A Media Publicatio by the studets of Mass Commuicatio ad Media Studies December i history Beazir Bhutto amed 1st female Prime Miister of Pakista. 1973, December 30: Foudatio stoe of Pakista Steel Mills was layed. 1990, December 12: Pakista becomes 37th coutry to sed expeditio to Atarctica. 1994, December 4: Pakista regais World Hockey Champioship title after 12 years, beatig Holad 4-3. 1974, December 5: Peshawar Televisio Statio opes. Volume - V December 2015 Issue XII Quaid-e-Azam Day 25 th December 1876 With Faith, Disciplie ad Selfless devotio to Duty, There is othig worthwhile that you caot achieve! Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jiah Pakista's Muiba Mazari Named Goodwill Ambassador By UN Wome UN Wome, the Uited Natios etity for geder equality ad the empowermet of wome, amed Muiba Mazari as Pakista s first female goodwill ambassador to advace geder equality ad the empowermet of wome ad girls. What s iside: Army chief becomes first Asia to receive Brazil's coveted 'Order of Merit' award. Pakista s first all girl boxig club. Hamza Ami boecomes first Pakistai to play Australia ope Golf Touramet. As the goodwill ambassador for UN Wome Pakista, Muiba will dedicate her efforts towards the empowermet of wome ad girls, ad would serve as a advocate for UN Wome s Plaet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Geder Equality ad other campaigs. Muiba Mazari is a writer, artist, siger, activist ad Microsoft Pakista uveilscampaig to empower wome. a motivatioal speaker. She is also a paraplegic, havig lost cotrol of both legs i a car accidet. 15 feel good momets i 2015 that made us proud Pakistai. Childre with thalassemia made hoorary MNAs. Through her vibrat paitigs, she expresses i bold colours the stregth of her ow persoality. Her purpose is to ispire others to live their lives to the fullest. By Nida Latif BS485390 Positive Post is published to project positivity all aroud Pakista amogst our youth ad the etire atio. Our efforts are to iculcate patriotism ad a sese of owership i them. It is a compilatio of ews extracted by the studets of Mass Commuicatios ad Media Studies of Greewich Uiversity.
Army chief becomes first Asia to receive Brazil's coveted 'Order of Merit' award Pakista s first all-girl boxig club They are part of the first-ever official traiig program i Pakista to teach wome how to box. The First Wome Boxig Coachig Camp has bee orgaized by the Sidh Boxig Associatio (SBA) i Lyari, Karachi Army chief Geeral Raheel Sharif was hooured with Brazil s coveted Order of Merit award. COAS was awarded Brazil s coveted Award Order of Merit i a special ceremoy i recogitio of his leadership for successful fight agaist multiple threats, DG ISPR Lt-Ge Asim Bajwa said. Ge Raheel is the first Asia to have bee hooured with this coveted award, Bajwa added. Order of merit has bee give to Geeral Raheel Sharif for displayig remarkable courage to deal with the meace of terrorism, successfully leadig the army i the face of multiple threats, givig hope to his atio agaist dismay ad despodecy ad above all for his great efforts to promote peace ad stability i the regio, a statemet from the Brazilia govermet read. Geeral Raheel Sharif through his udautig resolve, uflichig sicerity ad impeccable professioal commitmet has become a leadig figure i the world. His cotributio to promote exemplary ties betwee Pakista ad Brazil i geeral ad the two armies i particular are eormous ad uprecedeted, the statemet added. Geeral Raheel met with Brazil s armed forces Chief of Joit Staff Geeral Jose Carlos De Nardi, who lauded Pakista Army s professioalism ad operatioal achievemets especially i ogoig couter terrorism operatios. Meawhile, i a meetig with Brazil s defece miister, Geeral Raheel discussed relatios betwee the two coutries, ad the commo security challeges. Accordig to the ISPR, security assistace for Brazil Olympics 2016 also came uder discussio. By Abdullah Sheikh BS433808 Courtesy: The Express Tribue A eighborhood kow for sports stars, particularly footballers ad boxers, icludig Olympia Syed Hussai Shah. It all started whe a 16-year-old girl, Khadijah, approached the 2013 Sidh boxig champio ad residet of Lyari, Nadir Kachi, ad asked him to trai her. She wated to lear to box, but could t fid ay club willig to teach her. Nadir took Khadijah to his coach, Youis Qambrai. I have bee traiig my daughters to box sice they could put o a pair of gloves, explaied Qambrai, whose family icludes several gold medalists i the sport. Qambrai started icludig Khadijah i those traiig sessios. A few days later, aother girl showed up askig for traiig, havig heard of Khadijah s sessios. Word spread ad before he kew it, Qambrai had 13 girls i his home, all watig to become boxers. At that poit, the coach kew he had to fid a space ad a official program for them. Our goal is very simple, Asghar Baloch explaied. Pakistai male athletes have made our coutry proud o so may platforms, such as the Olympics, the Commowealth ad Asia Games, ad we wat our girls to be able to fly our atio s flag just as high all over the world. But what about marriage? I asked the girls as they huddled together after the day s sessio. What if your husbad does ot wat you to become a boxer? I just wo t get married util I m competig o a iteratioal level, aswered Aam. The other 12 girls all odded, ad 16-year-old Azmeea drove the poit home, askig: How ca someoe have the guts to tell us we caot do somethig whe our ow fathers have give us permissio to do so? Courtesy: New York Times 2
From a Kulfi Seller to a Uiversity Graduate I was sellig kulfis whe 10 older boys approached me from behid, shares Zulfiqar Ali Chachar, while referrig to the tragedy that has scarred him to this day. Zulfiqar did t wat to sell kulfis for a livig. Like most childre his age, he wated to go to school with his frieds. But his family s fiaces forced him to work ad pay for his ow studies. For admissio ito the eighth grade, Zulfiqar was asked, What is a cell? He had o idea what a cell was. He realised that all he kew, after years of educatio, was alif, be, pe the Urdu alphabet ad how to memorise thigs. It was the that a fried told him about a talet hut programme that might eable him to atted Uiversity with support from scholarships. Mr Musclemaia World 2015: Pakistai bodybuilder cliches gold Aroud eight of his frieds started depositig moey i Zulfiqar s accout to support him every moth, tellig him that they had foud a aoymous sposor for him. Fortuately, Zulfiqar wo a actual scholarship at IBA Sukkur soo after, which was able to fully support him. Zulfiqar wet o to become the vice-presidet of the studet body at Uiversity ad flourished i his academics as well as extracurricular activities. He eve raised moey for furiture, statioery ad other resources to refurbish a school for street childre ear the uiversity. After graduatig from Uiversity he moved to Karachi for a itership ad is curretly lookig for a job. His father recetly asked him to approach the village wadera to help him fid oe but Zulfiqar refused. I ve oly asked God for help all my life, says Zulfiqar, his face beamig with cofidece which comes from beig a self-made ma i the makig. I am the most educated ma i my village today. Oce I have eough resources, I m goig to ope a school i my village. Why should I ask my wadera for help? If you believe i yourself ad work hard, opportuities will kock o your door. By Abdullah Sheikh BS433808 Courtesy: The Express Tribue Pakistai studet wis gold medal i iteratioal math competitio Pakistai bodybuilder Salma Ahmad cliched gold ad the Mr Musclemaia World title 2015. He thaked his fas ad followers for their prayers. "It is the first time i 25 years that this title is goig to Pakista," he said. He also expressed his gratitude towards his family for their support ad motivatio. "I do't kow how to say thak you for helpig me reach this stage," he said, I the ru-up to the competitio, Ahmad said: "I have doe my best, the competitio is really big this time." Natioal Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq wished Ahmad success before the competitio. "It is a source of pride for us that a yougster from the NA-122 costituecy is competig i a weight-liftig ad bodybuildig competitio." Courtesy: The Express Tribue A exceptioally bright studet of PakTurk Iteratioal School i Jamshoro has brought home a gold medal after competig i Math Challege V hosted by the Pa-Asia Iteratioal School i Bagkok. Makig Pakista proud, Rajiish Aeel Bhatia of grade 7 bagged the gold medal i the iteratioal math competitio. Three other studets from the same school also secured silver ad broze medals. Haru Yilmaz of grade 8 wo a silver medal while Abdul Wasay Kadhir ad Abdul Wasay Memo, of grade 7 ad 8 respectively, bagged a broze medal each. Schools from all over Asia participated i the Math Challege V held o November 17 ad 18. The competitio aims to ecourage studets to study ad excel i math ad critical thikig. The prizes for gold, silver ad broze medalists are 3,000 THB, 2,100 THB, 1,500 THB respectively. By Nida Latif BS485390 Courtesy: The Express Tribue 3
Childre with thalassemia made hoorary MNAs Childre sufferig with thalassemia acted as hoorary MNAs ad held a mock Natioal Assembly sessio. He also desigated three of them to act as hoorary speaker, deputy speaker ad pael of chairme to hold mock proceedigs of the Natioal Assembly. e aoucemets came durig a special ceremoy for the childre sufferig with thalassemia beig treated at Sudus Foudatio held i the Parliamet House. Natioal Assembly (NA) Speaker Sardar Ayyaz Sadiq appoited childre sufferig with thalassemia as hoorary MNAs for oe day. Reowed literary figures, columist ad chaperoe of Sudus Foudatio, Muo Bhai were also preset at the occasio.while addressig the audiece at the evet, NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq accoladed the childre sufferig with thalassemia for displayig immese courage ad resiliece i the face of this disease. Pakistai Female Commado Guardig Idia Sikhs As They Arrive i Pakista For Religious Tour A Pakistai female police commado stads guard as Idia Sikh pilgrims arrive at Wagah railway statio ear Lahore, Pakista, o Friday. Hudreds of Idia Sikh pilgrims arrived i Pakista by a special trai to participate i the three-day festival to celebrate the 547st birth aiversary of their spiritual leader Baba Guru Naak, the fouder of Sikh religio, at Nakaa Sahib ear Lahore. Smitha Deepak wrote i his FB post. Nakaa Sahib was earlier kow as Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwadi is amed after the first Guru of the Sikhs Guru Naak Dev. Located about 80 kilometers south-west of Lahore. Because Nakaa Sahib is the birthplace of Guru Naak Dev, the cetral figure i Sikhism, it is a city of high historic ad religious value ad is a popular pilgrimage site for Sikhs from all over the world. Though there are political differeces ad religious iflueces, but for a atio it is always o priority to provide security for ayoe visitig it. It is amazig site ad much to it is the security provided by a female armed perso. This breaks so may stereotypes about Pakista, religio ad wome o may levels. You ca ifer may thigs from this picture, but respect is the commo emotio you feel to see this. If the coutries were coected the way people are with each other, there would be much peace i the world. Ad we pray for that peace. Courtesy: The Logical Idia Pakista to ivite PayPal, Alibaba to start e-commerce services Pakista has a growig IT idustry that maily provides outsourcig services i the form of codig to major Wester cliets. IT exports, which accout for aroud 10 percet of total service exports, are curretly worth $2.2 billio aually, with the govermet aimig to icrease the figure to more tha $5 billio by 2017. The coutry of about 200 millio people lauched high-speed mobile iteret services last year, with the subscriber base ow totallig aroud 18 millio. There are also aroud 21 millio broadbad Iteret subscribers, accordig to official figures. 4 By Abdullah Sheikh BS433808 Courtesy: Phys.org
Shelter for abadoed aimals opes i Karachi A three-legged dog greets you at the bright red gate of the ewlyopeed ACF Aimal Shelter i Mujahid Coloy, Dalmia, ad hops alogside you as if it wats to show you aroud the facility. There is a dokey iside the feced law, muchig away at marigolds. Just like a toddler, a puppy iside his pe drags alog a big teddy bear. At the shelter s lauch the oce abadoed aimals are learig to trust humas agai as they receive getle pats ad lots of love from the guests. Oe of the guests, well-kow veteriaria Dr Abrar Pirzada, who appreciated the efforts of the lady behid the good work, Ayesha Chudrigar, ad her team of voluteers, also had some suggestios. You ca make some stairs with boxes for the cats to climb up ad curl up iside ad for the dogs you have to thik of creatig a eviromet where they do t get bored. Otherwise, oe bored dog will start howlig ad suddely you ll have a chorus, he laughed. Lookig aroud at the cats, dogs, dokeys ad horse, he added: Well, every aimal has it s ow demad. The vet also said that the aimals, especially dogs ad cats, comig to the shelter should be sprayed ad eutered i order to cotrol their populatio. Otherwise, how may shelters ca you build? he said thikig aloud. Meawhile, Ayesha Chudrigar said that she alog with her voluteers was also lookig after the maagemet of the Edhi Aimal Uderprivileged to get free treatmet at private hospitals as govt lauches health isurace Shelter ear the toll gates o Superhighway. That is a huge four acre facility ad this here is 1,450 sq yards of lad gifted to me by oe of our doors. This is more approachable ad thaks to our doors I am tryig to create a system that ca be better maaged here as we are a very few voluteers ruig the show, she said. Because of the distace, people do t go to the big shelter as much as I wish they would. Aimals eed love. I wat people who love aimals workig with me here. I hope to see more childre visitig. Maybe we could have school field trips to this place, too, she added. Pakista to be amog top ecoomies i 2025 State Miister for Health Saira Afzal Tarar at the lauch of the Natioal Health Programme here o Thursday aouced the issuace of health cards which will eable the uderprivileged to receive treatmet at private ad public hospitals free of charge. Tarar said those who ear daily wages of less tha Rs200 qualify for the programme, ad that treatmet would be provided without discrimiatio "whatever your religio, sect or provice". The health miister said the prime miister's card allows Rs50,000 for the treatmet of commo illesses "such as the flu, cough ad hepatitis", ad sets aside Rs300,000 for more serious coditios like "agioplasty, bypass ad dialysis". Courtesy: New York Times 5 Federal Miister for Plaig, Developmet ad Reform Ahsa Iqbal claims that Pakista will be amog top 25 ecoomies of the world by 2025. Pakista is a successful emergig state which ca be developed ecoomically through self-belief ad defeatig the egativity, he said while addressig a alumi reuio at the Uiversity of Egieerig ad Techology (UET).
US Cosulate employees wed Pakistai style i fu-filled 'dholki' i Karachi Traditioal, eergetic ad colourful who does t love a Pakistai weddig? Employees of the US cosulate were throw a dholki by their Pakistai colleagues. I a colourful post o Facebook, US Cosulate Karachi shared fu-filled images of the dholki. The images showed the staff ad frieds ejoyig local traditios of a Pakistai mehdi complete with bagles, sigig ad dacig at a site decorated i traditioal Pakistai style caopies, carpets ad flowers specifically marigolds. By Nida Latif BS485390 Courtesy: Express Tribue Hamza Ami becomes first Pakistai golfer to play Australia Fashio Pakista Week s Witer Festive Despite ot makig it to the leader-board, a sigificat milestoe was achieved by a Pakistai whe Hamza Ami became the first from the cricket-mad atio to play i the Australia Ope last week.the curret 1711-raked player i the world has bee helpig drive golf s steadily icreasig popularity i Pakista, The Sydey Morig Herald reported. He maaged to raise a little more tha $1500 with doatios besides a lot of of thak you otes from a persoal email respose to digital lessos, guest passes, private rouds ad bradig o Ami's apparel. Ami, who was coached by his dad Taimoor util he was a teeager, recovered from a deflatig 13-over i treacherous coditios o Thursday to post a very respectable two-over 73 the same score recorded by Adam Scott, said the report. It s the first time I ve played i Australia ad it was a bit difficult i those wids with a afteroo tee time, Ami said. By Nida Latif BS485390 Courtesy: The News Weddigs are, after all, the be all ad ed all of witer festivities i the coutry. Had FPW take place earlier, perhaps some of the desigers could have take o orders for formals ad cashed i o the curret weddig seaso. This is a log-hackeyed crib, though the coucil has its may reasos for showig whe it wats to show ad really, the delay ca be overlooked as log as the catwalk showcases excitig fashio. Motifs ad pearls drooped ad dropped oto the ruway i a certai showcase; i others, colours clashed ad cutwork meshed ucomfortably with texture ad every embroidery uder the su was see as some of fashio s hottest ames fumbled ad faltered. 6
Miss Pakista USA o a missio to chage image of Pakistai wome It takes more tha just tiaras, gows ad stilettos to wi hearts ad Sarish Kha tells us exactly how she does it. The 26-year-old America beauty of Pakistai origi is the curret title holder of Miss Pakista USA. A studet at George Maso Law School i DC, she ot oly represets the refied class of Pakistai beauties, but also their itellect o a global platform. Daraz Black Friday as it ufolded: CEO's first-had accout But it comes as a surprise to kow that this mélage of beauty ad brais was a complete strager to the word pageat some time back. Speakig to The Express Tribue, Sarish revealed what ispired her to compete for the title. I had t watched a pageat i my life util I heard all the chatter about Nia Davuluri, the first Miss America of Idia descet to wi the title, she said. That led her to thik, if a pre-med studet ca put Idia o a global platform the what s stoppig a Pakistai law studet from followig suit? By Abdullah Sheikh BS433808 Courtesy: The Express Tribue What makes a good girl? I the lead up to November 27, the day Daraz.pk lauched the first Black Friday i Pakista, we kew that weeks of teasig had spread the word eough that frieds ad acquaitaces were proddig us for a seak preview of the deals o Black Friday. We had, however, promised our vedors to keep the deals a secret ot oly to the public but also to most employees. I fact, oly a hadful of brads had agreed to spill out the exact product deals i the lead up the deals were geuiely a surprise for the public ad may iteral employees ad our frieds ad family. At midight, as we celebrated leadig to the coutdow, we kew that this would be the biggest sale evet for Daraz till date. We watched as the umber of visitors o Daraz soar. We gasped i awe ad our hearts beat faster as we kew this was way too may people, way too may people. The traffic started to flood our iteratioal cloud servers, servers that assumed it was a hacker attack ad started to protect the website, shuttig off ad chokig most customers at checkout. Withi 20 miutes, we had reached our daily sales target.withi two hours, we crossed the most optimistic target we had a cotigecy pla for. O the oe had we had more visitors o our website tha ever at a sigle give time. O the other, we were losig them because our IT was havig trouble supportig the massive load, thikig of it as a threat ad shuttig dow impedig access. 7 Fire drill calls to the server support ad product teams allowed us to kick back ito ormal mode withi a few miutes. The website started to be resposive agai, fially, thakfully, ad orders started to flood i; eve i the wee hours of the morig. We were awestruck. People were orderig products i categories that historically ever sold much. They were buyig fridges, washig machies ad air coditioers i witer as if they were buyig cady. To top it off, a third of the orders were prepaid, simply uheard of i the e-commerce space i Pakista where lack of trust forces people to oly choose cash o delivery. Schoolgirl Ayesha Ishtiaque have bee featured o the BBC 100 Wome list for 2015. Ayesha Ishtiaq, 17, is "extremely passioate" about tacklig sexism i Pakistai society ad studyig geder roles. The Islamabad residet ad schoolgirl also coducts talks o femiism ad huma rights with frieds ad aspires to study jouralism ad wome's studies i the Uited States before returig to Pakista to help others. She, however, maitais the differece betwee geders must be preserved ad says, "You do't have to fight ayoe, you just have to be yourself ad you just have to be more cofidet i who you are ad ot feel isecure about beig a girl... You have to live up to it."
15 feel-good momets i 2015 that made us proud Pakistai Syed Ghulam Fatima rights activist hooured with Global Citize award Fiza Farha i Forbes list of 30 youg social etrepreeurs. Fawad Kha wo Film fare Award for best male debute i Bollywood Pakistai Model bags Mr. Dubai 2015 title. Forget fair ad lovely, dark is divie: Fatima Lodhi lauched Pakista s first Ati-colorism Campaig Almira became first Pakistai woma footballer to play i UK Pakistai ex-military pilot shortlisted for makid s first oe-way trip to Mars. Karachi artist reclaim city walls from hate graffiti Pakistai studet wo third place at Itel sciece fair Amir Kha establishes boxig academy i Islamabad Pakistai truck art used i Dolce ad Gabaa s ew beauty campaig 5 year old Laila Naim became first Pakistai to model for Burberry Humas of New York came to Pakista Zeith Irfa first wome to ride solo o a motorcycle across orther areas of Pakista. Mato set a ew bechmark for Pakistai ciema Happy New Year 2016 Greechias iterested i cotributios or joiig us as sub-editor! shoot a email to the editor, icludig your ame, roll umber ad your work at eesha@greewich.edu.pk Wat to be a RJ ad coect with a millio people out there?. Joi Greewich Radio! radio.greewich.edu.pk Patro: Ms. Seema Mughal, (Vice Chacellor) Editor: Eesha Ghai (Lecturer) Sub Editor: Nida Latif BS48 5390 Graphics & Layout: Cozil Altaf, (Media Lab Coordiator)