In another attempt to regain the trust of users, WhatsApp has reiterated that the conversation of users on the platform will remain ‘protected’ as there is no way for end-to-end encryption of chats to change.

“Whatever you share on WhatsApp, stays between you. That’s because your personal messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and that will never change,” WhatsApp said on its official Twitter account.

Whatever you share on WhatsApp, stays between you. That’s because your personal messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and that will never change. pic.twitter.com/3Umwq4wTpP 

— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) January 25, 2021

Previously, WhatsApp had also announced putting off its new business plans till after May 2020 and reached out to its users to explain the policy by putting up a series of “statuses” on the messaging app.

BEIJING, JAN 26: China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) held Online Photo Exhibition on the 70th Anniversary of China’s Foreign Assistance, which includes a series of stories about Pak-China friendship, Gwadar Pro reported on Tuesday.

According to the introduction of the exhibition, the year 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of foreign assistance carried out by China.

Over the past 70 years, China, as a developing country, has provided assistance to over 160 countries and international organizations and has won extensive acclaim from the international community, especially from other developing countries, including Pakistan.

In the first sector of the exhibition related to infrastructure construction, Gwadar Port and Karakoram Highway are displayed. The pictures show Gwadar Port completed in Dec 2016, and the Havelian-Mansehra Section in the Karakoram Highway (Phase II), which has been open to traffic since Nov 2019.

In the sustainability sector, the photo of Chinese-funded solar photovoltaic power generation project for Pakistan’s Parliament House completed in Nov 2015 is exhibited.

The project, with a total installed capacity of about 1 MW, has made Parliament House has a self-sufficient power supply.

Moreover, the photos portraying Pakistani officials and technicians taking part in the International Training Program on Desertification Control Technology in Developing Countries are displayed in the same module.

The sector Emergency Humanitarian Assistance, containing pictures of that China provides humanitarian aid in the darkest events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, public health emergencies, records profound Pak-China friendship.

In July 2010, Pakistan was hit by an extraordinary flood rarely seen in history. China provided emergency relief supplies and sent a rescue team. The total assistance was valued at USD 250 million. 5 related pictures are collected in the exhibition.

In 2017, FATA was hit by a flood. Under the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund, China cooperated with UN to launch this project in Nov 2017 to provide humanitarian aid to local victims.

In addition, promoting industry, agriculture, health care, education, public utilities, capacity building, and the warm moments under the context of COVID-19 outbreak, also are exhibited in the collection.

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The third package of political reforms of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan                K. Tokayev presented at the opening of the first meeting Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the VII convocation

Since taking duties the results of the popular vote in the elections of June 9, 2019. President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-JomartTokayev called for the simultaneous preservation of the continuity of the current state policy with the time-tested course of the First President-ElbasyNursultanNazarbayev and the consistent implementation of a set of political reforms aimed at further strengthening democratic institutions and mechanisms for effective communication and interaction with civil society within the framework of the concept of the “hearing state”.

The first package of political reforms was presented at a meeting of the National Council of Public Trust (CNPC) on December 20, 2019. All solutions have already been implemented in practice. The registration barrier for the establishment of political parties has been halved (to 20,000 members). A 30% quota has been introduced for women and young people in the party lists of their candidates for elections. The concept of the parliamentary opposition is enshrined in law. The decriminalization of article 130 (“slander”) and the humanization of article 174 (“inciting social discord”) were initiated.”)

The Criminal Code. A new law on rallies was adopted, which systematized and simplified the requirements for organizers of peaceful assemblies. Kazakhstan has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at the abolition of the death penalty.

The second package of political reforms was announced on September 1, 2020 in the annual Address of the President to the people of Kazakhstan. In it, the Head of State announced a gradual transition from 2021 to direct elections of rural akims. Special attention is paid to strengthening mechanisms for the protection of human rights. To this end, the Head of State pointed to the need to improve legislation to combat torture, human trafficking, and protect citizens (especially children) from cyberbullying. The aim was to become a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the communications procedure.

The Head of State presented the third package of political reforms at the first meeting of the newly elected Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan on January 15, 2021.

The new initiatives of the President are of great importance in terms of further institutional development of the political system of Kazakhstan and improving the system of human rights protection.

Thus, the new initiatives of the Head of State are a logical continuation and development of the initiated political reforms. Their implementation will be an important stage in ensuring the progressive progress of Kazakhstan in the field of human rights protection, the development of civil society, the strengthening of the legislative branch of government and the further democratization of the country.

Last year’s devastating earthquake in eastern province of Elazığ killed 41, injured 1,600. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday handed over the ownership of houses built by the government for quake victims — a year after tremors jolted the country’s east.

At the hand-over ceremony, he said that from now on they will build cities horizontally.

“Vertical architecture is suicide for us, especially in the earthquake zone,” he said.

The earthquake last year in the Elazığ province left 41 people dead and more than 1,600 others injured. The tremors were also felt in neighboring countries, including Georgia and Syria.

Erdoğan added that the urban renewal of 1.5 million houses in Istanbul was completed in the last eight to nine years to ensure the safety of six million people.