Politics Medical science has transformed the pandemic, and the experimental technologies that helped develop vaccines in record time have strapped rocket boosters to scientific ambitions. Could we be entering a golden age of new vaccines? If you head to the cutting edge of vaccinology you will find Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, from the Jenner Institute and the architect of the Oxford vaccine. Using a revolutionary technology, the team at Oxford had a vaccine ready to start clinical trials in just 65 days. In partnership with pharma giant AstraZeneca, more than 1.5 billion doses have been distributed around the world. Oxford vaccine: How did they make it so quickly? You might assume that once you had reached the top of your professional tree you would be free to think profound thoughts that push the boundaries of human knowledge. Yet nearly every time I interview Prof Gilbert, I get the sense that a huge chunk of her time is taken up buying fridges and freezers. After all, if you can't keep viral samples and prototype vaccines cold then you can't do vaccine research. "I'm still being asked for more," Prof Gilbert tells me. But the kitchen, where such appliances are most commonly found, is not a bad place to build an understanding of the leap in vaccine science achieved by Prof Gilbert and her contemporaries. The new generation of vaccines are quick to make and highly flexible. "It's like decorating a cake," says Prof Gilbert. The old-school method of developing vaccines means you must go back to the raw materials and start from scratch for every vaccine you make. It is like starting with a bench of flour, sugar, eggs and butter. The next step is to take the offending virus, or other disease-causing microbes, and either kill it or weaken it to make a vaccine. Take the two seasonal flu vaccines that are given each year. The adult jab is made by growing influenza viruses inside eggs. The viruses are then purified and killed to make the vaccine. The nasal spray for children has live viruses, but these are made weak and unstable so they can grow in the cooler temperatures of the nose, but not in the warmth of the lungs. But it takes a lot of work to start from scratch for every new disease and there is plenty that can go wrong. You can end up with the vaccine-equivalent of a soggy bottom. Listen: Hear James interview Prof Gilbert on Inside Health The development of Oxford's coronavirus vaccine used a completely different approach known as "plug-and-play". With this type of vaccine most of the work has already been done - the cake has been pre-baked, it just needs to be "decorated" in order to match its target. "We've got the cake and we can put a cherry on top, or we can put some pistachios on top if we want a different vaccine, we just add the last bit and then we're ready to go," Prof Gilbert tells Inside Health. The Oxford vaccine's "cake" - or platform, to employ the scientific term - is a virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been genetically modified to make it safe so that it cannot cause an infection in people. The "decoration" is whichever genetic blueprint is needed to train the immune system to attack. Such a blueprint is added to the cake and job done. It was this work, applied to the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus, that led to Prof Gilbert's many accolades which range from a damehood to a Barbie doll made in her image. "Barbie's comfortably ensconced in my office, but yeah I am thinking of sending Barbie as a stand-in. "It would be useful to have a double who could go and do interviews for me," she says. Two of the other big Covid vaccines - one made by Pfizer-BioNTech and the other by Moderna - use another style of highly adaptable plug-and-play vaccine technology. And all these technologies should make it quicker and easier to develop the vaccines of the future. "There's a lot of vaccine development that we need to do now that we can do it," says Prof Gilbert. Top of her list of targets are the official "priority pathogens". While Covid was a surprise, these are the known threats that are bubbling away with the potential to cause large outbreaks and potentially the pandemics of the future. They include Mers Lassa Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever Nipah Zika Ebola Rift Valley Fever Chikungunya Dengue Hantavirus Plague Marburg Q Fever Some of this work is already under way. Oxford has started clinical trials of a plague vaccine using its plug-and-play technology. Plague infamously caused the Black Death pandemic killing hundreds of millions of people. Separately Moderna is already looking at using its own mRNA technology to make a Nipah vaccine. The virus kills up to three-quarters of infected people. Yet, the big barrier for tackling these diseases will be the same as it has always been - money. They affect some of the poorest parts of the world and there is concern that, even in the wake of pandemic, research won't be funded. And, while vaccine technology has leapt forward - the old enemies are still the same and some have tricksy quirks that mean they pose monumental challenges. All vaccines need a target - called an antigen - that they train the immune system to attack. For all the problems Covid has caused, the virus was a pretty simple beast and the target antigen was blatantly obvious. The outer surface of the virus is covered in spike proteins. So all researchers had to do was plug in the genetic blueprints for the spike protein, train the body to recognise it and be pretty confident that the vaccine was going to work. However, the target antigen is not obvious in other more complex microbes such as the three big killers - malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. HIV is a constantly moving target. It is a shape-shifter that rapidly mutates in order to alter its appearance and outwit our immune system. It is hard to know how to pin it down.

News French President Emmanuel Macron has called a bloody crackdown on Algerian protesters by police in Paris 60 years ago an "unforgivable crime". On 17 October 1961, French police turned on Algerian demonstrators. Some were shot, others were drowned. The precise number of victims is not known, but some say several hundred could have lost their lives. Mr Macron is the first French president to recognise that crimes were committed that day. He joined a commemoration beside the bridge over the River Seine which was the starting point in 1961 for a march against a night curfew imposed only on Algerians. Mr Macron told relatives of victims on the 60th anniversary of the bloodshed that "crimes" were committed under the command of the notorious Paris police chief Maurice Papon. Papon was revealed in the 1980s to have collaborated with occupying Nazi forces in World War Two in transferring Jews to Nazi death camps. The 1961 march was repressed "brutally, violently and in blood", Mr Macron's office said in a statement. Some 12,000 Algerians were arrested, many were wounded and dozens killed, it added. How a massacre of Algerians in Paris was covered up But activists hoping for an even stronger recognition of responsibility were left disappointed. Mr Macron stopped short of an apology and did not give a public speech, with the Elysee issuing only the written statement. The president's statement "is progress but not complete. We hoped for more", Mimouna Hadjam of the Africa93 anti-racism association told the AFP news agency. "Papon did not act alone. People were tortured, massacred in the heart of Paris and those high up knew," Hadjam added, calling for recognition of a "state crime". Historian Emmanuel Blanchard said that Mr Macron's comments represented "progress" and had gone "much further" than his predecessors. What Macron doesn't get about colonialism Macron asks Algerian veterans for forgiveness The massacre, which happened during the war against French rule in Algeria, was denied or concealed by French governments for decades. The first commemorations of the event were organised in 2001 by the mayor of Paris.

Chew on this problem for a moment. How do you go about highlighting the special virtues of a vehicle that brings a new level of fuel efficiency and climate-friendliness to the super-luxury SUV class (a sector not known for such priorities) when its creators’ main aim is to make it drive exactly like its conventional brethren? This is the difficulty we faced with Bentley’s first plug-in model, the Bentayga Hybrid. Despite being packed from stem to stern with new equipment – a relatively small (3.0-litre) V6 petrol engine, a 126bhp electric motor sandwiched between engine and gearbox, a lithium ion battery under the boot floor with 13.3kWh of usable power and 25 miles of EV range, plus lots of mysterious black-box gadgetry connected under the skin by thick, brightly coloured high-voltage cables – this electrified edition of the world’s most successful super-luxury SUV had been configured to feel just like all the rest. The official fuel economy and CO2 figures were no help, either, serving only to advertise the inadequacy of lab figures. A conventional Bentayga V8 returns 21.7mpg on the combined test cycle and pumps out 294g/km of CO2. Corresponding figures for the Hybrid are 81mpg and 79g/km, stats so hopelessly unlike real life that Bentley doesn’t even bother to quote them in its otherwise comprehensive technical presentation on the Hybrid. I mean, nobody’s really going to get 81mpg out of a Bentley hybrid, are they? The one and only worthwhile comparator is that the electrified Bentayga concedes 0.8sec on 0-62mph acceleration to its V8 sibling, hardly a disaster when the PHEV’s test-track journey takes only 5.2sec. But what about the other stuff? If not 81mpg, what fuel mileage can Bentley hybrid owners expect in real life? How far will their fuel tank truly take them? Critically, will the hybrid deliver the same magic carpet progress as conventional models after you’ve spent hours behind the wheel? There was only one way to find out: take the Bentayga PHEV to the road on a very long day’s drive, including (safe levels of) journey fatigue in the equation to punctuate the mere statistics. Where to go? A logical first step was to drive the 129 miles from my Cotswolds base to Bentley’s HQ in Crewe to take a technical refresher course. That way I’d be able to ask questions that had arisen in the first three hours of driving. Over the phone, Bentley’s technical comms chief, Jon Smedley, signified that he was ready and willing, and would bring a clever colleague. Crewe would also be a good place to link up with our photographer, Max Edleston, who has family connections in the area. As we searched for a second destination, the idea of a trip to the welcoming but thoroughly extraordinary emporium of P&A Wood, near Dunmow in Essex, popped obligingly into my head. Started in 1967 by brothers Paul and Andy Wood on the proceeds of an Austin Seven they had been given, this company is the embodiment of its founders’ love of Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars, especially the old ones. They’ll sell you a new Rolls too, but the soul of the business will always be ‘heritage’ models. From previous visits, I knew that the automotive scenery at P&A is always changing, and was confident we would be able to make a strong link between our second-generation 2021 Bentayga Hybrid and some great cars on the premises that belonged much further back along the Bentley timeline. It also happens that P&A is exactly 190 miles from Crewe if you take main roads across the beltline of England. Adding my 129 miles from the Cotswolds to a return trip from Crewe to Essex made just over 500 miles, a journey my intuition reckoned the big Bentley could handle with one electric charge en route and a full tank of fuel. That was at least 100 miles beyond the capability of even the most frugally driven standard V8 and would point to one PHEV advantage. I rang P&A managing director Georgina Wood, daughter of Andy. Though in the middle of preparing for the Goodwood Revival, she was as welcoming as P&A people always are. It's the culture they've created over 54 years. Come and have a cup of tea, said Georgina, and see our cars.

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Artist: Hadiqa Kiani Real Name: Hadiqa Kiani Birth Date /Place: 11 August 1974 (age 47) Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan Age: 47 Social status (Single / Married): Married Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Pop | folk Awards: 31 Top 3 Songs (Names): boohey barian , chaap tilak , ik pal Other Information: Hadiqa Kiani (in Punjabi and Urdu: حدیقہ کیانی ‎, TI(c) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, actress and a philanthropist. She has received numerous local and international awards and also has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and The Kennedy Center.[4][5][6][7][8] Besides Urdu and Punjabi, she has sung many songs in Pashto Language.[9] In 2006, Kiani received the fourth highest Pakistan civilian award, the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, for her contributions to the field of music.[5] In 2010, she was appointed as a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill ambassador, making her the first woman in Pakistan to a Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations.[10][11][12] In 2016, Kiani was titled as one "Pakistan's Most Powerful and Influential Women" by the country's leading news group, Jang Group of Newspapers, as part of their "Power" edition.[13][14] Kiani was born in Rawalpindi as the youngest of 3 siblings, her older brother (Irfan Kiani) and sister (Sasha). Her father died when she was 3 years old. Her mother, poet Khawar Kiani, was the principal of a government girls' school. Seeing her musical ability, Khawar enlisted Kiani in the Pakistan National Council of the Arts.[15] She received early education in music from her teacher, Madam Nargis Naheed.[16][17] While studying at Viqar-un-Nisa Noon Girls High School, Kiani represented Pakistan at international children festivals in Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, and Greece, winning various medals along the way and performing for thousands around the world. Kiani was also a part of Sohail Rana's children's program "Rang Barangi Dunya," a weekly musical on PTV.[18] As an eighth grader, Kiani moved from her birthplace Rawalpindi to Lahore where she continued her classical training by Ustad Faiz Ahmed Khan and Wajid Ali Nashad. Kiani went on to graduate from Pakistan's top institutions, earning her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Kinnaird College for Women University and her Masters in Psychology from the historic Government College University (Lahore).[18][19][20] In the early 1990s, Kiani came onto TV to host a children's music program called "Angan Angan Taray". In the 3+1⁄2-year-long run, she had sung over one thousand songs for children while hosting the show alongside renowned music composer Amjad Bobby and later on with music composer Khalil Ahmed. Owing to the sheer number of songs Kiani sang during this program, she was presented with the title of "A+ artist" on behalf of PTV joining the likes of Noor Jehan, Naheed Akhtar, and Mehnaz. Kiani also appeared as a VJ for a music charts program called Video Junction on NTM.[21] Kiani began to sing songs as a playback singer for movies in the early 90s, most notably was the hit Pakistani movie called Sargam, which was starring and being composed by Adnan Sami Khan. The same year, she received various awards for her playback singing including the prestigious Nigar Awards for Best Female Playback Singer.

Musician Name: Salman Ahmad Birthday / Location: 12 December 1963 (age 57) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Main instrument: vocals, electric guitar, Electric acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:-- Best Performance: -- Other Information: Salman Ahmad (Urdu: سلمان احمد‎, born 12 December 1963) is a Pakistani born-American musician, rock guitarist, physician, activist, and professor at the City University of New York. He earned nationwide po[CENSORED]rity in 1998 for his unique style of neoclassical playing in rock. An early engineer of the Vital Signs, he formed Junoon (lit. Obsession) in 1990 with American bassist Brian O'Connell and pioneered the Sufi influenced rock music in Pakistan. He started his activism in the mid-1990s and has been involved in two BBC documentaries concerning the issues in Pakistan such as society, education, religion and science.[1] He has served as the UN Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS Programme towards spreading awareness about HIV in South Asia. While working with the Pakistan's media to help initiate peace between India and Pakistan, Ahmad continues to produce documentaries and solo guitar albums. At present, he is serving tenured professor at the Queens College of the City University of New York. With Junoon band being disintegrated, Salman Ahmad continues to perform as a solo artist under the "Junoon" label and has moved to New York and released one album as a solo artist, "Infiniti" in 2005.

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News Sheltering in a hideout on the outskirts of Kabul, Abdul says he is waiting for the day he is found and killed by the Taliban. He is one of 11 Afghan interpreters the BBC has spoken to who have been stopped from relocating to the UK, despite initially being told they were eligible for a move. They received letters saying they were "eligible for relocation" to Britain under a government scheme to get former interpreters who had worked for British forces to safety. But the relocation was subject to passing immigration checks - and in the final stages, the Home Office blocked them on national security grounds. They were told their presence in the UK would not be "conducive to the public good". The men, whose names have been changed for their safety as they fear retribution from the Taliban, have not been given any details about why they were deemed a threat. They say they have done nothing wrong. Their supporters in the UK are calling for them to be given the opportunity to have their cases reviewed and have criticised the lack of transparency around the decisions. 'We don't know where to go' When officials from the UK's Ministry of Defence told him in July he was eligible to relocate, Abdul was relieved. Having worked in the past with British troops in Helmand, he was worried he would be a target for retribution when the Taliban started taking over Afghanistan. He says he was told to prepare for a flight out of the country within two weeks. He sold most of his possessions, and prepared to quit his job. But on 11 August, as the Taliban closed in on the capital, he received a letter telling him his visa application had been refused on "national security" grounds with no right of appeal. Abdul, a UN employee who also worked for the British embassy and for the Afghan government after leaving the army, was shocked by the decision. "I have worked with the British embassy. And the UN has zero tolerance for misconduct," he says. A UN spokesperson confirmed to the BBC he had passed background checks for his work there as recently as 2019. "I have never engaged in any criminal acts," Abdul says. "But I have worked shoulder to shoulder with British soldiers." While serving with British troops in Helmand Province, a commanding officer praised Abdul's "loyalty, trustworthiness and complete professionalism" in a service certificate. He now fears the Taliban will find and kill him, his wife, and his young children. "I'm not even concerned about myself, I am concerned about my children. I'm worried about whether they will come back each day from school," he says. After hearing rumours that Taliban fighters were carrying out door-to-door searches, Abdul fled Kabul in late August with his family. "I'm trying to do anything to get out of this situation. But we don't know where to go," he says. 'What is my sin?' Another rejected interpreter, Sayed, has built a makeshift hideout in the bushes behind his home. He told his relatives to tell anyone who comes to his house that he is away. Once a week, after night falls, he takes a taxi into the city centre to buy food for his family. He has shown the BBC a Taliban death threat he says he received a decade ago. In it, the militants warn he will be sent "to the depths of hell" for "working for the infidels". After serving with the British, he worked for a firm contracted to the UN, and later a logistics company. He applied to the UK's Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) - a scheme allowing Afghans who worked for the British military and UK government to be able to move to the UK permanently. In April, he was told he was eligible for a move to the UK. But in August, days before Kabul fell to the Taliban, the Home Office told him he would pose a security threat because of his "conduct, character and associations". Sayed was perplexed. "What is my sin?" he asks. "That I worked shoulder to shoulder with the British? I have no crime, I am not a criminal, I have done nothing wrong." To add to the confusion, a fortnight later he received a Ministry of Defence email telling him to go to Kabul airport to be evacuated. But he was unable to make it through the chaos outside. Although the last Western military flights have left, he is still desperate to flee Afghanistan. "We are still hoping for our fate, the fate of our children," he says. "But I still feel so scared because these people will find me." 'We have no faith in the process' These stories, and those of nine others in a similar situation documented by the BBC, have prompted calls for the rejected cases to be reviewed. "It's deeply, deeply disturbing to us," said Col Simon Diggins, formerly Britain's defence attaché to Kabul, and now a campaigner for former Afghan staff. "We have no faith in the process. The evidence is not seen. There is no opportunity to challenge the evidence and there's no appeal against it," he says. The Home Office did not want to comment on individual cases. But a government spokesperson told the BBC: "There are people in Afghanistan who represent a serious threat to our national and public security. "That is why thorough checks are taking place by government, our world-class intelligence agencies and others and if someone is assessed as presenting as a risk to our country, we will take action." The UK, and other Western nations who are resettling Afghans, have been on high alert for possible abuses of the evacuation process. In August, a person on the UK's no-fly watch list was flown into Birmingham as part of the initial evacuation effort, although they were later not deemed a person of interest. And in the first half of September, the US government flagged 44 Afghans it had evacuated as security threats, according to the Washington Post. Fifteen of them have now been returned to sites in Europe and the Middle East. Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat - chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee - has called for clarity on how the decisions had been made. "For every day that passes, the danger rises for the people we've promised to help," he said. "There will be legitimate reasons why some cases are refused, but transparency as far as possible in the decision-making process will be important to avoid urgent cases falling through the cracks."

Porsche 968 Tiptronic, £12,950: Our survey of quick classics for reasonable money begins with the Porsche 968. Launched in 1992 and phased out just three years later, it was destined to be a sort of 944 S3, but in the end Porsche’s engineers replaced so many of the 944’s parts that the company decided to give the model a completely new name. In any case, although it was a two-door coupé like the 944, the 968 looked different enough to deserve one. Like the Cayenne of 2002, the new model also helped keep Porsche afloat, albeit not to quite the same degree. Unfortunately, it didn’t sell as well as the company might have liked – around 12,750 found homes – but today that means survivors are rare and ones in good condition rarer still. Naturally, sellers have woken up to this and prices are rising but you can still pick up a sound one for decent money – one such as our spot, a 1993-reg with only 67,000 miles. It’s a private-sale car, which is good since the owner can be quizzed directly about its history and maintenance. On that point, it has, they say, a full service history supported by a wallet bulging with invoices. In addition, it has new brakes (pads, discs and calipers, no less), and a new cambelt, fuel pump and DME relay. It sits on four new tyres wrapped around the original and unmarked (read: refurbished) Cup alloys. “The Tiptronic gearbox makes for a very relaxing drive or switch to manual for a more spirited drive,” says the owner, invitingly. Our used car buyer’s guide to the Porsche 968 emphasises the problems with these cars but that’s its job. Don’t let it put you off, because this example looks promising. Mini Cooper JCW, £6995: Quick classics don’t come much sweeter than a Mini Cooper John Cooper Works. We found a 2007-reg, one of the first R56-generation models, with 69,000 miles and a full service history. It’s loaded with what were expensive optional extras, too.

Politics The rules on the number of deliveries overseas lorry drivers can make in the UK are set to be relaxed in a bid to tackle supply chain problems in the run-up to Christmas. Drivers from the EU can now only make two pick-ups or drop-offs each week. Ministers want the rules relaxed to allow them to make unlimited deliveries or collections within a 14 day period. It is hoped the changes will happen by December - but UK drivers fear they might lose work to cheaper EU rivals. The UK's lorry driver shortage - due to a combination of Covid, Brexit and other factors - has affected petrol stations, supermarkets and left containers piled up at Felixstowe Port unable to be moved. Retailers have also warned there could be shortages of items such as toys at Christmas, with shoppers urged to buy gifts early. Why is there an HGV driver shortage? Toy shops warn of Christmas shortages amid delays 'We've run out of Harry Potter stock' Last month, the government announced it would grant up to 5,000 temporary visas for HGV drivers from abroad - but so far only a fraction have been issued. And the first foreign drivers brought in on the visa scheme may not even arrive for another month, sources have told BBC transport correspondent Carrie Davies. But now ministers are going further, and plan to make temporary changes to cabotage rules, which govern how many jobs a haulier can make in a foreign country. It means foreign HGV drivers that come into the country laden with goods can pick up and drop off items an unlimited number of times for two weeks before they return home. The changes still need to be approved after a one-week consultation - but if passed they will come into force "towards the end of this year for up to six months", according to the government. It would mean thousands more HGV deliveries each month, the government said, so more goods - especially food and items that come via ports - can get delivered on schedule. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: "Having some additional capacity right now... it is a good idea. This is a quick way of doing it. It doesn't require visas, it's just a common sense measure. "It is one of very many things. I don't think it is going to undercut or suppress the market." Mr Shapps said problems with supply chains were a global issue. He added: "It is very tight but our supply chain is pretty robust. They have worked through coronavirus and they will work through this as well." But the haulage industry said the measures would undercut British operators. Rod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association, told BBC's Today programme: "Well, I spoke to some of our members last night, and they were appalled. 'Ridiculous', 'pathetic', 'gobsmacked' were some of their more broadcastable comments. "The government has been talking about a high-wage, high-skill economy, and not pulling the lever marked 'uncontrolled immigration', and to them this is exactly what it looks like. "Allowing overseas haulage companies and drivers to come over for up to six months on a fortnightly basis to do unlimited work at low rates, undercutting UK hauliers who… are facing an acute driver shortage, rising costs, staff wages. "So this is about taking work from British operators and drivers and giving it to Europeans who don't pay tax here and pay peanuts to their drivers." "We don't want cabotage to sabotage our industry." Mr Shapps said the long-term answer to the supply chain issues "must be developing a high-skill, high-wage economy here in the UK". But talking about the latest measures, he said: "The temporary changes we're consulting on to cabotage rules will also make sure foreign hauliers in the UK can use their time effectively and get more goods moving in the supply chain at a time of high demand." According to France's finance minister, the UK is faring worse in the supply chain crisis because it left the single market after Brexit. "We are facing the same situation," said Bruno Le Maire at the G7 meeting in Washington. "But the fact that we are a member of a very important single market helps us facing these bottlenecks." On Thursday, the government said it was also giving hundreds of foreign abattoir workers temporary visas, to help fix the shortage of workers in slaughterhouses. The shortage of staff in abattoirs means pigs are not being killed fast enough, and there is not enough space on farms so farmers are having to kill them themselves. Farmers have already destroyed 6,600 healthy pigs due to a backlog on farms, the National Pig Association said.

Artist: Shafqat Amanat Real Name: Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan Birth Date /Place: 26 February 1965 (age 56) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Age: 56 Social status (Single / Married): Married Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Pop | pop rock | Sufi music | sentimental balled | folk | soft rock | playback singing |Hindustani classical music | ghazal | semi-classical music Awards: 3 Top 3 Songs (Names): Aa Do Kadiyan , Tere Bagair Sajna , Dil Hi To Hai Other Information: Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan (Urdu: شفقت امانت علی خان‎), (born 26 February 1965) is a Pakistani pop and classical singer, songwriter and composer belonging to the Patiala Gharana tradition of music.[1][2] He was the lead vocalist of the Pakistani rock band Fuzön until 2006[3] and is a prominent playback singer in the Indian film industry. Ali was awarded the highest national literary award of Pakistan, the Presidential Pride of Performance on 23 March 2008 for his contributions to the arts.[4] In July 2020, he was included on the New York Press News Agency's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Asia/UK/EU. Shafqat Amanat Ali was born into a Punjabi Muslim family in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan to noted classical singer, Ustad Amanat Ali Khan and his wife Almas Amanat Ali Khan, on 26 February 1965, making him the seventh generation[7] of the Patiala Gharana which was founded in the mid-late 19th century by his great grandfather. He is one of seven siblings,[8] the youngest brother of prominent vocalist Asad Amanat Ali Khan, and nephew to Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan and Ustad Hamid Ali Khan. Ali began training in classical music at the age of four and considers his grandmother his first teacher while listing his grandfather, Ustad Akhtar Hussain as his guru.[9] His musical training was primarily with his uncle, Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan, although Ali has stated that he learned music from his brothers and aunts as well.[9] Ali lost his father when he was only nine years old, but has mentioned that he has always been his greatest inspiration in his musical journey and creative process,[10] revealing in an interview: "I have always wanted to be like him, sing like him, look like him. He is my inspiration. It is a compliment for me if someone says that I sound like him."[11]

Musician Name: Sajjad Ali Birthday / Location: born 1966 | Pakistani Main instrument: Vocals | piano Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:--- Best Performance: -- Other Information: Sajjad Ali (born 1966) is a Pakistani semi-classical, pop and rock singer, poet, actor, film director as well as a film producer from Karachi, Pakistan. His father, Shafqat Hussain (Sajan), was a Pakistani film actor and also a cricketer.[1] his father appeared for the first time in a film, Badal Aur Bijli in 1971. Sajjad completed his F.A degree from National Arts College, Karachi. After that, his uncle, Tassaduq Hussain started teaching music to him with his classical collections. During Sajjad's training, Hussain played music from classical artists such as Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Barkat Ali Khan and Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan who all were Sajjad Ali's grand-uncles also. He was also briefly trained by his uncle Ustad Munawar Ali Khan from India who himself was the son of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. Sajjad Ali belongs to the Kasur Patiala Gharana of classical musicians.[4]

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Ask anyone at Ford and they’ll tell you there’s plenty of life left in the Mustang yet - but given the firm has promised its entire European line-up will be available as a plug-in hybrid or full EV by 2026, you can’t help feeling time is running out for the naturally aspirated V8. Best make sure this latest pony car is a corker, then. The Mach 1 effectively replaces the GT350 that went off sale in the US last year, and is no mere styling pack. A combination of transmission, suspension and bodywork upgrades make this the most track-friendly slice of American muscle Ford has ever officially sold on this side of the Atlantic. A bespoke front splitter, underfloor chassis tray and rear diffuser deliver a combined 22% of extra downforce over the regular Mustang GT, while the new-look front end has been sculpted for optimum aerodynamic performance. The front and rear subframes have been uprated, and the MagneRide adaptive suspension has been given a unique Mach 1 calibration, with stiffer springs and tighter anti-roll bars. Power isn’t the name of the game here, although the 5.0-litre engine has received a mild power hike. A new intake manifold, oil cooler and oil filter have helped liberate an additional 11bhp over the Mustang GT, for a total output of 454bhp and 390lb ft. Drive is sent to the rear wheels via a Shelby-sourced six-speed manual transmission, which now includes rev matching and a short-throw shifter for sharper gearchanges. It's immediately obvious the upgrades have had the intended effect, the uniquely calibrated steering providing much more feel without adding artificial weight. This is still a heavy car with most of its weight at the front, but overall balance is surprisingly well maintained. The wider wheels (up from 9.5in to 10.5in at the front and 10in to 11in at the rear) provide noticeably more contact with the road. Driven with a focus on lap time rather than drift angle, the rear doesn’t feel as loose as you’d expect from a car with a reputation for “watch this” moments that end up on YouTube - though it can still be lairy, and the limits of grip quickly run out when pressing on with steering lock applied. The eight-cylinder soundtrack can make you feel like a hooligan at any speed, sounding menacing at idle and truly raucous as you climb towards the redline. Rev matching is handled well, not blipping while you’re still mid-gearchange, and the shifter itself feels wonderfully precise now. It lacks the torque of turbocharged rivals, but acceleration is linear, plentiful and perfectly in tune with your pedal inputs. The combination is what makes the Mustang so appealing to so many, and that remains true here. Equally impressive are the Mach 1’s road manners. You don’t need to be on the limit to appreciate its improved control weights, and in its most comfortable setting the adaptive suspension copes well with most road surfaces and feels rather relaxed at a motorway cruise. The sportier modes let you feel every imperfection through your backside, but you’ll want to swap when the roads allow to get the best from it. Just be prepared for the thirst that comes with exuberant use: after a track session, a full tank of fuel indicated 83 miles remaining. Inside, things haven’t changed much from the Mustang GT, with some aluminium trim and a cue ball shift knob being the only real additions for the Mach 1. The digital instrument cluster perfectly blends modern technology and old-school analogue dials, but elsewhere you get hard-moulded plastics, an overabundance of dashboard switches and buttons, and a Sync 3 infotainment touchscreen that’s rather compact and graphically basic. The cabin is still roomy, with four usable seats and plenty of storage, but anyone expecting a certain level of material quality from a fifty grand sports car might be disappointed.

News US officials are investigating possible cases of Havana syndrome illness in Colombia, days before a visit by the Secretary of State, US media say. US embassy staff in Bogota may have been injured by the mysterious illness, which causes a painful sound in the ears, fatigue and dizziness. First reported in Cuba in 2016, US diplomats around the world have since reported cases of the syndrome. Its origins are unknown, with some speculating it is a type of weapon. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal first reported that emails sent by US Ambassador to Colombia Philip Goldberg confirmed a number of "unexplained health incidents" or UHIs - the term used for Havana syndrome by the US government - since mid-September. Colombian President Iván Duque told the New York Times that the country is investigating the reports. He added that the US is leading the inquiry. Americans who have been hit by Havana syndrome have described an intense and painful sound in their ears. Some of the estimated 200 affected have been left with dizziness and fatigue for months.  More than half of those impacted were CIA employees, according to the Times. ‘Havana syndrome’ and the mystery of the microwaves On Friday, reports of Havana syndrome emerged at the US embassy in Berlin. President Joe Biden released a statement vowing to find "the cause and who is responsible". It came hours after he signed a new law that entitles the heads of the CIA and State Department to provide financial compensation to those US government employees who have been harmed by the syndrome. A State Department official refused to confirm the reports to BBC News on Tuesday. In a statement, the official said "we are vigorously investigating reports of AHIs wherever they are reported," and that they are "actively working to identify the cause of these incidents and whether they may be attributed to a foreign actor". The news comes ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's scheduled travel to Bogota next week. In August, Vice-President Kamala Harris delayed travel to Vietnam after two US officials were medically evacuated from the country after falling ill.

Economy The boss of a global shipping agent has told shoppers to plan ahead for Christmas because of UK ports delays. Peter Wilson, from Cory Bros, said people should order items in a "timely fashion" to ensure they arrive in time. Shop shelves would stay stocked, but there may be less choice, he said. Meanwhile, the UK's biggest commercial port Felixstowe said shipping container congestion had been easing in recent days after ships were diverted from the port because of bottlenecks. Mr Wilson said; "I can say completely, categorically that supply chain will not fail and that goods will be on the shelves through Christmas. "There just may not be that absolute choice we're all used to," he told the BBC's Today programme. Biggest UK commercial port hit by container logjam Why is there an HGV driver shortage? Temporary visa plan to ease lorry driver shortage Driver shortage: 'I got a big pay rise overnight' A spokesperson from the Port of Felixstowe told the BBC that the port currently has 50,000 containers which are waiting to be collected. "It's not the port of Felixstowe affecting the supply chain it's the supply chain affecting the port of Felixstowe," the spokesperson added, explaining that the problems are "similar at all major UK ports". Industry bodies estimate there is a shortage of about 100,000 drivers with several sectors from retailers to domestic refuse collection affected. The shortage has been caused by several factors, including European drivers who went home during the pandemic, Brexit, tax changes and a backlog of HGV driver tests. The issue led Danish shipping giant Maersk to divert some of its larger ships to Dutch and Belgian ports to avoid delays at the Port of Felixstowe, which handles 36% of the UK's freight container traffic. The problems come at the busiest period of the year for retailers, when most goods are imported from Asia to sell during Christmas trading. Mr Wilson added that there will be "considerable strain" on the UK's supply chain this Christmas and urged shoppers to "be sensible, think ahead, plan appropriately" to get items such as toys in time for Christmas. However, Tom Holder from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that while port congestion and the driver shortages will cause "some disruption this Christmas," the impact on shoppers should be limited. "It is a concern but retailers are really adept at making sure they prioritise the things people want and making sure people's Christmas favourites are available to buy." Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the BRC, also said the Felixstowe congestion is "yet another unwanted side effect of the HGV driver shortage." "Extending the temporary visa scheme to increase the pool of drivers available would provide a short term fix to these problems, and Government must act quickly to prevent further disruption for consumers in the months ahead." Trade group, the UK Ports Association, said most UK ports were operating normally but said the shortage of drivers was having an impact. "This has meant that some freight is not being collected as rapidly as it would normally. The situation is impacting all types of ports, not just container terminals. "It has resulted in some further delays for a range of ports and terminal operations are working with their customers to get these goods out of their ports to avoid further congestion," it said. 'Buy normally' Andrew Goodacre, chief executive of the British Independent Retailers Association, said there is "no need to panic buy" but advised customers to start their normal shopping process earlier. "If you see something you want, now is the time to buy as retailers have most of their Christmas stock, but we can't guarantee having supplies of everything over the next few weeks". "It's a challenge for small retailers because they don't have the cash to stockpile," he added. The government recently drafted in military personnel to help with the driver shortages and deliver fuel. Emergency temporary visas have also been issued to foreign drivers. Conservative Party chair Oliver Dowden told the BBC that the government was increasing the number of people having tests and that he would "expect that number to increase as we approach Christmas". Asked about potential Christmas shortages, he told Sky news: "The situation is improving, I'm confident that people will be able to get their toys for Christmas. "Some buy people buy very early for Christmas, my wife is quite an early Christmas buyer, others buy later. I would say just buy as you do normally."

Musician Name: Ali Azmat Butt Birthday / Location: 20 April 1970 (age 51) Havelian, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Main instrument: Vocals | guitar Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:------------------------ Best Performance: ------ Other Information: Ali Azmat Butt (born 20 April 1970) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is best known as the lead singer for the influential Sufi Rock band Junoon and for his subsequent solo career. In 2001, he became part of the first Pakistani band (Junoon) ever to perform at the United Nations General Assembly. [1][2] Ali Azmat was born in Havelian, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where his grandfather was posted as station master of Havelian Railway Station, while he grew up in Garhi Shahu, Lahore, into a family of ethnic Kashmiri descent and speaks Punjabi as his native language [3].[4] His father, Nazir Ahmed Butt, was a middle-class businessman, who died in 2013.[5] He went to Sydney, Australia, for his higher studies, but soon returned to Pakistan before completing university. His first band Jupiters was known for performing covers at small gigs in Lahore.[6] While with them, Azmat wrote his legendary hit song Dosti. He later sang and recorded Dosti with Junoon, after which the song gained national fame.[7] Junoon also made a comeback after 13 years while performing at a concert in Karachi arranged by Sooper.[8]