Meet the women who do rescue work on Pakistani mountains
Aga Khan Agency for Habitat trains them SAMAA | Zofeen T Ebrahim - Posted: Feb 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | Zofeen T Ebrahim Posted: Feb 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago
Avalanche rescue training in Chitral. - Photo: AKAH-P
Shamim Bano, a middle-school teacher, has recently returned from a fortnight in Kabul where she taught Afghan women to do search and rescue work. The training âinvolved climbing mountains and gorges using ropes and harnesses, using ziplines and rappelling. Any wrong move and you can start a rock fall,â she explained.
Handling serious casualties, âwith broken bones, head, neck and back injuries,â was also part of the training, she added.
Ved Mehta An illustrious writer of the sub-continent
By News Desk| Updated: 16th January 2021 12:23 pm IST
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin
To Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the twelve gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta.
Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on 9 January 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained.
The writer is an author.
TO Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the 12 gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta.
Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on Jan 9, 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained.
Determined to do more with his life than threading cane chairs or playing a musical instrument, he moved to the United States at the age of 15. There, at Arkansas School for the Blind, in Little Rock, he learned to compensate for the loss of one of his senses by refining the other four.
Remembering the ones we lost
List of notable personalities who passed away in 2020
Remembering who passed away in 2020. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
The year 2020 will for times to come be remembered as a year of loss and mourning. As the year draws to a close, we remember some of Pakistan s notable personalities who we lost this year forever.
Their loss - for various reasons - added to the despair of the friends and families they left behind as the outbreak of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic upended, among several other things, our traditional ways of mourning the demise of a loved one.
Another challenge for Pakistan’s foreign policy is to muster international support against India
While Pakistan targets Indian intelligence agency RAW’s networks on its soil relations with the eastern neighbor remain tense. India is not showing any flexibility on the Kashmir issue and has in the recent years adopted an aggressive and threatening tone towards Pakistan.
Pakistan has launched a new diplomatic initiative to win back its old friends Saudi Arabia and the UAE and exposing India after the Brussels-based EU DisinfoLab’s reports about India’s covert activities to malign Pakistan. The recent developments are unlikely to bring the two rivals to the negotiation table.