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Maritime Affairs Minister Ali Zaidi tests coronavirus positive
Federal Maritime Affairs Minister Ali Haider Zaidi has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
He announced the news Saturday night via Twitter.
He said he will be quarantining and isolating himself but said he “wasn’t out”.
Zaidi said he will keep using social media and “expose those who have robbed this nation and continue to damage us even today”.
His announcement was met by well wishes from his supporters and fellow party members, such as Sindh Governor Imran Ismail.
As of Sunday morning, Pakistan has reported 33,970 coronavirus cases and 6,823 deaths. Experts warn that Pakistan is currently experiencing a second wave of the virus as cases are rising steadily. Recently, the country reported over 1,000 new cases in a 24 hours, the highest single-day rise in over three months.
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PM Khan, Erdogan discuss tackling rising Islamophobia
Prime Minister Imran Khan believes leaders of the Muslim world must take the lead in breaking the cycle of hate and extremism against Muslims.
He and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed rising Islamophobia during a telephone call on Saturday night.
The premier said Muslim leaders should explain to their Western counterparts about the special reverence and love all Muslims feel towards the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
He said as European states have laws criminalizing the denial of Holocaust and their sentiments for Holocaust are respected, they must also respect the sentiments of Muslims and refrain from justifying offensive actions under the garb of freedom of expression. He was referring to the publication of caricatures of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in France and the subsequent defence of the move by French President Emmanuel Macron.
The two leaders also agreed that their foreign ministers would meet and continue to engage on issues of mutual interest, including efforts to address Islamophobia.
PM Khan conveyed the condolences over the loss of 30 lives due to an earthquake in Izmir. He offered support and aid to the Turkish people and prayed for the swift recovery of those affected. The two leaders also discussed the recent terrorist attack on a madrassa in Peshawar in which multiple students were killed.
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Umrah resumes for international pilgrims after seven months
Umrah has resumed after seven months for international pilgrims from today (Sunday).
According to Arab News, 10,000 international pilgrims are arriving in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah on the first day of the third stage of the resumption of Umrah.
The Saudi government has made it compulsory for pilgrims arriving from abroad to obtain a permit. They must isolate for three days before being transported to the Grand Mosque in special buses.
Some rules have been set for Umrah pilgrims, including a maximum stay of 10 days in the Kingdom and an age cap of 50 years.
Every day, only 20,000 pilgrims can perform Umrah. Only 60,000 people can offer their prayers in congregation.
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Today’s outlook: PM tours GB’s national parks, petrol prices drop
Here are the news stories we expect to follow today (Sunday).
- Prime Minister Imran Khan will tour two of the world’s highest national parks today. He will visit the Nanga Parbat and Himalaya national parks in Gilgit-Baltistan and take stock of the arrangements there.
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is still campaigning in Gilgit-Baltistan and will speak at a corner meeting in Chorkhand’s Chinar Ground at 10am.
- Gilgit-Baltistan celebrates November 1, 1947 as its day of independence. It’s the day it ceded to Pakistan after defeating the Dogar army.
- The Jamaat-e-Islami will hold a rally in Karachi, headed by its Karachi Amir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, against France and its president, Emmanuel Macron.
- Umrah has resumed after the coronavirus pandemic. People from outside Saudi Arabia are allowed to enter the country for the pilgrimage from today.
- The death toll in the earthquake in Turkey has risen to 30, with over 800 people injured.
- The National Sailing Championship is underway in Karachi and will end today.
- ICYMI: The government has reduced petrol prices by Rs1.27 per litre and high speed diesel by Rs0.84 per litre. LPG has become Rs10 more expensive.
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26 dead, buildings collapse as major earthquake hits Turkey, Greece
Rescuers dug through heavy blocks of concrete with their bare hands Saturday in a desperate search for survivors from a powerful earthquake that levelled buildings across Greece and Turkey, killing at least 26 people.
The quake struck late Friday afternoon, causing a mini-tsunami on the Aegean island of Samos and a sea surge that turned streets into rushing rivers in a town on Turkey’s west coast.
The US Geological Survey said the 7.0 magnitude tremor hit 14 kilometres (nine miles) off the Greek town of Karlovasi on Samos.
Felt in both Istanbul and Athens, it also created a diplomatic opening for the two historic rivals, with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis placing a rare call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to offer his condolences and support.
Hospital patients on street
Much of the damage occurred in and around Turkey’s Aegean resort city of Izmir, which has three million residents and is filled with high-rise apartment blocks.
Parts of entire apartments, including toys, pillows and shattered appliances, spilled out on the streets, where survivors huddled in tears, many too shocked to speak.
Aerial footage showed entire city blocks turned to rubble.
“I thought: Is it going to end? It felt like 10 minutes, like it was never going to end,” said Gokhan Kan, a 32-year-old courier.
“I was terrified not for myself in that moment but for my family, my wife and four-year-old son.”
Izmir’s mayor Tunc Soyer told CNN Turk that 20 buildings had collapsed, with officials focusing their rescue efforts on 17 of them.
Turkey’s disaster relief agency reported 24 deaths and 800 injuries, while in Greece two teenagers died on their way home from school on Samos when a wall collapsed.
The scenes of devastation suggested the toll could rise.
One Izmir hospital rolled some of its patients — still strapped into their beds and hooked up to drips — out on the street as a precaution.
Turkey’s religious affairs directorate opened its mosques to help shelter some of those left homeless by the disaster.
Remain calm
Images on social media showed water rushing through the streets of one of the towns near Izmir from an apparent sea surge.
Thick white plumes of smoke towered over various parts of the city where big buildings had collapsed.
Rescuers, helped by residents and sniffer dogs, used chainsaws to try to force their way through the rubble of one destroyed seven-floor building.
At another site, Agriculture Minister Bekir Pakdemirli managed to establish mobile phone contact with a girl buried under the debris.
“We ask you to remain calm,” he told her in televised footage. “We will try to lift the concrete block and reach you.”
NTV television said up to six people were trapped at the site, including the girl’s cousin.
The region’s governor said 70 people had been pulled out alive by Friday evening, although how many more were missing remained unknown by sunset.
Rescuers set up tents in a small park away from the cracked and damaged buildings for families to spend the night in safety and relative warmth.
“Because we live in Izmir, we have pretty warm weather, we can make it through today, we can make it through tomorrow,” said Cemalettin Enginyurt, a retired soldier. “But we can’t think of anything on the long term, we are helpless.”
Earthquake diplomacy
On the Greek island of Samos, near the quake’s epicentre, people rushed out into the streets in panic.
“It was chaos,” said deputy mayor Giorgos Dionysiou. “We have never experienced anything like this.”
The Greek civil protection agency told Samos residents in a text message to “stay out in the open and away from buildings”.
Greece and Turkey are situated in one of the world’s most active earthquake zones.
The two neighbours also suffer from historically poor relations despite both being members of the NATO military alliance.
But the quake saw a spurt of what pundits immediately termed “earthquake diplomacy”, with calls exchanged by their foreign ministers and then, hours later, the Greek prime minister and Erdogan.
“Whatever our differences, these are times when our people need to stand together,” Mitsotakis said on Twitter.
“Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister,” Erdogan tweeted in reply. “That two neighbours show solidarity in difficult times is more valuable than many things in life.”
The US State Department said Washington was “heartened” by the newfound cooperation.
France, whose President Emmanuel Macron has sparred repeatedly with Erdogan in the past year, said it stood in “full solidarity” with the two countries.
In 1999, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s northwest, killing more than 17,000 people, including 1,000 in Istanbul.
In Greece, the last deadly quake killed two people on the island of Kos, near Samos, in July 2017.
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Today’s outlook: Religious parties end anti-France protest, earthquake in Turkey
Here are the news stories we expect to follow today (Saturday).
- Religious parties ended their protest against France in Islamabad after negotiations with Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri.
- PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari continues his election campaign in Gilgigt-Baltistan. Today he is in the Ghizer District where he will address a corner meeting in Gahkuch.
- The federal government is celebrating Ishq-e-Rasool week till November 6.
- A request has been submitted at a police station in Lahore to file a case against former National Assembly speaker and incumbent MNA Ayaz Sadiq for remarks he made against national security.
- Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke about his wife, Bushra Bibi, and said he shares his troubles with her.
- An earthquake in Turkey claimed 14 lives and left over 400 people injured.
- Coronavirus cases are rising in Pakistan. The daily case counter crossed 1,000 for the first time in three months on Sunday.
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Karachi’s ‘Qabristan Baba’ guides people on grave inscriptions
A 70-year-old man in Karachi has dedicated his life to educating people about what they should and shouldn’t inscribe on gravestones.
“Do not put Quranic verses on graves,” said Abdul Qadir while speaking to SAMAA TV. “It is extremely disrespectful.”
Qadir has been telling people about the sanctity of Quranic verses for the last 30 years.
“People who inscribe Quranic verses on graves do not know that street animals roam around the graveyard,” he said. “Even people who walk on pathways do not realise what they are stepping on.”
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Scarlett Johansson remarries in ‘intimate ceremony’
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has married for a third time, tying the knot at an “intimate ceremony” over the weekend with comedian Colin Jost, it was announced Thursday.
Johansson, the world’s top-paid actress last year who is set to star in the much-delayed Marvel superhero film “Black Widow,” announced the nuptials through food charity Meals on Wheels.
The pair wed in front of “immediate family and loved ones, following COVID-19 safety precautions,” the charity wrote on Instagram.
“Their wedding wish is to help make a difference for vulnerable older adults during this difficult time by supporting @mealsonwheelsamerica,” said the post, inviting donations.
The 35-year-old star became engaged to “Saturday Night Live” writer and actor Jost, 38, in May 2019 after two years of dating.
New York-born Johansson was previously married to Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds and French journalist Romain Dauriac.
After a series of child roles, Johansson came to prominence in Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning 2003 romantic comedy “Lost in Translation.”
She has since transitioned to A-list roles, including eight Marvel film appearances as Natasha Romanoff, and earned $56 million to top Forbes’ 2019 top-paid actress list.
Johansson earned two Oscar nominations last year, for “Jojo Rabbit” and “Marriage Story.”
In addition to her acting, Johansson has previously spoken out for women’s causes: she was one of the first to join and help finance the Time’s Up movement that works to defend victims of sexual harassment and abuse.
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Pakistan celebrates Eid Miladun Nabi with processions, gatherings
The world is celebrating Eid Miladun Nabi today (Friday). People across Pakistan are marking the day by hanging up fairy lights on their houses, mosques and other buildings.
People are also holding processions on the occasion.
In Karachi, the main procession will cross MA Jinnah Road, for which all the stores and lanes have been sealed. Pillion riding has also been banned in the city.
In Lahore, 227 small processions and 311 gatherings will be held. Over 4,000 police officers are on duty in Lahore.
In Rawalpindi, the main procession will start on the historical Jamia Masjid Road. Over 400 processions will be held across the city and 3,000 police officers have been posted along the procession routes.
Prayers were offered for the country’s prosperity after Fajar prayers.
The Pakistan Army held events to mark Eid Miladun Nabi as well. Twenty-one gun salutes were observed at the Sports Complex in Islamabad, Martyr’s Monument in Lahore and Colonel Sher Khan Stadium in Peshawar.
President and prime minister’s messages
President Dr Arif Alvi has urged Muslim world leaders to put forth a unanimous demand to ensure the sanctity of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and desist from blasphemy and desecration by way of caricatures.
In his message to the nation on Eid Miladun Nabi, the president said the condemnable incidents of blasphemy in the West had invited the wrath of Muslims across the globe. He said such incidents violated the spirit of interfaith harmony and dialogue.
He said it is essential to spread the teachings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and the true message of Islam in order to tackle Islamophobia.
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) established the Stare of Madina with justice, fraternity and equality, which is still a role model for the entire world.
In his statement, he said the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) must be spread to promote peace and interfaith harmony across the world.
With reporting by Shahnawaz Ali, Usama Durrani and Sadaqat Ali
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