๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan is clearing HOSPITAL BEDS for MASS CASUALTIES from a protest that hasn't happened yet!
That may be the most alarming sign yet of what authorities expect on September 27.
Ahead of PTI's march on Islamabad, Drop Site News says it obtained government instructions ordering hospitals to prepare for a potential โhumanitarian crisisโ and โmass casualty incident.โ
Elective surgeries are reportedly being postponed. Staff leave cancelled. Employees recalled. Stable patients discharged to make room.
And while hospitals prepare for casualties, the government is trying to stop the people who might fill those beds from reaching Islamabad in the first place.
Imran Khan's three sisters have been detained for 30 days. PTI politicians and workers have been arrested. Roadblocks are going up. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi says the march will be stopped โin every possible way.โ
None of this means mass casualties will occur. Preparing hospitals for the worst is exactly what governments should do when serious unrest is possible.
But the preparation itself tells us something extraordinary.
6 days before the march, Pakistan is not only preparing to police a demonstration... it is reportedly preparing its hospitals for what's about to come.
Source: @DropSiteNews / Writer: Oliver
Pakistan Army is running over Baloch a civilians with its military vehicles in Balochistan.
Pak Army brutality against oppressed Baloch people has reached an extreme level.
This is blatant terr$$orism.
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif Warns US and UK at UNGA ๐ฅ
โIf we haven't controlled our terrorists, they would be roaming on the streets of New York or London"
A BBC Verify investigation found that Apple Maps' censoring of Chinese Military and Government sites has included arbitrary detention sites in Xinjiang, including the prison where Ilham Tohti is detained.
Tech companies need a clear framework for obscuring imagery that balances security concerns with public interest. Here, Apple has clearly become a barrier to accountability.
I was honoured to lend some thoughts during this investigation, and I'm very glad it's been released. This is an unambiguous example of the need for a more structured approach.
Watch the investigation.
#Pakistan: UN experts express grave concern over continuing reports of persecution of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, calling on authorities to ensure their protection and uphold the country's human rights obligations.
https://t.co/dVsBssAZhqโฆ
WATCH: A Chinese military attachรฉ passed a note to the Philippine Defense Secretary while he was speaking at a Seoul defense forum โ restating that the 2016 South China Sea ruling is "illegal, null and void."
Teodoro read it aloud to the room, then responded line by line.
On "no binding force": "Because you don't want to be subjected to UNCLOS."
On China not accepting the ruling: "Of course, because you lost."
In Filipino he added: "Show a little decency, have a little shame."
The audience applauded.
He called it "actual coercion, bullying and aggression" and kept the note as a "memento."
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered Imran Khan moved to hospital. He was back in his cell within hours, and the whole episode captures exactly how his three years in custody have gone.
The backstory: Khan, 73, has been jailed since August 2023 on corruption convictions he and his party call politically motivated.
Concerns have built for months over his health, fluctuating blood pressure, anxiety the jail's own cardiac board linked to restricted family contact, and reported vision loss in one eye that first surfaced back in February.
Last week the Supreme Court ordered him transferred to Shifa International Hospital within 48 hours for an independent medical board assessment, with family access and calls to his sons abroad.
The government fought the order and even tried a review petition. When the transfer finally happened, Khan was diverted to a different, state-run hospital, PIMS, over what officials called a "security situation."
A six-doctor team, including a cardiologist and ophthalmologist, examined him overnight and declared him fit to remain in custody. By 5am he was back in Adiala jail.
@PTIofficial calls the whole sequence a violation of the court's order.
What makes this more than a routine prison-health story: Khan was Pakistan's elected prime minister until a 2022 no-confidence vote, and his imprisonment has become the central fault line in a country where the military has historically held the real levers of power.
Courts have sided with him on paper repeatedly, this is now at least the third medical order in a year, while the practical outcome each time is identical: examined, cleared, returned to the same cell.
The pattern itself, a former PM's health becoming a recurring legal battle rather than a settled fact, says something about how contested power actually is in Pakistan right now.
Source: The Telegraph / Writer: Oliver
At least 14 newborn babies have died in a hospital fire at a public hospital in Pakistanโs capital city, Islamabad.
The fire broke out in the maternity ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where 16 babies were being cared for.
Itโs one of the main hospitals in the city. Some of those grieving outside the hospital say the ward was locked.
Public healthcare in Pakistan is often criticised for being overburdened and under-resourced.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an 'immediate' inquiry.
#News #Channel4News #Pakistan #Fire #Hospital
๐จ๐ณ๐ณ๐ต A breakdown of the nationalities of missing people after yesterday's catastrophic mudslide that left at least 165 people dead on the Nepal-Tibet border.
In China:
๐จ๐ณ 298 from China
260 foreigners
In Nepal:
๐ณ๐ต 462 from Nepal
๐ฎ๐ณ 133 from India
๐บ๐ธ 54 from the U.S.
๐บ๐ฆ 53 from Ukraine
๐ฆ๐บ 34 from Australia
๐ฌ๐ง 33 from the UK
๐จ๐ฆ 24 from Canada
๐ฒ๐พ 19 from Malaysia
๐ฐ๐ท 9 from South Korea
๐ธ๐ฌ 6 from Singapore
๐ฟ๐ฆ 6 from South Africa
๐ฏ๐ต 5 from Japan
๐ณ๐ฟ 5 from New Zealand
๐ฉ๐ช 4 from Germany
๐ซ๐ท 3 from France
๐ฎ๐ช 2 from Ireland
๐ณ๐ฑ 2 from Netherlands
๐ท๐บ 2 from Russia
๐ช๐ธ 2 from Spain
๐ต๐ญ 1 from Philippines
๐ต๐น 1 from Portugal
๐ง๐พ 1 from Belarus
๐ซ๐ฎ 1 from Finland
๐ญ๐บ 1 from Hungary
๐ฎ๐ฑ 1 from Israel
๐ฑ๐น 1 from Lithuania
Source: @BNODesk / Writer: Mhedi
https://t.co/Sc4i6DaeSjโฆ
A second flight has just taken off, carrying 37.5 tonnes of HADR material, medicines & food packets for Nepal.
India remains in close and continuous touch with the Nepalese authorities. We will continue to strongly support the ongoing relief efforts.
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A second flight has just taken off, carrying 37.5 tonnes of HADR material, medicines & food packets for Nepal.
India remains in close and continuous touch with the Nepalese authorities. We will continue to strongly support the ongoing relief efforts.
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HAVE CHINESE ROCKED THE DELICATE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE NEAR THE NEPAL-TIBET BORDER?
In a post on X, Nepal Correspondence claimed that Chinese โXiaokang settlements" at glacial altitudes had contributed to an ecological disaster and that avalanches were now occurring annually along the China-Nepal border.
The group claimed Wednesdayโs flood was triggered near Gyirong town in Tibet.
According to the post, the town was constructed after cutting hills and was built on the natural course of the Trishuli river. The group alleged that construction had damaged the ecosystem around glacial peaks, resulting in avalanches that could cause flash floods in Nepal.
HAVE CHINESE ROCKED THE DELICATE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE NEAR THE NEPAL-TIBET BORDER?
In a post on X, Nepal Correspondence claimed that Chinese โXiaokang settlements" at glacial altitudes had contributed to an ecological disaster and that avalanches were now occurring annually along the China-Nepal border.
The group claimed Wednesdayโs flood was triggered near Gyirong town in Tibet.
According to the post, the town was constructed after cutting hills and was built on the natural course of the Trishuli river. The group alleged that construction had damaged the ecosystem around glacial peaks, resulting in avalanches that could cause flash floods in Nepal.
China executed three men convicted of repeated child rape on November 13, 2024, the same day the Supreme Peopleโs Court approved their death sentences.
One was a primary school teacher who raped six girls under 14 more than 100 times.
Another lured and abused eight girls, using threats with indecent images.
The third coerced a girl starting at age 12 for years until she died by suicide at 16.
๐จThe Court publicized the cases and stated the executions show zero tolerance and aim to deter others.
This is the kind of โquick trialโ Trump has repeatedly praised when describing Chinaโs system.
๐จTHIS IS WHAT THE USA SHOULD BE DOING.