Share:ISLAMABAD - Famous for singing ghazals in his own style of qawwali - legendary Aziz Mian Qawwal was remembered on 22nd death anniversary here on Tuesday. Aziz Mian Qawwal was a traditional qawwal having the record for singing the longest commercially released qawwali, Hashr Ke Roz Yeh Poochhunga, which runs slightly over 150 minutes. To pay tribute to the great Aziz Mian Qawwal, PNCA has organised a soul soothing Qawwali evening “Sham-e-Wajd” with the performance of Aziz Mian’s son Imran Aziz Mian Qawwal to present soul soothing melodies through Aziz Mian’s popular Qawwalies and Sufi lyrics, DG PNCA said. Imran Aziz Mian is the Janasheen of Aziz Mian who performed many tracks, both original and covers of his fathers’ Sufiana Kalam. Imran Aziz Mian is known for having the same voice texture of his father.

ATHENS — SEC Coaches saw fit to make five Georgia players first-team all-conference picks and designate Heisman Trophy finalist Stetson Bennett as a second-team selection. Number 5-ranked Alabama, which did not make the playoffs, also had five first-team picks, while No. 6-ranked Tennessee had four first-team picks, including quarterback Hendon Hooker. The Coaches’ first-team picks from the Bulldogs are: • TE Brock Bowers • OT Warren McClendon • DT Jalen Carter • FS Chris Smith• PK Jack Podlesny The Bulldogs had four of the same five players make the Associated Press first-team All-SEC team on Monday. Starks has been a key playmaker and leads the team in PBUs (7) and ranks third in tackles (63).

Their mere presence in a dispensation can lay bare many realities in the scheme of things. They’re at it again, even if in the relatively uncharted territory of there being a split, of sorts, in the family. The General, it appears, was playing a game of Tetris: the PDM fits into the federal government, the PTI in Punjab’s. The new army chief faces an uphill task if he wants to wrest his institution away from the sins that it admits to having been party to. We wish him well, so for him to take stock of the institutional experiences of the recent and not-so-recent past.

Today, I hope and pray that every woman in this nation has autonomy. I hope every woman is respected. I hope a woman is another woman’s friend. I hope men drop the act of hypocrisy and let go of the evil desires and hostilities that breed within. I hope every woman can wander around the streets safely.

This is a financial emergency,” says PBF CEO, Ahmad Jawad. photo: fileThe consistent depreciation of the rupee is deepening the economic crisis in the country said the Pakistan Business Forum (PBF), as its leaders called upon the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to take necessary measures to stop market speculation and resolve the issue. “Is it not shameful for Pakistan that we rejoice in repaying the $1 billion Sukuk, but don’t take any steps to save the dollars we are wasting. This is a financial emergency,” lamented Jawad. Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2022.

The railway official also told the committee that they had requested the government for more funds. During the discussion, the railway officials said that some money, parked with the department, was withdrawn to pay for the imported coaches. The meeting was also briefed about railway track between Torkham in Pakistan and Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan. The official said that the track would cost $8.2 billion for which talks were held with the World Bank. The railway officials told the committee that there was a railway track up to the Jamrud Airport.

UNITED NATIONS: In spite of global progress in expanding the use of the Internet and information communications technology (ICT), the digital divide between developed and developing world remains wide, Pakistan told the world body during a virtual discussion organised by a United Nations body that conducts independent research on international security issues. “The inability of the developing countries to reap benefits of digital transformation offered by extraordinary opportunities for innovation, communication, sustainable development and economic growth is amplifying the risk of further deepening of the already existing digital divide,” Ambassador Aamir Khan, deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the webinar sponsored by the Geneva-based United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). According to statistics, out of 2.9 billion people offline, 96 percent live in developing countries. Bridging the digital divide will require addressing the major impediments that developing countries face in engaging with and accessing new technologies, such as an appropriate enabling environment, sufficient resources, infrastructure, education, capacity, investment and connectivity, the envoy said. Achieving real and sustained progress in the various dimensions of digitalization requires skills development and effective training, in particular in developing countries,” he said.

Experienced midfielder Hajra Khan. — PFF/FileKARACHI: The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has dropped experienced midfielder Hajra Khan from the squad ahead of the upcoming Four-Nation Cup in Saudi Arabia. The move indicates the future strategy of PFF's Normalisation Committee (NC) as they seem to go ahead with a new look squad. Midfielders: Maria Khan, Alina Isphani, Alina Akram, Aliza Sabir, Amina Hanif, Ammal Khan, Anushey Usman, Marvi Baig, Rameen Fareed, Ruqqya Farheen, Sanober Sattar, Suha Hirani and Zehmina Malik. Forwards: Nadia Khan, Aliya Sadiq, Anmol Hira, Kainat Abdul Ghani, Nadia Shams, Naqiyah Ali and Zoya Zeeshan.

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India’s external intelligence wing R&AW are fully training, funding and arming TTP and ISKP while the Afghan Taliban are merrily providing shelter to TTP, ISKP and AQIS. They troublingly hint towards a deepening entente between ISKP, TTP and AQIS whose cells merging is a regional menace if not tackled immediately. The regional extremist ecosystem with ISKP, TTP and AQIS churns out well-trained death-cults with ample experience in guerilla and urban warfare. The ISKP and TTP strongholds and core threats to Pakistan emanating from Afghanistan’s Paktia, Paktika, Khost and Nangarhar provinces. Airstrikes by Pakistan Air Force or Pakistani UCAV involvement targeting TTP and ISKP strongholds can’t be ruled out.

New Hampshire residents feel strongly they have earned the right to be the first in the nation primary state following a 100+ year proven track record. Like most politicos, Buckley was caught off guard by news that President Joe Biden is recommending South Carolina replace New Hampshire as the first in the nation state, though Buckley is confident, the state law will hold up. The New Hampshire primary is going to be held one week before anyone else," he said. Word of Biden's guidance sparked anger in New Hampshire, where state law calls for it to hold the nation's first primary. The primary proposal will go before the full DNC for a vote in early 2023.

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Sunday that he did not see the need for holding early elections in the country on the demand of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, as the government looked for solutions to internal problems. To another question, Foreign Minister Bilawal said that Kashmir was an unfinished agenda of the Partition, and since Narendra Modi’s election, the space for Muslims in India as well as the Kashmiris was shrinking. Coming to Afghanistan, the foreign minister said that Pakistan was engaging with the war-torn country in the interest of its own as well as the neighbourhood. However, he said that the TTP had been involved in terror attacks in the past, which were still going on. He said that Pakistan would work with the Afghan government to address the challenge posed by the terrorist outfits.

Georgia football placed five players on the Associated Presses’ First Team All-SEC team on Monday, with Brock Bowers being the lone unanimous selection. Bowers led Georgia in every statistical receiving category this year, catching 52 passes for 726 yards and six touchdowns. Also making the first team for Georgia was offensive tackle Broderick Jones, kicker Jack Podlesny, defensive tackle Jalen Carter and safety Chris Smith. Georgia also had four players make the second team, with Sedrick Van Pran, Darnell Washington, Jamon Dumas-Johnson and Kelee Ringo earning the honors. Georgia likely isn’t all that worried about the individual accolades and would much rather be the SEC’s lone representative in the College Football Playoff.

A popular online Food channel, Tasty UK posted a recipe for a one-pot Chicken Korma and sparked outrage on Twitter for all the right reasons. https://t.co/u12D6usg0l — Abhishek Mukherjee (@ovshake42) December 4, 2022Keep the disastrous recipe aside, a user was even questioning how they didn’t even cook their chicken a bit, making the recipe a sure cause for food poisoning. “I don’t even care about the ingredients, but why can’t they caramelise the onions and saute the chicken for a bit? Without that happening this dish is best-called food poisoning,” they wrote. Without that happening this dish is best called “food poisoning”.

Energy is an oligopoly, a fragmented market controlled by multiple hegemonies that take control of their respective areas under this sector. When you control the flow of energy, you control the economic output of a state. This situation has led to energy theft, a system where energy is diverted off-grid without any consequences or providers don’t pay bills, and the hiking of prices. One of the other major problems is development: all data on Pakistan energy consumption is commercial energy consumption, the energy that is billed in the National Grid with WAPDA and companies, what it doesn’t take into account is non-commercial consumption. But one remnant of an age-old time is the energy sector.