Focusing the World’s Attention
As bombs continue to fall on Aleppo, Syria’s ravaged metropolis, Israel’s first Arab newscaster Lucy Aharish switched from Hebrew to English during an evening broadcast of her show on Channel 2 television, to direct a message at viewers around the world.
Emphasizing the genocide in Halab, Syria, she says that the genocide is basically a holocaust that no one wants to hear or talk about.
In the age of social media where information can fit into the palm of your hand and where people can see and hear the victims and their horror stories in real-time, they are standing doing nothing while children are being slaughtered every single hour. The situation is getting worse and nobody in France, the UK, and Germany or America is doing anything to stop it.
The Arab newscaster called out the UN for holding meetings of security councils and wiping away a tear when they see the image of a father holding the body of his little daughter. She calls it hypocrisy.
Aharish is an Arab, a Muslim, a citizen of the State of Israel but she’s also a citizen of the world who is ashamed as a human being because the leaders are incapable of being articulate in their condemnation and powerful in their actions. The world is being taken hostage by terrorists and murderers and no one is doing anything to maintain peace. Armenia, Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda and World War II, all are living examples of the catastrophe.
Quoting Albert Einstein she ends her broadcast saying, “The world won’t be destroyed by those who do evil but rather by those who watch them without doing nothing.”
Asian Junior Tennis Player
Mikaeel Ali Baig, the grandson of Khushbakht Shujaat and Shujaat Ali Baig, has made Pakistan proud by winning the gold medal at the Junior Asian ITF Tournament 2021 held in Islamabad. Pakistan won against India in the finals with a score of 10-5.
The 11-year-old tennis player plays and trains in both the US and Pakistan. He is currently ranked amongst the top 10 in Florida, USA. From having his first racket at the age of 2 and attending various training sessions, Mikaeel has been enthusiastic to own the game of tennis.
His coaches praised him saying he’s one of the few tennis players who can slide like Novak Djokovic on hard courts and Mikaeel is a big admirer of Novak.
He also has a YouTube channel by the name ‘Lead the Way’ where he interviews local readers, small business owners and frontline workers impacted by Covid-19 in his community. He is hoping to bring change through ‘Lead the Way’.
The picture is from Indore.
Aryan D’Rozario posted this photo on his Twitter account saying that folks in Pakistan would be very interested to see this as the boy in white, right in the middle, went onto become the Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1960-68. All his other siblings remained in India.
With the rising inflation in Pakistan, the common man is left with nothing but more difficulties for him in fulfilling the needs of his family. In a country where poverty is already a serious issue, the government is increasing prices of even the basic necessities.
Yes, the similarity is visible. The photo is widely circulating on social media for its resemblance to the famous web series ‘Money Heist’. Titled ’50 Crore’, one wonders if this really is the Pakistan version of ‘Money Heist’.
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