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Gen Raheel sharif is a women?
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masha Allah…nice gesture,
magar, is khaTaare meN mareez agar saath Khairiyat ke haspataal pahoNch gayaa tabhii na? 
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Pakistan’s 25 high achievers under 25 years of age
TechJuice: Pakistan’s 25 high achievers under 25 years of age
PAKISTAN’S FUTURE 
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Mohammad Jibran Nasir, he has done something that many of us thought would not possible. Voice of reason and courage that needs to reach all ears.
Sirf Insaan or Pakistani hona kaafi kyun nahi?
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Motorist stops run away truck
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some courage…HE and his family are fine …few folks watched his interview @ dunya news
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that requires so much courage.
The real hero: Abid Farooq risks all to defuse bombs - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
The real hero: Abid Farooq risks all to defuse bombs Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
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“I made a decision at that time, that I will enter the police and will show them that even if my father was not able to do this job, I will be able to do it,” says Abid Farooq.—Photo by Nadir Siddiqui
Abid Farooq is not deterred by threats. He is often called into court to testify against terrorists whose bomb attacks he has foiled.
“Imagine, we are present in the same court as the terrorists, they can easily identify us,” he says. “They tell me, ‘don’t think even for a second that if we are inside, nothing can happen to you, our resources are vast,’ and that’s how they intimidate us.”
But Abid stands his ground and often tells them that he is just doing his job; a job that he loves very much.
Abid’s early years were spent in Lahore, where his father was also in the police force.
“My mother was very upset when my father decided to leave the force after serving for eight years to start his own business. I don’t think she ever got over that trauma.”
When the family moved to Karachi, he decided to enroll into the police academy.
“I made a decision at that time, that I will enter the police and will show them that even if my father was not able to do this job, I will be able to do it.”
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In 1994, while in the police, Abid enrolled himself in a bomb disposal course, after which he was called upon whenever they received a bomb tip.
“In those days, we rarely ever received calls,” he recalls. “Perhaps, once every two to three months, and even then the bombs were simple, small and easily defused.”
Now, in charge of the West Division in Karachi, Abid’s cell phone is perpetually ringing. His unit gets between two to three calls a day, often in the middle of the night and that plays on the minds of his wife and three children.
Abid married Tahira in 1998. Initially his wife was very happy that she had married a police officer, but when she discovered he was working in the bomb disposal squad she was very upset.
“My wife watches the news; she knows what the situation is like in the city. Every time I get a phone call, she wants to know where I am going and whether it is to defuse a bomb. So now, I have to hide from her. I have to pretend I am going to the office, when in fact I am going to defuse a bomb,” he tells us.
Abid is a tall, quiet man who hesitates to talk about himself. When you meet him, you won’t be able to tell that he has defused most of the bombs in Karachi.
“It’s my job,” he kept telling us. One thing that does become evident very quickly is that the high risk job has taken a toll on him personally. “The IEDs that are being used today are full of ball bearings and are connected to mobile phones, and placed in cars and motorcycles. These are the things that scare me a little.”
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A few days before we met him, Abid received a call about a taxi laden with explosives near Sohrab Goth. When the unit arrived they found that the taxi was booby trapped and laden with explosives. The neighbourhood is densely populated; the human toll from the blast would have been catastrophic.
“I asked my superiors to evacuate the area,” Abid tells us. “Then I slowly made my way towards the taxi and began working on disassembling the bomb. The worry was that a suicide bomber or a second bomb could have also been placed. All of these things were weighing down on us while we worked. But we were successful,” he says with a smile.
“Whenever I go on such a mission, I perform wuzu, we know our bodies are not made of steel and iron, we are human, so we know the dangers. But there is this yearning, this passion, that maybe because of us, because of our sacrifice, this bomb could be defused and some lives would be saved,” says Abid.
On Sundays, Abid takes his son and two daughters to the park. There, amongst all the other families, it seems relatively normal. The daughters roller-skate on the cemented rink, and both the husband and wife lay a picnic out for them. They tease each other and laugh together and for those few hours, the family forgets the dangers and risks that lurk around them.
Abid’s meagre salary is not reflective of the job he does. He has received numerous job offers from other countries but is adamant to stay in Pakistan.
“My husband tells me this country needs me more than the others. That is why he has rejected the job offers, he wants to save his own country,” says Tahira.
We seldom award or acknowledge men like Abid Farooq — those who risk their lives for a meagre salary, for little or no rewards or benefits. Their families live with uncertainty every day of their lives. These are the real heroes. They are the reason many of us are still alive today.
If we were to look beyond the stereotypes and prejudices we carry, we would be able to see the men behind the uniform more clearly and perhaps then we would be able to acknowledge their sacrifices and once in a while salute them for their courage in the face of such adversity.
Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, January 4th, 2015
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[Salute to this man..govt shd support him.
One Pakistani’s dogged fight against rats](http://www.dawn.com/news/1155057/one-pakistanis-dogged-fight-against-rats) AFP
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PESHAWAR: The people of Peshawar have lived through countless bombings, shootings and kidnappings in recent years, but now a new peril stalks the streets — huge house rats.
Residents of the city, on the front line of the country’s battle against homegrown Taliban militants, say the rodents have eaten countless chickens, bitten dozens of adults, spread disease and even killed a baby. But help is at hand in the stocky form of Naseer Ahmad.
Armed with a hoe, wheelbarrow and plastic gloves and accompanied by his three young daughters, the 40-something Ahmad is waging a dogged battle against the rats of Peshawar — and says he’s killed more than 100,000 in the past 18 months.
“It is my mission and I took it on after I saw my friend taking his wife to hospital because she was bitten by a rat,” Ahmad told AFP while on a mission in the city’s densely populated Zaryab neighbourhood.
“Her medical treatment cost him 5,000 rupees ($50) and she had to have an anti-rabies injection. “The rats are nine to 12 inches (22 to 30 cm) long, almost the same again when you include the tail.
“They are everywhere, in the streets, in markets and in shops,” Ahmad said.
The rat-hunter says they attack at night and escape before dawn, damaging the fabric of houses and shops, contaminating food and biting women and children.
In past, the rat numbers in the city were limited but monsoon flash floods in the surrounding countryside in recent years have driven them downtown.
Many make their home in an open sewer which flows through the city and come out at night, gnawing with their large teeth and scurrying about in poor neighbourhoods.
Night hunter
As night falls, Ahmad begins his hunt, tracking the rats on foot — street by street, house by house and shop by shop.
He takes a piece of bread, sprinkles sugar on it and sprays it with a chemical mixture.
“They are actually immune to local poison now, so I have to apply my own formula,” Ahmad said.
While Ahmad and his daughters lay the bait, further down the narrow grubby street, resident Gul Zada patches up holes chewed by rats in the floor of his house.
Other than structural damage, Zada said rats killed his infant nephew.
“They bit my nephew last year, he was one and a half years old, but we took him to hospital and he died there,” Zada told AFP.
Zada’s grandfather Faqir Gul said everyone has traps in their houses, but locals say Ahmad is the only effective resistance force.
“They attack like an army and come around 10 c’clock at night,” Ammanullah Khan, a tailor who makes leather jackets, told AFP, complaining the rats chewed through his stock.
Ahmad lays the poisoned bread in corners, in front of shops and all other places where the rats can sneak in.
The morning after comes the clear-up, and Ahmad’s formula seemed to do the trick. Residents could be seen collecting dead rats with shovels and hoes and throwing them in a street corner.
Ahmad gathered up to 100, pitching the dead rats in his wheelbarrow using a hoe. He put them in plastic bags and buried them in a field.
He might be dedicated, and popular with residents, but so far Ahmad’s efforts are strictly unofficial — and unpaid by the authorities.
But he remains undeterred.
“I have no resources and no help from government but its more than a mission for me,” Ahmad said.
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Pakistani Fiza Farhan in Forbes list of young social entrepreneurs
Pakistani Fiza Farhan in Forbes list of young social entrepreneurs - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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Thanks for sharing.
I stole this from your link.
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Doers do. Crybabies blame 'outsiders'.
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once again proud of you Malala
Malala’s book incorporated into GWU’s Summer Reading Series Symposium.
‘I am Malala’ incorporated in George Washington University curriculum - Pakistan - DAWN.COM](http://www.dawn.com/news/1156956/)
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**Mohammad Tahir: **One of America’s top forensic scientists applies his skills in Pakistan.
Members of the crime scene investigation unit collect evidence from a possible arson attack at a shoe factory that burned down in Lahore, January 14, 2015. As one of America’s top forensic scientists, Mohammad Tahir uncovered evidence that helped jail boxer Mike Tyson for rape, convict serial killer John Wayne Gacy and clear doctor Sam Sheppard of murdering his wife. Then Tahir took on his toughest assignment yet - applying his skills in Pakistan, a poor nation of 180 million people beset by crime and militancy. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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if for real, a great achievement by 2 fellow Pakistanis.
Ultralight helicopter made by two brothers in Peshawar - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
[Ultralight helicopter made by two brothers in Peshawar](http://www.dawn.com/news/1160826/ultralight-helicopter-made-by-two-brothers-in-peshawar) [Abdul Hakeem](http://www.dawn.com/authors/3971/) Published about an hour ago
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PESHAWAR: Qazi Tofail and his brother Qazi Sajjad have successfully made an ultralight helicopter, which they said would be ready within a few days.
The two locals from Peshawar have astonished the public with their achievement, a first in Pakistan’s history.
‘The helicopter is now completely ready only the wings imported from Italy need to be fixed and would soon be ready to fly,” Qazi Tofail told Dawn.com.
The two brothers started struggling from 1978 to make an aircraft, finally succeeding after installing a car engine to make the ultralight helicopter.
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After five years of continues struggle on their own, they made the helicopter at a cost of Rs3.5 million.
Tofail said his brother Qazi Sajjad along with his nephews made the aircraft, adding that due to lack of facilities and financial problems the working phase was very slow, but was grateful that the hard work put in has proved fruitful.
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The two brothers have also applied for making a club where they hope to teach the technology to students.
Tofail however complained that the provincial government was not taking interest in leasing land required for the club, further stating that the bureaucracy of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was creating hurdles for land requisition.
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The Qazi brothers belong to the Landi Arbab village located at the outskirts of Peshawar, where their family have a history of making crafts.
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I would be more inclined to be thankful and support people like the one that is killing rats in the city than people like water car and this guy.
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From Humans of Karachi:
“As a child, I realised I was a common man. Growing up, I decided I did not want to be a common man anymore.
I wanted to be SOMEONE.
I started volunteering in 2008 when the terrible floods hit Pakistan. As time went by I volunteered more and more in Balochistan, especially in areas we call “no-go areas. Back In 2009, unfortunately our distribution period was in August and August is the peak month for “anti-Pakistan” movements in Balochistan. One day, my team and I had delivered relief items to a village in Balochistan and were returning to our rest house in the evening in the cantonment area we noticed rocket launchers being fired in the mountains surrounding us. I know today, people don’t get shocked by this statement but I have to say it was the scariest thing I ever heard. I can’t forget that fear I felt as I heard the screams and shouts of people around me. A woman got hit in front of me- it was horrifying. We managed to escape that scene but I was no longer the same man.
When the floods hit again in 2011, Balochistan was hugely affected. For 6 months I lived in the belt of Balochistan we call “no-go areas” and many incidents took place of all kinds. One incident that really affected me was when we were abducted. We saw the men standing in our path and they had their faces covered with guns in hand. They stopped our car and one of the men slapped our driver and sat in his place. He said “if you want to stay alive, stay quiet and cooperate with us”. We were three people so they blind folded us and took us somewhere. We drove for about an hour, but it felt like we had driven for a lifetime.
In that time, I had accepted that I was going to die.
We finally reached the destination and they opened our blindfolds and we saw several men sitting around. We had really long conversations about who we were and what we were doing and eventually we were released.
I really believe that death was just lurking around for me that day and I just got a second chance at life.
Many influential tribesmen around those areas interfere with our distribution because they want to take our relief goods and give them to the people pretending they are the providers so that people vote for them or appreciate them and their power is maintained. We represent honourable organisations and it would go against our principles to give in to this kind of bullying. One day, some of the threateners just started firing at us. We were in the middle of distributing goods that day so there was a huge crowd of people and I was pushed around so much that I managed to escape the bullets again. It was this crowd that eventually attacked the attackers and fought with them.
I am also part of the Emergency Response Team in Balochistan because there were are many bomb blasts that happen and because I am a First Aid trained individual as well. We decided that we would be the first response team and rush the victims to the hospitals. There have been times when one blast happens and a second follows shortly- luckily we have been there to help people.
“Have you ever been hurt in any of these incidents?”
“Physical injury is a small matter. It’s the effect these things have on you mentally that is the real concern. I am still a determined volunteer and ready to run to Balochistan to help no matter what the threats are. Any district any organisation offers me to come to, I take it. Living and working in Balochistan, I saw a lot of discrimination especially against women. It became my goal to study further in this field which is why I did my Masters in Gender Studies. I was mocked by many people who called this “a subject for women” and that it was a dumb thing to focus on but I continued and got my degree.”
“Any regrets?”
“You know, none of what has happened to me happened with my permission. Things just happened. My optimism has not wavered. Like I said before, I was born a common man, I grew up a common man in this constructed society till there came a point I decided that I do not want to stay common. There was a lava inside me…I felt like I would burst. This feeling of thinking you could burst, this is what made me take such bold steps in my life- the reason why I did all the things I did. I want to help people. I want to see them happy. I want humanity to survive. I want education for everyone. I want people to have their rights.
There came a point when my family tried to stop me from doing this kind of dangerous volunteering. They said enough was enough and my madness (as they called it) needed to end. They said that life is precious and my life was joined to theirs. I have several discussions with them about this and try to make them understand that everyone has to die one day. I just do not want to die a common man. I want to die and be remembered as a man who tried his best to help people.”