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Pakistan looks forward to working with whoever Trump sues in Pennsy lvania, Michigan; Canada ‘very carefully’ monitoring unfolding

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ennsylvania, Georgia, and Nevada. After former Vice President Joe Biden was named the winner of Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday afternoon, these three states could decide the election.

Biden officially holds 264 electoral votes and Trump has 214. The winner needs 270. Biden needs to secure an additional 6 electoral college votes; Trump, 57. Pennsylvania is a mustwin for Trump, but mail-in ballots that make up the remaining votes are expected to continue heavily favoring Biden and could give him an edge to carry the Keystone State.

Tallies from Alaska (3 electoral votes) and Nevada (6 electoral votes) are also outstanding. Alaska is a heavy favorite to go to Trump. Nevada, where Biden

is ahead by less than 1 percentage point, might not have its final results until Thursday. North Carolina is also still undecided, but Trump holds a lead of more than 1 percentage point.

If Biden wins Nevada, it would be enough for him to reach 270 electoral votes. Trump’s path includes winning Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada.

Biden could also secure the presidency if he carries Georgia, which could be called Wednesday, or Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral votes. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said his state’s results could be finished counted by the end of Wednesday or Thursday. It is taking Pennsylvania the longest to finish counting all votes because of the deluge of 2.6 million mail-

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“I will do my level best” - read Premier ‘Act of terror’: At least 22 killed in Kabul Univercity attack John Horgan’s victory speech

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a privilege for the past three and a half years to serve British columbians, to make sure we can make life better for everyone.

I want to make sure that government works for you, each and every day. That is my passion. That is my calling. That’s why I get up every morning, and I’m grateful for the returns tonight and the final count that’s yet to come, giving the opportunity to me and my colleagues to continue our work on your behalf.

COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down. None of us expected to be here.

None of us expected that we would have to endure the challenges we’ve had over the past number of months, but we are far from out of the woods. COVID-19 will be with us for the foreseeable future.

And we need to focus on making sure that we’re keeping ourselves safe, our fam-

n Saturday night, British Columbians made a decisive choice about their next government, electing a BC NDP majority government led by John Horgan.

“Premier John Horgan will become first consecutive 2-term premier in party history John Horgan spoke to the media late in the evening about the election, his victory and what comes next. In case you missed it, we’re pleased to share the text ily safe, and our community safe.

To be Continued at page 4 with you here.“It has been an honor and

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Young Muslim heroes hailed for helping victims during Vienna attack

SIL claim responsibility for attack on Afghanistan’s biggest university; President Ghani announces day of mourning.

At least 22 people were killed and 22 other wounded when gunmen stormed Kabul University in a brutal, hours-long assault that saw students left in pools of blood in their classrooms. The attack in Afghanistan’s capital on Monday, claimed by the the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL, ISIS) group, came as violence surged across the country.

It was also the second time in less than two weeks that an educational institution was targeted in the capital.

On Tuesday, the country’s first Vice President Amrullah Saleh

pointed finger of blame on the Taliban, which rejected his claims. Saleh told local media that there are many evidences to prove his claim, but Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was an attempt by Saleh to defame the armed group, which signed an agreement with the US in February.

Survivors described horrific scenes following the incident that unfolded around 11am (0530 GMT) when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the campus. Two gunmen then started shooting, officials said, sending hundreds of students fleeing and scrambling over perimeter walls. Fraidoon Ahmadi, a 23-year-old student, told To be Continued at page 7

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Pakistan looks forward to working with whoever winsespecially USonelection: FO the Kashmir issue.

Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Tuesday said Pakistan looks forward to working with whoever wins the United States election — Republican President Donald Trump or Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.While speaking to Arab News, the FO spokesperson conveyed the country’s best wishes to Americans who voted in the record-setting election on Tuesday. He added that the election was an “internal matter” of the US. ‘Even-handed treatment’ Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan had said Pakistan wants “even-handed treatment” from the United States with respect to India,

In an interview with German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, he warned that the region was a hotspot and could flare up at any time. “That’s why we expect the US, as the strongest country in the world, to be evenhanded, whoever becomes president. The US thinks India will contain China, which is a completely flawed premise,” the PM said.

Similarities with Trump With the US elections just a few days away, Imran had refrained from saying which candidate had a better shot at winning.

“Joe Biden is in front in opinion polls, but Donald Trump is very unpredictable because he’s not like normal politicians. He plays by his own rules,” he said.Imran said when he started his own party he had to do a lot of “out-of-thebox thinking”.“[PTI] was the first to rely on social media and the first to attract the youth to our rallies.” Asked whether he saw similarities between himself and the US president, Imran said: “We [PTI] had to be very unorthodox and, in some ways, Donald Trump does too.”

Source: dawn.com

Pakistan and Bosnia vow to increase trade, scientific cooperation Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic arrived on a two-day visit to Islamabad on Wednesday where he, along with Prime Minister Imran Khan, vowed to increase cooperation on science, trade and other fields between the two countries. Both leaders also oversaw the signing of two memorandums of understanding between the two countries at the Prime Minister’s House, where Dzaferovic was received by the PM and also presented a guard of honour, Radio Pakistan reported.

Speaking at a joint press conference after the accords were signed, Prime Minister Imran said both countries had decided to improve trade relations with each other. According to Radio Pakistan, the premier pointed out that trade between the two countries currently stood at €4.5 million which he said was “nothing”.“We have had meetings and will have further meetings to improve trade and cooperation in all fields,” he said.

The premier also thanked Bosnia for its support of Pakistan’s stance on occupied Kash-

‘Blackmailers’ will face justice, vows PM

GILGIT: Prime Minister Imran Khan has declared that now his focus will be on rule of law, as during the past two years his entire focus had been on Pakistan’s economy in order to “set it in the right direction”. “I will oversee the state institutions myself so that powerful convicts of the country trying to blackmail [the government] are brought into the ambit of the law. You will see in the coming days whose legs shake and whose forehead sweats,” Prime Minister Khan said while addressing the Azadi Parade ceremony in connection with the 73rd Independence Day of Gilgit-Baltistan in Gilgit on Sunday.

Mr Khan said since the opposition was criticising the chiefs of Pakistan Army and Inter Services Intelligence, it proved that he had appointed the right people to the posts.

“If these thieves [opposition] are speaking against them, it means they [chiefs] are the right people,” he said.

He lambasted the opposition parties for what he said “attacking the state institutions” and “promoting the enemies’ narrative”. He said those who wanted to “discredit the army and the judiciary” were speaking “the language of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi”. He said the Modi government was the most extremist government in India’s history, as they were pursing the Hindutva ideology. They hated Muslims and Pakistan, perpetrating brutalities on

India has no historical or legal locus standi on GB, FO responds to Indian defence minister mir. “[Bosnia] took a principled stance and talked about the people’s rights [and] a just settlement. India has been taken over by a fascist ideology — not just with what is happening in Kashmir but also with minorities in India.” The PM disclosed that both leaders also discussed Islamophobia in their meeting. “We condemned terrorist acts by Muslims in France but we felt that for inter-religious harmony, it is important that freedom of speech is not used as an instrument to hurt the sentiments of any religious community,” The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday rejected he added. Source: dawn.com the statement made by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh regarding Gilgit-Baltistan, stating that Delhi had “no locus standi whatsoever LAHORE: An accountability court is likely to on the issue” whether it be historical, legal, or indict Leader of Opposition in National Assem- moral.A day earlier, the Indian minister had said bly Shehbaz Sharif, his son Leader of Opposi- that GB was an “integral part of India” and had tion in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz and lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan’s anothers in the money laundering and illegal as- nouncement regarding granting the region the sets reference on the next hearing. status of a province.

Earlier, the jail officials produced the duo before “Pakistan has illegally occupied GB. Pakistan the court in two separate Armoured Personnel is going to make it a province now. Our governVehicles (APCs) while strict security measures ment has clarified that GB, along with the entire To be continued at page 16 Pakistan occupied Kashmir, is an integral part of

India,” Singh had said, according to Hindustan Times.“Gratuitous repetition of false claims by RSS-BJP leaders for political point-scoring can neither change facts nor can they draw attention away from the reprehensible human rights violations being perpetrated against the Kashmiri people by Indian occupation forces in the valley,” the FO said in a statement issued today.

“Pakistan’s principled position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute remains firmly anchored in the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.

“Administrative, political and economic reforms are a long standing demand of the people of GB. The envisaged provisional reforms reflect the aspirations of the indigenous populace of GB,” the FO said.Pakistan also called upon India to immediately end its illegal and forcible occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir.

“India must comply with its international obligations by allowing the Kashmiris to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations as enshrined in the relevant UNSC resolutions,” the statement said. Source: dawn.com

ple lost their lives after a political party tried to stop then chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry from leaving the airport. Raises several issues in her three-page letter to president “In Nov 2017 an extremist group blocked the route from Rawalpindi to Islamabad by staging a sit-in at Faizabad, beating up policemen and destroying public property,” Mrs Isa wrote.

Mrs Sarina said it was regrettable that the recommendations made in the Quetta Commission report by her husband, Justice Qazi Faez Isa, had yet to be implemented while “dictates by foreign governments are accepted without murmur”.

“Is it not in our own interest to do more than what others ask us to do to protect ourselves.

Khosa decided to convene the SJC, allegedly without taking Justice Isa into confidence, Mrs Isa said. Justice Khosa repeatedly sent for then attorney general Anwar Mansoor Khan, who after the reference was filed, allegedly asked Prime Minister’s Special Assistant Shahzad Akbar on June 1 last year to provide him her (Mrs Isa’s) tax returns. Source: dawn.com

Shehbaz, Hamza may be indicted on next hearing

ISLAMABAD: Sarina Isa, the wife of Justice Qazi Faez Isa, has written a letter to President Arif Alvi in which she questioned how a judge can be considered a security threat even after putting aside his “personal safety concerns and showing resolve against terrorism”. In her three-page letter written on Tuesday, Mrs Isa wondered why recommendations of the 2017 Quetta Commission report on the previous year’s carnage in the Balochistan capital had not been implemented. Over 70 people, mostly lawyers, were slaughtered on that day, but the crime remained unsolved till a judge of the Supreme Court was commissioned, Mrs Isa observed. She further recalled the May 12, 2007, mayhem in Karachi when over 50 peo-

innocent Kashmiri people, he said, adding that the laws enacted by the Modi government — the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens — were targeted at Indian Muslims.

Says opposition’s criticism proves he appointed right people to the posts of army chief and ISI director general No previous government had done to occupied Kashmir what the “extremist, racist, totalitarian” government of Modi had done, he said, while emphasising that this was the reason Pakistan needed a strong army.

He said: “There is no week when our soldiers do not sacrifice their lives. From our merged [tribal] districts to Balochistan and sometimes even in Karachi, planned terrorism is being carried out. Who is challenging them? Our army and security forces…

We know Narendra Modi’s government is trying to [create chaos] not only through terrorism but also through Shia-Sunni conflict. They planned to spread chaos by killing Shia and Sunni scholars. I pay tribute to our army that foiled these plans.”....

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Sarina asks Alvi why Isa is seen as ‘security threat’ Can the President honestly say that the children killed in Peshawar would not have been alive if the report’s recommendations had been implemented.

“Do maimed survivors suffering everlasting trauma are good only for photo-opportunities,” the letter wondered.

Mrs Isa recalled how the President’s reference against Justice Isa was shown to her husband by former chief justice Asif Saeed Khosa before forwarding it to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). “My husband told Justice Khosa that the properties were not his and he had no concern with them,” the letter said. Justice Khosa then observed: “How then is the reference maintainable.”

But then “something changed” and Justice

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Protecting against the Second wave

S Covid-19 cases rise across the country, it seems to be a matter of time before strict public health measures designed to stem the virus’s spread will be implemented.

These steps will be accompanied by the same types of issues regarding socioeconomic vulnerability witnessed earlier between March to June.

To some extent, the government rightly prides itself over its socioeconomic response to the virus. The relatively efficient expansion of the flagship BISP cash transfer scheme to include new enrollees and the overall scale of disbursement has been impressive.

A second wave of the virus and its accompanying containment measures pose a complex set of challenges for policymakers. These challenges gain further salience in a context currently marked by rapid food inflation. Contemporary vulnerability has multiple dimensions, livelihoods are already under pressure and incomes remain squeezed.

The government needs to ask itself two important questions in the coming weeks: firstly, did the first set of vulnerability-addressing responses achieve their intended goal? Secondly, will they prove to be sufficient this time around?

This piece does not propose an answer to either of these questions. However, it attempts to provide a framework through which they may be answered.

A new wave of the virus and its accompanying containment measures pose a complex set of challenges.

One aspect of the past social protection response that deserves scrutiny is the metric being used to evaluate its success. So far, the focus has been on ‘output’ metrics, rather than on out-

come ones. What this means is that the government has fixated on numbers — people/businesses reached, amount disbursed — rather than an evaluation of whether these outputs actually addressed vulnerability.

Extant survey data tells us that the number of households reporting a livelihood shock of the scale that required some form of assistance — from family/friends or the government — is very high. In some estimates, it was reported as high as 50 per cent. The corresponding number of households reporting access to Covid-19-related government assistance is closer to 12pc.

An accompanying point is with regard to particular types of populations that require targeting for vulnerability-related assistance. Various researchers have mentioned that the pandemic’s urban bias (related to density and population), and the corresponding public health measures arguably make urban informal-sector workers more vulnerable than the rural poor. However, Pakistan’s social protection mechanisms — given their reliance on the poverty scorecard method that places greater weightage to asset and consumption scores — are geared towards addressing persistent vulnerability, rather than the type that’s induced by an exogenous shock.

The challenge in reaching these populations is immense, and one that requires considerable state capacity. Identifying vulnerable groups in a population characterised by frequent displacement and migration is a challenge, and one that poses an additional set of health-related complications. The case of India, where mass migration accompanied the illtimed and communicated lockdown, is instructive in this regard.

At the same time, a higher level of difficulty in targeting should not in itself be a reason to give up. There are several tools that the government can draw on for this task. The first and most obvious one is to carry out district-representative surveys ahead of any public health measures being undertaken. The ideal time to do this would be now, when cases have not yet reached a point necessitating harsh lockdowns and restrictions on economic activity. These surveys would also be able to provide reasonable evidence of the past success of the cash transfer scheme in terms of the types of population reached.

Using survey data would also be able to establish the differential impact of vulnerability across different sectors of the urban economy — manufacturing, home-based work, construction, and retail-wholesale trade. It can then be used to identify possible points of contact within civil society that would help reach out to at-risk populations.

A second mechanism would be to rely on existing constituency-based political structures. For the past decade, there has been a general reluctance to involve political actors in the design and implementation of social protection and welfare measures, largely in a bid to keep them non-partisan and programmatic.

The historical case of zakat and Baitul Maal funds serve as cautionary reminders of how unaccountable political control over welfare measures can result in patronage-based outlays that have little consideration for actual need.

However, there are some intrinsic benefits of involving political input into welfare programmes beyond the obvious ones of ownership and electoral accountability. In the current structure

of Pakistani politics, the constituency already serves as the key arena in which citizens claim rights and access to services. A sizeable pool of party leaders and activists are usually tasked with running party affairs in the constituency, and elected representatives are first and foremost concerned with constituency-related affairs. Livelihoods and associated vulnerabilities are one such affair.

Politicians can engage with constituents in relevant localities to obtain specific information on how the pandemic may have impacted their livelihoods in either urban or rural areas in general. They can also receive feedback on if current policies designed to limit the impact of Covid-19 are working and what else can be done. Such exercises constitute ‘learnings from the field’ that can be compiled into ‘fact-finding and assessment’ documents that summarise the feedback and views received from grassroots supporters and constituents. Ultimately, these can feed into higher tiers of administrative decision-making — the district, divisional, or the provincial tier — thus opening up insular and mostly bureaucratic bodies to new sets of information.

The core task of the measures suggested here is to widen access to information and data that decision-makers may not have. The country’s virus status is currently at a particular point in time where such measures can have the greatest amount of impact because they’re sequenced, unlike in the first wave, prior to any welfare interventions being designed and undertaken. This should help make them even more effective and efficient.

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“I will do my level best” - read Premier John Horgan’s victory speech Continued from Page 1

The challenges we have are daunting, but I believe that if we focus on the things that matter to British columbians, the things that matter to people, we will get through this. Let’s focus on building back our education system by investing in schools and the people that work in them by making sure our seniors care facilities have the staff that they need to care for our seniors in their latter years.Let’s keep build-

People of British Columbian have given Horgan a High-five.

By Hanif A. Patel, Surrey

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eople of British Columbian have given Horgan a Highfive.

NDP decimates opposition with stunning election Victory and emerged as a invincible party in the Province.

NDP elected back with a bigger majority than before, termed his victory a mandate from a Province, a victory for an aspirational and inclusive future.

It is the triumph of hope. What makes John Horgan’s victory significant is that in last two years his brand of politics- socially liberal, economically inclusive and politically democratic.

Whether dealing with COVID-!9 pandemic or public related issue

ing childcare all across British Columbia, so that families can fully participate in the economy to make their lives stronger, and to make their community stronger as well.

For me, this comes down to a few simple things.

I was raised by a single mom who told me to do my best every day, my level best. I say that a lot. She said it a lot to me. “All you have to do, John, is your level best.” I commit to all British columbians, for the

handled by his Goverment adequately. Succeed to convince the voters that their roles and contributions are purposeful. NDP made worked tirelessly to keep province moving forward with take care of affordable life.

The huge mandate as an endorsement of the pro development agenda of John Horgan’s coterie.

The various initiatives his government has introduced in the sphere of health care, education, economy and transportation infrastructure have surely struck the right cord with the British Columbian people and that has resulted in the victory.

The John Horgan’s government has made it very easy and transparent for the masses.

It is a great victory no doubt for NDP and we hope the party will use it wisely to guide Province to prosperity.

next four years, I will do my level best to make sure your lives are better, more affordable, and the challenge that you face can be overcome, if we do it together.

Thank you so very very much to many, many people who voted for NDP candidates this evening and as I said, to all of those who participated, a debt of gratitude from all of us for stepping up in this extraordinary time.

Thanks so much. Let’s get back to work.”

CAIR Exit Poll Shows American Muslims Vote in Record Numbers, races across this country - includthe presidential election - was 69% Voted for Biden ing recognized nationally by candidates

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/3/20) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, tonight released the results of its 2020 Muslim Voters Presidential Election Exit Poll.

CAIR’s poll of 844 registered Muslim voter households indicated a high Muslim turnout with 84 percent reporting that they voted in the election - 69 percent voting for former Vice President Joe Biden and 17 percent for President Donald Trump.

“CAIR would like to thank the more than one million American Muslim voters who turned out in recordbreaking numbers this election cycle,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. “The Muslim community’s significant ability to impact the results of numerous

and the media.” ”Muslims vote and there is no denying the role our community plays in local, state and national politics,” said CAIR Director of Government Affairs Robert S. McCaw. “Now is the time to hold the politicians we elected to office accountable to ensure that the civil and religious rights of all American are being upheld and protected.”

Compared to the 2016 election, in which then President-elect Donald Trump received a 13 percent of the Muslim vote, Trump in 2020 received 4 percent more support.

The CAIR exit poll of more than 844 registered Muslim voter households from across the nation was conducted using an independent automated call survey provider and asked two questions:

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Narrated `Abdullah bin Buhaina:

Allah’s Messenger (SAW) got up after the second rak`a of the Zuhr prayer without sitting in between (the second and the third rak`at). When he finished the prayer he performed two prostrations (of Sahu) and then finished the prayer with Taslim.

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uhamm a d is the Prophet of Islam.

Professor Walid Saleh explains the role of prophecy in Islam, discussing the primacy of the Prophet Muhammad and his life, as well as exploring other biblical and Arabian prophets present in the Qur’an, and the tradition of literature about them.

When the Qur’an summarises the points that a Muslim must accept as a matter of faith, the list includes: belief in the Oneness of God (tawhid), in angels, in prophecy (nubuwwah) and in revelation (wahy).

Muslims also have to believe in resurrection and judgement. There are three major players in the Qur’an: God who wants to guide humanity, humanity who are ignorant of God and the prophets and messengers who are selected by God to communicate his word to humanity. Prophets are thus the most important part of human history in the Qur’an, and Islam.

What is the Islamic view of prophecy?

Prophecy is seen by Muslims as an essential part of human history. God, Muslims believe, has always chosen individuals to communicate with, and He then ‘sends’ these prophets to a specific community to convey His words and will. Prophets are thus chosen

by God as messengers (rasul), who convey a message (risalah). God speaks to these messengers in various ways, mostly by a process called inspiration (wahy). There are two terms for the word prophet in Arabic, rasul, messenger, and nabi, prophesier. It is understood that some prophets are given books (kitab), which gather the revelation or the messages proclaimed by a prophet. These books contain the preaching of the prophet concerned, on behalf of God. These books are thus the word of God. Prophets are fully human, they eat and sleep, and some marry and have children. Some have the ability to perform miracles, acts that break the laws of nature, such as making rocks gush with water, splitting the sea or resurrecting the dead. Muhammad, according to Muslims, split the moon into two halves and ascended to Heaven one night to meet God.

At the age of forty Muhammad started to experience visions and hear revelations.

He soon realised that he had been chosen for a task: to preach to his own tribe about the one true God. Muhammad wanted his people to stop worshipping many gods and worship the one true God, the creator of the universe. When he started preaching very few people believed in him, and even when he performed miracles people accused him of being a magician and possessed by demons. Muhammad preached to his tribe for ten years, but he never succeeded in converting them. Eventually they wanted to kill him, and he migrated to another city, Medina (previously called Yathrib).

tells the story of prophets and their preaching. Most of the preaching of the prophets is about two major issues. The first is that the world is created by one God, and people should worship this true God. The other is that people should behave morally and not harm each other, feeding the poor, looking after orphans, not stealing or being greedy, not killing, not swearing falsely and being kind and loving to one’s parents. The Qur’an through the prophets is telling humanity that our worth is based on how good we are as human beings. Those who do good deeds and believe in the one true God will be saved and rewarded.

The migration to Medina is called Hijrah in Arabic. This became the most important point in the life of Muhammad, and the year Muhammad migrated to Medina is the beginning of the Muslim calendar. Muslims started counting years from that year, corresponding to 622 CE. In Medina Muhammad wrote a treaty with the inhabitants of the city, including its Jewish tribes. This treaty is called the Constitution of Medina.

It declares that the Muslims are a nation, a religious community (ummah) and that Medina is a religious shrine and a holy city.

Muhammad became the leader of his new community in Medina, which then began to grow, and conquered his native city, Mecca.

Eventually, Muhammad became the most powerful leader in Arabia and the tribes accepted his position as a prophet and as the head of the community. Muhammad left for the Muslims two major items: the Qur’an, which has the word of God as revealed to Muhammad, and the notion of the Muslims as being a nation or a community united under one God. Although Muhammad performed other miracles, his most important miracle is the Qur’an. It is seen as both the message of God to humanity and the miracle that points to the truth of this message.

many of the same figures also feature, such as Ibrahim (Abraham, the father of all the prophets), Musa (Moses, the leader of the Israelites), Yusuf (Joseph) and Isa (Jesus), the prophet before Muhammad.

The Qur’an believes that the core message of all the prophets is the same: as carriers of revelation they came to declare that there is one God, the creator and preserver of the universe, and that human beings have to worship and submit to His will. Islam, meaning ‘submission’ to God, is seen as the core message of all the prophets sent by God. There are several narrative similarities between the Qur’an and its biblical forerunners: it shares the same story about the creation of the world with the Hebrew Bible, it also shares with the New Testament the idea that the world will come to an end, followed by a resurrection of the dead and a judgement that will see humanity divided into the damned in Hell and the saved in Paradise. Along with Abraham, the Qur’an features the stories of several of the Patriarchs in the Old Testament, Noah, David and Solomon. Their stories in the Qur’an, however,

Biblical prophets When did the religion of Islam begin As the Qur’an shares many of the same stories as the Bible it is not surprising that to flourish?

differ on details, and more importantly on the significance of these stories and what they mean to future generations.

Mostly, the story is presented as a failed attempt to convince a people to obey God. The stories are told in the Qur’an to convince people that God wants the best for human beings, and the best way to be saved is to follow the prophets that God sends them. Each community gets the chance to have a prophet and hear through him about the one God. People who obey this prophet are saved, those who do not are usually destroyed.

Arabian prophets

In addition to familiar names from the Bible, the Qur’an has stories about tribes of Arabia, ancient Arab tribes that have since disappeared from history. These tribes had never received the Word of God before, but were seen as part of God’s plan for humanity. Thus each deserved a prophet to tell them about God. Two Qur’anic prophets are Hud and Salih. Hud was sent to the people of Aad, a prosperous but proud civilisation.

He preached about the one true God, but his people derided him and continued to worship their gods and put their faith in earthly goods and riches. As punishment God sent a tremendous storm that destroyed Aad. Salih was sent to the tribe of Thamud, who came after the people of Aad. He brought a blessed camel to them as a miracle, which they were asked not to harm. The people killed the camel and refused to believe in God. God punished them with an earthquake. The stories in the Qur’an are thus also meant to warn people not to disobey God.

What place do these prophets have in Islam?

In addition to the Qur’an, Muslims started to tell the stories of these prophets in more detail, expanding on the narrative contained in the scripture. A distinct genre of extraQur’anic tradition developed, with collections of stories proving among the most

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God to convey his message, transmitted in the Qur’an, the foundational scripture of the Muslim community. Muslims believe that Muhammad was the last prophet. He was the last of a line of prophets sent by God to guide humanity, the seal of the prophets (khatam al-nabiyyin, Q. 33.40). Muhammad was born in Mecca in Arabia around the year 570 CE. His father died before he was born and he grew up in his grandfather’s house. We know about the life of Muhammad from the biographies written by Muslims, which are called the sirah. Works telling the life of the Prophet continue to be popular across the world in all Muslim communities The Prophet’s biography tells us that Muhammad was a bright, honest and trustworthy young man who worked in commerce. He married a woman by the name of Khadija who was older than him.

Muhammad was, and is, also seen by Muslims to represent the perfect human being and the most exemplary role model (uswa hasana, Q. 33.21). Testimonies about what Muhammad said became the second most important source of religious truth. Thus in addition to the Qur’an, which is the word of God, Muslims collected the sayings of Muhammad and called them Hadith. Together with the Qur’an, the Prophet’s sayings are his most important legacy and inheritance.

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Trump sues in Pennsylvania, Michigan; Vienna gunman: ISIS supporter asks for Wisconsin recount Mark Sherman who ‘fooled’ the system WASHINGTON -- The Trump campaign said it filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in undecided battleground states that could determine whether U.S. President Donald Trump gets another four years in the White House.

Suits in both states are demanding better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted, the campaign said. The campaign also is seeking to intervene in a Pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court that deals with whether ballots received up to three days after the election can be counted, deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said.

The campaign said it is calling for a temporary halt in the counting in both states until it is given “meaningful” access in numerous locations and allowed to review ballots that already have been opened and processed.

Trump is running slightly behind Democratic nominee Joe Biden in Michigan. The president is ahead in Pennsylvania but his margin is shrinking as more mailed ballots are counted. There have been no reports of fraud or any type of ballot concerns out of Pennsylvania. The state had 3.1 million mail-in ballots that take time to count and an order allows them to be counted up until Friday if they are postmarked by Nov. 3.

The campaign also said it would ask for a recount in Wisconsin, a state The Associated Press called for Biden on Wednesday afternoon. Campaign manager Bill Stepien cited “irregularities in several Wisconsin counties.”

The actions came as elections officials counted votes in several undecided states that are crucial to the outcome of the presidential election. The former vice-president’s campaign meanwhile welcomed the ongoing vote count and a Biden campaign attorney said they are ready for any legal fight. And Michigan Democrats said the suit was a longshot. Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, a liberal advocacy group, said Trump only filed the suit to stop The Associated Press and other media outlets from calling the race for Biden.

“This is a Hail Mary,” he said.

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Turkey earthquake: Search efforts continue for third day as death toll rises Rescue teams in the Turkish port city of Izmir are continuing to search for survivors of Friday’s powerful earthquake, as officials say the death toll has increased to at least 64.

Sixty-two deaths have been confirmed in Turkey, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos. Dozens of people remain unaccounted for following the quake.

A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a building in Izmir after being trapped for some 33 hours.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said Friday’s quake was 7.0 magnitude, but Turkey put it lower at 6.6.

The shallow tremor triggered tidal waves that hit coastal areas and islands in both Turkey and Greece.

What’s the latest?

Rescue teams were searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings in western Turkey for a third day on Sunday, hoping to find survivors.Thousands of personnel were deployed to help with the rescue efforts, using mechanical diggers to remove blocks of concrete.

Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca visited Mr Citim in hospital, and said he was doing well. Later on Sunday, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced the new na-

tional death toll of 62, all in Izmir.

It said more than 900 people had been injured, though the majority have now been discharged from hospitals.

Eight people are reported to be in intensive care. Food was distributed among survivors and thousands of tents set up for those unable to return to their homes.

Vice-President Fuat Oktay said 26 badly damaged buildings would be demolished.

“It’s not the earthquake that kills but buildings,” he told reporters.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government was “determined to heal the wounds of our brothers and sisters in Izmir before the cold and rains begin”.

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VIENNA -- The gunman responsible for an attack in Vienna which left four people dead on Monday night was a convicted supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS) group who the government says “fooled” official de-radicalization efforts. The 20-year-old, named as Kujtim Fejzulai, was shot dead by police and was armed with a shortened Kalashnikov, a handgun, a machete and a fake explosive belt. According to Interior Minster Karl Nehammer, Fejzulai had dual MacedonianAustrian nationality and had already been convicted last year of attempting to travel to Syria and trying to join ISIS. After that conviction, Fejzulai, whose name suggests he is of ethnic Albanian origin, was sentenced to 22 months in prison, but was released early on parole in December.

“The perpetrator managed to fool the justice system’s de-radicalisation programme, to fool the people in it, and to get an early release through this,” Nehammer said, suggesting that the attacker had made special efforts to deceive probation officers.

“Therefore there were no warning signs of his radicalisation,” he added.

Justice Minister Alma Zadic said that, in line with Austrian law, Fejzulai had been paroled in December 2019 after serving two thirds of his sentence, but also put on three years’ probation. ”This enables us to continue to

have an influence over the perpetrator beyond the term of their prison sentence,” she said, pointing out that this would not have been the case had he simply served his full sentence which normally would have expired in July 2020.

In Fejzulai’s case, he was required to report regularly to probation counsellors and the de-radicalisation programme DERAD, “which, according to our current knowledge, he did,” Zadic said.

After Monday’s shocking attack, Fejzulai’s home was raided and the evidence of his radical sympathies became clear. “It was clear that the attacker, despite all the outward signs of having integrated into society, did exactly the opposite,” the minister said.In a Facebook post, he posed with the Kalashnikov and the machete he would go on to use in the attack together with a caption saying he was “serving the sultanate” and other typical ISIS messages, Nehammer said. Source: ctvnews.ca

World reacts with anger, solidarity after Vienna shootings

Leaders in Europe and around the world condemn Vienna attacks as Austrian police continue manhunt for suspects.

Gunmen opened fire in six locations across central Vienna on Monday night, in an attack that left at least three dead – including one of the assailants – and some 15 people wounded.

The motive for the shootings, which began near the Austrian capital’s main synagogue, was not clear, but Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz described the shootings as a “repulsive terror attack” and said the gunmen were “very well equipped with automatic weapons” and had “prepared professionally”.

Leaders in Europe and elsewhere took to social media to condemn the attack and express solidarity with Austria.

Here is a round-up of their reactions.

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aimed at dividing our societies.”

United Kingdom

Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, said he was “deeply shocked by the terrible attacks” in Vienna.

“We stand united with you against terror,” he said in a tweet.

European Union

Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, called the attack a “cowardly act” that “violates life and our human values”.

“We stand with Austria,” he said in a tweet.

Italy Giuseppe Conte, the president of Italy, also “strongly condemned” the shootings.

“There is no room for hatred and violence in our common European home,” he said on Twitter in Italian and German.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, which has experienced two serious attacks in recent weeks, tweeted that “we French share the shock and sorrow of the Austrian people”.

Germany The German foreign ministry called the attacks “terrifying and disturbing”.

“We don’t know the full extent of the terror yet, our thoughts are with the injured and victims Netherlands at this difficult time,” the ministry said in a Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, extweet. “We will not give way to hatred which is pressed solidarity in a tweet.Source: aljazeera.com

Biden ‘confident’ he’ll win after all votes counted

Donald Trump launched multiple lawsuits in hopes of halting vote-counting in Midwestern battlegrounds where he’s trailing.

Biden said it’s clear he’s winning enough states to reach the threshold of 270 electoral votes necessary to clinch the presidency.

Biden won Wisconsin Wednesday, flipping the state Trump won in 2016, and he expects Michigan will be next, followed by a strong showing among outstanding mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, where he holds a sizeable advantage.

“I’m not here to declare that we’ve won, but TORONTO.Joe Biden expressed confidence I am here to report that when the count is he will win the presidency as he insisted eve- finished, we believe we will be the winners,” ry last vote be counted, while U.S. President Biden told supporters in Delaware Wednesday afternoon. Biden also used the moment

to call for unity following the bitter campaign. He urged Americans to work harder to listen to each other and leave the divisive election behind them. “To make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. We are not enemies,” he said.

Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign has launched lawsuits in hopes of stopping vote-counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania, which have yet to declare a winner. Trump is also calling for a recount in Wisconsin, which Biden has won by more than 20,000 votes. A 2016 recount in Wisconsin changed the margin in Trump’s favour by 131 votes.

Biden urged for the democratic process to be carried out to completion.

“No one is going to take our democracy

away from us. Not now, not ever,” he said.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump attacked media organizations for not declaring him the winner, saying in an early-morning appearance that it was “a major fraud on our nation.”

“As far as I’m concerned, we already have won this,” he said, calling for outstanding ballots not to be counted.

In a tweet later in the day, he seemed to imply the election was being rigged against him.

“Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled,” he wrote. “Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted.

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Two young Austrians of Turkish origin have been hailed for their courage following Monday’s gun attack in the capital Vienna, after footage of them intervening to aid wounded people including a policeman spread across social media.

A video shot from a nearby building shows the pair running to a metro station exit and helping panicked passers-by to take cover — as gunshots were still echoing down the street.

On Tuesday, the interior ministry confirmed, without naming the two friends, that they had helped during the attack late Monday by a radicalised young man from North Macedonia. The assailant killed four people before being shot dead by police. A young Palestinian man was also praised as a hero for assisting an injured police officer. Mikail Ozen and Recep Tayyip Gultekin, both Austrian citizens from

Turkish backgrounds, had planned to “drink a last coffee” together at bustling Schwedenplatz before the country’s coronavirus lockdown came into effect, they said in a video posted online immediately after the attack.

The first shots could be heard even as they arrived at the busy square by the river to find “people lying on the ground covered in blood”, Ozen recalled.They went to help a panicked older woman who was looking for a place to hide — only to see a wounded policeman lying on the ground. “We couldn’t act as if we hadn’t seen him,” Ozen said. “We ran and carried him to the ambulance” by supporting him under his shoulders as the gunfire continued.

The policeman was given first aid by a Palestinian man, Osama Joda, a BBC report said.

Joda, 23, was working at a nearby McDonalds when the attacker opened fire on passers-by.

One of the police officers who arrived at the scene was also shot.

“I pulled him behind the concrete bench and tried to stop the bleeding,” Joda told local newspaper Kurier. “There was blood everywhere.”

The perpetrator fled after more police personnel arrived, and Joda then helped drag the officer to a nearby ambulance with help from Ozen and Gultekin.

Gultekin was also shot in the leg and suffered a minor injury while aiding the elderly woman and carrying her to a restaurant.

The two semi-professional martial artists issued an appeal for unity between “Jews, Christians and Muslims” that was picked up by many Austrian media outlets.

“We’re Muslims of Turkish origin, we hate any kind of terrorism. We’re with Austria, with Vienna, we respect Austria,” they said into

Surrey, BC – $16.3 million in funding for new permanent affordable housing has been earmarked for the City of Surrey. The injection of money is a result of the federal government’s Rapid Housing Initiative and will create a minimum of 33 units of new permanent affordable housing in Surrey.

“In order to affect real change in affordable housing, senior levels of government have to step up and partner with municipalities on this front,” said Mayor Doug McCallum. “That is exactly what the federal government has done with the Rapid Housing Initiative. The projects that will be created by this funding will not only help alleviate

some of the pressing needs surrounding affordable housing now, but it will be of great value in positioning us for the future. As one of the fastest growing cities in the country, I am very pleased that Surrey has been identified to receive federal funding from this very worthwhile housing initiative.”

The Rapid Housing Initiative is delivered through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the funds can go to cover the construction of modular housing, the purchase of land and the conversion of existing buildings to affordable housing.

“I would like to thank the federal government for stepping up to fund such an im-

portant initiative,” said Cllr Laurie Guerra, Board Chair of the Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society. “This program is indicative of the partnerships we need at every level of government to help solve the affordable housing issue that we face in the Lower Mainland.”

City staff will begin work on an investment plan to outline the proposed capital projects.

Upon approval of the plan, construction will be completed within 12 months of the finalization of the funding agreement.

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popular works in the Islamic world. These books usually start with the creation of the world, then the story of Adam and Eve, the story of their children Cain and Abel and the story of Noah.

They continue with the stories of Abraham and the Israelites, the Arabian prophets Hud and Salih, then the stories of David, Solomon and Balaam and Jonah are also told before usually ending with the story of Jesus.

Thus all human history before the coming of Muhammad is understood as the story

of the prophets that God sent to humanity. The British Library has a large number of these books, which are often called ‘Lives of the Prophets’. As Islam spread out beyond the Arabian Peninsula, the stories of the prophets gained popularity. The familiarity of figures from other monotheistic religions and belief systems allowed for these stories to be integrated rapidly into local cultures.

As such they have been written in every language that Muslims use, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Swahili, Malay, Urdu and many oth-

ers. They continue to be retold and remain popular stories.

Source: bl.uk/sacred-texts Walid A. Saleh is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. He is a specialists on the Qur’an and the history of Qur’anic commentary tradition. His first book was on the Qur’an commentary of al-Tha`labi (d.

1035) and his second monography was on the reception of the Bible in Islam. He is working now on an introduction to the Qur’an commentary tradition.

riving for the opening of an Iranian book fair organised on campus. President Ashraf Ghani called the attack “despicable act of terror” and announced a national day of mourning to honour the victims.

Witnesses said hundreds of people were sent fleeing and scrambling over walls of the campus when the attack took place.

“Sadly 19 people have been killed and 22 more wounded,” Interior Ministry spokesperson Tariq Arian told AFP. “Three attackers were involved. One of them blew up his explosives at the beginning, two were

brought down by the security forces.” Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramerz told AFP most of those killed were students.

Afghan media reported the book exhibition was being attended by several dignitaries at the time of the shooting.

Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Sunday that Iranian Ambassador Bahador Aminian and cultural attache Mojtaba Noroozi were scheduled to inaugurate the fair, which was to host some 40 Iranian publishers Source. aljazeera.com

the camera lens.Turkish media reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had called the pair to congratulate them.

The two young men were also invited to the Turkish embassy in Vienna where Turkey’s ambassador to Austria Ozan Ceyhun praised their conduct, according to the BBC. Source.dawn.com

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AFP news agency he was in class when gunfire broke out.

“We were very scared and we thought it could be the last day of our lives… boys and girls were shouting, praying and crying for help,” Ahmadi said, adding that he and other students were besieged for more than two hours before being rescued.

Hamid Obaidi, spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, told AFP the attack started when government officials were ar-

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Canada ‘very carefully’ monitoring Jagmeet Singh thinks the world will be unfolding U.S. election outcome: PM better off if Trump loses the election

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is “carefully” watching the votecounting that is still unfolding in the United States presidential election, while some opposition leaders are reacting to what the results show are deep divisions among our neighbours to the south.

As ballots continue to be tallied in what’s turned out to be a very tight race between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Trudeau says Canada is keeping a close eye on the political uncertainty that Americans woke up to on Wednesday. “As everyone knows, there is an electoral process underway in the United States. We of course are following it carefully and will continue to as the day, and days, unfold,” Trudeau told reporters on his way into West Block on Wednesday morning.

Later in the day he spoke in the House of Commons about the state of the race, saying that he wanted to “reassure Canadians that the Canadian government is watching very carefully events unfold in the United States.”

Trudeau did not speak about Trump’s false claim in the early-morning hours that in his view he has won, calling for counting to stop and threatening to contest the outcome at the United States Supreme Court, though some Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers offered their perspectives throughout the day.

“I am mindful of the precious gift that is democracy,” said Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development Maryam Monsef.

“I think we take for granted sometimes how smooth and how effective our elections are and how effortless it looks but how much work it actually takes… I hope they get

their vote count done quickly and I hope we get a clear answer,” said Liberal MP Adam Vaughan.

Beating Trump to the microphone in the early morning hours, Biden said he believes the Democrats are “on track to win this election,” and called for patience to allow the democratic process unfold. In further comments on Wednesday afternoon, Biden doubled down on his optimism in there being enough support for him in the remaining ballots to be counted. With a record number of advance votes and mail-in ballots cast due to the COVID-19 pandemic, votes are still being counted in a handful of key states where Trump and Biden are neck-and-neck.

In the weeks leading up to election day, Trudeau and his cabinet have been restrained in their comments about the state of the race and potential economic and policy implications for Canada. Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland have vowed repeatedly to work with whomever wins and have sought to assure Canadians that the federal government has a series of contingency response plans at the ready for any outcome, including in the event of civil unrest.......

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Omar Khadr’s sister suing federal government after she was barred from flying back to Canada

OTTAWA -- The older sister of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is suing the federal government for refusing to allow her to fly to Canada.

Zaynab Khadr filed an appeal in Federal Court on Friday seeking an order forcing the minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to remove her name from Canada’s no-fly list, saying it has no grounds to consider her a threat. She says she is a Canadian citizen and was denied boarding in Europe in February when trying to travel back to Canada with her five children. In September, Public Safety denied her request

to remove her from the list created under the Secure Air Travel Act, the appeal says.

She claims the department provided “no reasonable basis to suspect she would engage or attempt to engage in an act that would threaten public transportation or to suspect she was travelling by air to commit certain terrorism offences…”

Khadr, 41, was last reported living in the country of Georgia with her husband and children. In the past, she has spoken supportively of Osama Bin Laden. Although she has been investigated, she has never been charged with any offences.

“The allegations against the Appellant are based on her history of speech and association,” the appeal says. “The Appellant has never engaged in or threatened acts of violence, and her words have never had the effect of compelling or encouraging acts of violence.” The appeal alleges she was added to the no-fly list based on her history of speech and political views, a breach of her Charter rights. Source: .ctvnews.ca

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is not backing down when it comes to his thoughts on U.S. President Donald Trump.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday - otherwise known as Election Day for our neighbours to the south - Singh said that it would be better for the world if Trump loses the election to democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden.

“What President Trump has done is so far beyond what is normal that it is a moral imperative that we have to speak out and make it really clear that what he has done in his presidency is wrong,” Singh said The politcian went on to talk about Trump’s response to the ongoing pandemic, which he characterized as “abysmal.”

“The fact that a country just south of our border has so abysmally failed the challenge of this global pandemic has put people in the United States at risk and has put, frankly, the world at risk,” Singh said, adding that he thinks Trump has enflamed division and emboldened racism.

“I think it would be better for the world if Trump loses and I hope he loses today.”

Singh also took to Twitter to encourage

Americans to vote Trump out of office. Singh is the only major political party leader in Canada to speak on the American election on Tuesday. Back in October, though, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada is preparing for any outcome from the U.S. election.

“I think we’re all watching the U.S. election with close attention because of its potential impact on the Canadian economy and on Canadians,” Trudeau said.

“As we watch the American election unfold, we are of course prepared for various eventualities, but we are certainly hopeful that all will proceed smoothly.” ...... Source: .ctvnews.ca

One of the staffers behind the BC Liberals’ worst election performance since 1991 is stepping down.

Emile Scheffel announced on Twitter on Monday he will resign as the party’s executive director at the end of the year.

“After leading the staff team through a leadership race, two byelections, a convention, a referendum, and a pandemic election campaign, it’s time for me to figure out what I want to do if/when I grow up,” he wrote on the social media site.

“Whatever that turns out to be, I’ll be putting some time and thought into advancing mental health in politics.”

Scheffel has been the party’s executive director since July 2017, and this year, also served as co-campaign manager.

The BC Liberals won or are leading in 29 ridings in the wake of the Oct. 24 provincial vote, compared to the BC NDP winning or leading in 55 ridings.

The Liberals’ campaign was full of stumbles.

Andrew Wilkinson, who has already announced he will step down as leader, struggled to resonate with British Columbians and was widely criticized for how he dealt with some candidates’ comments on women, transgender rights, and birth control.

The biggest example was incumbent MLA Laurie Throness, who resigned over comments he made at an all-candidates debate, comparing the NDP’s free birth-control plan to eugenics. He ran as an independent in Chilliwack-Kent, though he was still list-

ed as a Liberal in official preliminary results, and is projected to win second place behind New Democrat contender Kelli Paddon.

Wilkinson was slammed for not removing Throness earlier, such as after Throness’ initial insistence to continue to buy advertising in a Christian lifestyle magazine that featured transphobic material, despite the party publicly denouncing the publication.

The party was also slow to respond to a video of MLA Jane Thornthwaite making sexist jokes about New Democrat MLA Bowinn Ma. Thornthwaite is expected to lose her seat in North Vancouver-Seymour, although mail-in ballots will not be counted until at least Nov. 13. “I have no shortage of thoughts on the future of our party and movement, and I look forward to sharing them,” Scheffel wrote.Wilkinson has said he plans to stay on as leader until a new one can be chosen. A timeline for a leadership race has not yet been released. Some final election results are expected as early as next week. Source: .globalnews.ca/news

BC Liberals executive director steps down after poor election showing

Vancouver airport to launch pilot project that offers rapid COVID-19 tests

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is set to roll out a pilot project offering rapid tests for COVID-19.

The rapid test is a collaboration between YVR and WestJet, and also involves researchers from the University of British Columbia. Travellers on select domestic departures will be offered the test, which returns results in 15 minutes.

If the system works, travellers who test negative would be able to board their flight as normal.

Testing will take place during a four-hour window each day to capture WestJet domestic departures rather than focusing on specific routes. The pilot will also target Metro Vancouver residents so that anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus can easily return home. “What we’re trying to do is understand how these could be used in a travel context

starting with domestic (travellers),” said YVR CEO Tamara Vrooman, who went on to say they hope to have the pilot up and running sometime this month. YVR is working with UBC to assess the pilot and see how it can be streamlined in an airport environment.“We’re constantly looking for ways that we can improve the confidence and the science for people travelling through,” Vrooman said.“We know that some people have to travel for essential, medical, or family or business reasons, so we want to make sure that if you do have to travel, you can do with the confidence that you’re to the highest international testing and safety protocols right here at home. Canada’s 14-day self-isolation rules still apply for all international travellers arriving at YVR. ” Source: globalnews.ca/news

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Saudi Arabia allows foreign pilgrims to enter for Umrah

About 10,000 foreign pilgrims arriving in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah after a seven-month pause.

Some 10,000 foreign pilgrims are arriving in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah after a seven-month pause because of the coronavirus pandemic. The pilgrims must isolate for three days after arrival before being transported to religious sites, according to Amr Al-Maddah, deputy minister of Hajj and Umrah. They will be allowed a 10-day stay in the kingdom. Al-Maddah said the testing of pilgrims – who are all 50 years old or younger – for COVID-19 will be continuous and any cases detected will be closely monitored.

Millions of Muslims from around the world usually travel to Saudi Arabia for the Umrah and Hajj pilgrimages. The two share com-

mon rites but the Hajj, held once a year, is a lengthier ritual that a once-in-a-lifetime duty for Muslims.

Saudi Arabia, which held a largely symbolic Hajj earlier this year limited to domestic worshippers, began allowing citizens and residents to perform the Umrah last month at 30-percent capacity, or 6,000 pilgrims a day.

Last year the Gulf state drew 19 million Umrah visitors.

Before the pandemic, more than 1,300 hotels and hundreds of stores buzzed around the clock to cater to pilgrims visiting the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Those have been largely empty in recent months.

Worshippers are no longer allowed to touch the Kaaba – a stone structure draped in black cloth embroidered in gold with verses from

the Quran. The Kaaba is the most sacred structure in Islam and the direction that Muslims face to pray; touching it is considered a great honour that pilgrims treasured in the past.

Pilgrimage is the backbone of a plan to expand tourism under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s drive to diversify the economy of the world’s top oil exporter. It aimed to boost Umrah visitors to 15 million by 2020, a plan disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, and to 30 million by 2030.

The religious pilgrimage generates $12bn in revenues from worshippers’ lodging, transport, gifts, food and fees, according to offi-

Al-Serraj will remain in office until ongoing intra-Libyan political dialogue comes to an end, gov’t said. Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj has taken back his decision to resign and will remain in office until the

ongoing intra-Libyan political dialogue talks come to an end.

The announcement on Friday by the Libyan government spokesman Galib al-Zaklai comes a day after the High Council of State urged al-Serraj, the head of the Tripolibased internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), to stay until a new presidential council is selected to avoid a political vacuum detrimental to Libya’s stability. The UN Support Mission in Libya and the parliament in Tripoli had also called on al-Serraj to defer his decision, citing “reasons of higher interest”.

In September, al-Serraj announced his “sincere desire” to hand over duties to the next executive authority no later than the end of October, as part of the landmark deal to end years of conflict with a rival administration dominated by renegade military command-

er Khalifa Haftar.

The two warring sides have already launched talks via videoconference but are due to hold in-person negotiations on November 9 in Tunisia, to discuss holding national elections.The GNA, in a statement, said al-Sarraj received several requests to stay in his post longer to avoid a “political vacuum”, including from “leaders in friendly countries”, UN officials and civil society groups. One request was from Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who had urged al-Serraj to remain in his post “in order to guarantee institutional and executive continuity” in the “crucial weeks” ahead.

Last week, Libya’s warring sides signed an agreement in Geneva for a lasting ceasefire and said all foreign fighters and mercenaries must leave the country within three months.

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Saudi Arabia hosted a drastically reduced Hajj in late July for the first time in modern history, with a few thousand domestic pilgrims instead of the usual white-clad sea of some three million Muslims.

Source: aljazeera.com

Libyan PM al-Serraj takes back resignation

The two military delegations that struck the deal will reconvene soon with subcommittees to work out details on tough questions, including the withdrawal from front lines, the departure of mercenaries and the unification of armed forces.

Both sides are also supported by an array of fractious militias, though the respective administrations often struggle to control them. In much of the country, heavily armed militias hold sway and have repeatedly undermined ceasefire attempts. Libya descended into a civil war after the overthrow and killing of strongman and leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, eventually being split between two main factions – the GNA in Tripoli, backed by Turkey and Qatar, and Haftar’s forces in the east, backed by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russia.

Source: aljazeera.com

Egypt and Saudi business conditions improve, while UAE’s worsen

Concerns over unemployment and the spectre of renewed lockdowns loom over Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE. Business activity in Egypt grew at its fastest pace in almost six years, buoyed by an uptick in new orders,

while Saudi Arabia saw a second month of milder improvements.

In the United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, non-oil private sector activity fell below the threshold of 50 that separates growth from

Tudravu: Remove ideas on violence Remove preconceived ideas about genderbased violence.

That is the command of Acting Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu to officers attending the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre workshop on eliminating violence against women, girls and children.

“We should remove preconceived ideas that we have about gender-based violence because we have to be mindful of the victims’ needs and not further victimise them as victims,” he said.ACP Tudravu reminded the senior officers tradition and culture also impacted the way they thought which could heavily impact the decisions they made.

He said they could not allow tradition and culture to cloud their judgments in responding to reports of gender-based violence.

“As senior management, it is important for us to have an open mindset because we have been policing for a decade.”

ACP Tudravu also admitted there was a need for police officers to do more to improve

how they dealt with victims of gender-based violence.“It’s like we are interrogating the victim as a suspect, so to speak.

“Remember to always identify who is the victim and who is the suspect and ask relevant questions.“As leaders, we should be adaptable, we should be able to adapt to the changes and be able to effectively pass on to those that we lead.“Have an open mindset, learn from the constructive criticism we get so that we can grow from it and improve our services.” Source:fijitimes.com

contraction for the first time since August, according to IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index. Concerns over further unemployment and renewed lockdowns continued to dog the three major Arab economies.

Maintaining the rebound across the three economies will be a challenge as tough new restrictions are imposed around the world to contain Covid-19. For Saudi Arabia, the region’s largest economy, employment numbers dropped at the fastest rate since June and there were “fresh concerns” about the pace of recovery from the virus outbreak, according to IHS Markit.

Confirmed virus cases in the kingdom and Egypt have fallen since their peak in June.

On Monday, Egypt’s government said it may

be forced to take “difficult decisions” if people continue to ignore safety measures.

Meanwhile, the outlook among UAE businesses for the next 12 months was at a jointrecord low — on par with the reading in August — with fears over the persistence of the pandemic hurting future activity. Cases in the Gulf nation have gained momentum over the past month, rising to the highest on record. The UAE has reopened its economy gradually over the past months. “The recovery in demand across the UAE non-oil economy suffered in October,” said David Owen, economist at IHS Markit. “While the decline was mild, it nonetheless showed a stalling of growth momentum after the Covid-19 lockdown.” Source: ctvnews.ca

Iran’s Khamenei condemns French ‘support’ of Prophet caricatures

Khamenei says France’s history shows its claims of championing human rights and freedom of expression are false. Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei has condemned France and other European governments for supporting the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and has rejected their claims of defending freedom of expression.

In a televised speech on Tuesday to mark the Prophet’s birthday, Khamenei denounced the “bitter and ugly” official support behind caricatures published by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. “This is not just a downfall of French art, this is the politics of a government that is supporting this wrong act. This is a political figure who explicitly supports this,” Khamenei said, in an apparent reference to French President Emmanuel Macron.

Citing freedom of expression, French and European leaders have backed the right to publish caricatures of the Prophet, who is deeply

revered by Muslims and whose visual depiction is forbidden in Islam.

The caricatures were cited as the reason behind a deadly attack launched on the magazine’s offices in early 2015 by al-Qaeda-linked fighters. Last month, French teacher Samuel Paty was murdered in broad daylight near his school in a Paris suburb after he showed the caricatures to his students as part of a discussion on freedom of expression........

Source: aljazeera.com

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he dead commander, Saifullah Mir, was the chief of operations of the region’s largest rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen.

A top rebel commander was killed by Indian government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city, authorities have said, triggering anti-India protests in the disputed region. The dead commander, Saifullah Mir, was the chief of operations of the region’s largest rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, which for decades has spearheaded an armed campaign against Indian rule.

Kashmir Inspector-General of Police Vijay Kumar said security forces launched an operation of Sunday, acting on intelligence about the presence of Mir in a neighbour-

hood on the outskirts of the regional capital, Srinagar. He said a gun battle ensued in which the commander was killed and his suspected associate was captured.

“It is a major success for the security forces’ fight against militancy in the region,” Kumar said. There was no immediate confirmation from the rebels about the killing.

Protests erupt

Shortly after the gun battle, anti-India protests broke out in the neighbourhood.

Police fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to stop scores of stone-throwing young men from marching in the area.

The protesters were chanting slogans including “We want freedom” and “Go India, go back”. No one was reported wounded in the

clashes. According to officials, Mir joined the rebels’ ranks in 2014 and took charge of the Hizbul Mujahideen as its top operations commander after Indian troops killed his predecessor Riyaz Naikoo in May. Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir in full but administer separate portions of it, divided by a Line of Control, across which a tenuous ceasefire has been in place since 2003.

Rebels have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. Most Muslim Kashmiris support the rebel goal that the territory be united either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country. India says rebellion in Kashmir is sponsored by its western neighbour. Pakistan denies the charge, and most Kashmiris

call it a legitimate freedom struggle.

Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict. Source: aljazeera.com

US elections 2020: Rashida Tlaib Joe Biden makes history with total votes and Ilhan Omar win re-election received, beating Barack Obama’s record

Muslim-American Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have won re-election to the US House of Representatives, with both lawmakers projected to secure an overwhelming majority of the votes in their respective districts in Michigan and Minnesota. After being elected as the first Muslim women to Congress in 2018, both lawmak-

ers comfortably fended off primary challenges in August to secure a second term for their Democratic seats. Tlaib and Omar have faced incessant attacks from President Donald Trump as well as criticism from officials in their own party over their outspoken stances against the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians.

Still, their comfortable re-election demonstrates their appeal to their constituents. In 2018, Tlaib and Omar won their primaries in a large pool of primary candidates. This year, they replicated that success when going against a sole challenger.

Source: middleeasteye.net

Government of Canada announces plan to support economic recovery through immigration

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ctober 30, 2020—Ottawa—The Honourable Marco Mendicino, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tabled the 2021‒2023 Immigration Levels Plan today, which sets out a path for responsible increases to immigration targets to help the Canadian economy recover from COVID-19, drive future growth and create jobs for middle class Canadians.

The pandemic has highlighted the contribution of immigrants to the well-being of our communities and across all sectors of the economy. Our health-care system relies on immigrants to keep Canadians safe and healthy. Other industries, such as information technology companies and our farmers and producers, also rely on the talent of newcomers to maintain supply chains, expand their businesses and, in turn, create more jobs for Canadians.

Although Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) continued to accept and process applications throughout the pandemic, the global travel restrictions and capacity constraints led to a shortfall in admissions over the last several months.

To compensate for the shortfall and ensure Canada has the workers it needs to fill crucial labour market gaps and remain competitive on the world stage, the 2021 to 2023 levels plan aims to continue welcoming immigrants at a rate of about 1% of the popu-

lation of Canada, including 401,000 permanent residents in 2021, 411,000 in 2022 and 421,000 in 2023. The previous plan set targets of 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022.

The health, safety and security of Canadians remain our top priorities. Canada has strengthened health screening at the border as well as monitoring and enforcement, and will continue to closely follow the advice of public health officials as we welcome newcomers.

This multi-year levels plan recognizes the importance of family reunification and Canada’s global commitment to protecting those most at risk through refugee resettlement.

Highlights of the plan include

• an increase in admissions over the 3 years of the plan to make up the shortfall in 2020 • a focus on economic growth, with about 60% of admissions to come from the Economic Class • a continued focus on innovative and community-driven approaches to address diverse labour and demographic needs across the country • a renewed commitment to capacity-building and digital transformation in Canada’s immigration system, to support operations and mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the processing of applications • additional points for French-speaking candidates under Express Entry, to promote the growth of Francophone communities outside of Quebec • a commitment to admit up to 500 refugees over the next 2 years through the Economic

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ballots the state received during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite requests from election officials, Republican-controlled state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin refused to change their state laws to allow extended pre-processing of ballots before Election Day..

Source: usatoday.com Joe Biden makes history with total votes received, beating Barack Obama’s record.

With votes still being counted, former Vice President Joe Biden has broken the record for most votes received by a presidential candidate and now has amassed more than 70 million.The record was held by Barack Obama, who in the 2008 election received 69,498,516 votes when he beat John McCain, the late Republican senator.

Biden eclipsed that mark at 1:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, according to The New York Times, and he later later broke the 70-million vote threshold.

President Donald Trump also has a chance to break Obama’s previous record for the popular vote. By 3:30 p.m. ET, Trump had more than 67.6 million votes.

Source: usatoday.com

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Timeline: A series of attacks in France amid a debate over Islam October 2 – Macron calls Islam ‘ religion in crisis’

The atmosphere in France is heightened, with three killed in an attack on a church in Nice. rift between the Muslim world and France is widening, as leaders and the public in several Muslim countries respond to a speech on October 2 in which President Emmanuel Macron said Islam was “in crisis” globally.

The fallout is deepening amid renewed French support for the right to show caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The prophet is deeply revered by Muslims and any kind of visual depiction is forbidden in Islam. The caricatures in question are seen by them as offensive and Islamophobic because they are perceived to link Islam with terrorism.

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo republished cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in early September and a French teacher, who showed the cartoons to his pupils in class, was beheaded by an attacker on October 16.

The developments have ignited a war of words between French authorities and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has supported growing calls for a boycott of French goods.

Today, in a sign of spreading anger, demonstrators in several countries have been denouncing the European country in street protests.

Protests have recently taken place in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Palestine, Iran and Afghanistan among other countries.

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Here is a timeline of recent events:

Sept 1 – Republishing of prophet cartoons Charlie Hebdo announced that it will republish the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to mark the start of the trial of alleged accomplices in the deadly 2015 attack.

Among the cartoons, most of which were first published by a Danish newspaper in 2005 and then by Charlie Hebdo a year later, is one of the prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse protruding.

French President Emmanuel Macron said it was not his place to pass judgement on the Charlie Hebdo’s decision to reprint the cartoons. “It’s never the place of a president of the republic to pass judgement on the editorial choice of a journalist or newsroom, never. Because we have freedom of the press,” Macron said.

September 2 – Trial of 2015 attack begins Fourteen people went on trial in Paris on charges of assisting the gunmen who attacked Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others.

Twelve people, including some of the magazine’s best-known cartoonists, were killed when two. men stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo and sprayed the building with automatic gunfire.

September 25 – Attack in front of former Charlie Hebdo office A man armed with a meat cleaver attacked and wounded two people who were smoking in front of the former Charlie Hebdo Paris office, where the 2015 attack happened.

The main suspect, an 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin, was captured near the scene.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said it was “clearly an act of Islamist terrorism”.

Charlie Hebdo vacated its offices after the 2015 attack and is now in a secret location.

Turkey’s Erdogan said that Macron needed “mental health treatment” over his attitude towards Muslims, prompting France to recall its ambassador.

“What is the problem of this person called Macron with Muslims and Islam?” he said.

Erdogan added: “What else can be said to a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of people living in his country who Montfavet, near the southern French city of are members of a different faith?”

Avignon.

October 24 – Growing calls to boycott In Saudi Arabia on Thursday, state television Macron unveiled a plan to defend France’s French products reported that a Saudi man had been arrested secular values against what he termed as in the city of Jeddah after attacking and in“Islamist radicalism”, saying the religion was juring a guard at the French consulate. “in crisis” all over the world.

Source: aljazeera.com In a national address, Macron said “no conMacron said he understands Muslims’ cessions” would be made in a new drive to fury over cartoons mocking the Prophpush religion out of education and the public et Muhammad but defended France’s sector in France. ‘freedom to speak, to write, to think, to He announced that the government would draw’ present a bill in December to strengthen a 1905 law that officially separated church and Social media users in many Muslim counstate in France. tries join calls to boycott French goods.

October 16 – Beheading of French Street protests emerged and Erdogan days later supported the movement to stop buyschool teacher An 18-year-old man of Chechen origin be- ing French products. headed Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old teacher October 28 Pakistan summons French who had shown pupils cartoons of the envoy, Morocco slams Prophet cartoon prophet in a civics lesson on freedom of as crisis spirals speech.

Paty was attacked on his way home from the French President Emmanuel Macron said he junior high school where he taught in Conunderstands Muslims’ anger over the pubflans-Sainte-Honorine, about 30 kilometres lication of cartoons depicting the Prophet (19 miles) northwest of Paris.

Muhammad, but defended his country’s October 20 – Paris mosque closed freedom of expression.

“I will always defend in my country the freedom to speak, to write, to think, to draw,” Macon told Al Jazeera on Saturday.

“I can understand that people could be shocked by the caricatures, but I will never accept that violence can be justified,” he said.

Pakistan on Monday summoned the French France has weathered three terror attacks in ambassador in Islamabad, a day after Prime the past two weeks. On October 16, a teachMinister Imran Khan accused French Presi- er was beheaded in apparent retaliation for dent Emmanuel Macron of attacking Islam showing his class incendiary cartoons of the French authorities said they would close a by defending the publication of cartoons of Prophet.

Paris mosque in a clampdown on “radical the Prophet Mohammed. Morocco has also Before the attacks, Macron had called Islam Islam” after the beheading of Paty. condemned the caricatures. “a religion in crisis” and announced a new The mosque in a densely-populated suburb Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood law that would see France get unprecedented northeast of Paris had published a video on Qureshi said the French ambassador in Is- oversight of Islamic communities. its Facebook page days before Friday’s grue- lamabad had been summoned to be given Source: google.com/search some murder, railing against the teacher’s a diplomatic protest against Macron’s “irreExplained: Why another Charlie choice of material for a class discussion on sponsible remarks”. freedom of expression, said a source close to The summons followed statements by posted Hebdo cartoon is fanning tenthe investigation.

by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Facebook sions between Turkey and France and Twitter, decrying Macron’s reaction to October 22 – ‘We will not give up the murder last week of a French teacher by cartoons’ Macron paid tribute to Paty, calling him a an Islamist. “quiet hero” dedicated to instilling the dem- “This is a time when Pres Macron could have ocratic values of the French Republic in his put healing touch & denied space to extremists rather than creating further polarisation pupils.

“We will not give up cartoons,” Macron told & marginalisation that inevitably leads to a nationally televised ceremony at the Sor- radicalisation,” said Khan in a Twitter thread. bonne University in Paris attended by Paty’s Source: google.com/search October 28 – Charlie Hebdo publishes family.

The president gave France’s highest civilian cartoon of Erdogan award, the Legion of Honour, to Paty and Charlie Hebdo released a cartoon of Er- Turkey’s Erdogan has called for a boycott of said he had been slain by “cowards” for rep- dogan, which was slammed by Turkish au- French goods and questioned Emmanuel resenting the secular, democratic values of thorities as a “disgusting effort” to “spread its Macron’s sanity, after the latter declared that the French republic. cultural racism and hatred”.

“Islam is a religion that is in crisis today all “He was killed because Islamists want our fu- Erdogan said later in the day that Western over the world”. Soon after the cartoon was ture,” Macron said. “They will never have it.” countries mocking Islam wanted to “re- published, Erdogan’s office vowed to take October 24 – Erdogan: Macron needs launch the Crusades,” adding that standing “legal and diplomatic actions” against the against attacks on the prophet was “an issue French magazine. While the Turkish Presimental check of honour for us”. dent said he had not yet seen the “disgusting” October 29 – Knife attack in Nice, gun- cartoon, he condemned the magazine for man killed in Avignon, Saudi stabs what he called “a grave insult to my Prophet”.

The rift between the two NATO allies has guard at embassy A knife-wielding attacker killed three peo- widened this month, with Erdogan calling ple at a church in the French city of Nice at for a boycott of French goods and questioning French President Emmanuel Macron’s noon.

Within hours of the Nice attack, in a sepa- sanity after the latter declared “Islam is a relirate incident, police killed a man who had gion that is in crisis today all over the world”. threatened passersby with a handgun in Source: indianexpress.com

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Food, fitness, and fun for the whole • Choose a variety of activities your child enjoys. family

The dietary goals for children and their fam- • Choose some activities that can be done from home, like ilies are well-balanced, healthy meals and a walking, bike riding, dancing healthy approach to eating. These changes to music, and playing games Lost at sea? should be considered permanent rather outside. than a temporary eating plan for rapid The perils of childhood obesity • Limit television, video n the last 10 years, the number of over- weight loss. games, and computer weight people in industrialized countries Here are some tips for eating a healthy, games to 1 to 2 hours per has increased significantly - so much so well-balanced diet: day. Most doctors recomthat obesity has been called an “epidemic” • Avoid skipping meals (especially breakfast). mend less than 2 hours per by the World Health Organization (WHO). • Try to include a variety of fruits, vegday. etables, whole grains and protein (meat • If applicable, take the telIn the past, many people thought that obeand meat substitutes, dairy products, sity was simply caused by over-eating and evision out of your child’s beans, eggs, or nuts and seeds) in each under-exercising due to a lack of will power bedroom to limit viewing. meal. Plan your meals and snacks so and self-control. Today, doctors recognize One research study showed that you choose a variety of nutritious, that obesity is a serious medical problem that children with a televitasty foods. due to multiple factors: genetic, environsion set in their bedroom mental, behavioural, and social. All these • Limit the serving size for snacks (maxiwatched nearly 5 hours mum 1 to 2 snacks per day). Choose factors play a role in determining a person’s per week more than those fresh fruit and yogurt or cheese, muffin weight. It is estimated that 26% of Canadian without a bedroom television. or cereal and milk, half a sandwich, or • Be a good role model - exercise with children and youth ages 2 to 17 are considcrackers and cheese. ered overweight or obese. your child.

Research has shown that television viewing • Allow your child to enjoy favourite foods in moderation without feeling No child is an island has been associated with obesity in children guilty. Choose low-energy treats (maxi- All children should have a medical evaluaof all ages (preschool-aged, school-aged, and mum 1 to 2 treats per week) such as tion by a doctor before starting weight loss adolescents). Obesity is even more common sugar-free gum, 1 to 2 hard candies, 1 therapy. The goals of therapy are to: if there is a television in the child’s bedroom.

• lose weight slowly (e.g., approximately licorice stick, or Gummi Bears.

Obesity is associated with many different 0.5 kg or 1 lb a month) • Avoid having anything more than fruit complications: • maintain normal childhood growth after dinner so your child will be hun• psychological problems (lack of self(e.g., growing taller in height) with no gry for breakfast. esteem, depression) weight gain • breathing disorders (especially while • Choose sugar-free drinks (e.g., sugar• change diet, exercise, and behaviour free pop and Kool-Aid®, Crystal Light®, asleep) • involve family in counseling and support soda water, ice water). Avoid regular • bone and joint problems • keep the weight off once it is lost soda pop, juice, fruit drinks, regular • diabetes Recent research has shown that diet, exerKool-Aid®, lemonade, honeydew, and • high cholesterol cise, and behaviour modification are most flavoured waters. Remember it is better • gall bladder or liver disease effective when the whole family is involved. for your child to eat his or her calories • high blood pressure A weight loss program may be futile and acthan to drink them.

• stroke (mainly in adults) tually harmful if the family is not ready to • Ensure that you meet the requirements • heart disease (mainly in adults) make changes, because unsuccessful efforts for milk and milk products (2 to 4 serv• some kinds of cancer (mainly in adults) may lower a child’s self-esteem even further. ings per day).

The diagnosis of obesity is usually based on physical examination and a patient history • Exercise and activity level are just as im- Since family support is such an important portant as calorie intake. Children (and part of therapy, several “parenting” prin(i.e., eating and exercise habits). Children adults for that matter) should be more ciples should be followed in the manageare considered “medically obese” when their active, not only for weight control, but ment of eating and activity behaviours: weight poses health risks. The degree of obealso for general health and well-being. • Find reasons to praise your child’s besity is often measured using the body mass haviour.

Here are some ways to help your child index (BMI). BMI is calculated as follows: • Offer rewards for positive changes in lead a healthy, active lifestyle: BMI = body weight (kg) ÷ height² (m) behaviour. Never use food as a reward.

Example: if your 4-year-old son weighs 40 • Encourage your child to aim for at least • Establish daily family meal and snack 60 minutes of moderate- to vigorouslbs., which is 18 kg, and is 38 inches tall, times. intensity physical activity each day. which is 95 cm or 0.95 m, you divide 18 by • Determine what food is offered and when.

Many different activities count. Bike (0.95 × 0.95). The result is 19.9.

Let your child decide whether to eat. riding, skating, and going to the playThe normal ranges for BMI are different • Offer only healthy options. ground after school are examples of for boys and girls of different ages. If you • Remove temptations. moderate intensity physical activities. are concerned about your child’s weight, • Be a role model.

More intense or vigorous-type activiyou should consult your doctor or health• Be consistent. ties, like running, swimming, or rollercare professional. He or she will compare blading, should be done at least 3 days Drug therapy and surgery are sometimes your child’s BMI result to a standard growth per week (after consultation with your used to treat obesity in adults. However, chart, and will then be able to tell whether

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they are not routinely recommended for children and are generally not considered unless obesity is life-threatening.

Keep your ship on course

Childhood obesity programs can lead to sustained weight loss when treatment focuses on behaviour changes. There are several techniques available for behaviour therapy, including the following: • Keep a daily food diary. Help your child record the type and amount of food eaten, when, with whom, and where it was eaten. This will allow your child and healthcare professional to recognize and eventually change eating behaviour patterns. For example, avoid eating while your child is watching television, doing homework, or playing computer games.

• Distinguish between hunger and appetite. Teach your child cues to control appetite and schedule meals regularly.

• Identify activities that will divert attention from food.

• Build self-esteem by changing negative to positive goals. Avoid weighing your child at home more than once a week, and focus on the changes you have made in behaviour rather than on the numbers on the scale.

• Reinforce positive new behaviour by offering rewards for behaviour and not weight loss. Avoid any food rewards be creative!

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16 US/PAKISTAN/SPORTS Where Biden and Trump still need votes to win — and why the election is as close as it looks Rabi ul Awaal 19,1442 Nov 6, 2020

Politics·Analysis By: Éric Grenier

There were always only two ways the U.S. presidential election was going to play out.

Either it would be a decisive victory for former vice-president Joe Biden that would be apparent or projected before the sun rose on Wednesday morning or the outcome wouldn’t be resolved for days, potentially leaving the country in an interim state of uncertainty and discord that President Donald Trump could attempt to play to his advantage.

Now that a new day has arrived, it’s clear which path the U.S. election took.

What comes next, however, isn’t.

That’s because a lot of votes still have to be counted — and there are enough of them to make the difference between a Biden presidency and a Trump re-election.

While the vote tallies for each candidate will continue to change over the next few hours and days, Wednesday afternoon, it appeared that the election would come down to the results in four states: Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

Wisconsin and Michigan were called for Biden by Wednesday afternoon. He also held a lead in Nevada and Arizona, enough for the Democratic nominee to reach the threshold of 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House.

If he holds these close states, he will become the next president.

But that gives Biden exactly 270 votes, so it isn’t a comfortable win by any stretch. However, if he adds Georgia and Pennsylvania to his tally, he jumps to 306 votes, even with Trump’s result in the 2016 election.

Trump still has a path, but it is looking like a challenge as more votes are counted. With Michigan going to Biden, he will need to turn Arizona or Nevada around.

The remaining ballots in Nevada, where Biden had a small lead of less than one percentage point as of Wednesday afternoon with close to 90 per cent of votes reported, are largely absentee ballots that are expect-

ed to favour Biden.

Trump trails in Arizona by a little over three percentage points.

And those states only matter if he can also win Pennsylvania or Georgia — hardly a given.

Start with Georgia, which Trump leads with close to two percentage points with more than 90 per cent of votes reported as of Wednesday afternoon.

The state was looking promising for Trump throughout the night until the votes in Atlanta started to be counted in bigger numbers.

By early morning, Trump’s lead was down to about 100,000 votes. But the counting was put on pause in Fulton County, where Atlanta is located, because of a broken water line.

Roughly 100,000 votes in this county alone have yet to be counted. Among those that have been tallied, Biden is leading Trump by a margin of 45 points.

Other counties in the state that are leaning heavily Democratic still have lots of votes to be counted as well while nearly all of the vote in strong Republican counties has already been reported. The state could flip to the Democrats once all the votes are in. And then there’s Pennsylvania, the state which could keep the country in suspense for the rest of the week. Trump was leading there by six points Wednesday afternoon with more than 80 per cent of votes reported.

But ballots received in the mail by Friday and postmarked by election day will still be accepted, meaning some of the votes to be counted in Pennsylvania have yet to get to the counters. The absentee ballots that have been counted (and separately reported) have gone overwhelmingly to Biden by a margin of roughly 4:1. The counties containing Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which preferred Hillary Clinton over Trump by 67 and 16 points, respectively, in 2016, also have lots of results still to report. Only a little more than half of the vote in Philadelphia County has been counted and only 70 per

cent of ballots in Pittsburgh have been added up. These two counties alone could represent more than 600,000 uncounted ballots, roughly the same as Trump’s lead statewide.

needed to prepare for the framing of the charges.

Shehbaz tells court his name was not mentioned in statements of approvers; Maryam meets uncle, cousin at judicial complex; predicts 2021 election year Mr Shehbaz said his name was nowhere mentioned in the statements of the approvers recorded before the magistrate under section 164 of CrPC.

“It would benefit you in the trial,” the judge said to him. Advocate Amjad Pervez, the defence counsel, sought at least one-week time and the judge allowed his request putting off the hearing for Nov 11.Mr Shehbaz complained to the judge that he had not been provided the facility of physiotherapy in the jail despite a permission granted by the court. He further said that

That this election has come down to just a few states — even a few counties — is somewhat unexpected. National polls heading into election day gave Biden a wide lead, far wider than the lead Clinton had in the 2016 campaign.

He was ahead by a good margin in Pennsylvania, a respectable one in Florida and was narrowly in front in Georgia and North Carolina. He was within a couple of points of Trump in Ohio and Texas.

It appears that the Democrats’ hope of expanding their map into the Sun Belt — in addition to regaining the Midwestern states they lost in 2016 — has not been entirely realized. They were unable to capture Florida.

They closed the gap in Texas but once again failed to make the demographically shifting state swing. Georgia could still go their way, but only Arizona appears to be potential new territory for the Democrats. Instead, Biden’s chances hinge almost entirely on the traditionally Democratic Midwest. National exit polls suggest he has performed better than Clinton did among white Americans and those without a college degree — demographics that were key to Trump’s victory in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The exit polls also suggest Trump has done somewhat better than he did in 2016 among Black and Hispanic voters. That might be why Biden was unable to flip Florida and Texas and why he might still come up short in Georgia and North Carolina.

Too early to judge the polls

After Trump’s surprise victory in 2016, there were many questions about whether the polls could be trusted again. While it did inject a healthy dose of caution in interpreting the polls, there was an expectation that the polls would get closer to the mark this time — there were fewer undecideds than

in 2016, and the pollsters had taken steps to capture some of the Trump-leaning demographics that had been missed in the last campaign.

These incomplete election results are unlikely to convince many skeptics that pollsters have improved the efficacy of their polls.

But judgment will have to wait until all of the results are in. In the last election, Clinton won the national popular vote by just over two percentage points, similar to the three- or four-point lead she was given in the polls. It took weeks to get there, however, due to the delay in counting mail ballots in places like California.

The same scenario could play out this time.

Nationally, Biden holds a lead in the popular vote of about two points, but that is likely to grow significantly by the time all the votes are counted. Whether his lead will grow as wide as the eight- or nine-point edge he had in the polls remains to be seen.

The margins at the state level will change in the coming hours and days, so it is also premature to judge the performance of the polls in each individual state.

However, one state that does seem to have bucked the polls is Florida. Most polls gave Biden a modest lead in the state but it stuck with Trump. North Carolina and Georgia might be other states in which polls favoured the losing candidate, but both of these were classified as toss-ups and final projections have yet to be made.

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Shehbaz, Hamza may be indicted on next hearing

Continued from page 3 had been taken by the police outside the judicial complex. At the outset of the hearing, a prosecutor of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) submitted copies of the statements of its four approvers before the court.

Presiding Judge Jawadul Hassan directed Shehbaz to receive the copies of the statements and asked his counsel as to how much time he

A closer election than expected

a medical board of Jinnah Hospital was also yet to examine him.

The PML-N president told the judge that he had been suffering from a severe backache as he was unable to sit in the APC. “The pain does not allow me to sit neither in the jail lock-up nor in the APC,” he said and Source: dawn.com

Zimbabwe beat Pakistan in Super Over to end ODI losing run

Zimbabwe ended a 10-match losing streak by beating Pakistan in a Super Over to cap a thrilling third and final one-day international in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.

Blessing Muzarabani grabbed two wickets off four balls in the Super Over as Pakistan scored only two runs off the tall fast bowler.

Zimbabwe raced to a winning 3-0 through Brendan Taylor and Sikandar Raza off Shaheen Afridi’s first three balls to deny Pakistan a series clean sweep.

Earlier, Pakistan No. 10 batsman Mohammad Musa hit a four off the last ball of their 50-over innings against paceman Richard Ngarava to tie the scores as Pakistan ended up at 278-9. Zimbabwe made 278-6.

Captain Babar Azam’s run-a-ball 125 lifted Pakistan close to the target in a century stand with Wahab Riaz, who scored 52 off 55 balls.

But Muzarabani’s 5-49 included the wickets of Afridi and Babar off his last two deliveries to turn the game before Musa hit the last-ball boundary through covers off Richard Ngarava and forced a Super Over.

Earlier, Sean Williams survived three dropped catches to score 118 off 135 balls for Zimbabwe.

The 20-year-old fast bowler Mohammad Hasnain snared 5-26, but Williams’ fourth ODI hundred gave Zimbabwe its highest total of the series.

Source: dawn.com

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Mobility Pathways Project, an innovative. approach that helps qualified refugees apply for permanent residence through existing economic immigration pathways • a pathway to permanent residency for eligible asylum claimants who were working on the front lines of the pandemic between March 13 and August 14, 2020, providing

direct care to patients in health-care institutions The 2021–2023 Immigration Levels Plan will help cement Canada’s place among the world’s top destinations for talent, creating a strong foundation for economic growth while reuniting family members with their loved ones and fulfilling Canada’s humanitarian commitments.

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“Immigration is essential to getting us through the pandemic, but also to our shortterm economic recovery and our long-term economic growth. Canadians have seen how newcomers are playing an outsized role in our hospitals and care homes, and helping us to keep food on the table. As we look to recovery, newcomers create jobs not just by

giving our businesses the skills they need to thrive, but also by starting businesses themselves. Our plan will help to address some of our most acute labour shortages and to grow our population to keep Canada competitive on the world stage.”

The Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino, P.C., M.P., Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.From: Minister’s Office

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