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Karachi mayor pushes for culling over neutering to curb rising dog bite cases
- Murtaza Wahab says dog bite cases rising in Karachi.
- Majority supports immediate culling campaign: mayor.
- Mayor opposes neutering as slow solution for issue.
Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Wednesday called for culling stray dogs, opposing neutering as a slow solution, as authorities and hospitals reported a sharp rise in dog bite cases.
His comments come as data showed over 800 dog bite cases in Karachi during the first five days of 2026.
Speaking to reporters, the Karachi mayor said that immediate action to curb rising cases required killing stray dogs.
“Neutering would take time. Dog bite cases are increasing in the city,” he said, adding that a small group opposed to culling repeatedly approached courts to obtain stay orders.
The Karachi mayor noted that the majority supported immediate action and called for a final, decisive resolution.
Officials have said that around 850 cases were reported in Karachi during the first five days of the year alone, with Indus Hospital and Civil Hospital reporting 300 cases each, while Jinnah Hospital logged over 250 cases.
Dr Aftab Gohar, in charge of the dog bite clinic at Indus Hospital, said a 41-year-old man had to have a finger amputated due to severe tissue damage and disrupted blood flow due to a dog bite.
He added that most cases were reported from Korangi, Hub Chowki, Baldia Town, Landhi and Gadap Town.
Dr Gohar said that all patients were given anti-rabies vaccines at the Indus Hospital.
However, he said that rabies is almost always fatal once its symptoms appear in the affected individual.
The issue has also drawn political criticism as Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Emir Munim Zafar assailed the Karachi mayor over dog bites, and deaths from open manholes and sewage in the city.
He said that Muttahida Qaumi Movement had also contributed to Karachi’s decline over decades, alleging the party of playing from “both sides of the wicket”.
Last month, a boy from Jacobabad died of rabies at the Indus Hospital after being bitten by a stray dog two months earlier.
The death, reported on December 24, 2025, brought the number of rabies-related fatalities in Sindh last year to more than 21.
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Ozzy Osbourne’s spirit reaches out to family months after his death
Jack Osbourne opened up about how his late father Ozzy Osbourne has been visiting the family in their dreams, months after his passing.
The Black Sabbath star died in July at 76 after a heart attack at his home in Buckinghamshire.
Jack said he, his wife and his children have all shared similar dreams where Ozzy is laughing and tells them to stop crying.
Speaking to Billy Morrison on SiriusXM, he said, “We all keep having dreams about him. In the dreams, he is laughing.”
“And he is saying, ‘Just stop f***ing crying.’ He’s laughing every time. Me and my wife, my daughters, all the same thing. We keep seeing him in our dreams, laughing.”
Morrison, a close friend of Ozzy, also shared that he saw the singer in a dream and that “He’s good, Jack. He’s not in pain.”
Jack, 40, who has four children, talked about his father’s last months.
Ozzy finished his farewell Black Sabbath concert, wrote a book, did charity work, and completed two documentaries.
However, Jack called his father’s sudden death a shock and said he is still trying to process it nearly four months later.
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Cynthia Erivo, Wagner Moura shockingly left out of 2026 Actor Awards
Cynthia Erivo became the centre of attention after the 2026 Actor Awards nominations were revealed.
Many fans were surprised that she was left out, along with Wagner Moura and all foreign-language films and performances.
People quickly started talking online about who got nominated and who did not.
Cynthia already had been snubbed earlier this year at the Critics Choice Awards.
The 39-year-old actress is still nominated at the Golden Globe, but she is not expected to attend.
Last year, she got Oscar and SAG nominations for her role as Elphaba in Wicked, so missing out this year felt even more shocking.
Her co-star Ariana Grande did get a supporting actress nomination for the sequel.
Moura, who starred in The Secret Agent and won Best Actor at Cannes, was also not nominated.
However, other big names were also left out included Adam Sandler for Jay Kelly, George Clooney, Dwayne Johnson for The Smashing Machine and the cast of Sentimental Value.
Television nominations also surprised people, with The Last of Us only getting a stunt ensemble nod.
Sterling K. Brown was nominated individually for Paradise but not with his cast.
The Bear got a comedy ensemble nomination but Jeremy Allen White was not recognised individually.
The Actor Awards are decided by committees of 2,000 members from SAG-AFTRA’s total 22,000 members.
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Did ‘The Simpsons’ foresee 2026? Here’s everything you should know
The Simpsons, known for its eerie prophecies, is warning of more doom and gloom in the new year.
In 2026, online sleuths are looking at storylines that could be connected to a new type of flu, artificial intelligence taking over jobs, another world war, smart homes, and aliens making human contacts.
The buzz around The Simpsons‘ 2026 predictions is making waves on the internet, and netizens can’t get enough of the chilling predictions.
Let’s find out.
Did The Simpsons predict AI would take over jobs?
Take Season 23, Episode 17, Them, Robot, for example: it predicted AI taking over human jobs in Springfield.
The 2012 episode foresees Mr. Burns replacing his staff with robots; when the robots turn on him, it’s his laid-off workers who come to his rescue.
Interestingly, a recent study that came out in October last year, surprisingly based on ChatGPT findings, found that AI and automation could wipe out nearly 100 million jobs in the US over the next decade, including both white- and blue-collar jobs.
The report findings suggest that “the agriculture revolution unfolded over thousands of years. The Industrial Revolution took more than a century. Artificial labor could reshape the economy in less than a decade.”
Moreover, backing the hypothesis, a recent Stanford University report states that U.S. job postings for young adults aged between 22 and 25 have dropped by 13% since 2022 in AI-exposed sectors.
Did 1994 episode “Deep Space Homer” predict space travel?
Season 5 of The Simpsons’ 1994 episode titled Deep Space Homer could be seen as predicting space travel becoming commercial for the public.
In this Season 5 episode, Homer Simpson is selected by NASA to go into space with astronaut Buzz Aldrin in an attempt to make space travel more commercial for the man on the street.
While in reality, an all-female crew, which also included Katy Perry and Gayle King, went on a brief trip to space on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which was again part of tourism flight.
Did Simpsons predict ‘superflu’ back then?
The Simpsons could have seen into the future with the new “superflu” strain that’s surging in the U.S.
The U.S. is facing the highest surge in infectious cases in nearly three decades, as per the data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week on Monday, January 5, 2026.
The storyline in the Marge in Chains episode of 1993 predicts a fictional virus spreading throughout Springfield after it came from Japan in shipping crates.
That particular episode generated buzz on the internet during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, especially through its depiction of how society unraveled and how the ensuing town-wide frenzy was in the quest for a cure.
The nostalgic show, which hit the airwaves in 1989, has also shown what it would be like to live in a smart house.
In Season 13, episode 1, Treehouse of Horror XII, the Simpson family moves into a voice-activated house that handles their day-to-day lives.
But with each passing day, the home grows more menacing.
Did Simpsons predict ‘alien contact’ in a 1997 episode?
Amid growing theories about extraterrestrial life, a 1997 Simpsons episode, The Springfield Files, might already offer fans a sneak peek into what’s to come.
In the episode, two FBI agents come to interrogate an alien that Homer claims to have seen in the woods.
There have been multiple instances of a World War III in the show The Simpsons, and fans are taking it seriously.
In 1995, the Lisa’s Wedding, episode that features her fiancé, Hugh Parkfield, in the future, talks about WWII with Homer and Bart as well as a succeeding global conflict.
Homer also appeared to be convinced that the world was ending in an episode titled Thank God, It’s Doomsday, which went on air in 2005.
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