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Pakistani footballer from Chitral, Karishma Ali, continues to inspire girls around the world

Karishma Ali, the first-ever girl from Chitral to play football on the national as well as international level, has been making the country proud with her unwavering efforts to provide equal opportunities for women in her region. The 21-year-old, Karishma, even made it to the prestigious Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list and is the founder of the Chitral Women’s Sports Club. 

Pakistani woman uses AI to add colors to black and white historical images

Maheen Sohail, a product designer at Facebook, is celebrating classics images from the past and re-touching them to fit to the present. Whether its cricket, politics, fashion or marketing – Sohail is putting in extra effort to manually improve colors, trying in to fill the gap artificial intelligence leaves. Despite their efficiency, AI models fail to recognize colors accurately. 

TikTok to invest half-million dollars for training of content producers in Pakistan

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Monday revealed that Tik Tok will invest half-million dollars for the training of content producers, after the app was blocked for immoral content. PTA also revealed that Tik Tok has blocked 4 million videos during the last three months and suspended 25000 accounts. This was revealed before the Senate standing committee on Information and Technology.

Pakistani version of Money Heist is coming in form of a movie and people are unimpressed

The first look of an upcoming Lollywood movie ’50 crore’ came out a day ago, and people on social media were quick to point out its striking resemblance to Spanish crime drama series, La Casa de Papel, which is commonly known as Money Heist. The film features Faysal Qureshi, Saboor Aly, Zhalay Sarhadi, Aijaz Aslam and many other A-listers in lead roles. 

Residents in India create panic after confusing an ‘Iron Man balloon’ with alien invasion

Residents of a town in India’s, Uttar Pradesh were in for a shock after a balloon in the shape of fictional character Iron Man let loose in the skies sparked fears of an alien invasion. The gas balloon resembling a robot, later landed in a canal and a crowd gathered to witness the scenario and spot what some of them thought was “an alien”.

FIA discovers international ‘porn app’ owned by a female from Karachi

The Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) has discovered an international gang operating a “porn app” from Karachi, owned by female residing in Karachi. The FIA on Saturday arrested one suspect and registered a case against the female owner, Ramsha and her partners, who forcefully engaged women for pornographic acts. Qadir, her partner, published job advertisements in different newspapers to hire female workers.

To counter smog Punjab bans vehicles emitting pollutants, burning of crops

The Punjab government has imposed restrictions, including a ban on burning crops and barring vehicles from the road that emit visible smoke in order to counter smog as winters approach. There is recorded evidence of persistent deterioration in the Air Quality Index in Punjab. The level has gone down from a satisfactory one to moderately and poorly polluted levels.

Italy adds Pakistan to ‘Decreto-Flussi’ list of seasonal and non-seasonal work visas

The Italian government has included Pakistan in work visa category called ‘Decreto-Flussi’, which will allow its nationals to avail seasonal and non-seasonal work visas for the year 2020-21 More than 30,000 work visas would be issued by the Italian authorities to the nationals from a few non-EU countries, including Pakistan. Pakistani workers in agriculture, tourism, construction and freight forwarding sectors can avail this opportunity.

Scientists reply to fourth graders questions to NASA on Twitter posted by teacher in Karachi

A teacher from Karachi, Aimun Faisal on Wednesday posted her students’ questions to NASA on Twitter and her post went viral after scientists and astronauts responded to the queries.  It all began with a class activity where the fourth grade teacher at Karachi’s Cornerstones School asked her students to write down questions about the solar system.

Pakistan’s TikTok sensation, Jannat Mirza is leaving country due to mindset of its people

Pakistan’s biggest TikTok sensation, Jannat Mirza, announced earlier that she is leaving the country for good. The news left Mirza’s massive following of over 10 million devastated, making them wonder about the reason she is moving abroad. While interacting with a fan over the matter, Mirza revealed she is heartbroken over the ‘sick mentality’ of people living in Pakistan.