Dear Abu: ‘You’ve never been able to read my work, but I know you are proud of me’
Before You Go: Journalist Haroon Khalid writes a letter to his father, who doesn t speak English, on the heartbreak of their language divide and what brings them together regardless of it By Haroon Khalid Haroon s father, Manzoor (Photograph by Nida Khalid)
I remember waiting for you to come home from the factory and join us for lunch. I was around five years old, and every day, I looked forward to sharing what I had learned in class with you over aloo gosht and keema karale.
Imprisoned for protesting: the missing students of Pakistan
Rights groups express grave concern that the whereabouts of several students remains unknown
Students protest in front of Punjab Assembly in Lahore on Jan. 29 for the release of detained students. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry/UCA News)
Salman Sikandar and his friends were blindfolded while being shifted to three police stations in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
“We were sleeping when policemen banged on the door and forcefully entered. They slapped a student who asked about the arrest warrant. We were handcuffed and confused,” Sikandar, 23, told UCA News.
“They collected our smartphones in a black plastic bag. Only the tap water of dirty toilets was available in lockups. The trauma has changed me forever. I only witnessed injustice in police captivity.”
Students create a business model for combating hunger
For 35 years Huzaifa Ahmad’s mother opened her home each afternoon to people who were hungry and fed them food she had cooked for them, hundreds of them.
Then one day in 2015 Huzaifa was pondering on the contradiction that lots of eating places throw away food every day when so many had nothing to eat, and he turned to his friend Qasim Javid Khan and said: “There is a lot of food being wasted and a lot of people going hungry. Let’s do something.”
Huzaifa and Qasim were both second year students at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. Not sure what to do, but with another student friend Musa Aamir, they set up a Facebook page saying: “If anyone has excess food, give us a call.”
The curious case of China’s missing billionaires
Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba, speaks in Paris on May 16, 2019. PHOTO: AFP
The curious case of China’s missing billionaires
This is not the first time billionaires have gone missing in China
It appears that the dragon in East Asia is under fire once again from the global community. This time it is because of the missing billionaire, Jack Ma, largely hailed as the face of new China. So where is Ma? This is the question that has irked many political observers, both at home and abroad. Not falling prey to speculation and propaganda, China has a tainted track record against dissent and criticism. The international community was still pondering over reprimanding China for its treatment of the Uighur minority inhabiting the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China when this fresh tirade of weaponry was made available to them.