WORLD'S FIRST NIQABI STUDENT IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY - March, 2023
The world's first niqabi student to be admitted to the University of Oxford in the University of Oxford's 900+ year history, a British Pakistani sister, graduates with a Distinction in the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) & Master's degree - one of Oxford's most prestigious degrees.
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INDIA'S WEAPONISATION OF INDUS WATER TREATY - March 05, 2023
India had given 3-months notice to Pakistan on January 25, 2023 on modifying the Indus Water Treaty which was signed between India and Pakistan in 1960. Here are two related posts on the issue, one a column published in The Express Tribune (Feb07, 2023) and the other a 27-minute video talk in Urdu by someone (Feb16, 2023) who has thrown light on the history as well as the future threats.
Before proceeding to the links, given below is the last para from the column:
Pakistan’s recent power outages and now a strategically pre-meditated threat of water diversion intensify Pakistan’s threat matrix. The BJP, RSS and Research and Analysis Wing could be planning water diversions and cyber hacking of Pakistan’s power grids to further destabilise the country. Therefore, Pakistan must fully prepare for multi-pronged hybrid warfare, both physical and virtual.
COLUMN BY OZER KHALID: "India's weaponisation of the Indus Water Treaty"
LINK: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2399677/indias-weaponisation-of-the-indus-water-treaty
VIDEO TALK BY MUHAMMAD AKRAM KHOSO - 27 Minutes
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1d8XN33dI
ON A LIGHTER NOTE - UNETHICAL PRACTICES IN PAKISTAN
– 2nd March, 2023
Recently, I received a short video clip on WhatsApp from
someone in which it was shown that a man is making minced meat out of whole
dead chickens without separating head, feathers, claws and other body parts. The
accompanying caption with the video clip written in Urdu and translated into
English would read “This is a new way of supplying chicken minced meat for use
in samosas. Now here’s why Allah’s punishment is upon Pakistanis!”
It was apparent that the man was filming the scene of making
minced meat in grinder while doing it himself, because it was a close-up and just
one of his arms was visible in the video, not his face.
I replied to the sender of video that he is an educated
person and should be careful while forwarding such videos with captions like
those. It is agreed that all kinds of unethical practices are being carried out
in Pakistan but we should be careful in believing everything on social media.
Why would a thief film himself doing a crime? Similarly, it is highly unlikely for
someone to capture himself on camera while indulging in an unethical practice
as no one is so stupid to leave such a proof.
It seems that someone filmed grinding few dead chickens (which
were perhaps rotten and not fit for eating) just for kicks. Afterwards, he
floated that video clip on social media. Otherwise we have no actual proof that
someone is making chicken minced meat in such a way in Pakistan. It is because
it would have been highlighted by a local media TV channel then.
Few years back, a media TV channel staff raided a place in
Lahore where meat of dead dogs was being prepared to be supplied to some small restaurants.
Hence, the scale of unethical practices in business in Pakistan cannot be
denied but we still have to be careful in believing and forwarding every other
random video on social media!
- S Roman Ahsan.
