Category: News

Al Qaeda has released a message from slain leader Osama bin Laden praising the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia and urging Muslims to take advantage of a “rare historic opportunity” to rise up, US monitors said. The 12-minute, 37-second audio message posted on jihadist forums on Wednesday by Al Qaeda’s media arm As-Sahab addresses Muslims on the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

Speaking from beyond the grave in the posthumous message, Bin Laden recommends setting up a council to offer revolutionary advice and decide the best timing to spread revolt across the Muslim world. “A delay may cause the opportunity to be lost, and carrying it out before the right time will increase the number of casualties,” bin Laden says in the audio message, according to SITE’s translation.

 

Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Akmal Khan Wednesday rejected the interim bail.  Plea of a doctor working at PIMS Islamabad, who is accused of sexually harassing a beautician. The competent court ordered Women Police Station to probe into the allegations and submit a report.  Defence counsel Wednesday filed an interim bail application. The counsel’s arguments did not wash with the judge who rejected the bail plea and directed WPS to further investigate into the matter.

The alleged victim of sexual harassment Tahseen Akhtar, stated that she joined a private beauty parlour ‘Niala’s Beauty Parlour’ three months back. She received a telephone call from the Niala on the night 16.04.2011. Naila claimed she had lost her gold chain and Akhtar said she had no knowledge of that. Tahseen claimed that she worked on 19.04.2011 as usual and when she was about to leave in the evening, Naila called her to a room where a person Dr. Majid who works at PIMS was also present.

Akhtar entered the room and Naila came out of the room and locked the door. Majid started interrogating Akhtar regarding the lost gold chain and on the pretext of said theft allegedly misbehaved himself. Dr Majid threatened her to implicate in multifarious accusations and could also hand her over to the police.

 

The president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Ms Asma Jehangir has criticised the verdict in the PCO judges case. Addressing members of the Sindh High Court Bar Association and Hyderabad District Bar Association on Wednesday, she said: “Police use third degree treatment but some people are doing it in the judiciary with their pen. This pen embodies the trust of the nation and it should not be used for settling personal scores and rivalries.”
Ms Jehangir was commenting on the verdict which the Supreme Court had announced earlier in the day, rejecting intra-court appeals of judges who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitution Order and asking the government to issue a notification of their dismissal. “I don`t want to see justice stifled. Although he was a PCO judge, yet we supported the chief justice when he was sacked. We believed that if a dictator was allowed to ride roughshod over the judiciary this time, he would just bury the institution the next time,” she said.

Ms Jehangir said that decisions based on a feudal and `panchayati` mindset would not work anymore.

 

Breaking News “Five people injured in a road accident”…. Breaking News “Foreign Minister will visit China next week”…. Breaking News “An elephant died in Lahore zoo”…. and many more. Each news comes up as breaking news these days. To get the attention of audience; media has changed the concept of news bulletins and people listen to them very curiously because simple news is presented to them under the tag of breaking news. It is a very common action that when people hear or read news they pass the information to the next person. But here two common mistakes lead to misconception. One is spreading news without investigating and second is adding something more to the actual news. Thus simple news becomes breaking news. Be more aware of your surroundings and be good at spreading the NEWS.

• Read more and more

For exploring the actual facts you need to read more and more. Newspaper, news blogs and forums are good source to get the maximum information.

• Beware of gossips

There are very few magazines that print actual news but mostly are found full of gossips and wrong information. Gossips are just for the entertainment and should not be believed so beware of spreading rumors.

• Ask People and Listen to Different Views

Do not always trust on a single person. But whenever you have some latest news or information share with different people and get their views. Information from one source may have biases and personal interests that may create misperceptions.

• Headlines are not enough

Do not pass partial information. Whenever we see newspaper we just read headlines. Reading headlines only is not enough because it just gives you the small idea about latest news and without reading full description your information remains incomplete.

• Every news is not a breaking news

Now a day “Breaking news” is just taken as a tool to stop you while switching between channels. This word is actually used to emphasize the importance of soft news stories.

At restaurants, tea stalls, railway station or even in buses we normally find people discussing latest news about political or economical issues with each other and few people sitting around listen to them very keenly. They share their views and thoughts about the latest events and to justify their point of view they give false references and most of the time this kind of exchange of news give birth to some false interpretations. People believe on what is heard rather to make their own investigations. And worse impact is that the false news passes over to others in no time. Our focus is not to tell the readers about how to read news but it is actually to centre the importance of exploring news. Here are some common errors while picking out the news from our surroundings

• Personal Bias

The news about your personal interest and likings always seem truthful to you almost instantly whether it is right or wrong. Your opinions, attitudes and judgments are always in favor of that news and results in the misconceptions and biasness.

• Opinion Leaders

The news from opinion leaders is always considered accurate by their followers. Opinion leaders play a vital role in changing the views of a person. They also transfer the information about their own interests and ideas which serve as a model to others. The followers follow their ideologies and carry forward the same to their social circle.  By following an opinion leader you somehow manage to actually speak his words and believe his ideologies thus forgetting your own stance.

• Media Bias

Media bias is another big issue while broadcasting latest news and sensational breaking news stories. Media is considered a very important source of informing about the latest news but unfortunately there happens to be a bias in their selection of stories and events. Though they provide correct information but it is always selected and do not cover many things. Sometimes they filter out the actual event and make breaking news entirely on a different note. Thus readers get partial news and are convinced to believe those sensational stories.

• Evening News – The Sensational Breaking News

Intrigued to check out the sensational and latest breaking news while driving on a hot summer afternoon. Grab an evening newspaper from a traffic signal seller and get amazed at the wonderful News stories. But wooah, is that really true? I suppose not. C’mon people, think over it.

Let us see how we can make ourselves well researched and updated absolutely perfectly. Stay with us!!

 

Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Jinnah Post medical College (JPMC) has announced that doctors, nurses and other paramedic staff to continue protest till Saturday.. JPMC staffers continued their protest today and threatened to close Out Patient Department (OPD) at 12.00pm while continuing protest till May 14 (Saturday).

All staff of JPMC including professors, doctors, nurses and paramedics is protesting over their institutes transfer from the federal government to Sindh government. The JAC of Jinnah Hospital has vowed to continue their protest till their demands are not accepted.

 

At least eighty seven  people were killed and more then hundred  injured in two blasts near FC Qila in Charsadda. According to commandant FC Akbar Hoti , 87  people killed including 55 FC personnel  and more then hundred injured in two blasts near FC Qila in Charsadda.

Security forces has cardon off the area after the incident while wounded are being transported to hospital. Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Shabqadar has confirmed that more than 70 people including FC soldiers have lost their lives in the deadly explosions. DPO Shabqadar Nisar Marwat said that about eight to ten kilogram explosives were used in bombs. Hospital sources said that several are in critical condition.

 

A father of three committed suicide to get rid of from the hands of usury Mafia here in Harbanspura area, police said on Tuesday. Ashfaq Ahmed, 38, committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling fan in the bedroom in his residence.

The family told the police that Ashfaq was running his window-manufacturing business at Ring Road. He had got Rs 1.2 million on usury but was unable to pay back the amount as he was facing severe financial constraints. On the day of incident, he got disillusioned and committed suicide.

 

Asif Ali of Sindh won the fourth stage of the Tour de Pakistan cycle race on Friday when the participants of the race traveled from Sukkur to Rahimyar Khan. Asif secured the first position covering a distance of 178 km in five hours, ten minutes, 42 seconds. Mohammad Rafiq of Pakistan Army came second with a difference of ten seconds while Mohammad Zahid also from Army finished on third.

Meanwhile, the race was interrupted for 23 minutes due to strike in Sindh on an appeal from the People’s Party. The participants of the race after taking rest for a day will proceed from Rahimyar Khan to Bahawalpur to cross a distance of 200 km. This will be the longest phase of the tour de Pakistan race.

 

During this month of May, four bright planets will engage in a fascinating dance with each other in the morning sky, Yahoo News reports. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be involved in a series of conjunctions, joined at the end of the month by a very thin, waning crescent moon. We could even refer to this as a “celestial summit meeting,” or more precisely, a series of summit meetings during May 2011. Twice during May three planets will converge to form a “trio”. According to Belgian calculator Jean Meeus, a trio is when three planets fit within a circle with a minimum diameter of 5 degrees. Such a limit was one that Meeus chose more or less arbitrarily, but as he notes, “We have to make a choice.” Today (Wednesday), Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will converge within 2.05-degrees of each other, followed just 10 days later by another trio, this time formed by Mercury, Venus and Mars, which will crowd within a 2.13-degree circle. Then late in the month, on three successive mornings, May 29th, 30th, and 31st, the waning crescent moon will arrive, sweeping past Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury stretched out across the eastern sky from upper right to lower left