Entertainment news: July 2016

Sunday 31 July 2016

Cricket legend Hanif Mohammad hospitalized with breathing issues, clog, says child Shoaib

KARACHI: Former Pakistan cricket great Hanif Mohammad who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago was hospitalised early Sunday, son Shoaib Mohammad told Dawn.com.

Hanif, 81, was shifted to a hospital after a two-week-long struggle with breathing problems and congestion.

Hanif, after being diagnosed with the disease, underwent surgery in London which helped bring it under control, Shoaib said. "But the cancer spread with time."

"We sent the latest biopsy to our doctor in London and he said that chemotherapy will not be an effective option for further treatment."

Shoaib, who is a Pakistan International Airlines employee, said new treatments are expensive and will be difficult for him to finance on his own.

"The latest and effective treatment for this problem costs double the amount of the previous treatment and we will need the help of the government — probably from sports funds to help his (Hanif's) recovery," he said.

Born on Dec 21, 1934 in Junagarh, Hanif played 55 Test matches for Pakistan between 1952-53 and 1969-70 and averaged a fine 43.98 comprising twelve hundreds.

At his peak, Hanif was considered one of the best batsmen in the world.

Hanif’s marathon knock of 337 that he scored against the West Indies in a Test at Bridgetown in 1957-58, is regarded as one of the epic knocks in the entire cricket history. After Pakistan found themselves following on from a first-innings deficit of 473 runs on the afternoon of the third day, Hanif spent more than sixteen hours at the crease compiling his runs, allowing Pakistan to draw the game.

It remains the longest innings in Test history (and stood as the longest in all first-class cricket for over 40 years).

It was the only Test match instance of a triple century in a team’s second innings until it was equalled by New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum against India in 2014.

In 1958-59, Hanif surpassed Sir Don Bradman’s record for the highest individual first-class innings. Hanif made 499 before being run out attempting his five hundredth run. This mark stood for more than 35 years before being surpassed by Brian Lara in 1994.

In all Hanif made 55 first-class centuries and finished with a strong career average of 52.32.

Hanif was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1968. In January 2009, Hanif was named along with two other Pakistani players — Imran Khan and Javed Miandad — among the inaugural batch of 55 inductees into the ICC’s Hall of Fame.

Cricket legend Hanif Mohammad hospitalized with breathing issues, clog, says child Shoaib

PML-N's Raja Farooq Haider chose new AJK PM

MUZAFFARABAD: PML-N 's Raja Farooq Haider was chosen Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) executive and Leader of the House by the AJK Legislative Assembly on Sunday by a larger part.

The Legislative Assembly chose him Leader of the House by a larger part of 38 votes out of 48. AJK President Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Haider will regulate promise to Haider later today.

Chaudhry Muhammad Yaseen of PPP and Ghulam Mohiuddin Dewan, a joint competitor of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Muslim Conference, got five votes each.

The get together will likewise choose various authorities in today's session.

Head administrator Nawaz Sharif had assigned Raja Farooq Haider as Leader of the House for the recently chose AJK Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.

Since the PML-N guaranteed an outright lion's share in the as of late held surveys, Haider was set to end up the following leader of the area.

Haider was beforehand chosen to the post of AJK PM in 2009, when he challenged as an applicant of the reunified Muslim Conference and secured 29 votes.

Saturday 30 July 2016

Adrenaline junkie skydiver turns out to be first individual to freefall and land without a parachute

LOS ANGELES: A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 bounced impacted the world forever Saturday when he turned into the principal individual to jump without a parachute and land in a net.

Following a two-minute freefall from 25,000 feet, Luke Aikins landed right on target in the 100-by-100-foot net at the Big Sky film farm on the edges of Simi Valley.

"Aikins' jump speaks to the finish of a 26-year vocation that will set an individual and world record for the most noteworthy bounce without a parachute or wing suit," his representative Justin Aclin said in an email.

As cheers ejected, Aikins immediately moved out, strolled over and embraced his significant other, Monica, who had been viewing starting from the earliest stage their 4-year-old child, Logan, and other relatives.

"I'm just about suspending, it's staggering," the glad skydiver said, raising his hands over his head as his better half held their child, who napped in her arms.

"This thing simply happened! I can't get the words out of my mouth," he included as he expressed gratitude toward the many group individuals who put in two years helping him plan for the hop, including the individuals who amassed the angling trawler-like net and ensured it truly worked.

The trick, telecast live on the Fox system for the TV exceptional "Step Gum Presents Heaven Sent", about didn't put on a show of being arranged when Aikins uncovered just before moving into his plane that the Screen Actors Guild had requested him to wear a parachute to guarantee his security.

Aikins didn't say what incited the first limitation, and delegates for the appear and the Screen Actors Guild did not promptly react to telephone and email messages.

Aikins said he considered hauling out by then in light of the fact that having the parachute canister on his back would make his arrival in the net much more unsafe. On the off chance that he needed to wear it he said he wouldn't try to pull the ripcord in any case.

"I'm going the distance to the net, no inquiry regarding it," he said from the plane. "I'll simply need to manage the results when I place where there is wearing the parachute on my back and what it will do to my body."

A couple of minutes before the hop one of the show's hosts said the prerequisite had been lifted. Aikins left the plane without the chute.

He hopped with three different skydivers, every wearing parachutes.

One had a camera, another trailed smoke so individuals on the ground could take after his plummet and the third took an oxygen canister he gave off after they got to an elevation where it was no more required.

At that point the others opened their parachutes and left him all alone.

Aikins conceded before the hop he was apprehensive and his mom said she was one relative who wouldn't watch.

At the point when his companion Chris Talley thought of the thought two years back, Aikins recognized he turned it down cool.

"I sort of giggle and I say, 'alright, that is awesome. I'll help you discover some individual to do it'," he told The Associated Press as he prepared for the bounce a week ago.

Two or three weeks after Talley made his proposition Aikins got back to and said he would do it. He'd been the reinforcement jumper in 2012 when Felix Baumgartner turned into the principal skydiver to break the rate of sound amid a hop from 24 miles above Earth.

The 42-year-old thrill seeker made his first pair bounce when he was 12, taking after with his first solo jump four years after the fact.

He's been racking them up at a few hundred a year from that point onward. His dad and granddad were skydivers, and his better half has made 2,000 hops. His family possesses Skydive Kapowsin close Tacoma, Washington.

Aikins is additionally a security and preparing counsel for the United States Parachute Association and is guaranteed to educate both understudies and skydiving educators.

His business Para Tactics gives skydiving preparing to Navy Seals and different individuals from tip top battling strengths.

Adrenaline junkie skydiver turns out to be first individual to freefall and land without a parachute

KP to change LG law for no surveys on a few minorities' seats

PESHAWAR: The commonplace nearby government office has chosen to get rid of the general and by-races on seats saved for non-Muslims in the town and neighborhood chambers where there is no enlisted voter in that class, as indicated by sources.

They said that for this reason changes would be joined into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013.

Of the 3,501 town and neighborhood boards in the region more than 3,000 saved seats for non-Muslims have been lying empty since holding of the nearby bodies races on May 30, 2015. The sources said that such empty seats couldn't be filled in past more than one year as there were no enrolled non-Muslim voters in the individual nearby gatherings.

More than 3,000 saved seats are lying empty as there are no non-Muslims in numerous towns

The filling of empty posts held for non-Muslims has turned into a consistent migraine for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) because of provisos in the pertinent law. Under KPLGA 2013, it was authoritative on the ECP to fill every one of the seats or those falling empty inside 90 days.

In this association, the nearby government office has proposed revisions to the law to excluded the town and neighborhood chambers from holding general and by-decisions against the seats saved for non-Muslims in the boards where there was no enlisted vote of non-Muslims.

Boss Minister Pervez Khattak has officially affirmed the proposed revision of the LG division which would be tabled in the following bureau meeting, the sources said. They said that the correction would be joined into the law through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly after endorsement of the common bureau.

The ECP was bound under the KP Local Government Act 2013 to declare timetable of races on the empty seats and hold decisions inside 90 days, a senior authority in ECP told Dawn.

"We realize that nobody will submit designation papers with ECP to challenge the races on held seats for non-Muslims in light of the fact that there is no enrolled voter of their group," he said, including that notwithstanding that ECP reported the timetable to satisfy its legitimate obligation.

He said that there was no procurement in the law to maintain a strategic distance from this activity in spite of realizing that not a solitary voter of non-Muslims was enrolled in such town and neighborhood gatherings.

"It regards listen that the KP government has chosen to change the law to abstain from holding of general and by-races in the gatherings where no non-Muslim voter is enrolled," he said.

Other than five to 10 general seats, there are five held seats in every town and neighborhood committee, including two for ladies, one each for youth, laborers and non-Muslims.

Authorities in ECP said that they had brought the imperfections up in the LG law with the commonplace government at the season of its planning in 2013. They said that they had recommended to the commonplace government to evacuate the defects, however nobody listened to them.

They were of the perspective that the LG law was really passed in scurry and that was the reason the common government had so far made six alterations to it in the past one year.

They said that ECP was at that point overburdened as other than LG decisions it was likewise in charge of leading races to the Senate, National Assembly and four common gatherings. He said that arrangement of calendar, arrangement of returning officers, getting designation papers and their investigation, open notification, honor of decision images, and so on was a difficult occupation.