The renowned Romanian singer-songwriter, record producer, and radio DJ Adrian Sina, famously known as Akcent, has announced an upcoming visit to Hunza, Pakistan. The reason behind the plan was not only for tourism and entertainment purposes but to portray to the world, the true, beautiful, and safe image of Pakistan as opposed to how the world media shows it.

In a tweet and an Instagram post, the singer commented, “This time I have decided to spend some of my holidays in Hunza Pakistan to show the world that Pakistan is a Safe and Beautiful country.”

The initiative was taken as a counter to the past events when New Zealand’s cricket team left at the last moment due to security threats. Akcent has shown it time and again that Pakistan is a country that should be cherished, and it is not how the world media represents it!

This Sunday, a Pakistan-based freelancer affiliated with CNN, a multinational news channel, was dismissed by the institution after his anti-genocide tweet was highlighted.

Adeel Raja, the controversial freelancer, made a statement at 12:45 pm on his Twitter account that says “The world today needs a Hitler”. Although the tweet was deleted after a couple of hours but spread a massive outrage among the global community.

In response to his statement, the channel decided to cut ties with him. One of the representatives of CNN, Matt Dornic told the Washington Examiner that “Adeel Raja has never been a CNN employee. As a freelancer, his reporting contributed to some news-gathering efforts from Islamabad, However, in light of these abhorrent statements, he will not be working with CNN again in any capacity.”

On Monday, Adeel Raja came to his defense with another tweet that he is quite satisfied with his viral tweet as it highlights the Palestine issue. He’s not grieved about his job, he added.

It is noteworthy that Raja affiliated with CNN in 2013. As per his LinkedIn profile, he is also associated with Ary as an executive producer and has also worked with national channels like Duniya News, Aaj TV, and Dawn news previously. He also won AGAHI awards for his services in journalism in 2016.

Author: Iqra Arif

After months of hard work and commitment, Pakistan has now completed all 27 out of 27 requirements by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in order to exit the grey-list.

Federal Law Minister Farogh Naseem has also remarked that Pakistan is hopeful that the global financial watchdog would not be used for any political move and Pakistan will fairly exit the grey-list.

Previously, FATF published its 2nd follow-up report about Pakistan’s development in combating terror financing and remarked, “Pakistan has made notable progress in addressing the identified deficiencies”.

Dr Abdul Qadeer (A.Q.) Khan, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 85, is regarded as a national hero in Pakistan. He is known as the “Father of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons” around the world.

Khan was born in India in 1936 and came to Pakistan with his family years after partition in 1952. At the age of 36, he was assigned to work in a Dutch laboratory and workshop that was part of the European URENCO partnership, which built uranium enrichment centrifuges.

Right after Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s death, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that Israeli premier intelligence Mossad tried to assassinate Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to stop the Muslim world from acquiring more nuclear weapons.

By coincidence, Arnon Milchan, who is well known Hollywood Tycon and then Israeli spy, was involved in a similar theft the same year.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that A.Q. Khan was the man who facilitated the first “Muslim bomb”. Dr AQ Khan was running shop in Dubai and ran a global network of helpers, engineers, contractors, financiers. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Syria rejected
his mercenary approach of bombs for bucks only the Libya and Iran did accept but altered the terms and scope of the offer.

Lacking serious scientific infrastructure and expertise, Libya’s then-leader Muammar Gadhafi asked Khan to take on the project as a turn-key project.

Post-revolutionary Iran, on the other hand during the Shah’s reign had already relatively advanced nuclear program, the scientists who had studied in the west chose its path.

Iranian Scientists have reportedly built their centrifuges remaining them Ir-1 and Ir-2 according to foreign reports.

Israeli’s intelligence service, led at the time by Mossad Chief Shabtai Shavit, did not understand what Khan was up to Ir-3-4-5-6-7 are now spinning in the uranium enrichment facilities of Natanz and Fordow.

Shavit says he would have considered sending a Mossad team to kill Khan and thus “change the course of history” at least in the context of Israel-Iran relations. What eventually exposed Khan’s network was Gadhafi Shavit’s writes in his memoirs.

Mossad and Aman were shocked when they heard the news on the BBC in December 2004. The CIA and M16 hid and departmentalized the negotiations with Gadhafi. Both Libya’s nuclear and chemical programs were dismantled by the IEA, but not before documents were destroyed.

The revelation of Libyan-American-British-Channel via the IAEA enhanced international pressure on Iran’s nuclear aspirations. In 2006, the UN Security Council imposed severe sanctions against Iran. Iran crawled to the negotiating table and signed JCPOA nuclear deal in 2015.

Dr A.Q Khan was Pakistan’s biggest ever private nuclear proliferator and as that rare bird a survivor in the lethal world of nuclear geopolitics and counter-Intelligence. He is among the few nuclear scientists who helped Israel’s enemies acquire game-changing strategic military capacities.