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New York’s Little Pakistan holds huge Autonomy day festivities

20Aug

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New York’s Little Pakistan holds huge Autonomy day festivities

Pakistani Americans turned out en masse and eagerly observed Pakistan's 78th Freedom Day at an occasion in Brooklyn, a ward of New York City.The occasion name "Brooklyn Mela" was coordinated by the Pakistani-American Shippers Relationship on the ward's Coney Island Road, known as Little Pakistan.For the most part clad in the public dress, everyone displayed the rich culture and legacy of Pakistan through energetic exercises, customary music, and social exhibitions. Additionally displayed in the space were food slows down serving customary Pakistani dishes.Pakistanis are vigorously packed in the Coney Island Road region and there are numerous cafés and organizations possessed by them with billboards in Urdu. A piece of the Road is named after Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. ...

Kamala Devi Harris, Donald Trump neck and neck

18Aug

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Kamala Devi Harris, Donald Trump neck and neck

US VP Kamala Devi Harris is shutting the hole with previous President Donald Trump in a few key U.S. milestone states as the November official political decision inches nearer, as indicated by another survey. The survey shows that Kamala Devi Harris Harris is driving Trump in Arizona , 50 to 45 percent and North Carolina, 49 percent to 47 percent. Milestone states are where the quantity of Majority rule and conservative electors is about something very similar. The VP energy has as of late driven her mission to pronounce that North Carolina, where Trump had constructed a strong lead while confronting previous President Joe Biden, is back in play for leftists. In Nevada and Georgia, Harris has to a great extent shut the hole with the previous president. Trump drives the VP in Nevada 48...

Muslim gatherings request evacuation of Slam Mandir float at New York’s India Day march

17Aug

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Muslim gatherings request evacuation of Slam Mandir float at New York’s India Day march

Indian Muslim and other religious associations have approached coordinators of Sunday's motorcade in New York denoting India's freedom day to eliminate a float highlighting Ram Mandir, saying it is considered as an image extolling the obliteration of mosques and viciousness against the Muslims in the South Asian country. The float depicts the questionable Crush Mandir, which was honored as of late in Ayodhya, pronounced to be the Hindu god's start. However, its site has for some time been sharply challenged among Hindus and Muslims, and in the mid 1990s the Babri mosque that remained there was flattened by a Hindu fundamentalist crowd.The mosque's obliteration was trailed by cross country revolts that killed nearly 2,000 individuals, mostly Muslims. In 2019, the Indian High Court gave...

World Health organisation backs African endeavors to battle mpox spread, as Sweden and Pakistan report new cases

16Aug

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World Health organisation backs African endeavors to battle mpox spread, as Sweden and Pakistan report new cases

The World Health organisation said Friday is supporting African nations to increase reaction to check mpox, which is currently a worldwide wellbeing crisis. The episode that impacted the Majority rule Republic of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo-DRC) and spread to adjoining nations keeps on developing.On Thursday evening, World Health organisation part Sweden turned into the main country outside Africa to record an instance of the mpox Clade 1 variation that is accepted to be driving the most recent flare-up. Also, on Friday, aaccording to media reports, Pakistan recognized 2 mpox cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa locale.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5rG9m2ZY78We are working constantly on the extreme forefronts of the response, collaborating personally with state run o...

United Nation (UN) to probe security forces’ ‘serious’ rights abuses in Bangladesh protests

16Aug

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United Nation (UN) to probe security forces’ ‘serious’ rights abuses in Bangladesh protests

A Unified Countries group will go to Bangladesh one week from now to explore "serious common freedoms infringement" committed during the commotion that overturned State head Sheik Hasina recently, UN Delegate Representative Farhan Haq said Friday. Understudy fights that started calmly toward the beginning of July before long turned fierce when Sheik Hasina's supporters and security powers conflicted with demonstrators and got serious about assemblies, leaving no less than 300 individuals dead and thousands harmed. Specialists additionally captured in excess of 11,000 individuals, generally understudy activists.The fierce uprising that constrained Bangladesh's longest-serving head to leave and escape the nation brought political progress, with Nobel-winning financial specialist Muhamma...

UN Chief desires quick ‘Polio stop’ in war-hit Gaza as Palestinians struggle

16Aug

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UN Chief desires quick ‘Polio stop’ in war-hit Gaza as Palestinians struggle

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for fighting gatherings in Gaza to set out their arms with the goal that helpful specialists can securely immunise the greater part 1,000,000 youngsters against polio. "I'm interesting to all gatherings to give substantial affirmations immediately ensuring philanthropic stops for the mission," he expressed, addressing correspondents at UN Central command in New York. "How about we be clear a definitive immunisation for polio is harmony and a prompt philanthropic truce. Notwithstanding, a Polio Interference is a certain necessity."The UN Chief also portrayed Gaza as being in "a philanthropic drop" in light of the fact that "right when it appears to be what is going on couldn't deteriorate for Palestinians in Gaza, the enduring dev...

China and Pakistan join hands in flaxseed to Reduce oil imports

15Aug

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China and Pakistan join hands in flaxseed to Reduce oil imports

The newly-unveiled Flax Study Research and Innovation Hub between China and Pakistan by Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, is expanding the horizons of agricultural cooperation between the two countries. The two sides are working together on variety selection and breeding, planting technology improvement, etc, aiming to reduce both countries’ dependence on imports when it comes to edible oil.Pakistan is one of the largest importers of edible oil across the globe, and the insufficiency of edible oil in the country keeps expanding. At present, although China is the world major flaxseed processer with an annual processing capacity of about 1 million tons, about 60 Percent of flaxseeds are imported. So China and Pakistan face the same challen...

15Aug

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United Nations warns Extreme heat threat to health of 500 Million children

One in five children or 466 million live in areas that experience at least double the number of extremely hot days every year compared with their grandparents’ generation, according to a UNICEF analysis released on Wednesday. Extreme heat is increasing, disrupting children’s health, well-being and daily routines,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.The study compared averages in the 1960s with the period 2020-2024, measuring the days which exceeded 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).It presents a stark warning over the speed and scale at which such days are increasing for almost half a billion children worldwide many without the infrastructure or services to endure it.In examining country-level data, the analysis also found that in 16 countries, children n...

UNESCO says 1.4 million young ladies restricted from school since Taliban retook power

15Aug

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UNESCO says 1.4 million young ladies restricted from school since Taliban retook power

The Taliban "have nearly cleared out twenty years of consistent advancement for schooling" in Afghanistan, placing the fate of a whole age in danger, the UN instructive, logical and social organization (UNESCO) detailed Afghanistan is at present the main country in the reality where auxiliary and advanced education is completely prohibited to ladies and young ladies over age 12, the Paris-based UN organization saidThe Taliban cleared once more into power on 15 August 2021 and quickly started abridging ladies' freedoms, it was brought up. Three years to the day after the fall of Kabul, the country's capital, something like 1.4 million young ladies have been intentionally denied admittance to auxiliary training due to the boycotts. Aside from the young ladies who were at that point ou...

Pakistan Independence Day flag hoisted ceremony at the Pakistan embassy in Washington

15Aug

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Pakistan Independence Day flag hoisted ceremony at the Pakistan embassy in Washington

Pakistan green sickle and star was spread out at a basic service held at the Pakistani consulate in Washington on Wednesday to praise the Freedom Day of Pakistan. Charge d'Affaires Dr. Fareha Bugti lifted the Pakistani banner at the International safe haven yard as the public song of devotion was struck up. The function was gone to by an enormous number of individuals from the Pakistani people group. Unique messages of President Asif Ali Zardari and the State leader Shehbaz Sharif were perused out on the event.In their messages, the two chiefs honored the tremendous penances made by the country's progenitors and the legends of the Pakistan Development, who battled resolutely for a free country.Dr. Fareha Bugti alongside the officials of the International safe haven and different v...