Yesterday, my daughter, Kyra, passed away peacefully after a 9 month and 11 day fight against one of the cruelest diseases I’ve ever seen up close. She was diagnosed with Brain Cancer, specifically Glioblastoma. I have felt all of your concern and love for these months and wasn’t ready to be anymore specific than I was.
Kyra was a 28-year-old young woman who loved deeply and who is impossible to describe in 280 characters. While her life got stolen from her, she handled these months with courage, poise, and resolve. And all I want is for no family to feel what we feel today. For no young person to suffer the way she did.
In lieu of flowers, if you are moved to make a memorial gift, please consider “The Kyra Fund” (https://t.co/4bl8cxV1Dt)
This fund will be used solely to research treatments for Glioblastomas.
If a father bathes his children, both laugh. If a son bathes his father, both cry.
🎥 A Separation, one of the greatest films ever made in Iranian cinema
After my brother Mashal Khan’s lynching, my education was stopped for a year, but my dreams could not be silenced.
Journalism was Mashal’s passion. I promised to continue the journey he couldn’t finish.
Today, I graduate in Journalism. A promise made, a promise fulfilled. ❤️
Swat is mourning another woman. Beheaded by her own husband.
The sixth woman killed in less than two weeks in Swat.
Her baby was found beside her, clutching her shoe.
But let’s all condemn feminists for asking for justice & accountability
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Outrageous! Disgusting!
Feudal Waderas in Ghotki gang-raped a girl in front of her parents, filmed it, and blackmailed her. These powerful thugs rape freely while the #Pakistani state stays silent.
Feudalism is a cancer destroying #Sindh. Pure barbarism! #JusticeForVictim
برصغیر کی معروف گلوکارہ آشا بھوسلے کے انتقال پر جیو نیوز نے ان کے کچھ یادگار گیت اور نغمے نشر کیے۔۔ آشا بھوسلے کے چاہنے اور سننے والے پورے برصغیر میں موجود ہیں۔ آشا بھوسلے نورجہاں کی مداح تھیں اور انہیں بڑی بہن کہہ کر پکارتی تھیں، آشا نے نصرف فتح علی خان کے گانے گائے اور عظیم پاکستانی شاعر ناصر کاظمی کے گیت بھی گائے۔ پاکستان الیکٹرانک میڈیا ریگولیٹر اتھارٹی پیمرا نے جیو کی نوٹس جاری کیا ہے کہ بھارتی مواد نہیں چلایا جا سکتا۔ جیو یقین رکھتا ہے کہ فن انسانیت کا مشترکا اثاثہ ہے اور اسے سرحدوں میں قید نہیں کیا جانا چاہیئے۔
لوگوں سے وہ سوال نہ کرو جو خدا نے انسانوں سے کرنے ہیں.
مثلاً
تمہارا مذہب کیا ہے؟
تم نے عبادت کی؟
تم نے روزہ رکھا؟
لوگوں سے وہ سوال کرو جو انسان کو انسان سے کرنے چاہئے.
مثلاً
کیا تمہیں کوئی پریشانی ہے؟
کیا تم بھوکے ہو؟
کیا تمہیں کچھ چاہیے؟
It disgusts me to my core that a man in his 70s doesn’t understand that a ten-year-old is not an adult, but a child who still has many years to go before reaching physical and mental maturity.
We are truly blessed to be part of Islam, which introduced us to Sajdah over 1400 years ago. What an incredible blessing, Alhamdolilah!
#Islam#ReligionOfPeace#Blessings
🚨 Spending just 5 to 10 minutes a day in this meditative pose does more than open your hips. It can ease lower back tension, support digestion, and calm a busy mind.
Research shows that gentle stillness paired with slow breathing helps lower stress hormones and guides the body into a relaxed, focused state.
It is a small daily habit, but one that can help reset your nervous system and bring real calm.
Over the past 24 months Pak has lost 5000 doctors, 11000 engineers & 13000 accountants. Pak is also the 4th largest freelancing hub & with internet shutdowns causing losses of $1.62 billion, has put 2.37 million freelancing jobs at risk.
Fix politics to fix the economy!
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I’m Dr Ahmed, a Muslim consultant psychiatrist. For more than 10 years, I’ve worked over Xmas so colleagues who celebrate can be with their loved ones. I’m on call again this year in emergency psychiatry. Thanks to all frontline staff working over the festive period. Merry Xmas.
Her name was Tilly Smith. And she was about to prove that a single school lesson could mean the difference between life and death.
On the morning of December 26, 2004, Tilly was walking along Mai Khao Beach in Phuket, Thailand, with her family. They were on their first overseas holiday together—a Christmas treat.
The beach was beautiful. The weather was perfect. But something was wrong.
Tilly noticed the water wasn't behaving normally.
"It wasn't calm and it wasn't going in and then out," she later recalled. "It was just coming in and in and in."
The sea had turned frothy—"like you get on a beer," she said. "It was sort of sizzling."
Any other 10-year-old might have thought it was strange. Tilly knew exactly what it meant.
Just two weeks earlier, in her geography class at Danes Hill School in Surrey, her teacher Andrew Kearney had shown the class black-and-white footage of the 1946 tsunami that devastated Hawaii. He taught them the warning signs: the sea receding unusually far, frothy bubbling water, the ocean behaving in ways it shouldn't.
Tilly was watching those exact warning signs unfold in front of her.
She started screaming at her parents. "There's going to be a tsunami!"
They didn't believe her. They couldn't see any wave. The sky was clear. The beach was calm.
But Tilly wouldn't stop. She became more insistent, more frantic.
"I'm going," she finally said. "I'm definitely going. There is definitely going to be a tsunami."
Her father Colin heard the urgency in her voice. He decided to trust his daughter.
By coincidence, an English-speaking Japanese man nearby overheard Tilly use the word "tsunami." He'd just heard news of an earthquake in Sumatra. "I think your daughter's right," he said.
Colin alerted the hotel staff. They began evacuating the beach immediately.
Tilly's mother Penny was one of the last to leave. She had to sprint as the water began rushing in behind her.
"I ran," Penny recalled, "and then I thought I was going to die."
They made it to the second floor of the hotel with seconds to spare.
Then the wave hit.
It was 30 feet tall.
Everything on the beach—beds, palm trees, debris—was swept into the swimming pool and beyond. "Even if you hadn't drowned," Penny later said, "you would have been hit by something."
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed over 230,000 people across 14 countries. Entire beaches in Phuket were wiped out. Thousands died.
But at Mai Khao Beach, not a single person was killed.
Because a 10-year-old girl paid attention in geography class.
Tilly was hailed as the "Angel of the Beach." She received the Thomas Gray Special Award from the Marine Society. She was named "Child of the Year" by a French magazine. She appeared at the United Nations and met Bill Clinton.
Her story is now taught in schools around the world as an example of why disaster education matters.
Her father Colin still thinks about what could have happened.
"If she hadn't told us, we would have just kept on walking," he said. "I'm convinced we would have died."
Tilly is now 30 years old. She lives in London and works in yacht chartering.
She still credits her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney.
"If it wasn't for Mr. Kearney," she told the United Nations, "I'd probably be dead and so would my family."
Two weeks. One lesson. One hundred lives.
That's the power of education.
"Tilly Smith’s quick thinking saved her family during the 2004 tsunami. Click to read how one geography lesson made all the difference!"