point 11. Materialism: We have forgotton the path of Sunnah and are striving to4. Ethical consumerism wards gaining more materialistic as5. Riya’ and minor shirksets thanks to social media influencers Everyone of us in social media are 12. Depression: Teens struggle with an guilty of some sort of Riya. anxiety disorder .They are seeing 6. The racist messages and stereotypes: more descriptions of feelings such .It is not uncommon to hear racist reLeft Peacock Basin - Right Water Balas isolation, sensitivity, being misunmarks and that depresses us a lots . ance (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenderstood, narcissism, worry, sadness, 7.

Keeping the hijab on:You must ious Mechanical Devices) low self-control and general dissatishave heard how People sometime get The impact of these inventions paved faction.” It’s a phenomenon that cuts scared and abusive when they see a the way for modern machinery and can across all demographics—suburban, Woman in hijab . be seen in the later designs of the steam 8.

Alcohol and Smoking have become urban and rural; those who are colengine and internal combustion engine. very common in society and it is a lege bound and those who aren’t.

However, not all of Al-Jazari’s invenreal struggle to stay away from it.

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Dhur Asar Shafi / Asar Hanfi Maghrib Isha One of the most fascinating devices al- 26 Fri Jazari created was a musical automaton, 27 Sat which consisted of a boat with four auto- 28 Sun matic musicians that floated on a lake to 29 Mon entertain guests at royal parties. A nota- 30* Tue ble Professor, Noel Sharkey [Director of 1 Wed the Foundation for Responsible Robot- 2 Thus ics] has even commented that this crea- 3 Fri tion was one of the first automata-related 4 Sat devices that were programmed. This is 5 Sun due in part to the ability of the drummer 6 Mon to play different rhythms and drum pat- 7 Tue terns if certain pegs were moved around. 8 Wed This device is so remarkable that Profes- 9 Thus sor Sharkey has refuted that Leonardo 10 Fri da Vinci created the first programmable For such Prayers are enjoined on believers at stated times: Quran ,n 4:103 Source: BCMA

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Millions of government dollars sent to Liberals delay new regulations to wrong bank accounts in last fiscal year lower price of medicines in Canada OTTAWA -- Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has put a six-month pause on new regulations designed to lower the cost of patented medicines in Canada.

Health Canada first announced in 2019 that the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) would change how it sets a price cap on medicines in Canada in an effort to lower excessively expensive drug costs.

This will be the fourth delay in implement- bies on behalf of 29 patient groups for acing those changes. The regulations were cess to safe, effective medicines. supposed to come into force at the begin- “I’m relieved that the new minister of health ning of January, but have been pushed back and his cabinet colleagues are taking a to July 1, 2022. pause,” said John Adams, chairman of the By: Sarah Turnbull,CTVNews.ca Producer tance benefits by cheque. Therefore, exist- Duclos said the newest delay will allow the board of the coalition. “Hopefully we’ll use The federal government sent nearly $26 ing trends in payments made by the fed- industry, government and other players in this for time to reflect on the merits of doing million worth of payments to the wrong eral government and the addition of direct the drug distribution system to focus efforts so many changes all at the same time.”The bank accounts in the 2020-21 fiscal year, deposits for new assistance programs in- on fighting the pandemic. federal NDP however were not happy to see representing a surge in misdirected funds creased the likelihood of misdirected depos- “To bring these amendments into force, in more delays in the government’s efforts to its somewhat. Issuing cheques costs much the context of a global pandemic, requires lower the price of drugs.“Canadian families compared to previous years.

Volume three of the 2021 Public Accounts more than direct deposits and pose a greater preparedness and consultation,” Duclos said are struggling to make ends meet and prices report notes that money was sent to the risk of fraud.” in a statement Thursday. are rising for everything. Provinces are seewrong accounts in 22,170 cases, amount- The department notes that of the 440 million “A delay also allows the government to fur- ing record numbers of COVID-19 cases and ing to $25.9 million, between April 1, 2020 payments worth more $1,040 billion, 99 per ther engage stakeholders on the application the government is announcing they won’t and March 31, 2021. While $7.1 million has cent went to the right bank account. of these amendments within the changing do anything to make prescription drugs been recovered, it’s expected that $10.2 mil- “The Government of Canada continues to pharmaceutical landscape.” more affordable for people,” NDP health implement additional controls to reduce the Health Canada expects the amendments critic Don Davies said in a statement. lion will be permanently mislaid.

Comparatively, in the previous fiscal year, risk of misdirected direct deposits while en- would save Canadians billions of dollars on Davies said is was “supremely cynical” to the government misdirected 9,619 payments suring the cost of these measures do not ex- patented drugs. make the announcement on Dec. 23, as peototalling $6.6 million. This is the second ceed potential cost reductions. The Receiver Life-sciences groups, patient advocates and ple are busy getting ready for Christmas and largest amount of misdirected deposits since General is also working with financial in- drug companies have called on the minister trying to cope with the latest wave of the 2009. A misdirected direct deposit occurs stitutions to further strengthen controls in to reconsider the changes entirely over fears pandemic.“The Liberal government should when a payment is made to an account other order to reduce the number of misdirected a steep drop in the price of drugs could make be ashamed of this,” he said. than that of the intended payee. This often direct deposits,” the statement reads.

Canada an unattractive place to launch life- Duclos said in his statement the government happens when a government department or Conservative Treasury Board critic Kelly saving new therapies.Other critics worry remains committed to improving access and agency mistakenly provides the Receiver McCauley told CTVNews.ca this is another about stifling effects on innovation in the affordability of medicines in Canada, and General’s office – the department responsi- example of the government’s lack of regard biomedical field. is also working on a national strategy for ble for overseeing all funds coming in and for taxpayer money.

The delay comes as welcome news to the drugs for rare diseases. going out of government accounts – with an “(The Liberals) are more focused on trot- Best Medicines Coalition, a group that lob- Source: ctvnews.ca ting out announcements than delivering the incorrect bank account number.

Common reasons for this include manual goods and it’s once again the tax payers payerrors, the recipient entering the wrong in- ing the price for it,” he said. formation or not advising the department or McCauley pointed to Auditor General Karen Hogan’s spring reports wherein she financial institution of changes, or fraud.

Public Services and Procurement Canada, found that less rigorous eligibility screening attributed the rise in deposit errors in 2020- of COVID-19 benefits led to cases of abuse.

21 to the spike in COVID-19 payments to “Here’s another example of doing it wrong and paying the price.” both individuals and businesses.

“The COVID-19 pandemic affected Cana- The department says efforts to recover the dians in a wide range of ways with a large funds are progressing well. number having lost their jobs and income. “As of October 31, 2021, the amount was Full time 40 hours / week, In response, the government launched as- reduced to $4 million due to the ongoing ef- Hourly Wages: $19.00 / hour sistance benefits and programs. Payments forts of the Receiver General in collaborawere made quickly to alleviate economic tion with financial institutions. The Receiver hardship and mitigate economic upheaval,” General makes every effort to recover these • Cut, trim, and otherwise prepare standard cuts of Halal meat funds and has historically been successful in a statement to CTVNews.ca reads. to include lamb, goat and beef. Included in the offering is “Many Canadians opted to enroll in direct recovering the vast majority,” it states. poultry and fish to cater to customer’s orders. deposit as opposed to receiving their assis- Source: ctvnews.ca

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The update was announced by the province’s top doctor during a news conference Wednesday. Dr. Bonnie Henry said 2,944 cases have been added to the provincial tally,

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‘Useless chatter’: Sheikh Rashid No changes to Canada’s isolation period despite U.S. shortening to 5 days dismisses talk of Nawaz Sharif’s return

Canada has no immediate plans to follow the lead of the U.S. and shorten the isolation period for those who contract COVID-19 from 10 to five days.The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) told CTVNews. ca in a statement on Wednesday that officials are aware of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) updated guidance and the body will inform Canadians should there be similar steps taken north of the border. While isolation and quarantine rules may vary across the country based on the directives of local public health experts, federal authorities recommend an isolation period of a minimum of 10 days from the onset of symptoms for a symptomatic case, or from the time of receiving a positive test for an asymptomatic case. The CDC’s Monday announcement applies to Americans who have tested positive for the virus but are asymptomatic. While not required to

isolate after day five, they must be masked when outside of the home for the subsequent five days. Similarly, those who have come into contact with an individual who has contracted the virus are now able to halve their quarantine period. However, the new guidance is not a mandate; it’s a recommendation to employers and state and local officials. It comes following a decision last week by U.K. officials to reduce the self-isolation period for vaccinated people who test positive for COVID-19.

The CDC said the change in rules is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop. “We followed numerous areas of science in making this important decision. One of course was how the virus behaves, how much virus do you still have that you could potentially transmit after five days and we generally know that most of your transmission potential happens in those one to two days before you have symptoms and those two to three days after,” said CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

“So by the time five days of isolation have occurred, you probably have about 85 to 90 per cent of all of our transmission potential behind you.” Source: ctvnews.ca/

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday dismissed talks in political circles of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif ’s purportedly planned return to Pakistan as “useless chatter”, saying that such a development would make “no difference” to the government. Sharif had left the country in 2019 after his seven-year sentence for corruption was suspended by the Islamabad High Court for eight weeks so he could seek medical treatment abroad.

He never returned and was declared a “proclaimed offender” by multiple courts and “absconder” by the government. Talk of his potential return next year has been making the rounds, with even the prime minister and ministers addressing it recently.

Speaking to the media in Rawalpindi today, Rashid said “unnecessary hype” was being created around Sharif ’s return, adding that it was unfortunate for Pakistan that people “who spent most of their life here eventually leave the country instead of loving it”.

Rashid said that his offer of a one-way ticket to Pakistan for Sharif was still up for grabs.

On Sunday, the interior minister had accused Sharif of attacking the judiciary and giving statements on the army while sitting abroad. In his conversation with reporters today, Rashid insisted that Pakistan Army and institutions were dedicated to serve the country, saying “governments come and go, but the establishment stands with the elected government.” He added that the previously elected governments also completed their five years but their [leaders] had to depart due to court orders.

Minister wants PDM to revisit protest plan Without naming the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — an alliance of opposition parties — the interior minister said he wanted them to move back their protest scheduled for March 23 to March 30 in Islamabad due to the latter being the Pakistan Day...Source: dawn.com

75 cases of Omicron variant confirmed so far in Pakistan: NIH

National Institute of Health (NIH) on Feds to expand worker, business aid The Tuesday said that a total of 75 cases of the Covid-19 Omicron variant have been conin the country so far. eligibility amid new COVID-19 restrictions firmed In a statement, the NIH said that the Ministry

The federal government intends to temporarily expand the eligibility of several support programs to apply to those impacted by new public health restrictions driven by the Omicron surge. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough said on Wednesday that through regulatory powers, Ottawa will make changes to the Local Lockdown Program and the Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit.

Instead of applying solely to those in “complete” lockdowns of more than 14 days, the local lockdown program will include employers subject to capacity-limiting restrictions of 50 per cent or more. The government is also reducing the current monthly revenue decline threshold from 40 per cent to 25 per cent. Eligible employers will receive wage and rent subsidies between 25 per cent to 75 per cent. With the adjustments, the worker lockdown benefit will apply to workers in regions where provincial

or territorial governments have introduced capacity-limiting restrictions of 50 per cent or more. The benefit provides $300 a week to those eligible.

The changes are effective from Dec. 19 to Feb. 12, 2022. The government fielded criticism after unveiling the programs, detailed in Bill C-2, as no region then or now faces a lockdown of more than 14 days.

The announcement comes as provinces and territories impose new restrictions to manage the surge of COVID-19 cases spurred by the highly-transmissible Omicron variant.

Source: bc.ctvnews.ca

UK COVID cases soar to new daily record of 183,037:

Britain reported 183,037 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, a new daily record and over 50,000 more than the previous highest figure, according to government figures.The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still “very high”, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, after COVID-19 case numbers shot up by 11 percent globally last week. Biden confirms end of Omicron travel curbs for African nations Omicron is behind the rapid virus spikes, the WHO said in its COVID weekly epidemiological update on Wednesday, having

overtaken the previously-dominant Delta variant in several nations, including the United Kingdom and the United States.

The update came after a number of countries, including the US, Australia, many in Europe and Argentina, reported recordhigh infection figures in recent days.

Here are the latest updates for Wednesday: More US flights cancelled as Omicron intensifies staffing issues Hundreds of flights were cancelled Wednesday as the Omicron variant creates havoc both for travellers and for airlines that are having to cobble together flight crews as pilots, flight attendants and ground crews become infected or are exposed to others who have been.

More than 850 flights were cancelled by midday on Wednesday and that number has ticked higher throughout the day, according to data from the flight-tracking website FlightAware. There were nearly 1,300 cancellations for flights entering, leaving or inside the United States.. Source:aljazera.com

of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (NHSRC), the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) and the provincial departments were vigilantly keeping an eye on Omicron cases in Pakistan ever since it was designated a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation (WHO). “The first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 was reported on December 13 in Karachi,” the statement said.

“As of December 27, a total of 75 Omicron cases have been confirmed; 33 in Karachi, 17 in Islamabad and 13 in Lahore,” the statement said, adding that the remaining 12 cases were associated with international travel. The NIH did not provide any further details.

“The relevant authorities have isolated the patients and initiated contract tracing in order to control the spread of the variant,” the NIH said.Vaccination and following standard operating procedures (SOPs) continue to be our best defence against Covid-19 despite the mutations being reported, the statement added. “All government approved Covid-19 vaccines available in Pakistan remain highly effective at preventing severe disease and hos-

pitalisation. The government urges everyone to get both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as well as the booster dose as per the eligibility criteria and process,” the statement said. Pakistan reported its first suspected case of the Omicron variant on December 8. Following its gene-sequencing, Aga Khan University Hospital confirmed it was the new variant on Dec 13. On Dec 25, Islamabad had confirmed its first case. Islamabad District Health Officer (DHO) Zaeem Zia told Dawn.com that the case was detected in a 47-year-old male, adding that he was working in Islamabad and had travelled out of city for work-related purposes. The patient had no history of travelling abroad, he said.

Source: dawn.com

The opposition on Wednesday took the government to task over its plan to table the supplementary finance bill [mini-budget] in the National Assembly. A day earlier, the federal cabinet had deferred the approval of the supplementary finance bill which was scheduled to be tabled in today’s session.

Speaking on a point of order, PPP MNA Raja Pervez Ashraf said that everyone in the House as well as people from different walks of life were concerned over reports that the government was planning to introduce a money bill or a mini-budget.

“Inflation, unemployment and the shortage of gas and other commodities have already

wreaked havoc on the people of the country. Now, if a mini-budget or money bill is in the offing, which would increase their difficulties, then everyone sitting in the House should resist the move,” he said.

Taking the floor, PML-N’s Khawaja Asif said that the country saw a “territorial surrender” on Dec 16, 1971 which it eventually recovered from.“The country has come out of that disaster. [But] now we are going to surrender our economic sovereignty through the finance bill and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Amendment Bill 2021 which is much worse than what happened in 1971.”

The PML-N leader claimed that the state bank had become a “local branch” of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He said that the SBP governor was disguised as a “viceroy”, adding that Pakistan had become a “financial colony” of international institutions.He vowed to oppose the SBP bill and the mini-budget, adding that there was a need to create a national consensus on both the issues. “Create national consensus on how we can get out of these issues. Things can’t go on like this.” ...Source: dawn.com

Opposition lambasts govt over plan to table mini-budget in National Assembly

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Changes the Pandemic brought us in 2021 By: Khadija Naseer Miracle’s Editorial Board Member

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s the year comes to a close, looking back at past events is like peering in to a time capsule.

With many of our days filled with sanitizing and masking-up, it feels almost as if things have always been this way. But in fact, more changes were implemented this year than we might think.

One of the, perhaps, more impactful changes was working from home.

The pandemic pushed many companies to a complete shutdown and moved home offices to the forefront of working environments.

At first, it may have seemed like a relief or maybe a nuisance but about a year later, one thing is clear, office life might never seem the same again.

And despite the sudden and rapid change in location, many workers hope to have the choice of returning or staying at home once the pandemic ends with some even working towards a flexible mix of both.

With this new experimentation, businesses are recognizing the need for drastic redesigns but in the end, adjusting to the new ‘work from home age’ may be the easiest part for companies.

Of course, trapped inside our homes with only Netflix and snacks to comfort us in the middle of some extremely unprecedented times, many of us were worried more about our body weight than contracting a deadly virus. Suddenly, everyone was sharing their expert at-home workout routines or the secret formula to clean eating.

It should make sense, everyone trying to stay healthy in a time like this except for the fact that there’s nothing inherently healthy about diet culture.

But the funny thing is that diet culture is only successful because it sets us up to fail so coming towards the end of this year, many learned what habits and trends to surely stay away from.

Moving forward, families turned away from online studies and urged for inschool returns. Both preand post-pandemic, studies, and more importantly young opinions, have concluded that remote learning simply cannot replace the classroom learning experience. The lack of personal interaction and engagement seems to impair

learning of all ages. Still, for smaller periods of time, remote learning contributed to more self-reliance and time for unsupervised play and self-directed learning which proves to be healthy for children and vital for lifelong success.

Generally though, we’ve been stressed out and

midst of the pandemic and the changes it brought with it. Even among the class of workers who were at home, there were those who had stable internet access and a stable home environment and those who didn’t, those who lived in large condos or cramped apartments, all exposed to the judgement of their peers. Even early in the pandemic when Covid-19 testing was especially scarce, there was those who were wealthy or famous enough to access tests and those who couldn’t. Last year, the amount of households who could pay rent was significantly lowered and looking at it on a global scale, the disparities are even greater.

Despite all the good and the bad, the pandemic certainly had some lasting effects on us. Some of which we might carry in to the New Year and some that we’ll be glad to leave behind.

Regardless, the New Year will be an opportunity for us to improve things for ourselves and others around us and I’m sure many of us, while still following guidelines and maintaining safe protocols, won’t let the pandemic stop us.

isolated for the past year and that’s had wide-ranging implications for how we’ve been dealing with a mental health crisis. Usage of virtual and text-based mental health services soared and some companies felt the need to employ measures to address employees’ mental health.

Although mental health has always been put on the backburner, the pandemic laid it bare for all to see, offering opportunities for everyone to take a stand for what’s good for them.

Unfortunately, communi- Laysa Lil Insana illa ma’ sa’aa ties became split in the That man can have nothing but what he strives for.

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liminary data include: Abbotsford area – new record of -15.6, old record of -15 set in 1968. As of Tuesday morning, 22 regions in B.C. were under extreme cold warnings while 11 others were under Arctic outflow

warnings. While some warnings are in place through Wednesday, other regions are being warned to expect these cold temperatures until the new year.

“While the Arctic air will maintain the cold wind chill through the end of December, the wind chill

values will vary through this period as temperatures fluctuate and wind speeds rise and fall,” some of Environment Canada’s warnings said. “Frostbite and hypothermia can occur within minutes if adequate precautions are not taken when outdoors.

Ensure that shelter is provided for pets and outdoor animals. Be prepared for unusually cold temperatures and strong winds.” ....

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murder of teacher Samuel Paty who was targeted following an online campaign against him for having shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed

published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo during a civics class.The interior ministry said this month that around 100 mosques and Muslim prayer halls out of France’s total number of more

than 2,600 have been investigated over recent months because of suspicion that they were spreading “separatist” ideology.

Six sites were being probed with a view to closing them down on the

basis of French laws against extremism and Islamist separatism, it said.

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adding that tax exemptions of Rs343bn had been benefiting various interest groups for the past 70 years. “We have targeted only those items which are used by the elites.”

However, Mr Tarin said the levy of 17pc sales tax on some specific items would raise Rs2bn, adding that the tax on these items would only affect the ordinary people.

“We have only increased the cost

of imported luxury items,” he said, adding that local supply of most items remained unchanged.

The minister explained that withdrawal of tax exemptions worth Rs112bn on machinery and Rs160bn on pharmaceutical sector is adjustable and refundable. He did not consider these as taxes which will now be collected at the rate of 17pc on import of machinery and from the pharma sector.

The bill proposes 17pc sales tax

on a number of items which were earlier exempted from the tax. The government terms these products luxury items which include import of live animals, steak meat, fish, vegetables, high-end bakery items, branded cheese, imported sausages, high-end cellphones and import bicycles. At the same time, a number of items is proposed in the bill for targeted subsidy to minimise the impact of 17pc sales tax. These include

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Why should Justin Trudeau be entering his last full year as PM? Because it’s 2022

Dec 27: It’s a mid-life crisis like no other as Justin Trudeau turns 50 with nowhere to go but down.The three-term prime minister and Christmas Day baby of 1971 faces a bleak Omicron beginning to his seventh year in power while confronting a major personal decision: Stay or go?

But, but, but, you may say, that question was answered with Trudeau emphatically insisting he will absolutely run again. Oh, puh-LEEZE. What leader would surrender

power by even hinting at retirement just three months into a new mandate?

Common sense says Trudeau sticking around not only tempts fate by going against traditional three-strikes-andyou’re-out electoral math but risks the start of impatient grumbling from leader wannabes in his cabinet. And yet, it’s not easy to see a lucrative post-politics career for a youthful and healthy party leader who’s gone stale in the country’s top political job.

He may ooze charisma and excel at spontaneous interactions with the masses, but Trudeau tends to deliver plastic scripts through dead-eyed Teleprompter readings whenever he hits the podium for an official speech. Couple that with few signs of great intellectual depth and it seems unlikely Trudeau would be swamped by corporate board chair offers or sustain a prolonged world tour of $150,000-per-speech fees to blue-chip audiences. This is not to say Justin Trudeau’s legacy is simply one of a drama teacher with a family-name birthright allowing him to coast through the job

of prime minister. Now, before we move on, my top prediction for 2022 if Trudeauretirement speculation becomes a reality is that the next Liberal leader will be a woman who will indeed be elected prime minister if the Conservatives don’t somehow catch fire.

But it won’t be Chrystia Freeland.

She’s got the right stuff for the job and all, but Freeland’s public persona can be aggravatingly condescending, her caucus relations aren’t much better than her reportedly cool and aloof treatment of her own top bureaucrats and she acts too much like her leadership victory is a fait accompli.

For a more likely post-Trudeau leader look to current National Defence Minister Anita Anand, whose first cabinet job delivered spectacular success of procuring vaccines for all Canadians and who went on to deal more forcefully with the military sexual misconduct mess in a month than former minister Harjit Sajjan did in six years.

The law professor is well liked by Liberal MPs, commands the meeting room when

big decisions are made and is known to be quietly building links to the Liberal membership, whose votes will eventually crown the winner.

So I’ll limit my New Year column to just one longshot prediction – Anita Anand will be the Next One as Liberal leader.

As for the Current One, well, if he makes tangible made-in-Canada progress toward withstanding climate change, delivers meaningful Indigenous reconciliation and puts the economy on a healthy track, Justin Trudeau could bow out late next year as a transformational prime minister who delivered far more than anyone expected when his sunny ways dawned in 2015.

But if he sticks around too long, weary voters will dropkick his poll numbers toward a probable election defeat and he could end his reign with a forced march out the door by his own Liberal MPs. So why should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seriously consider leaving? Because it’s 2022. That’s the bottom line.

Source: ctvnews.ca/

Public safety minister asks Twitter Canada to remove tweet with intent to ‘intimidate’ CMA president Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has asked Twitter Canada leadership to remove what he characterized as an “abusive” tweet with the aim to “intimidate” the president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).In a letter, penned on Tuesday and addressed to the company’s managing director Paul Burns, Mendicino argued that allowing such comments to be published online puts health-care workers at risk of further abuse.

The tweet appears in a thread posted by Dr. Katharine Smart condemning comments promising a “bounty” to anyone who can

capture video surveillance of medical professionals breaking COVID-19 guidelines.

Posted by @AsktheBrownDoc1, it reads: Are you scared you are next @KatharineSmart? A group of us who can’t stand you have been seeing you and your family for weeks (from a safe distance in public spaces, of course!!!) and already have some great footage…just biding our time for the perfect time!

As of Tuesday afternoon, it appears the account was deactivated by the account owner.Smart had already reported the Dec. 22 tweet to Twitter, but the company deemed

it not to be in violation of their rules regarding abusive behaviour. Twitter lists a variety of examples of abusive behaviour that is prohibited on the site. Among them are content that makes violent threats against an identifiable target; wishes, hopes, or calls for serious harm on a person or group of people; suggests unwanted sexual advances; includes insults, profanity, or slurs with the purpose of harassing or intimidating others; encourages or calls for others to harass an individual or group of people; and which denies that mass casualty events “directly contravened” Twitter’s rules. took place.Mendicino noted that the tweet Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/

cold without any support whatsoever,” said MLA Todd Stone, BC Liberal Critic for Jobs, Economic Recovery, and Innovation.

“The government should have had a relief program in place​ready to begin receiving applications​the minute these restrictions were announced, but instead, businesses and workers in desperate need of help will be forced to wait weeks before they can even apply. Businesses forced to close — along with businesses in Northern Health that have already been impacted by restrictions for months — likely won’t see a penny of relief before the restrictions are set to expire on January 18, 2022, and that’s simply not good enough.”

Applications for the COVID-19 Closure Relief Grant will not begin until sometime in January 2022 and only $10 million has been budgeted for the program.

“In addition to the woefully inadequate supports being made available to businesses, we are also hearing from many constituents who are very concerned about their physical and mental health,” added Stone.

“People want further rationale and greater data transparency from the government as to why gyms and fitness centres are subject to outright closures, while large events are only being scaled back to 50 per cent capacity.”As well, Stone notes the premier promised not to add any new costs of any kind to employers who are struggling to stay alive during the pandemic, but he is doing the exact opposite by imposing the full costs of paid sick leave on small businesses during this fifth wave.

“We all want employees who are sick to stay home, that’s the right thing to do,” concluded Stone. “However, the pandemic

NDP support f​or small business too little, too late

KAMLOOPS (December 23, 2021) – Announcement of supports for businesses shut down by new public health restrictions once again shows John Horgan and the NDP ​are too slow to act, doing o ​ nly the bare minimum to support small businesses and people impacted by COVID-19 restrictions.“We’ve seen this before, where the NDP make an announcement but the help is still months away and leaving thousands of businesses that are severely impacted by the restrictions — such as the live event sector, events planners and caterers, and travel agents — out in the

is clearly not over and small businesses who are struggling to pay their staff can’t afford the additional costs being imposed by the NDP. Government should do the right thing, honour Horgan’s promise, and cover sick pay costs until the pandemic is over.

Source: Siyun Zeng, BC Liberal Caucus

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Putin says insulting Prophet Muhammad Afghan women protest against (PBUH) is ‘violation of religious freedom’ ‘Taliban killings’ of ex-soldiers

Dec 24,Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that insulting Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) does not count as an expression of artistic freedom but is a “violation of religious freedom”, according to state news agency TASS. Putin made these remarks during his annual press conference in Moscow on Thursday, adding that insults to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) were a violation of “the sacred feelings of people who profess Islam”.

TASS reported that the Russian president also criticised the publication of blasphemous sketches of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Such acts, the report quoted Putin as saying, gave rise to extremist reprisals. Artistic freedom had its limits and it shouldn’t infringe on other’s freedoms, he added.

The president further stated that Russia had

evolved as a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional state and so Russians were used to respecting each other’s traditions, according to the report.In some other countries, this respect came in short supply, he said.

PM welcomes Putin’s remarks Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan welcomed Putin’s statement, saying it “reaffirms my message that insulting Holy Prophet (PBUH) is not ‘freedom of expression’.”

“We Muslims, especially Muslim leaders, must spread this message to leaders of the non-Muslim world to counter Islamophobia,” the premier said. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi also appreciated the Russian president’s statement.

“Insulting our Holy Prophet (PBUH) is indeed a violation of religious freedom and is a far cry from freedom of expression,” he said.

Charlie Hebdo had published the blasphemous sketches in 2015, prompting condemnation from Muslims across the world.

The publication had also led to an attack on the magazine’s office on January 7, 2015, in which 12 persons had been killed. The issue had resurfaced in 2020 when the magazine republished the sketches on September 2 to coincide with the trial of 14 people accused of helping the attackers carry out their gun rampage against the magazine staffers.

Source: Dawn.com

Biden pledges support to US states as COVID infections spike

US president warns Omicron-linked surge in cases could strain hospitals, especially in areas with low vaccination rates.

President Joe Biden has pledged his government’s support to states grappling with a surge in coronavirus infections as the highly contagious Omicron variant continues to spread across the United States.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting with governors on Monday, Biden warned that rising cases could overwhelm some hospitals, particularly in areas where a high proportion of people are not vaccinated. “Omicron is a source of concern, but it should not be a source of panic,” he said. “We’re prepared and we know what it takes to save

lives, protect people and keep schools and businesses open. We just have to stay focused and continue to work together.”

Biden added that his message to state leaders was simple: “If you need something, say something and we are going to have your back any way we can.” US health officials said last week that the Omicron variant had become the dominant strain in the country, accounting for a majority of new infections, as state and local leaders mulled reinstating restrictions to stem its spread.

Many have also renewed calls for people to get COVID-19 jabs, including booster shots, while Biden promised to distribute 500 million free, at-home coronavirus tests starting in January, among other measures aimed at combatting Omicron.

But with many Americans travelling and gathering with family and friends over the holidays, “the fear is that this will get worse before it gets better”, Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett said, reporting from Washington, DC. Source: aljazeera.com

A crowd of women marched through the Afghan capital on Tuesday, accusing Taliban authorities of covertly killing soldiers who served the former US-backed regime.

Around 30 women gathered near a mosque in the centre of Kabul and marched a few hundred metres chanting “justice, justice” before they were stopped by Taliban forces, an AFP correspondent saw. The Taliban also tried to prevent journalists from covering the march, organised against the “mysterious murders of young people, particularly the country’s former soldiers”, according to social media invitations.

Taliban fighters briefly detained a group of reporters and confiscated equipment from some photographers, deleting images from their cameras before returning them. Since the hardliners returned to power in August they have effectively banned unsanctioned protests and frequently intervene to block demonstrations against their austere brand of Islam. The protest comes weeks after separate reports by the United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said there were credible allegations of more than 100 extrajudicial killings by the Taliban since their takeover.

“I want to tell the world, tell the Taliban to stop killing. We want freedom, we want justice, we want human rights,” said protester Nayera Koahistani.

In a statement read aloud by protester Laila Basam, the demonstrators called on the Taliban “to stop its criminal machine”. The statement said former soldiers and government employees of the old regime are “under direct threat”, violating a general amnesty announced by the Taliban in August.

The protesters also aired objections to the ratcheting restrictions women are facing under Taliban rule. The government issued new guidelines at the weekend banning women from travelling long distances unless escorted by a close male relative.Source: Dawn.com

Iran for the second time this year ordered a shutdown of authorized cryptocurrency mining centers as part of efforts to ease the strain on the country’s power plants and avoid blackouts, according to Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, director of the state-run Iran Grid Management Co. and a spokesman for Iran’s power industry.The ban, which will be in place until March 6, will free up 209 megawatts of power for consumption in the household sector, Rajabi Mashhadi said in an interview with state TV. Authorities are also cracking down on illegal mining carried out by both individuals at home and larger-scale industrial units, he added. These unlicensed operators account for the largest share of

crypto mining in the country, consuming more than 600 megawatts of electricity.

Other fuel-saving measures include turning off street lights in some areas and regulating electricity consumption in offices. Rajabi Mashhadi said the government expected 60% more electricity production in the summer. Source: aljazeera.com

Iran orders crypto-mining ban to prevent winter blackouts

Egypt digitally ‘unwraps’ mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I

Egypt has digitally “unwrapped” the mummy of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets for the first time since it was discovered in 1881 without disturbing his funerary mask. Thanks to the advanced digital 3D imagery, researchers unearthed new mummification techniques used for the pharaoh, who ruled from 1525 to 1504 BC. The research was led by Sahar Saleem, a professor of radiology at Cairo University, and renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, a former antiquities minister, the tourism and antiquities ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.“Saleem and Hawass used advanced X-ray technology, CT [computed tomography] scanning, as well as advanced computer software programs to digitally unwrap the mummy of Amenhotep I in a safe non-invasive method without the need to touch the mummy,” it added.

“The Egyptian study revealed for the first time the face of King Amenhotep I, his age, health condition, in addition to many secrets pandemic erupted. about the mummy’s unique mummification More than one in 100 people in the Paris region and reburial.” Analysis showed Amenhotep I have tested positive in the past week, according to the capital’s regional health service. Most new infections were linked to Omicron, which government experts predict will become the dominant strain in France in the coming days.

Castex stressed that hospitals’ intensive care units were not currently overburdened because more than 90 percent of France’s adults had been fully vaccinated,...Source: aljazeera.com

France to roll out new COVID-19 restrictions as Omicron surges

France has announced new COVID-19 measures in a bid to stem a surge in infections as concern rises worldwide over the rapid spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

From January 3, working from home will be mandatory for at least three days per week for those who can do so, while public gatherings will be limited to 2,000 people indoors, and to 5,000 people for outdoor events, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said late on Monday.

Consumption of food and drink will be banned on public transport – including on long-distance routes – as well as in cinemas, theatres and sports facilities. In bars and restaurants, all food and drink will have to be consumed seated, not standing. The new rules will be in place for at least three weeks, Castex said, but there will be no curfew for New Year’s Eve and schools will reopen as planned in early January.

The moves came after France on Saturday recorded more than 100,000 COVID-19 infections in a single day for the first time since the

was the first pharaoh to be mummified with arms crossed and the last not to have had his brain removed from the skull.

The tomography scan also revealed that the pharaoh, who conducted several military campaigns during his 21-year rule, had died at the age of 35, apparently of injury or illness. The mummy, discovered in Luxor, southern Egypt, is the only one not to have had its tight bands unrolled by archaeologists, in order to preserve the mask and garlands of flowers that surround it like hair.

Source: aljazeera.com

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The Latest: Ski hills closed, warming shelters open as Western Canada grapples with extreme cold The culprit is a wave of thick, Arctic air from Siberia that made its way down through the territories. ”It’s dense. It’s like molasses, and it just sweeps down, just crawling down and getting every little crack in the in the provinces,” Phillips said.

SKI HILLS CLOSED IN ALBERTA It’s been so cold in Edmonton, even local ski hills are shutting down until temperatures warm up.

On Monday morning, Edmonton saw temperatures plummet to -41.6 C on Monday morning, feeling like -55 C with the wind chill. The mercury is dropping to -29 C on Tuesday and Wednesday night, which will feel like -39 C with the wind chill.

All ski hills in the city announced closures due to the extreme cold. Even ski resorts in the Rocky Mountains are closing until further notice.

HOMELESS SHELTERS RESPONDING TO COLD SNAP

Homeless shelters in Western Canada have been busy making sure the most vulnerable are staying warm. “What we do expect in these temperatures is an increase in folks that need to use the shelter,” said Shaundra Bruvall, communications manager of Alpha House in Lethbridge, Alta. “We’ve been very fortunate to have funding and capacity for that.”

In Vancouver, the extreme cold has driven shelters over capacity. The city announced that warming shelters will be open until New Year’s Day. Community organizations in Winnipeg have also been reaching out to homeless people and distributing essentials.

“It’s out on the road in this extreme weather, doing wellbeing checks, giving people rides, offering people harm reduction supplies, food, beverages, a warm drink, clothing and blankets,” said Anastasia Ziprick, director of development with Main Street Project in Winnipeg.

RELIEF TO COME LATER THIS WEEK Some relief from these frigid conditions is expected by the end of the week. On Saturday, Environment and Climate Change Canada says the mercury will rise to 2 C in Calgary and -14 C in Edmonton.

In Vancouver, a high of -3 C is expected on Thursday and Friday, with temperatures hitting 0 C on Saturday.

Regina and Saskatoon will also see temperatures warm up to -7 C and -11 C on Sunday, respectively.

Phillips calls this warm-up an “intermission” and says more cold weather will be back for a second round by next week after New Year’s.

“In the long term, we’re talking about January being colder than normal,” he said.

“There’s always a good chance that we see some moderation occurring, perhaps maybe sometime in the second week or middle of January.” Source: ctvnews.ca/

Much of Asia has largely managed to keep Omicron at bay even as the variant rages in other parts of the world, but the region that is home to most of the globe’s population is bracing for what may be an inevitable surge.

Strict quarantine rules for arrivals and widespread mask-wearing have helped slow the

spread of the highly contagious variant in Asia. Countries such as Japan, South Korea and Thailand quickly reinstated entry and quarantine restrictions in recent weeks after relaxing them in the fall. But cases are mounting, and experts say the next few months will be critical. Those fears have been amplified by doubts about the effectiveness of the Chinesemade vaccines used in China and much of the developing world.“Once the pace picks up, its upsurge would be extremely fast,” said Dr Shigeru Omi, a top medical adviser to Japan’s government.

In India, which has been getting back to normal after a devastating Covid-19 outbreak earlier this year, Omicron is once again rais-

ing fears, with more than 700 cases reported in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people.

The capital, New Delhi, banned large gatherings for Christmas and New Year’s, and many other states have announced new restrictions, including curfews and vaccination requirements at stores and restaurants.

At the crowded Chandni Chowk market in New Delhi, many people were shopping without masks this week. Cycle rickshaw driver Mahesh Kumar said he is afraid of passengers who don’t wear masks.

“There are many people who don’t believe in this disease. They think it doesn’t exist. But I am very scared. I have children and a family,” he said. “If something happens to me, who

will take care of them?”

Australia is already dealing with multiple Covid-19 surges, with a state leader saying on Wednesday that “Omicron is moving too quickly.” Elsewhere, Thailand has topped 700 cases, South Korea has more than 500 and Japan, over 300. China, which has some of the strictest virus controls in the world, has reported at least eight.

Only four cases have been reported in the Philippines, where people flocked to shopping malls ahead of Christmas and to Mass in the biggest Roman Catholic nation in Asia.

Some hospitals have even begun dismantling Covid-19 wards in a move experts say could prove to be premature......Source: ctvnews.ca/

By Laura Steiner, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Milton Reporte, Dec 27 Police in Pakistan are investigating threats to a Halton area journalist, who has been vocal against the draconian blasphemy laws in the South Asian country.

Mohsin Abbas worked as a producer for an award-winning documentary by BBC Storyville about Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which prescribe death or life imprisonment for people accused of insulting Islam.

The BBC documentary titled ‘The Accused: Damned or Devoted?’ details Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws and the punishment they prescribe for the alleged violators.

Many Pakistanis, who have criticised these laws for being too harsh, risk being charged with blasphemy or assassinated.

Critics say these laws have been used to persecute and unfairly target minorities.

The documentary explores the long-running case of Asia Bibi, the Christian woman

accused of blasphemy, against the backdrop of the 2018 elections in Pakistan, and the rise of the fundamentalist religious outfit Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and its leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi.

In October 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted Asia based on insufficient evidence and she was later allowed to leave Pakistan for Canada where she is currently living along with her children and husband.

Since March last year, the BBC documentary has been aired around the world in various languages. The documentary highlights a split within the Pakistani society over (mis) use of the blasphemy laws in Pakistan.

Producer Abbas, is feeling the heat The situation is intense in his hometown, Sialkot, where a 49-year-old Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, was lynched by a mob on December 3 over allegations of blasphemy. The mob consisted of hundreds of charged protesters, includ-

ing employees of a sports equipment factory where Kumara worked as a manager.

Hundreds of people have so far been detained by the police in Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan, in connection with Kumara’s lynching. However, an atmosphere of fear still prevails in Sialkot where two brothers were lynched in the most horrific way a few years ago.

Soon after Sri Lankan citizen Kumara was lynched in Sialkot, some men approached Abbas’ family, warned them to stop Abbas from doing documentaries critical of blasphemy laws. They told his brother that Abbas would meet a fate like Salmaan Taseer, the late governor of Punjab. Taseer was assassinated by Mumtaz Qadri, the police guard deployed for his security. Qadri shot Taseer 27 times with an automatic gun in Islamabad’s Aabpara Market on January 4, 2011 because he believed that the Punjab governor had committed some sort of blasphemy.

This isn’t the first time Abbas and his family have faced threats due to his work. Few years ago, a failed Mississauga mayoral candidate was charged with threatening Abbas and his family. Riazuddin Ahmad Choudhry was charged with threatening Abbas in a phone call after the latter published a commentary critical of the candidate on Dawn.com, (Pakistan’s largest and oldest English language newspaper). Source: thestar.com

By:Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer

VANCOUVER -- A wave of Arctic air is creating dangerous conditions in Western Canada, with the entire province of Alberta under an extreme cold warning, along with parts of B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

“There were parts of Alberta that were 15 degrees colder than what we’re seeing at the North Pole,” Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips told CTV News Channel on Tuesday.

Asia keeps Omicron at bay, but a surge may be inevitable

Canada-based Pakistani filmmaker faces death threats in home country over blasphemy-related work

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Scientists identify antibodies that can neutralize Omicron variant

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By: Hannah Jackson, CTVNews.ca Writer team of scientists have identified antibodies they say can neutralize Omicron and other COVID-19 variants.According to a new study, a group of international researchers have found certain antibodies can target areas of the virus

spike protein that don’t undergo significant changes as the virus mutates. The findings were published Dec. 23 in the scientific journal Nature.

The research project was led by David Veelser, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Davide Corti of Humabs Biomed, a subsidiary of Vir Biotechnology in Switzerland.

Veesler, who is also an associate professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, said by identifying the targets of the “broadly neutralizing” antibodies on the spike protein, it could be possible to design vaccines and antibody treatments that will be effective against Omicron, or other variants that may

emerge.“This finding tells us that by focusing on antibodies that target these highly conserved sites on the spike protein, there is a way to overcome the virus’ continual evolution,” Veesler said in a press release.

AN UNUSUAL VARIANT

The Omicron variant is considered to be “unusual” because of a large number of mutations to two key areas of the virus’ spike protein.

Speaking at a press conference last month, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said one area of mutations is in the virus’ spike receptor binding domain.

“Where the virus attaches itself and invades our cells,” she explained.

The other area of mutation is in the antigen-

ic supersite, Tam said, “because it is a target for our body’s defensive or neutralizing antibodies.” Thirty-seven mutations have been detected in the spike protein in the Omicron variant.

Researchers believe this is part of the reason the variant has been able to spread so quickly, and can infect people who are fully vaccinated, as well as those who have previously had COVID-19 infection.

According to Veesler, the main question he and his colleagues were seeking to answer, was how the “constellation of mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron variant affected its ability to bind to cells and to evade the immune system’s antibody responses.”

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Doctor asks people not to go to the ER for COVID-19 tests

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By: Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer s some hospitals deal with a surge of people with mild or no symptoms seeking COVID-19 tests, an Ontario doctor is asking Canadians to avoid coming to the emergency room unless the symptoms are moderate or severe. Dr. Andrew Healey, chief of emergency medicine at the William Osler Health System in the Greater Toronto Area, says the influx of people seeking COVID-19 tests with mild symptoms is “delaying care for other patients.”

“We have to bring people through a triage process or registration process for each of those patients. It takes up very important re-

sources that … are quite limited at the moment,” he told CTV News. Healey stressed that people experiencing concerning symptoms that can’t be managed at home, like chest pains, shortness of breath or high fever, should be coming to the emergency room. Otherwise, people with mild or no symptoms should go to a testing centre.

“If you know that the main reason for your visit is for a COVID swab or you have mild symptoms and you want to confirm that you have COVID-19, the purpose of testing centres is for that purpose,” he said. “The emergency department really can’t manage that degree of volume.”

The highly transmissible Omicron variant has driven a surge of COVID-19 cases throughout Canada. As a result, capacity at COVID-19 testing centres across Canada has been limited. In some parts of the country, people have had to wait 10 days or longer for an appointment at a testing centre.

Healey says people dealing with mild symptoms and unable to find a COVID-19 test appointment should instead stay home and self-isolate.“We would want people to confirm that they have the diagnosis in some way. But we also understand that … there’s limited access to testing at the moment,” he ing to clear you to leave isolation, so please, said. “If you are symptomatic, no test is go- please self-isolate at home.”Source: ctvnews.ca

plans when visiting family during the holiday season or partying on New Year’s Eve. The federal government has already advised against international travel, while provinces and territories across the country are acting swiftly to put in place measures to slow down the spread of the virus. Many of the new rules are set to take effect days before Christmas.

Canadians who want to keep their families safe this winter may want to be aware of what the new limits shall be. he fast spread of the COVID-19 Omi- Here’s a look at those new restrictions by cron variant has many Canadians province and territory: wondering if they need to alter their This was updated with the latest COVID-19

restrictions for all provinces and territories January 2022, all indoor personal gatheron Dec. 22, 2021. ings are restricted to 10 guests or one addiBRITISH COLUMBIA tional household, and only if everyone aged Beginning on Dec. 23 and lasting until Jan. 12 and up is fully vaccinated. There are no 18, 2022, no organized indoor gatherings of restrictions for outdoor personal gatherings. any size are permitted, including New Year’s Sports tournaments aren’t allowed.

Eve parties, wedding or funeral receptions Organized outdoor events are limited to and other celebrations. Bars, nightclubs, 5,000 people or 50 per cent capacity, whichgyms and dance studios are to be closed. ever is greater.

Indoor events at venues, such as concerts, Restaurants and venues must scan proof-ofsports games and movies, will be reduced to vaccination QR codes for entry. People must 50 per cent capacity. Restaurants and cafes remain seated and cannot move between will also be limited to six people per table or visit other tables at restaurants. Masks with physical distancing or barriers. are required when not seated at a table. No As of Dec. 20 and lasting until the end of dancing is allowed...Source: ctvnews.ca

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Some provinces face COVID-19 PCR testing backlogs amid Omicron surge

By: Anthony Vasquez-Peddie CTVNews.ca writer anadians seeking a COVID-19 PCR test in recent days may have faced long lineups at testing centres and a shortage of appointment slots as demand has risen amid the spread of the Omicron variant.

The surge in tests has created a backlog in certain provinces, which in some cases has led to an adjustment in testing protocols.

Ontario was scheduled to announce new testing guidelines on Tuesday, but the update was postponed until later this week.

In a statement to CTVNews.ca, Ontario Health said, as of Dec. 27, labs were completing 53 per cent of PCR tests within one day of collection and 82 per cent within two days. While the lab network has the capacity to complete 100,000 PCR tests daily, the agency said turnaround times are likely to continue to rise as volumes increase.

“We understand that COVID-19 assessment centres, community testing sites and hospi-

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tals in some communities are experiencing increased wait times for testing appointments,” the agency said. “We are working with them as needed to meet community demands and align with the lab network’s testing capacity.”

The agency added it’s working on a number of strategies to optimize collection processes.Testing centres in Quebec have also been overwhelmed. During a news conference Tuesday, the head of the province’s the vaccination program, Daniel Paré, said the centres are at “maximum capacity” now and PCR testing should only be sought by people who have COVID-19 symptoms.

“People have to isolate when they’re symptomatic and take these basic precautions. And for those who have rapid tests, use them well,” he said.

As of Dec. 27, PCR testing for the virus in Nova Scotia has been limited to people deemed high-risk. Only those who have symptoms or are close contacts and are at increased risk of severe disease, live in con-

gregate settings or are front-line health-care workers are eligible.

All other Nova Scotians who experience symptoms or are close contacts can book an appointment to pick up a take-home rapid testing kit.

Manitoba, as of Dec. 27, also has changed how it administers COVID-19 testing. People who visit a testing site and are symptomatic as well as vaccinated will receive a take-home rapid testing kit. Those who are symptomatic and unvaccinated are eligible for a PCR test, with those deemed high-risk also being given a take-home rapid testing kit.

Dr. Brent Roussin, the chief provincial public health officer, said with the current testing backlog that people under 40 years of age with no underlying health conditions may want to consider self-isolating for 10 days if they develop symptoms.

On Friday, British Columbia announced the province had reached its capacity for processing COVID-19 PCR tests, which is about 20,000 per day, and that it would begin to

prioritize such testing for people at greater risk of complications from the virus. This includes those who are aged 65 and up, have weakened immune systems or experiencing severe symptoms. PCR tests are also being reserved for front-line health-care workers.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry also said anybody who has COVID-19 symptoms should assume they have the virus and self-isolate for a week if they’re vaccinated or 10 days if they’ve had less than two vaccine doses. ”Source: ctvnews.ca

Two shots of Pfizer vaccine 70 per cent effective against Omicron variant, research shows

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ew research out of the Gauteng province of South Africa is providing more data on how effective the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine is against the Omicron variant.Published in the New England Medical Journal, the research states that researchers found thata two-dose regimen of the Pfizer vaccine is 70 per cent effective against hospitalization with the Omicron COVID-19 variant. As of Nov. 15, the Omicron variant was being detected in more than 75 per cent of COVID-19 tests that

were being sequenced in South Africa, and the variant has quickly spread to be the dominant strain in many countries. Canada saw a surge of COVID-19 cases over the holidays, with both Quebec and Ontario breaking previous one-day records, which experts say estimate to be less than the true scope of national case counts due to testing delays and laboratory backlogs. In order to assess how effective two doses of the Pfizer vaccine are against the Omicron variant in preventing hospitalizations due to coronavirus,

researchers used data from South African care organization Discovery Health to compare data sets of people diagnosed with the Delta variant with those who had the Omicron variant. The study’s data included PCR test results, medical history, chronic illnesses and body mass index to calculate the number of COVID-19 risk factors per patient, according to the guidelines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..Source: ctvnews.ca

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he United Nations declared 2021 as the International Year of Peace and Trust,the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables,and the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour., Like 2020,

2021 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple COVID-19 variants.

The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued in 2021. Most major events scheduled for 2020 that were postponed due to the pandemic were hosted in 2021. By: M. Naseer Pirzada

January

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anuary 6: Supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol, disrupting certification of the 2020 presidential election and forcing Congress to evacuate.

•9 Jan: A massive blackout strikes Pakistan, leaving as much as 90 % of the country without electricity at its height as officials rush to restore power.

Jan 20: Biden Inaugurated as the 46th President Amid a Cascade of Crises. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. and Kamala Devi Harris took the oath of office at a Capitol still reeling from the attack of a violent mob Jan 26: Global number of COVID cases surpasses 100 million

JULY

•July 3 – Over 130 wildfires, fuelled by lightning strikes, burn through Western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave in North America that results in over 600 deaths.

•July 5: More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers flee to neighbouring Tajikistan after clashing with Taliban.

•July 12: European floods: Heavy rain causes flooding in the border region of Germany and Belgium, resulting in 229 deaths, including 184 in Germany, 42 in Belgium.

July 23–August 8 – The 2020 Summer Olympics were held in Tokyo, Japan. They were originally scheduled for 24 July–9 August 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

FEBRuary

•Feb 1: A coup in Myanmar sees the arrest of the country’s democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a return to the military rule that prevailed in the country for 47 years.

•Feb 9: COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHO–China investigation into the source of the outbreak concludes. Investigators deem a Wuhan laboratory leak to be “extremely unlikely” •Feb 24: California Deaths Hit 50,000; NYC School Cases Low: Virus Update, A study that looked at the broad rollout of the Pfizer vaccine confirms that it is highly effective. The U.S. plans to send millions of masks to vulnerable communities.

AUGUST

MARCH

• March 6, The pontiff met Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in holy city of Najaf to urge Muslims to embrace Iraq’s beleaguered Christians. Pope Francis has met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, •Mar 24: Global Shots Pass 500 Million; Biden Boosts Goal: Virus Update. More than half a billion Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker.

• Mar 26 Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul Convention, It has been a tumultuous and anxious week for women in Turkey.

When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a

SEPTEMBER

•August 14: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Hai- •September 7: El Salvador becomes the first counti, killing more than 300 and 2,100 people injured. try in the world to accept Bitcoin as an official •Aug 15: Taliban offensive: The Taliban capture Ka- currency. bul; the Afghan government surrenders to the Taliban. •Sept 7: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and •Aug 26: Kabul airport attack: At least 182 people Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the main Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan, sign a confiare killed, including 13 U.S. service members, in a dence and supply agreement ending the 18-month suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport. The United political crisis that has led to the fall of two succesStates withdraws its last remaining troops from sive governments in Malaysia.[193] Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, ending •Sept 20: The 2021 Canadian federal election is 20 years of operations in Afghanistan. held, with Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party re•Aug 30: The United States withdraws its last re- taining a minority government.[203] maining troops from Hamid Karzai International •Sept 2:The 2021 German federal election is held, Airport, Kabul, ending 20 years of operations in with the Social Democratic Party beating out the CDU/CSU coalition.

Afghanistan.

APRIL

MAY

• Apr 04: Tropical cyclone kills at least 113 in Indonesia, East Timor, Floods and landslides triggered by tropical cyclone Seroja in a cluster of islands • Apr 19: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight. Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.

• Apr 30: Crush at religious festival in Israel’s Mount Meron kills 45 people. Mount Meron, Israel (CNN) Hundreds of buses stretched over miles of winding road were ferrying thousands of worshipers off Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday.

• May 11: Israel–Palestine crisis: Israel hits the Gaza Strip with airstrikes as Hamas increases rocket fire.This occurred after Israel began displacing Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah • May 26: Presidential elections were held in Syria on 26 May 2021, with expatriates able to vote in some embassies abroad on 20 May.•May 28: ‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada An Indigenous community says it has found evidence that 215 children were buried on the grounds of a British Columbia school,

OCTOBER

•October 1: The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

•Oct: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and assorted media partners publish a set of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies known as the Pandora Papers...

•Oct17: November 14 – The 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and is won by Australia.

•Oct 31–Nov13 :The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19.A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a “phasedown” of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans.

NOVEMBER

•November 1: COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 surpasses 5 million.

•Nov 16: Russia draws international condemnation following an anti-satellite weapon test that creates a cloud of space debris, threatening the International Space Station.

•Nov 26: COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization convenes an emergency meeting in Geneva amid concerns over Omicron, a highly mutated variant of COVID-19 first identified in South Africa that appears more infectious than Delta.

•Nov 30: Pakistan’s November inflation hits 11.5 pc, highest in 20 months Updated on Dec 29, and feature in the Miracle is not permitted as it is.

Sources: www.https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/2021

JUNE

• June 6: Four Muslim family members in Canada killed in ‘targeted’ attack, police say. A man driving a pick-up truck slammed into and killed four members of a Pakistani family in the south of Canada s Ontario province, in what police said Monday was a “premeditated” attack.

• June 11 – June 13 – World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit, hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the corporate taxation.

•June 13 – Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister of Israel, is voted out of office; Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid are sworn in as PM

DECEMBER

Dec 6:The United States announces a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China’s human rights record.[246] Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia join shortly after.

• Dec 17: COVID-19 pandemic, The World Health Organization gives emergency use listing to the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine.

• Dec 17-19: OIC nations pledge fund to prevent Afghanistan economic collapse Organisation of Islamic Cooperation pledges to set up humanitarian trust fund for Afghanistan as millions face hunger and poverty.

• Dec 24: Putin says insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is ‘violation of religious freedom’

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Women Empowerment – 7 Ways to Empower Women Youth Empowerment Through Education

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Out in the streets, women fight an unspoken war every day. Some are assaulted, some molested, and some violated. Truth be told, there is no safe haven for women anywhere, since most of these horrific cases occur inside homes and offices. While the government does need to initiate strict laws for the safety and security of women, we too need to keep our eyes open for wrongdoers.

owever, in a gender-biased society, how do we ensure gender parity all year long? In a world where women are often misjudged for the most trivial of choices, can we really say that women are empowered at all? Probably not.

Before we talk about how to empower women, we must first know why we need to. The reason is simple and universal. Women de- 2. Education serve to be empowered and deserve an equal footing because they certainly aren’t the weaker sex. It is their right to get all the opportunities and benefits that have been limited to men for years.

small initiatives.

6. Raise your voice against gender inequality

Safety isn’t just fighting criminals but also creating a safe, survivable environment for women all over. Ensure a safe, holistic envi- Above all, raise your voice. Stand up for everonment and regular health check-ups. ry woman and help decrease the prevalent 4. Save a Girl gender disparity in all the stratas of society.

7. Give her Freedom

“Don’t travel late, stay within limits.” At every step we tend to imply restrictions on women.

Now is the time to change the equation.

Don’t bind them in the chains of orthodox views. Give them the freedom they deserve.

If you wish to change something, broaden We focus on women empowerment every your mind and see what great achievers now and then, but how will we initiate the women can become. steps mentioned above when there will be no Be-you women? Girls in many parts of the world including India are killed before birth. Reason are many, but the consequences are horrific.

An educated girl can not only live life on 5. Teach job skills her own terms, she can very well change the world. As responsible citizens, it is our duty to take that first step. From that urchin girl who begs for alms to that ragpicker who lives under the bridge, every girl needs and deserves to be educated. Teach one, teach all, Ways to Women Empowerment: omen empowerment doesn’t and open new pathways for her bright future. mean giving her riches… Empowerment begins with small yet A small skill is enough for a woman to start meaningful steps that bring about a positive a career. Be it gardening, sewing or craftschange. Here are some easy ways to help emmanship, these efforts can help them start power women all around. a small-scale business of their own. Share 7 ways to Empower Women new ideas with them and help them learn, 1. Ensure women’s safety because women empowerment begins with

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Women empowerment starts within our families, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

Appreciate those superheroes who start their day much before you and end it much later.

Say thanks to your mom and that teacher who encouraged you years ago. Say thanks to your sister who inspires you at every step.

Say thanks to your daughter, whose smile is enough to fill your day with happiness.

Source: thepontychadhafoundation.org

Here’s a quick recap of some of 2021’s biggest moments in pop culture:

By: Khadija Nadeem Gr 10

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anuary: A mob incited by the outgoing president stormed the US Capitol.

Olivia Rodrigo released her hit single which went viral on TikTok. She then later released her album, Sour and was even invited to the White House to encourage young people in America to get vaccinated in July.

February: Reality TV Star Kim Kardashian filed for divorce seeking to amicably end her seven year relationship with rapper, Kanye West. A few months later though, it seems Kanye doesn’t agree with the decision and Kim may have even already moved on with comedian Pete Davidson?

March: Prince Harry and Megan Markle discussed their wedding, relationship, children, and mental health struggles with Oprah Winfrey in a Tell-All interview. They also revealed that there were negative discussions about the skin tone of their firstborn amongst the royal

family.

April: Prince Philip passed away just two months before his 100th birthday. And already deep in crisis, millennials saw the rapid change in trends, from middle parts to looser jeans, and felt attacked by the younger Gen Z. May: The cast of the hit TV show Friends reunited after 17 years at the very sound stage where the show was filmed and were interviewed. David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston also confessed their unrequited love for each other which had fans in a state of… instability June: Doja Cat released her banger of an album if I do say so myself and Loki, a Marvel series on Disney+ about Thor’s younger brother after the events of Avengers: End Game, came out as well.

July: Canada’s Women Soccer team won gold! And Simone Biles, gymnast, prioritized her well-being over a gold medal and withdrew from the Women’s Gymnastics final. This made her one of the most prominent in a wave of athletes who chose their mental health over powering through for a sporting title.

August: Spider Man co-stars, Tom Holland and Zendaya were

rumoured to be in a relationship which was later confirmed, making them the third Peter Parker and MJ/ Gwen to get together in real life.

Also, many celebrities announced their disbelief in bathing regularly, leaving the Internet shocked and disgusted.

September: Netflix’s South Korean ‘Squid Game’ went viral and rode the wave of its popularity for almost the entire month. Then, made an appearance as costumes for many towards the end of October. Also, an anti-vaxx sentiment emerged and a significant voice from the group was none other than Nicki Minaj herself.

October: Shah Rukh Khan’s son was arrested and charged under laws related to “possession, consumption, and sale of illegal substances”.

He was released on bail at the end of the month but not before his ar-

rest became an inside joke for any and all on the Internet who follow South Asian news. Many famous celebrities also announced breakups including Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, and Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid.

November: This month was a big one for the music industry. Travis Scott’s Astroworld tragedy took place this month, which resulted in several deaths. Adele released an album and Taylor Swift also released the re-recording of her album, Red. As well as the end of Britney Spears’ conservatorship.

December: The Omicron variant made its debut this month and so did Spiderman No Way Home and Hawkeye. The release of the new Spiderman is really bringing out the feminine urge to thirst over Andrew Garfield although that’s nothing new.

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HISTORY: THE FALL OF DHAKA FROM BIHARI EYES

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hey were in a frenzy, shouting ‘Joy Bangla, kill the Biharis, kill the traitors’. As I looked on, they entered a building that stood very close to the right of ours. On the top floor of that building lived Mr Yahya, a Bihari, with his family. The mob went straight to his flat, broke open the door, locked his wife and children into a room and dragged out Yahya Sahib.

They started to beat him savagely and then pushed him towards the stairs. I then saw the mob emerge from the staircase and on to the road. Yahya Sahib appeared a bloody mess.

He could hardly stand on his legs. Soon he fell to the ground. The mob was now kicking him like a football. They kicked him from the road on to the open grassy space in front of our building.

The beating and kicking carried on until he finally died. I saw some of them jumping on his dead body. Then, with a mighty roar, this bloodthirsty, demonic mob headed towards our building and into the entrance of the staircase.

Seeing all this terrified me so much that I completely lost my nerve and started to weep. My father (may Allah rest his soul in peace in heaven) became angry with me. He slapped my face hard and said, “Stop weeping. I won’t have my son dying like a coward.

If we are to die then, we try to face death bravely. They will have to kill me first before they can touch you. Ask Allah for His help.

Only He can save us.”

The din had become deafening by now and the stairwell was reverberating with loud shouts, banging, screams and shrieks. We all had our eyes fixed on the door, expecting it to burst open any moment, and then my mother said, “They are now at Mujib’s house.”

Mujib Sahib was another Bihari who lived with his family on the first floor, directly below Mallu Bhai’s flat. The mob had broken into his flat, locked his wife and children in a room and started beating and whipping

him in another room.

There was laughing and jeering from the crowd as Mujib Sahib screamed in pain and his family wailed loudly. This continued till he fell unconscious.

When my father went to see him later, he appeared as good as dead. He bled all over; his arms, legs as well as some of his ribs were broken. The mob had left him for dead and moved out of his flat.

The violent mob needed to climb only two short flight of stairs to break into our second-floor apartment. But then a miracle happened.

Inexplicably, the mob just went down and left the building. We were spared, as if Allah had just rewarded my father’s implicit faith in Him. Waving their sticks, rods and whips, the crowd moved to another part of the colony, to beat more Biharis to death.

In the ensuing comparative lull of the night, from the distance, I could hear the shrill voice of some Bengali woman shouting, “O, Biharis, why do you cry now? Why don’t you call your supporters, your beloved Pak Army, to come to your help? Why don’t they come to save you from our wrath. Where are they now? They have left you to be killed and now we will kill you all!” The taunts floated in the night air for a long time, adding to our misery and despondency.

Around noon the next day, we heard the fire of automatic weapons. We were terrified when, a little later, there was a knock on our door. My father opened the door and found it was Mr Mannan, our Bengali neighbour who lived on the ground floor flat directly below Mujib Sahib’s flat.

He whispered to my father that some Mukti Bahini had arrived in the colony and they were arresting all Biharis. He had come to offer help. He wanted to hide us in his house to escape arrest. We went to his house. His family treated us well and we stayed there till night when the Mukti Bahini finally went away. Coming back to our house, we learnt that some Mukti Bahinis, led by another Bengali neighbour, Haji Abdul Bari (who lived in the flat on the first floor directly below us and adjacent to Mujib Sahib’s flat), had broken into our house to arrest us.

Haji was livid to find the menfolk absent but

the Mukti Bahinis were quite happy to ransack the house and steal whatever cash, jewellery and other valuable items they could lay their hands on. That day the Mukti Bahini arrested around 400 men and boys from our colony. Even five-year-olds were not spared.

They took their prisoners to Ramna Police Station. Some of the “prisoners” returned after three or four days but some never came back. Whether they were thrown into jails or killed is anybody’s guess.

In the suburb of Dhaka lay the colonies of Muhammadpur and Mirpur. These were perhaps the only colonies in East Pakistan with a Bihari majority. The first units of Mukti Bahini reached Mirpur in the wee hours of December 17. They were heavily armed with mortars, machine guns and field guns. They were stopped at Mirpur bridge by the Bihari Razakars (volunteers) guarding the bridge.

The Mukti Bahini fighters knew that there was no Pak Army there and it was merely a bunch of poorly armed Razakars resisting them. They repeatedly called the Razakars to surrender but the Razakars held the bridge for about three hours and kept fighting till their last man was killed.

The Mukti Bahini fighters finally entered Mirpur section numbers 1 and 2 and promptly started firing their field guns on the houses. After blowing up some 30 houses, they announced that, to save their lives, everyone had to go to the Eidgah ground as they are going to destroy all the houses.

There being no other option, everybody ran helter-skelter to the ground. When the ground was filled with men, women and children, the Mukti Bahini opened machine gun fire from all sides on them.

Among the countless massacres of that terrible time, this was another one.

An Indian Army unit arrived at Mirpur in the afternoon. They stared aghast at the grisly scene. The entire ground was strewn with thousands of dead bodies and the green grass was now shiny red. This prompted them to call in reinforcement and take over control of Muhammadpur and Mirpur.

In truth, it was not massacre at just one or two places. It was mass killing of non-Bengalis, the Urdu-speaking people nicknamed Biharis. These people had been living in East Pakistan since 1947, some had settled in the area even earlier. They lived amongst the Bengalis like brothers, amicably, without any discrimination. So what happened all of

walks of life across the country paid tribute to Faiz at meetings organized to prove that they still remember him for his bravery and work as inspiring teacher, poet, editor and writer. Born this day in 1911, at Sialkot, Faiz got early religious education under Maulvi Ibraheem and Maulana Meer Hasan; after formal school and college education there, he joined the Government College, Lahore, and obtained Master’s Degree in English (1933) and Master’s Degree in Arabic from the Oriental College (1934); worked as lecturer in M.A.O. College of Amratsar (193540) and Hailey College (1940-42), Lahore.

He was Editor of The Pakistan Times and Imroze (1947-1958); remained imprisoned March 1951-April 1955 in fabricated Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case , and again, along with other journalists and intellectuals and teachers, under General Ayub’s martial law December 1958 to April 1959; Principal of Haroon College, Karachi 1964-72; Chairman of Pakistan Council of Arts 1972-77; won Afro-Asian Lotus Award 1976; remained in Beirut as Chief Editor, Lotus, 1978-82; back to Pakistan in November1983 and died on 20 November 1984.

His poetical and prose works, more than 20, include Naqsh-e-Faryadi, Dast-i-Saba, Zindan Nama, Meray Dil Meray Musafar, Letters from jail to Alys Faiz, Mataa-eLoh-o-Qalam, and Memories and Impressions. Millions of his admirers include

teachers and journalists who have worked with him in struggle for socio-economic justice to the suffering masses, many young and old people are engaged in doing that noble job.

Collections of his poems have been published in English by Caravan Book House and Urdu by Maktaba-i-Karavan of Lahore and made available to common people at affordable price.

Faiz’s admirer publisher Abdul Hameed was a teacher for some time at Kabul University long ago.

By the way, another admirer Rehmat Shah Afridi was sent to jail and placed in ‘death cell’. Why? Reportedly, false cases were framed against him because he believed in and worked for freedom of the Press.

The fact cannot be denied that Press is the fourth estate of the state. Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in his struggle for independence from foreign rule, said: “The Press is a vital necessity for the progress and the nation, because it is through the Press that a nation can be guided and its opinion moulded for the furtherance of activities in all departments of life.”

What is worth recalling today is the first voice raised by the architect of Pakistan in his address at the 30th session of the Mus-

Revolutionary messages of Faiz and Jinnah

By:Zafar Alam Sarwar, Miracle’s Writer

Hakeem Jee

As long as these hands are safe and sound, And this blood is hot, And until truth lies in this heart, And the speech remains forceful, We shall teach the tumult of Harps and flutes to fetters and yokes.

Tumult that will rout out Drums and noisy pageantry of monarchs, Free are our thoughts and actions, And full is our treasury of courage.

Every second we have is a life time, And every tomorrow is our today.

These dusks and dawns, These suns and moons, These stars and planets, All, all are ours, ours alone.

This pen and the tablet, This drum and the banner, This treasure and the equipage: All, all are ours, ours alone. his is ‘Doosri Awaaz’ (‘Second Voice’) from Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz of international fame translated into English in the patriotic spirit by renowned scholar Prof. Sajjad Shaikh.

Both, like Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and many others of the same moral and political convictions, are known for their effort against slavery and oppression in any form, and struggle for peace, independence and prosperity.

It was on 13 February that people from all

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a sudden that generated this tidal wave of hatred against them, all over the country?

The explanation is simple.

Shaikh Mujibur Rahman’s party, the Awami League, had won a majority of seats in the 1970 general elections of Pakistan. They had full rights to form a government and rule over Pakistan. However, the military leadership of Pakistan and the political leadership of West Pakistan combined together to deny transfer of power to the Awami League. This infuriated not only the Awami League but the entire population of East Pakistan. The Awami League announced that, as protest to this gross injustice, March 23 celebrations would not be held in the province and all private and public buildings would hoist black flags. Anyone who hoisted the Pakistani flag would be declared a traitor and punished severely. They particularly asked the Bihari community to show their solidarity with Bengali people by not hoisting the Pakistani flag for that act, they felt, would mean that they were enemies of Bengali people.

The Biharis argued that they were Pakistanis. They had migrated here because of Pakistan. They had great faith in the Pak Army and were confident that the army would protect them and soon control the situation.

They did not pay heed to the warning given by the Awami League. At Mirpur, they raised a huge Pakistani flag atop the public water tank which could be seen fluttering in the air from a mile around.

The flag sent a clear message to the Bengalis that Biharis were patriotic Pakistanis and would not support them in their endeavour to secede from Pakistan. The lines were thus drawn, lines which proved to be bloody and indelible.

Consequently, a majority of the Bihari community perished in the massacres conducted by the bloodthirsty Mukti Bahini. Of the survivors, some managed to flee to West Pakistan while the unlucky ones, who could not afford to do so, still languish in relief camps in Dhaka in unspeakable misery. The Bangladesh government treats these hapless Biharis as Pakistanis and urges the Pakistan government to take them back. To this day, the Pakistan government refuses to repatriate those who sacrificed their kith and kin, lost their properties and became destitute but did not change their nationality because of their love of Pakistan. ......

Source: dawn.com

lim League: “I should like to give a warning to the landlords and capitalists who have flourished at our expense by a system which is so vicious, which is so wicked and which makes them so selfish that it is difficult to reason them. The exploitation of masses has gone into their blood. They’ve forgotten the lessons of Islam. There are millions of our people who hardly get one meal a day.” Does it stand today?

I was a frequent visitor to the imprisoned Rehmat Shah Afridi in Lahore. Often, I saw Editor-in-Chief of The Frontier Post reading good books and magazines. I heard him saying many things, one of which was: Revolutionary messages of Faiz and Jinnah Why should I grieve if my sole treasure, Pen and slate, is snatched away?

For, I’ve dipped my fingers in my own blood.; Why should I worry if my tongue is sealed?

For, I have placed my tongue in every link of my shackles.

That was Faiz-in-jail in Rehmat Shah Afridi’s mind. Who gave life and freedom to both?..Hakeem Jee (Zafar Alam Sarwar)

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