98 Kidnapped Chibok Girls Still In Boko Haram Captivity After 8 Years —Nigerian Military
11 September 2022
• 98 Kidnapped Chibok Girls
Still In Boko Haram Captivity After 8 Years —Nigerian Military
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Pregnant women in Pakistan left in the lurch as floods wash away maternal
healthcare
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Over 5k harassment complaints, including 3,698 by women, filed in last 4 years
in Pakistan
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Mother wages struggle for justice in Nazim Jokhio murder case
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Separated in 1947, Sikh brother, Muslim sister reunite at Kartarpur
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Minor girl’s marriage with 30-year-old lawyer foiled in Punjab village
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Local women teach visitors to cook Arab dishes in Akko
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Afghan girls take to streets to protest school closure in Paktia
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Between Istanbul and Kabul: Afghan-American woman becomes philanthropy icon
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Six Pakistan women internationals to attend ACC Level 2 coaching course
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Bangladesh hit Pakistan for six at SAFF Women’s Championship
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98
Kidnapped Chibok Girls Still In Boko Haram Captivity After 8 Years —Nigerian
Military
September
11, 2022
Three
girls were recovered in 2019, two in 2021 and 9 were rescued in 2022, bringing
the total of 178 girls out of captivity.
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There
are 98 kidnapped students of Government Girls’ Secondary School Chibok of Borno
State still in captivity, the Joint Military Taskforce in the Northeast
Nigeria, Operation Hadin Kai has said.
The
head of the Intelligence Unit of Operation Hadin Kai, Colonel Obinna Ezuipke
said out of the 276 abducted by Boko Haram terrorists on April 14, 2014, 98
were still in captivity.
"Three
girls were recovered in 2019, two in 2021 and 9 were rescued in 2022, bringing
the total of 178 girls out of captivity and 98 remaining in Boko Haram
captivity,” he said.
Speaking
about the fight against insurgency in August 2022, Ezuipke said 43 terrorists
were neutralized, while 24 others were arrested by troops.
He
however added that over 100 terrorists were killed in September 2022 and that
129 AK-47 rifles, 1,515 rounds of ammunition, 16 FN Rifles, 3 MG, and 17
grenades, among others, were recovered, Daily Trust reports.
Ezuipke
revealed that the military recorded 26 attacks from the terrorists, adding that
two soldiers were killed and 9 others sustained various degrees of injury in
the process.
Speaking
on the arrest of suppliers of logistics to Boko Haram, Ezuipke further revealed
that from June 2022 to date, troops arrested 113 people who are suppliers of
food, fertiliser and other logistics to the terrorists.
He
added that the troops also rescued many women and children, and destroyed the
hideouts and belongings of terrorists.
Source:
Sahara Reporters
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Pregnant
women in Pakistan left in the lurch as floods wash away maternal healthcare
SHAZIA
NIZAMANI
11
September, 2022
An
aerial view of the flood affected region in Pakistan | Twitter |
@BBhuttoZardari
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Pakistan
is undergoing the worst of catastrophes due to unprecedented monsoon rains and
the ensuing floods. The exact losses and damage to crops, homes, livelihoods
and animals cannot be ascertained at this stage as the devastation continues.
Natural
disasters and calamities on their own are gender-neutral. They affect everyone.
However, the humanitarian crises they cause impact the female population far
more severely. UN Assistant Secretary-General Asako Okai recently said that
when disaster strikes, women and children are 14 times more likely to die than
men. According to UN Women, more than 70 per cent of women suffer various forms
of gender-based discrimination in humanitarian crises.
Women
and girls are more vulnerable than men and boys in times of calamity. Even more
so when they are from the low- or no-income section of society. These women and
girls are given least priority when it comes to rescue, relief and
rehabilitation. Therefore, they are the most exposed to devastation.
When
disaster abates and (so-called) rehabilitation begins, women are further pushed
into poverty. Their workload increases, they have less access to basic
healthcare services and education. They are given less preference in work and
employment opportunities. More often than not, their wages are lower than their
male counterparts’ and many more girls drop out from schools than boys. Last
but not least, women and girls become vulnerable to greater sexual abuse,
harassment and human trafficking under calamitous conditions.
Women
in agriculture suffer the most having completely lost their livelihoods. With
no income and food scarcity, the levels of malnutrition in women and girls
increases. Many World Bank reports are a testament to this fact. The majority
of women farm workers have never banked their savings, if ever they had any.
In
disaster situations, shelter, food and drinkable water are primary needs.
Already malnourished women and girls are an easy prey for waterborne diseases
caused by unhygienic conditions in camps and shelters.
Women
in the rural areas already face reproductive health issues due to a dearth of
even basic maternal healthcare facilities as well as trained qualified female
doctors. When natural calamities strike, pregnancy and childbirth put women at
great risk and increase their vulnerability especially if they are displaced,
living in camps and tents which are far from the city centres and without
healthcare facilities. The CARE Pakistan country director has said: “When
disasters like this hit, we know from experience that it’s women, girls and
other marginalised groups who face the biggest challenges including access to
humanitarian assistance.”
Pregnant
women have nowhere to give birth safely because floods have washed away their
homes and health facilities. Their lives and the lives of their babies are
jeopardised without proper maternal healthcare.
Moreover,
the damage to roads and bridges severely compromises girls’ and women’s access
to healthcare facilities, whilst simultaneously reducing access to gender-based
violence prevention and response services. Medical and psychosocial support to
the survivors of GBV is virtually non-existent during such times.
In
such dire circumstances, it is imperative that women lawmakers and political
representatives put aside their differences and come forward, along with other
social activists, to support and facilitate the government and relief agencies
in reaching out to the affected women. It is important not only to rescue them
from the immediate danger, but also to ensure that women-friendly camps and
shelters fulfil their basic needs and are equipped with toilets, health and
hygiene kits, clothes, menstrual cloth/pads and nutrition supplements for
expectant mothers.
Priority
should then be accorded to providing psychological and emotional support to
women, who have been hit by the floods, have lost family members and suffered
displacement.
There
is a dire need for developing comprehensive gender-segregated data on
devastation and the impact of natural disasters on women and girls. The issues
and needs of women and girls, especially those that the government and relief
organisations have missed, should be highlighted. Mainstream media and social
media need to report on the situation of women and girls who have been
displaced and are living in camps.
Despite
experiencing several natural calamities, no government has come up with a
concrete disaster preparedness plan for the future. Policies and plans should
be based on lessons learnt. Disaster management plans and disaster-risk
reduction plans should be developed, mainstreaming gender-responsive actions.
The
needs of women and girls should be incorporated into rescue, relief and
rehabilitation plans. Opportunities can be identified from the experience of the
disaster to change traditional gender roles and improve women’s participation
in rehabilitation and reconstruction initiatives.
Source:
The Print
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Over
5k harassment complaints, including 3,698 by women, filed in last 4 years in
Pakistan
10
September, 2022
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Islamabad
[Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan’s grievance redressal institution
against harassment has received a record number of nearly 5,008 complaints in
the last four years – an exceptional increase in the number of registered
cases, media reports said.
Harassment
complaints are yet another grim reminder of the rights situation in Pakistan,
especially for women. In an annual report launched by the office of the Federal
Ombudsperson Secretariat for Protection against Harassment (FOSPAH), the secretariat
highlighted that it has received over 5,000 complaints in the last four years,
Pakistan’s local media outlet Dawn said.
The
launch was done at the President’s House on Friday in coordination with United
Nations (UN) Women. Members of the diplomatic community and journalists were
also present on the occasion.
The
report stated that as few as 84 cases were registered between the years 2010-13
while 398 cases were registered between 2013-18. Between 2018-22, however,
5,008 cases were registered out of which 3,698 were filed by women and 1,310 by
men.
It
further said out of the 5,008 total cases, 1,689 men and women from the
government sector and 3,319 male and female applicants from the private sector
registered complaints with the office of the ombudsperson.
Besides,
the 275 active cases of harassment at the workplace, the report claimed that
4,733 cases were successfully closed. More than 5,000 complaints received by
ombudsperson from 2018-22.
Pakistani
President Dr ArifAlvi while taking cognizance of the grave situation called for
economic empowerment, property rights, harassment-free workplace for women.
Notably,
in Pakistan, women made up almost 50pc of the country’s population and it is of
utmost importance to give impetus to their growth in various key sectors of the
country including business, trade and service sectors, as per Dawn.
Pakistan
is also undergoing a severe flood crisis where thousands of people are left
homeless and their houses in a shambles. There was a huge loss of livestock
which is leading to food insecurity in the country.
Speaking
on the current flood situation in the country, the President expressed
solidarity with flood victims and extended condolences for those who had lost
their lives.
Raising
concern over the country’s human rights situation, especially for women,
Pakistan Human Rights Commission believed that developing comprehensive
anti-trafficking legislation and National Action Plan will not make difference
until they are implemented or practised on the ground.
On
the occasion of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30, Pakistan’s
human rights body has replugged its 2021 report on trafficking and raised
concern over women and girls’ situation in the country.
“In
order to identify the root causes and magnitude of trafficking, there should be
a system to collect, compile and report data on various dimensions of
trafficking in persons in Pakistan. Officials of concerned department and LEAs
should be sensitized and their capabilities built to identify and report a
crime,” the HRC said in its last year’s report.
“Developing
comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation and National Action Plan will not
make difference until they are implemented or practised on the ground. There is
a need to develop synergy and story coordination among all stakeholders to
prevent trafficking and protect victims, and punish traffickers,” the body
stated further.
Revealing
a grim picture of the state of women in Pakistan, a report by the World
Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked Pakistan as the second-worst country in terms
of gender parity, a media report said.
Source:
The Print
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Mother
wages struggle for justice in Nazim Jokhio murder case
Naeem
Sahoutara
September
11, 2022
This
file photo shows Nazim Jokhio. — Photo courtesy: DawnNewsTV
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KARACHI:
The Nazim Jokhio case took a dramatic turn on Saturday when his mother
approached a sessions court and denied having reaching any out-of-court
settlement over her son’s murder with an interned Pakistan Peoples Party
lawmaker Jam AwaisBijar and others.
“It
is most respectfully prayed in your honour that I did not compromise with the
accused persons, as earlier filed compromise due to pressure/influence by the
accused persons. Same may kindly be treated as null and void and same has been
withdrawn by me,” stated the 52-year-old mother Jamiat in a an application
filed through her counsel Mazhar Ali Junejo.
The
mother’s application has been filed with the court of Additional District and
Sessions Judge (Malir) Faraz Ahmed Chandio, who was set to formally indict the
detained MPA Jam Awais and his nine servants/guards booked for allegedly
kidnapping, abating and torturing to death Nazim Jokhio.
MPA
Jam Awais along with his servants/guards — Haider Ali, Meer Ali, Muhammad
Mairaj, Mohammad Saleem Salar, Mohammad Doda Khan, Ahmed Khan Shoro and
Mohammad Soomar — has been booked and detained for murdering 26-year-old Nazim
Jokhio at the MPA’s farmhouse in Malir.
On
Saturday, the judge took up the matter to frame the charges against the
suspects, when the Malir district prison’s superintendent instead of producing
detained MPA filed a statement saying that the MPA could not be produced before
the court as he was suffering from “high blood pressure symptomatic”.
Five
suspects — Saleem Salar, Doda Khan, Mohammad Soomar, Mohammad Mairaj and Ahmed
Khan Shoro — appeared on bail while two detained brothers Haider Ali and Meer
Ali were produced from the prison.
Complainant
Afzal Jokhio, a brother of the slain Nazim Jokhio, appeared in court and stated
that Advocate Mazhar Ali Junejo was not his counsel.
The
counsel also filed a statement supported by an affidavit signed by MsJamiat
stating that she being a legal heir of the slain Nazim Jokhio did not
compromise her son’s murder with the accused persons.
The
mother clarified that an earlier out-of-the-court compromise purportedly filed
in the court along with her son Afzal Jokio and the victim’s widow Shireen was
due to “pressure/influence by the accused persons”.
The
judge issued the order to the prison authorities for production of MPA Jam Awais
on the next date when all other suspects were also told to ensure their
presence before the court.
In
July this year, Judicial Magistrate (Malir) Altaf Tunio had discharged PPP MNA
Jam Abdul Karim, Jamal Ahmed, Abdul Razaque, Muhammad Khan, Mohammad Ishaque
and Atta Mohammad from the case over the ‘lack of evidence’ against them.
He
had ruled that “grounds exist to believe that offence is committed. Therefore,
cognizance is taken on the report for the offences under Sections 302
(premeditated murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or
giving false information to screen offender), 365 (kidnapping), 506 (criminal
intimidation), 109 (abetment) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal
Code”.
He
had ruled that held MPA’s nine servants/guards — Haider, Meer Ali, Mairaj, Doda
Khan, Muhammad Soomar, Niaz Salar, Ahmed Shoro, Zahid and Mohammad Saleem —
will also stand trial.
However,
the magistrate had discharged from the case against MNA Jam Abdul Karim, the
elder brother of Jam Awais, Abdul Razzaq, Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Ishaque, Atta
Muhammad and Jamal due to ‘insufficient evidence’ against them.
Source:
Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1709408/mother-wages-struggle-for-justice-in-nazim-jokhio-murder-case
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Separated
in 1947, Sikh brother, Muslim sister reunite at Kartarpur
by
Prateek Talukdar
Sep
10, 2022
Amarjit
Singh plans to stay back with his sister Kulsoom Akhtar as a guest for some
time
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After
75 years of separation since the Partition, a Sikh man from India and his
Muslim sister from Pakistan finally reunited at Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in
Kartarpur, reported The Express Tribune.
The
Partition of India and Pakistan had uprooted lakh of families from their homes
after the demarcation of national borders based on religious lines.
Inaugurated
in November 2019, the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor provides visa-free access to the
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Singh's
sister Kulsoom Akhtar (65) said that she was born in Pakistan after her parents
immigrated to Pakistan from the suburbs of Jalandhar in 1947.
A
few years ago her father's friend, Sardar Dara Singh visited them from India
and her mother told him about the missing kids along with the location of their
village and home.
The
man went back and traced the lost siblings. Singh informed them that the
daughter had passed away and the brother had been adopted by a Sikh family in
1947.
Singh
reached there via the Wagah border while Akhtar, who suffers from chronic back
pain, reached there with her son Shahzad Ahmad from Faisalabad.
In
August, two brothers — one Sikh and one Muslim — met after being separated
while fleeing sectarian violence in 1947.
Source:
News By Tesapp
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/india/sikh-brother-muslim-sister-reunite-at-kartarpur-sahib/story
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Minor
girl’s marriage with 30-year-old lawyer foiled in Punjab village
Shafiq
Butt
September
11, 2022
SAHIWAL:
Ghaziabad police foiled the marriage of a 10-year-old girl with a 30-year-old
man at Chak 160/9-L and arrested the bridegroom and the girl’s father.
Liaqat
Ali, a resident of Chak 160/9-L, had fixed the marriage of his eldest daughter,
Sania, with Muhammad Asif, a local lawyer. The girl was not happy with the
marriage and she escaped from home along with a boy 20 days before the
marriage. The lawyer and his family forced Liaqat through a panchayat to marry
his youngest child, 10-year-old daughter Iqra, in place of Sania with Asif.
Police
registered a case against Asia, Nazir Ahmed, Sughran Bibi, Sabir Hussain, Sajid
Hussain, Muhammad Shakeel, Gulam Mustafa, Jamil, Yasin, Muhammad Jiwa, Naseem
Akhter, and other unidentified members of the panchayat.
OMBUDSPERSON:
The provincial ombudsperson has the authority to implement its decisions and
the departments concerned, including police, revenue and administration, are
bound to implement its orders.
This
was stated by Punjab Ombudsperson Nabeela Khan while hearing complaints by
women filed under the Punjab Enforcement of Women’s Property Rights Act 2021.
Dawn
learnt from the sources there were 80 registered complaints related to women’s
property in three cities of the Sahiwal division. Nabeela Khan directed deputy
commissioners and revenue departments of the three districts of the division to
submit their reports on more than 30 cases pending with their offices.
Sahiwal
Deputy Commissioner Kamran Khan assured the ombudsperson that the process of
giving required information to her office would be expedited.
Nabeela
Khan held a special hearing to dispose of cases and asked the departments
concerned to process information at the earliest. She announced that Sahiwal
would get its own regional ombudsman office within three months.
Source:
Dawn
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Local
women teach visitors to cook Arab dishes in Akko
By
Diana Bletter
SEPTEMBER
11, 2022
Manar
Kordi, left, with Cathy Raff in the kitchen of Beit Elfarasha. Photo by Diana
Bletter
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It
doesn’t matter that Raff grew up in Georgia, in the south of the United States.
Raff moved to Israel when she was 25, in 1985.
After
she and her husband purchase an abandoned building in a picturesque cobblestone
alley of Akko’s Old City, Raff said, “I wanted to do something more. I had a
dream to work with local women.”
So,
in December 2020, she opened Beit Elfarasha – Arabic for The Butterfly House —
a center where local Arab women give cooking workshops, teaching visitors how
to make traditional Arabic cuisine and sharing stories.
Since
Beit Elfarasha began, Raff said that hundreds of people have participated in
the cooking workshops from both Israel and abroad, including a woman from
Dubai.
Beit
Elfarasha is situated in a building from the Ottoman era, with remnants
stretching back to the Crusaders. Raff and Bar-Shany renovated it and added a
professional chef’s kitchen with working space for 22 people.
The
center also has two suites for guests to stay overnight. Raff said that her
primary goal has always been to give tourists a chance to get to know local
people.
“There
was no contact between visitors and locals. As beautiful as Akko is, the local
people are even more beautiful. They’re warm and hospitable and proud of their
diverse heritage.”
Raff
feels that way despite the rioting of May 2021 when looters destroyed the
interior of the building. But she said that neighbors pitched in to help them.
“There
is also wonderful camaraderie among owners of guesthouses in the Old City of
Akko whether they’re Christians, Muslims or Jews,” Raff said. She added that
“the situation seems good again.”
To
find the women to lead cooking workshops, Raff organized a Master Chef-style
contest and the judges chose several women who never thought of cooking as a
profession.
Famed
Galilee chef ErezKomarosky, founder of the LechemErez bakery chain, volunteered
to give the first cooking workshop at Beit Elfarasha to show the cooks how it’s
done.
“Food
isn’t political and it’s a great way to start to get to learn about each
other,” Raff said. “After a cooking workshop, visitors leave feeling like they
have a friend in Akko.”
Beit
Elfarasha now employs three local women who conduct workshops teaching how to
make dishes that might be staples to Akko families but to visitors are exotic,
such as maqluba, a chicken with rice and vegetable dish.
She
used to work in her family’s souvenir shop in the shuk of the Old City, but
left when Covid-19 began and the store was shut down.
“I
learned cooking from my mother who learned it from her mother,” Kordi said.
“These dishes have been passed down from generation to generation.”
“We
were curious to learn new foods,” Krichevsky said. “The food was delicious. We
learned a lot. The experience will last a long time.”
Raff
said she chose the name, Beit Elfarasha, because “a butterfly goes through a
metamorphosis and changes, and we hope that visitors here will change their
attitudes toward other people.”
Raff
used to be a professional photographer, often photographing food, and her work
at Beit Elfarasha combines all her passions into one place.
Source:
Israel21c
https://www.israel21c.org/local-women-teach-visitors-to-cook-arab-dishes-in-akko/
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Afghan
girls take to streets to protest school closure in Paktia
10
Sep 2022
Dozens
of girls have protested in Afghanistan’s Paktia province after Taliban
authorities shut their schools just days after classes resumed, agencies and
local media reported, as an estimated three million secondary school girls are
shut out of school for more than a year now.
The
Taliban has gone back on its promise to allow women’s education and job
opportunities and has since imposed curbs on women’s rights, bringing back
memories of its first stint in power between 1996-2001 during which women’s
education was banned and women were banished from public life.
Late
last month, a senior Taliban leader told Al Jazeera that the group is working
to create a so-called “safe environment” for girls and women in secondary
schools and the workplace, adding that Islam grants women the right to
education, work, and entrepreneurship.
Earlier
this month, four girls’ schools above sixth grade in Gardez, the provincial
capital, and one in the Samkani district began operating after a recommendation
by tribal elders and school principals, but without formal permission from the
Taliban’s Ministry of Education.
When
students in Gardez went for classes on Saturday, they were told to return home,
a women’s rights activist and residents told AFP.
“This
morning when they did not allow the girls to enter schools, we held a protest,”
activist Yasmin and an organiser of the rally, told the news agency over the
phone.
“Why
have you closed our schools? Why are you playing with our emotions?” one girl
is heard saying through tears in one of the videos.
“The
students protested peacefully, but soon the rally was dispersed by security
forces,” one Gardez resident who asked not to be named told AFP.
Officials
maintain the ban is just a “technical issue” and classes will resume once a
curriculum based on Islamic rules is defined. A year after the Taliban took
power in Afghanistan, a few public schools continue to operate in parts of the
country following pressure from local leaders and families.
Since
returning to power, the Taliban has struggled to govern as it remains
diplomatically isolated. Freezing of Afghan funds worth billions of dollars by
the West and the country’s exclusion from global financial institutions have
largely contributed to the near collapse of the country’s aid-dependent
economy.
More
than half of Afghanistan’s 39 million people need humanitarian help and six
million are at risk of famine, according to the UN.
Source:
AL JAZEERA
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/10/afghan-girls-protest-school-closure-in-eastern-city
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Between
Istanbul and Kabul: Afghan-American woman becomes philanthropy icon
By
Ali M Latifi
11
September 2022
Mahnaz
Safi has only been to Afghanistan twice, and most of her first trip was spent
with a family in a small village in the northern province of Balkh, with the
remainder spent in Taliban detention. Still, the 30-year-old Afghan American
from Virginia quickly earned herself a reputation in the cities of Mazar-i
Sharif and Kabul as the “the girl who gives people money”.
Safi
takes pride in being able to help Afghans at a time when western-imposed
sanctions and aid cutbacks have made 24.4 million people dependent on emergency
relief to survive. But others fear that her reputation for helping people could
put her in danger.
Safi
says that she was urged by Taliban guards near the central Kabul apartment
building where she was living this summer to consider relocating.
'The
Taliban came to me and said, 'people know you live here and they ask for you by
name, expecting money. It’s not safe to stay here'
“They
came to me and said, 'people know you live here and they ask for you by name,
expecting money. It’s not safe to stay here',” she tells Middle East Eye.
But
Safi is undeterred, saying that her current efforts in Afghanistan and Turkey,
where she assists Afghan refugees, are part of a lifelong goal to give back. “I
admit, people knew me as ‘donation girl’, but I like to find a way to make an
impact, to do something for people,” she says.
Sitting
in a hip Kabul eatery that is often featured on Afghan social media, Safi says
something that seems out of place for a budding influencer, but is in line with
an amateur humanitarian coming up in the social media age: “I don’t ever want
the story to be about me.”
Safi
says she first understood how bad the situation was for Afghan refugees when
she visited Istanbul this spring. Like most Afghans in the US, Safi had very
little understanding of the situation facing her compatriots who had fled to
Turkey after the Taliban’s return to power last August.
They
had no idea about the racism and anti-refugee sentiments Turks have
increasingly taken to posting online. Nor did they know that thousands of
Afghans had been deported back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan this year. It
was while in Istanbul that Safi says she saw the living reality for many of the
183,000 Afghan refugees in the country.
Hanging
out with Afghan refugees in their 20s and 30s, Safi met young men “who went
from having degrees to serving people” by collecting trash and working in
restaurants and shops.
At
first, Safi was confused. These were bright, talented young men. Some had
degrees and spoke English well. Why would they leave Afghanistan to essentially
squat in run-down buildings in the hidden corners of Istanbul?
“I
saw on the news that the sanctions were making people poor and hungry in
Afghanistan, but it wasn’t until I started talking to the refugees in Turkey
that I really understood how bad it was," she says. "They would tell
me about their families back home. It was devastating.”
Safi
speaks to MEE from a Kabul sports lounge that has returned to being a hangout
for young Afghan men, and even some women, in recent months. With TVs
broadcasting different sporting events, a PS4 and $11 shishas, it is a far cry
from her experiences with Afghans in the rundown neighbourhoods of Istanbul and
the flood-damaged districts of Eastern Afghanistan. She immediately takes a
picture of the restaurant for the 130,000 people who follow her on TikTok and the
nearly 6,000 others who keep up with her travels on Instagram.
Though
the photos of the lounge seem out of place with the videos of children and
women lining up to receive cash, food and clothing that she and her small team
hand out, she hopes they will show the contrasts of life in Taliban-run
Afghanistan.
What
she didn’t realise, though, is that in a nation where 97 percent of the
population risks falling below the poverty line this year, desperation can
easily take hold of people.
They
had come to inquire about the “donation girl”; how she, whose family hails from
the northern province of Panjshir, was related to the family of ethnic Turkmen,
and where exactly the money she was handing out had come from.
Source:
Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/afghan-american-woman-kabul-istanbul-philanthropy
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Six
Pakistan women internationals to attend ACC Level 2 coaching course
11
September 2022
Pakistan
international players include Ayesha Zafar (29 ODIs, 20T20Is), IramJaved (21
ODIs, 51 T20Is), Nahida Bibi (66 ODIs, 54 T20Is), NashraSundhu (49 ODIs, 28
T20Is), Natalia Pervaiz (three ODIs, 11 T20Is) and Sidra Amin (48 ODIs, 25
T20Is). Farah Naeem, Saira Iftikhar, Samina Bibi and Shehla Bibi are other
participants from Pakistan.
Other
participants in the course, include representatives from Bahrain, Bhutan (two),
Hong Kong (two), Iran, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal (two), Maldives, Qatar (two) and
Singapore.
The
Level 2 course participants will be taught the advance coaching skills which
include batting, bowling, fielding and wicket-keeping. This also includes work
on communications skills, mental and physical strength, planning and creating
quality learning environments which help players graduate to the next level.
The
course will be conducted by National High Performance Centre coaches Mauhtashim
Rashid, Mohsin Kamal, Rahat Abbas Asadi and it will be headed by Shahid Aslam.
At the conclusion of the course, the participants will be given three months to
complete their assignments. The successful participants will be awarded Level 2
coaching certificates.
Source:
Cricket World
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Bangladesh
hit Pakistan for six at SAFF Women’s Championship
September
11, 2022
KATHMANDU:
After a gutsy performance in their opening match against India, Pakistan failed
to rise to the challenge against Bangladesh in their second Group ‘A’ match at
the SAFF Women’s Championship on Saturday.
This
was a humbling defeat, the 6-0 scoreline laying bare that the Pakistan women’s
team has a lot of catching up to do against the region’s top teams after being
international pariahs for eight years.
An
institutional crisis in the Pakistan Football Federation has impacted women’s
football in the country and the national team made their first international
appearance since 2014 against India on Wednesday where they put up a brave
defensive performance, only losing 3-0.
That
result had raised expectations that Pakistan would do better against
Bangladesh, who have never won the tournament in contrast to India who have
been crowned champions in all five editions.
Pakistan
did make a bright start — Zulfia Nazir embarking on a solo run in the very
first minute only to see her effort foiled by Bangladesh goalkeeper Rupma
Chakma — but things quickly went downhill from therein.
Bangladesh
skipper and ace striker Sabina Khatun slammed a hat-trick to secure their
second straight win and Pakistan’s elimination from the tournament was
confirmed when India crushed the Maldives 9-0 in the group’s other match on
Saturday.
With
their victories, India and Bangladesh secured their berths in the semi-finals
and will clash for top spot on Tuesday, when Pakistan face Maldives looking to
end their campaign with a positive result.
Bangladesh
sprang into action after Zulfia’s early effort and took the lead in the third
minute when Monika Chakma with a powerful shot after put through by Sabina from
the right at the DasarathRangasala Stadium.
Bangladesh
exerted their dominance and were rewarded with their second in the 28th when
Maria Manda provided a pass to Sabina and the captain gave the ball to Sirat
Jahan Swapna who made no mistake with a perfectly-placed shot.
Sabina
scored her first right after the half-hour mark, pouncing on a rebound after
Monika’s initial shot was parried. The veteran striker, who is Bangladesh’s
all-time leading scorer in international football, male or female, with 31
goals in 44 appearances, doubled her tally four minutes later smashing home
from close range following a cutback from Sanjida Akhter.
Bangladesh
continued the onslaught in the second half with Sabina completing her hat-rick
with a brilliant guiding header on a cross from Monika 13 minutes after the
restart.
Even
though Sabina was taken off in the 72nd minute, Bangladesh were not done. The
last and arguably the best goal of the game came in the 77th minute when
super-sub Rituporna Chakma, turned on her heels at the edge of the box and
unleashed a powerful left-footed attempt that sailed into the top left corner
of the Pakistan net.
Tamang
gave India a 24th-minute lead with a fierce effort before Priyangka Devi
doubled their advantage in the 42nd after a corner wasn’t cleared.
Tamang
got her second, tapping in a rebound, near the end of the half before Grace
Dangmei scored early in the second period.
Soumya
Guguloth made it 5-0 in the 55th and India added another four goals in the
final six minutes — Tamang scoring twice, Dangmei getting a second and Kashmina
also getting on the scoresheet.
Source:
Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1709421
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A
feminist? Perhaps not. But the Queen helped to show women what was possible
Rachel
Cooke
11
Sep 2022
The
past is sometimes less of a foreign country than you might imagine. On Friday
morning, when my husband wondered aloud if we should get a new television “for
the funeral” (ours is comically small), my mind turned not to the John Lewis
website, but to the coronation, the generations connected, even now, by the allure
of an outside broadcast.
In
1953, the question of how and where events at Westminster Abbey might be
watched was, for most of the population, somewhat pressing. As the year began,
fewer than two million people owned a television set.
In
other ways, it’s unrecognisable, for all that my parents inhabited it. If every
one of the more than 500,000 TV sets sold in the six months before the
coronation told a story of aspiration, for many women this stretched far beyond
the material. When she was crowned, they could not take out mortgages in their
own name, nor could they be fitted with a diaphragm without producing a
marriage certificate. No wonder, then, that so many were half in love with the
new Queen. Her youth, her beauty, her glamour. What might these things mean?
Was a different future about to become possible?
Her
spell fell not only on women like Miss Prudence Moss, a Wirral teacher whose
new Pye tabletop set cost her more than 10% of her salary, but even on those
who might ordinarily have been more cynical (or less royalist). In her memoir
The Centre of the Bed, Joan Bakewell, then a Cambridge undergraduate, recalls
the dreamy effect its prospect had on her circle: “… a woman on the throne and
one not much older than ourselves. There was a sense of lightheartedness about
that: it felt, well, sort of contemporary, the turn of our generation.”
It
would be preposterous to describe the Queen as feminist. If she ever uttered
the word, it is not recorded; in The Uncommon Reader, the novella by Alan
Bennett in which the Queen discovers the charms of a mobile library, he has her
reading Anita Brookner and Thomas Hardy, but no Betty Friedan or Germaine Greer
(a story has to be believable, after all). But this isn’t to say that her
ascension to the throne wasn’t a significant marker on the road to second wave
feminism.
It
may be true that for many people, the 1960s began, as they did for Philip
Larkin, in 1963, the year Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. It was,
however, a decade earlier that things, in terms of equality, started to change
dramatically, a shift facilitated by the important work they did in the war,
just like the Queen (she had joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where
she trained as a mechanic).
In
1953, a girl had plenty more to think about than what kind of gown Norman
Hartnell might be designing. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex had been
published in English for the first time and female teachers such as Miss Moss
had been recommended for equal pay. When the press referred to the New Elizabethans,
it didn’t only mean men such as Nye Bevan and Henry Moore. It was a generation
that included Barbara Ward, the economist, Rose Heilbron, the QC, Alison
Smithson, the architect, and Sheila van Damm, the rally car driver and theatre
manager.
The
first decade of the Queen’s reign was replete with firsts for women, though
some choose not to remember this now. In 1955, Dame Evelyn Sharp was appointed
the first female permanent secretary (at the Ministry of Housing) and Barbara
Mandell became the first woman to read the news on ITN. Three years later, in
1958, Hilda Harding became Britain’s first female bank manager (at a branch of
Barclays in Mayfair) and following the passing of the Life Peerages Act, three
women took their seats in the House of Lords: Barbara Wootton, the
criminologist, Stella Isaacs, the founder of the Women’s Voluntary Service, and
Katharine Elliot, the Conservative politician.
Nor
was the Queen the only monarch around. In 1960, Coronation Street began and
with it the reign of Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner. People are always going on
about how the Queen gave the Beatles their MBEs. But to me, there is even more
joy to be found in the fact that she awarded Violet Carson, who played Sharples
for 20 years, an OBE.
We
all know what followed thereafter: progress, in short. And through it all, the
Queen was there, looking on. If it is, as many believe, a blessing to have a
head of state who does not express political opinions, then how much more
propitious if that figurehead is also a woman. At first, this had to do with
rarity value; at least there was always one female in the official photographs.
But down the decades, her gender was, in my eyes, a valuable thing in itself.
The
adroit way she wielded her influence, if not her power – dealing calmly and
delicately with male egos, for instance – was a lesson some of us absorbed,
almost from childhood, by some strange form of osmosis. Is it fanciful to
suggest that, like most women, she learned to work around the obstacles thrown
up by sexism? To do what she could rather than worry about what she couldn’t?
Even if it is fanciful, the thought is encouraging. “Funny business, a woman’s
career,” says Margo Channing, the character played by Bette Davis in All About
Eve, that great film of 1950.
Projection,
in any case, is half of the point of monarchy. As I wrote at the time of the
platinum jubilee, in the absence of facts, we made the Queen what we wanted her
to be; her personality was ours to create. And here, perhaps, she scored again
by being a woman, in full possession of the subtle emollience and extreme
capability and stoicism I associate with my grandmothers and many of my female
friends and which feels so reassuringly steady.
A
writer in one of our more republican-inclined journals suggests that the media,
with its talk of broken hearts and bewildered crowds, has turned her death into
a mere concatenation of our larger feelings, something to which he objects. But
isn’t it supposed to be that? Wasn’t the Queen always a repository for our emotions?
My own large feeling, in a week in which a female prime minister decided not to
appoint a minister for women to her cabinet, is that we were lucky to have a
Queen for so long; that even if (unlikely) he takes to reading Laura Bates or
Caroline Criado Perez, a king won’t be half so important to women in a world in
which things are still hard against us and likely to grow ever more so in the
years to come.
Source:
The Guardian
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Queen
Elizabeth's Wealth And Will To Stay Secret
September
11, 2022
The
wealth of Queen Elizabeth II, often referred to as one of the wealthiest women
in the world, has remained secret and so will her last will and testament
specifying how her wealth will be distributed after her death in Scotland on
Thursday.
The
British monarchy as a brand was valued at around USD 88 billion in 2017 by
valuation consultancy firm Brand Finance, with the Queen's personal wealth from
investments, art, jewels and real estate estimated by 'Forbes' to be worth
around USD 500 million.
'The
Sunday Times Rich List' calculated the late Queen's wealth at 340 million
pounds in 2015, with the major source of a British sovereign's personal money
being the Duchy of Lancaster.
It
is the sovereign's private estate, existing purely to give the reigning monarch
an income: in the financial year ending March 31 it was valued at about 652
million pounds and generated a net surplus of 24 million pounds.
According
to 'The Times', as it is an inalienable asset of the Crown, it would not even
appear in the Queen's will and simply passed from sovereign to sovereign,
without any tax being paid.
The
newspaper notes that no inheritance tax is liable on the Queen's personal
wealth due to a deal struck in 1993 with the then John Major-led government, in
which the Queen agreed for the first time to pay income tax.
The
Treasury Memorandum of Understanding on Royal Taxation, written in 2013,
states: "The reasons for not taxing assets passing to the next sovereign
are that private assets such as Sandringham and Balmoral have official as well
as private use and that the monarchy as an institution needs sufficient private
resources to enable it to continue to perform its traditional role in national
life, and to have a degree of financial independence from the government of the
day." A court was told during a legal battle over the will of Princess
Margaret, the Queen's younger sister, that the "primary reason and purpose
of sealing royal wills is to protect the privacy of the sovereign".
Also,
for technical legal reasons - because the late monarch was the source of legal
authority - her will does not have to be published like others.
However,
many of the sources of her wealth - the palaces, the Crown Jewels and the works
of art - do not fall in the category of her private property but are held in
trust for future generations and will simply pass over to the King.
Earlier
on Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II's son and heir King Charles III reaffirmed the
tradition of surrendering all royal revenues from the Crown Estate to the
nation, in return for the Sovereign Grant that covers the costs for the UK's
royal family.
Source:
Ndtv.com
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/queen-elizabeths-wealth-and-will-to-stay-secret-3334173
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