Shoe thrown at Ahsan Iqbal during speech at Narowal

NAROWAL: Police on Saturday arrested a man, Bilal Haris, for hurling a shoe at Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal during a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers convention in Narowal.

The interior minister bearly escaped the shoe while addressing the workers in the Aliabad area of his constituency.

After the incident, the workers grabbed the man and handed him over to the police. Iqbal descended from the stage leaving his speech in between following the incident.

He, however, directed the police not to take legal action against the man, reported a private media outlet. The intruder was later released.

Earlier in the day, Iqbal told journalists that Pakistan was facing conspiracies and the country’s enemies were working overtime to spread anarchy.  The “surgical strikes” are being carried out on the country’s political stability, he added.

Shoe-throwing, or shoeing, showing the sole of one’s shoe or using shoes to insult are forms of protest in many parts of the world. Shoe-throwing as an insult dates back to ancient times, even mentioned in Psalm 108:9 in the Old Testament.

Pakistani have often protested against their political figures by hurling shoes at them, a form of protest in many parts of the world. Earlier, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Asif Ali Zardari, PPP leader and former Sindh CM Ghulam Arbab Rahim, and former dictator Pervez Musharraf–who had been thrown shoes at twice– had been shoed.

Tajammul Lodhi threw his shoe at Pervez Musharraf while Musharraf was leaving Sindh High Court after obtaining an extension of his pre-arrest bail in a series of cases. Lodhi later said in an interview that he had thrown the shoe because he hated Musharraf for trying to destroy democracy in Pakistan. Musharraf was hit on the nose, according to Wikipedia, a website developed collaboratively by a community of users.

Samsung Galaxy S9’s Box Leak Reveals Surprising New Features/Reviews

Samsung newest flagship phone in coming next month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) but the leaks show no signs of stopping. The latest was a retail of the Galaxy S9 with some interesting new details mentioned specifications, Here's the image of box.

 

 The box pretty much confirms the rumored specifications of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9.
What the rumors didn't to was the inclusion of stereo speakers and a camera with variable apertue.
It mentions f/1.5 and f2.4 for the Dual Pixel 12 MP camera, similar to the China exclusive W2018 phone which had f/1.5 aperture. No smartphone has implemented a variable aperture to date , which should make Samsung implementation all the more interesting.

Another thing mentioned here are the Super Slow-mo videos ehich could mean something similar to Sony's 960 fps motion eyes camera on the XZ series.

Stereo speakers are also making a comeback, if the specs on the box are correct. Leaked renders of the galaxy S9 show even slimmer bezels than before, however Samsung is likely to use the earpiece as the second speaker to keep the bezels samll.

 

Other specification include a 5.8 inch Super AMOLED QHD+ (2960x1440) resolution display. It will be powered by Exynos 9810 or Snapdragon 845, with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB internal storage.
It will have an 8MP front camera as well as wireless charging support. IP 68 water and dust resistance is also making its way to the S9 in addition to bundled AKG earphones in the box.

COMING IN NEXT MONTH:

With the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) ending, tech fans are looking forward to the next big tech event: the Mobile World Congress (MWC). As the name implies, the MWC is where smartphone companies show off their latest and greatest products.

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At the CES, samsung CEO DJ Koh announced that the Galaxy S9 will be revealed next month at the MWC. Last years S8 was revealed at the "Galaxy Unpacked" event organized by Samsung, however this time around the next iteration of the Galaxy S series will be showcase at MWC.

Senior Islamic State leader used eBay to funnel money to operatives in Britain and US

Today i want to share off topic post for your knowledge. 

A senior Islamic State leader used eBay to funnel money to operatives living in Britain and the United States, according to a newly unsealed FBI affidavit.

Cardiff-based Siful Sujan - a high-ranking Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) official whose tech company was at the centre of the multi-national operation - sent funds to the individuals using fake transactions on the online marketplace. One of the alleged recipients named in the indictment is Mohamed Elshinawy, who is accused of pretending to sell computer printers in order to receive money from Sujan and other Isil figures. Elshinawy received a total of $8,700 (£6,700) from individuals associated with the terror group, according to the affidavit, including five payments through PayPal from Sujan’s company. The 30-something American citizen used the funds to buy a laptop, a mobile phone, and a VPN to communicate with Sujan, who is thought to have left the UK for Syria some time in 2014 and was killed in a drone strike in 2015. Sujan, who was of Bangladeshi descent, was a leading figure in the militants’ hacking campaign and their efforts to defeat surveillance and tracking by Western spy agencies.
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The 31-year-old became one of the group’s most-valued tech experts when he replaced another leading Isil hacker from Britain, Junaid Hussain, who was also killed in a air strike. Elshinawy was arrested in Maryland more than a year ago following a detailed FBI investigation and is now in federal custody awaiting trial, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the 2016 indictment. He admitted to investigators that he was told to use the funds for terror attacks in the US, but claimed he never planned to carry one out. During their investigations, the FBI discovered Eshinawy was part of a global Isil network that operated from the UK to Bangladesh. Other alleged operatives have reportedly been arrested in the two countries, however their names have not been made public. Some of the key players in the alleged network, which also bought military-grade surveillance equipment that could be used for aerial targeting, were arrested or killed in a coordinated global sweep in December 2015. A spokesman for eBay said the company has “zero tolerance for criminal activity on our marketplace and we worked with law enforcement to bring this individual to justice.” The number of operatives thought to have been involved makes it one of the most significant suspected Isil financial networks yet uncovered. Governments have for years focused efforts to cut off terrorist cash flows on the formal financial sector, but the new revelation has drawn attention to the ways illicit networks may be circumventing conventional financial institutions to send resources to would-be terrorists.
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