While the Israeli weapons supplied by the "civilized" West are destroying the lives and limbs of thousands of Gaza's innocent children, a Pakistani startup is trying to provide them with free custom-made prostheses, according to media reports. The Karachi-based startup Bioniks was founded in 2016 and has sold prosthetics that use AI and 3D scanning for custom designs.
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| Gaza's Child Amputee Sidra Al Bordini with Bioniks CEO Anaz Niaz. Source: Instagram |
Bioniks has recently delivered its first prosthetics made for Gaza's children using remote imaging to design custom arms at low cost. The demand for such prosthetics is high because, according to the United Nations, Gaza has 4500 new amputees since October 7, 2023 Hamas attack which triggered Israel's brutal response and started the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A recent Reuters story cites the examples of two girls, three-year-old Habebat Alla and 8 year-old Sidra Al Bordini, who recently received artificial limbs made by Bioniks. Both were severely injured in Israeli air strikes. Sidra and Habebat Allah, who lost both her arms and a leg in Gaza, went through days of remote consultations and virtual fittings. Then Niaz flew from Karachi to Amman, Jordan to meet the girls and make his company's first overseas delivery. children need lighter limbs and replacements every 12–18 months as they grow. Niaz said the company was exploring funding options for Sidra and Habebat's future replacements, adding the cost wouldn't be too high.
The company used a smartphone app to take pictures from different angles and created a 3D model to print custom prosthetics. Bioniks CEO Anas Niaz said the social enterprise startup had fit more than 1,000 custom-designed arms inside Pakistan since 2021 - funded through a mix of patient payments, corporate sponsorship, and donations - but this was its first time providing prosthetics to those impacted in conflict, according to Reuters.
Here's how the company describes itself on its website: "At Bioniks, we believe in turning disabilities into possibilities. Founded with a mission to empower individuals with disabilities, we are pioneers in advanced prosthetics and assistive technologies in Pakistan. Our innovative solutions are designed to restore mobility, independence, and dignity to those who need it most. Bioniks revolutionizes the field of healthcare through advanced-level prosthesis and surgical planning tools that are created using state of the art technologies and designing techniques. We at Bioniks aim to provide healthcare solutions that bring measurable value to those who use it and are shaped keeping their precise needs in mind."
Earlier this year, the startup was recognized for contributions to advancing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, placing it among the world’s most “impactful and scalable” technology. It is the first Pakistani company to win the Zero Project Award, according to media reports.
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4 comments:
Salam Sir
Thanks for this great post. Mashallah this AI based startup is doing a very good work.
Thanks
Dear Sir Diaz
I hope you and the team of this blog is doing great.
Sir may I ask you a question if you don't mind? Are you sure that most of the weapons and military equipments that Isreali military uses against Palestinians is supplied by Western countries?
Thanks
Dear Sir
Pls check the latest news, according to Indian sources, India is still dependent on many resources exported by China to it.
China exports rare earth minerals to India specially permanent magnets that are used in the manufacturing of defence equipments and hardware, these magnets are also used in Electric Vehicles.
Also China exports fertilizers to India which it uses in its agricultural areas during farming and cultivation.
Also China exports tunnel boring machines to India which are used by the engineering companies in India for making tunnels.
This clearly shows how much India still depends on China.
Sir can you pls make a blog about the level and degree of dependence and reliance that India has over China specially in the matters of construction, raw materials and medicines?
Thanks
Leading genocide scholars see a genocide happening in Gaza
Israeli officials and politicians have rejected the accusation, insisting upon Israel’s right to self-defense in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
https://www.washingtonpost.com//world/2025/07/30/israel-genocide-gaza-scholars-historians/
This week, two prominent Israeli human rights organizations joined a growing chorus: B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel released separate reports laying out the case that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amounted to genocide. Their assessments dovetailed with the conclusions already made by a number of leading international rights groups, foreign governments and scholars of genocide studies in the 21 months since the militant group Hamas provoked Israel’s military campaign in Gaza with its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel.
The Israeli military has since damaged or destroyed most of Gaza’s buildings, flattened the majority of its neighborhoods and repeatedly displaced the territory’s Palestinian population through evacuation orders and relentless bombardments. More than 60,000 people have been killed, according to local health authorities, and famine is “playing out” among the surviving population, per U.N. monitors, as it is experiencing “widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease.” That is driving a rise in hunger-related deaths after months of Israeli blockade and restrictions on humanitarian assistance.
The two Israeli rights groups said both Israel’s conduct during the war and the rhetoric of numerous Israeli political and military leaders demonstrated “deliberate intent by Israeli decision-makers to target the whole population of Gaza rather than strictly combatants and to destroy life for the Palestinian people,” as my colleagues reported. Those Israeli leaders have called for, among other things, the denial of food and water to Gaza’s civilians and the ethnic cleansing of the territory.
“Every genocide in history has had a justification, at least in the eyes of those who committed it: of self-defense in the face of existential danger, of a war of no choice, of victims who had ‘brought it upon themselves,’” said Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s director.
The charge of “genocide” is loaded and fraught, not least when invoked against a country born out of the experience of the Holocaust. The term was coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944 to detail the Nazis’ systematic project of murdering Jews and codified by the U.N.’s 1948 convention on genocide as a crime carrying the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
Israeli officials and politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have angrily rejected the allegation as “blood libel” and insist upon Israel’s right to self-defense in the wake of Hamas’s atrocities and abduction of hostages. Those remonstrations have not deterred Israel’s fiercest critics from using the word, a growing camp that includes leftist activists, Middle Eastern potentates and a cadre of U.S. lawmakers.
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