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India Carrying Out Worst Terrorism in Occupied Kashmir: FO. Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri says India’s state terrorism is getting more and more exposed with every passing day and its facade of being the largest democracy stands fully exposed.
PTA Imposes Ban On Tik Tok In Pakistan. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has imposed an immediate ban on China’s the most world wide favorite mobile application Tik Tok.
Gold price shoots up in domestic market. The per tola gold price witnessed an increase of Rs600 to Rs114,600 in the domestic market on Friday
Microsoft to let employees work from home permanently: report. Software giant Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently if they choose to, US media reported on Friday, becoming the latest employer to expand work-from-home provisions prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Govt approves new rules for ‘clean’ and ‘healthy’ social media use
PIA announces special flight operations to Najaf. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) announced on Friday to operate special flights to Iraq’s holy city of Najaf
Snake hunters catch ‘longest ever Burmese python’
Spotlight by The NewsRun
1. COVID-19 IN PAKISTAN
- Pakistan reported 661 cases and 8 deaths in the past 24 hours. Pakistan also conducted 33,898 tests in the span of 24 hours (P.S. this data was last updated on October 9 at 7:26am).
2. Two-year-old girl from Charsadda assaulted
What’s going on? Brace yourself for a tragic dejavu. The body of a two-year-old girl named Zainab was found in Peshawar’s Jabba Korona area. According to police, she appears to have been sexually assaulted and tortured before being killed. Zainab went missing on Tuesday evening in Charsadda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) while playing with other kids outside her house. On Wednesday, police recovered her body and are waiting for a medical report.
The details: The police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unidentified kidnappers after Zainab’s father filed a complaint. KP’s Chief Minister took notice of the incident and said the family would get justice. Inspector General of Police for KP, Sanaullah Abbasi, visited Zainab’s family and said the police will arrest the culprits soon.
The context: Is this case reminding you of the time another minor girl named Zainab was assaulted and killed in Kasur? In 2018, six-year-old Zainab’s body was found in a heap of trash after she went missing. Her abductors tortured and sexually assaulted her. Zainab was reportedly kidnapped near a religious tuition center near her house. Her parents were in Saudi Arabia performing Umrah at the time, and she was staying with her maternal aunt. This incident sparked protests and shutter-down strikes in Kasur.
Looking ahead: Around two years after Zainab’s death in 2018, the National Assembly passed the Zainab Alert, Response, and Recovery Bill, which aims to speed up punishments and investigations in child abuse cases. Sindh police also launched the Zainab Alert Mobile app to keep track of missing children cases that have been reported or solved. The app is supposed to alert police when a child goes missing.
The bottom line: Violence against children is continuing in Pakistan. 1,489 children have reportedly been sexually abused in the first half of 2020. Crimes against children include abduction, rape, sodomy, gang-rape, and gang-sodomy.
3. Close call at a university in Karachi
A Facebook user posted about an incident that could have resulted in sexual assault. The post is making rounds on social media with the hashtag, #KarachiUniversityisNotSafe. On Wednesday, Syed Shaheer Ali wrote about his encounter at IBA in Karachi.
- Start from the beginning: It was around 11:30pm. Ali said he was with two women friends. They left another friend’s birthday party together. Ali dropped one woman friend off at her girls’ hostel, while the other woman was still with him in a car. Suddenly, a group of around 10 men on four motorcycles surrounded the car. The men reportedly shouted “bahar nikaal” (i.e. come out). Ali said the men looked 15 to 25 years old, and had a “barbaric look in their eyes.”
- Then what happened? Ali floored the accelerator and tried to get away. The motorcycle men caught up with them near IBA’s boys’ hostel and surrounded the car. They banged on the car’s window screaming “Larki Ko Bahar Nikaal” (i.e. bring the girl out).
- Did they escape? Yes. Ali and his friend are in shock, but unharmed. Ali thinks things could have taken a turn for the worse if the motorcycle men got a hold of his friend.
- How is IBA taking action? IBA’s head of marketing and communications, Haris Tohid, said they have informed the university’s security personnel, police and Rangers. Tohid also said the campus is under 24/7 CCTV surveillance with around-the-clock security.
- Public response: People are shocked this incident happened inside a university campus. They are demanding heightened security on campus, and urging the university to investigate.
4. World Bank predicts subpar economic growth for Pakistan
According to a recent South Asia Economic Focus report by the World Bank, the economic situation in Pakistan isn’t looking good. The report claims that Pakistan’s economy took a beating following measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. The report warned that Pakistan could experience an increase in poverty, coupled with an uncertain economic recovery. The report also predicted that around 930,000 children are expected to drop out of primary and secondary school. Nearly 22 million children in Pakistan are already out of school. The World Bank’s forecast for South Asia as a whole was also pretty grim.
- Current economic status: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) govt was aiming for 2.1% growth during its third year in power. However, the World Bank doesn’t think Pakistan’s economic growth will cross 0.5% during the 2021 fiscal year. Plus, inflation is on the higher side due to an increase in food prices and hiked up energy prices. A devalued rupee is also making imports more expensive (i.e a weak or devalued currency adds to inflationary pressures).
- Factors that could cause more economic problems: A COVID-19 resurgence, widespread locust attacks on crops, or damaged crops due to heavy monsoon rains.
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