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Karima Baloch’s husband blames Pakistan’s ISI for her killing, asks Canadian govt to reopen case – Times of India

September 29, 2023 by timesofindia.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

Amid India Canada row, Baloch activist's husband demands action against Pakistan, alleging ISI's involvement in Karim Baloch's killing
GENEVA: The husband of Baloch political activist
Hammal Haider participated in a protest in front of the United Nations in Geneva to demand justice for Karima Baloch and other Baloch political activists killed in Pakistan and foreign soils.

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The protest was organised by Baloch National Movement (BNM) during the 54th Session of Human Rights Council.
Hammal said, “We believe that the Canadian government and Canadian justice system didn’t do well for Karima Baloch who died in suspicious manner and suspicious circumstances and we have been requesting the Canadian government to investigate her case. But, we have seen no interest from the Canadian government. So, it is our firm belief that the Canadian government is not concerned about our activists living in Canada and they are not interested in the Karima Baloch case”.

He added, “She was a high profile politician and her assassination was taken up by all the international media. All over Balochistan, the people are demanding a thorough investigation in her case. But, unfortunately we have not seen anything from Trudeau’s government or Canadian government right now. So, we are trying our best to pursue this legally and pressurize the Trudeau government to start a new investigation in Karima Baloch’s case”.

Karima, who was listed by the BBC in its 100 most inspirational and influential women for her work in human rights, was granted asylum in Canada in 2016.
Hammal Haider said that Karima was getting several life threats because of her work towards human rights in Balochistan.
He said, “We believe that the Pakistintelligence agency is behind Karima’s killing because they have also been trying to kill other activists abroad. Ahmad Waqass Goraya is a prime example and we have some information that they are also gathering information about other political activists. So, there is no doubt that the Pakistani military establishment, especially the Pakistani ISI is behind killing”.
The protest in front of the UN was joined by over a dozen of BNM activists who raised slogans like Balochistan is not Pakistan”, “down with Pakistan”, “Baloch want freedom”, “fascist state Pakistan”, and “Stop Baloch Genocide”.

When Justin Trudeau shielded human rights violations: Why was he silent on Pakistan and China?

Dr. Naseem Baloch, Chairman of Baloch National Movement said, “Pakistan Army has been doing barbarism in Balochistan for over seven decades and the world is aware about this. But, we were also aware that activists living abroad will also be targeted”.
He added, “Karima Baloch had revealed about the threats she was receiving. She was bravely engaged in her struggle despite her maternal uncle was abducted and killed by the Pakistani agencies. And one day we got the news about Karima’s death. Whatever she revealed before her death it clearly indicates the kind of threats Baloch diaspora has been facing”.
A large number of political activists and other intellectuals in Balochistan have disappeared. Many of them are tortured and extra-judicially killed by the Pakistan army and other secret agencies.
A large number of Baloch who migrated to foreign countries to protect their lives are now feeling unsafe after the death of Karima Baloch in Canada and journalist Sajid Hussain Baloch in Sweden in 2020.
Karima Baloch was a Baloch human rights activist and a dissident. She was granted asylum in Canada in 2016. She was found dead after having gone missing in Dec 2020 in Toronto.
She was slated to be buried on January 25, but, before the corpse could be transported from Karachi to Balochistan, Pakistani authorities forcibly took Karima’s body along with her family from the airport to her hometown, Balochwarna reported.
Later, she was buried under Army watch as thousands who came to pay their last respect weren’t allowed near her, the Balochistan Times reported. Prior to her burial, the mobile services were suspended in the district, and Tump and surrounding areas were put under strict lockdown.
Karima’s death sparked protests across Europe and North America as the Baloch diaspora took to the streets in Toronto, Berlin and Netherlands calling on the Canadian government to investigate.
Karima had campaigned vigorously against the disappearances and human rights violations in the troubled Balochistan province of Pakistan.

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Great Steakhouses—Las Vegas’ Bazaar Meat Is Uniquely Delicious

September 28, 2023 by www.forbes.com Leave a Comment

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There are countless “celebrity chefs” and far more “pseudo-celebrity chefs,” but there are only a handful of highly acclaimed and globally iconic chefs whose work drives culinary trends worldwide. These are the all-stars of the foodie world, the best of the best, and for many years, José Andrés has been a member of this elite club. A Spanish native, he grew up around tapas, and in the restaurant industry is often credited with popularizing the small plates concept in this country, where it has become widespread and wildly popular.

Andrés’ cooking career took off when he worked at Spain’s now closed 3-Michelin-starred El Bulli, at the time considered the number one restaurant in the world (5-time winner of the award from Britian’s The Restaurant Magazine). El Bulli alums including Andrés, Italy’s Massimo Bottura (Osteria Francescana) and Denmark’s Rene Redzepi (Noma) are all in this top-tier pantheon of the world’s best chefs.

Since then, Andrés has opened about three dozen restaurants , mainly in Washington, DC, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, as well as Dubai, the Bahamas, Orlando and Miami. These run a broad gamut and range from fine dining to tapas to cafes to steakhouses to a food truck. He also opened the wonderful Mercado Little Spain (I’ve been, and loved it), a Spanish gourmet grocery store and food hall in the style of Eataly, located in New York City’s Hudon Yards.

His restaurants have earned Michelin stars and Bib Gourmand awards, and he has won multiple James Beard Awards, including Outstanding Chef. He was named Chef of the Year by both Bon Appetit and GQ Magazines and one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine. A New York Times bestselling author, he has written half a dozen acclaimed cookbooks. He taught a course on culinary physics at Harvard University, founded the Global Food Institute at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and was named Dean of Spanish Studies at the International Culinary Center. For his vast humanitarian work, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by the White House and was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

All of which is backstory and a way to say that I’m not exaggerating when I describe him as one of the world’s greatest chefs. Andrés certainly knows his way around a kitchen, and while he has tackled very diverse cuisines and fusion styles, he is especially skilled in Spanish food, famed for his tapas and paella. I’ve eaten several times at his Las Vegas Spanish eateries including paella temple Jaleo, and was always wowed.

But one area of Spanish food that is often overlooked by Americans is steak. Spain is home to several world-famous steakhouses (you can read my Forbes story on the country’s most iconic one here ), raises legendary cattle, and has a fantastic steak culture, focused on aged meats cooked over live fire. But little of that wonderful tradition was exported here before Andrés opened Bazaar Meat in Las Vegas nine years ago. It is currently ranked the tenth best steakhouse in the world by World’s Best Steaks , the highest in Las Vegas, second highest in the U.S., and interestingly, two of the top 10 are in Spain.

Las Vegas is one of the world’s top steakhouse cities, with great independents (I love the Golden Steer ), all the high-end chains, and star chef-run examples by Gordon Ramsay, Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Michael Mina, Emeril Lagasse and Tom Colicchio. I’ve been writing on Las Vegas food for decades and have eaten at most of these standouts, but was missing Bazaar Meat until recently. Because of its odd location it requires a special trip, as it’s in an unlikely spot for one the city’s very best restaurants, inside the Sahara casino hotel, which lacks the culinary and luxury firepower of the popular Strip mega-resorts housing all the other big names in cooking. Back when Bazaar Meat opened, the property was the SLS, a branch of a popular Los Angeles hotel, but that turned into the Sahara, and frankly I’ve never found any reason to set foot inside the place until I made a reservation at Bazaar Meat. But it’s absolutely worth the trip.

What Andrés has done that is so special is to create a trifecta, combining the best elements of a world-class steakhouse – chiefly excellent steak alongside a staggering wine list – with many of his more traditional Spanish standouts, from unbelievable Iberico de Bellota Spanish ham to creamy croquettes to grilled octopus. He also adds a heavy dash of his famed molecular gastronomy, such as foie gras cotton candy. One of the most interesting and vivid demonstrations of this scientific magic I have seen to date is his Ferran Adria Olives, Modern & Traditional, credited to his old El Bulli boss. He serves a single, perfect stuffed Spanish police, alongside a deconstructed olive in the form a gob of crème. You eat one than the other and they taste exactly the same.

The unique concept makes Bazaar Meat much more than another great steakhouse. It is a top choice for lovers of steak, of Spanish cuisine, of molecular gastronomy, of fine dining, of wine, or of any combination of these.

Nothing misses here, from the design and decor to the first-rate service, with multiple staffers for every table. The biggest problem is the menu, which is so vast and all over the place that it is virtually impossible to choose, especially for smaller parties. For this reason, I suggest turning yourself over to the Chef, since after all, he is the reason for coming. There are two levels of tasting menus, Jose’s Way ($205) and the Ultimate Tasting ($290). Each combines his classics (beef tartare, croquettes, the finest Spanish ham), molecular gastronomy (the cotton candy and olives) and a big piece of red meat. The smaller menu has a dozen entries including sides and dessert, the larger one sixteen. This notably adds bison carpaccio and a serving of Japanese A5 wagyu beef (tasting menus are subject to change, these are examples).

Let’s get to the steak. If you are more a classic steakhouse person and not interested in Spanish fare or scientific wizardry, you’ll still love it. The big thing here is fire, aging and meat sourcing. When you walk in, you see an open kitchen with a huge array of wood fired grills and ovens. They use the kind found in Argentinean steakhouses, with heavy metal grates over live fire, raised and lowered with big wheels. It’s a showy, dramatic way of cooking and the results are wonderful crusty char paired with perfectly cooked interiors full of juice and flavor. Before Andrés opened, he searched and experimented and was extremely particular about his meat, choosing many small ranch domestic selections from California, Oregon, Texas, and elsewhere as well as some imported Japanese wagyu.

The steak entrée for our tasting menu was a Washugyu Ribeye from a family ranch in Oregon, cut in the Spanish style of a thick bone-in “chuleton,” the signature cut of the Basque region’s great steakhouses and cideries. But unlike Spain, it’s a wagyu hybrid, so you get just enough of the fat dispersion Japanese beef is coveted for to make it extra rich and decadent without overpowering the large servings and flavorful red meat. Along with the amazing, charred exterior, this amounted to perfection, one of the best steaks I have ever tasted, and I have written extensively on steak around world for many years.

They also serve similar chuleton cuts of a Black Angus Wagyu cross from a Texas ranch, and an older Holstein from California, which is very unusual in this country but closer to the cattle used in Spain. A chuleton serves three easily, so for smaller groups and appetites they have more standard cuts including strip loin, chateaubriand, flat iron and skirt steak, and speaking to Andrés’ perfectionism, each is sourced from a different ranch. Finally, there are several Japanese full-blooded wagyu options.

A couple of other things of note. If you do go a la carte, there is a full raw bar, and appetizers including a traditional Spanish gazpacho, tartares, carpaccios and caviar. In addition to the steak, there are two very notable carnivore specialties, including a fire roasted suckling pig, one of Spain’s greatest dishes – and something Andrés is famous for. There is also Secreto, a rare “butcher’s cut” of the finest Iberian pork. Spain’s acorn fed pigs are generally considered the world’s best pork, and this may be the best cut you can have. It’s the mother of all pork chops and a dish I have had in Spain and long for, but I have only seen it on one or two other menus in this country. I need to go back.

Many reviews of the restaurant (generally excellent reviews) note surprise at how many non-meat offerings there are, and in yet another unusual twist on the steakhouse paradigm, Bazaar Meat offers separate Celiac, Vegetarian and Pescatarian menus. There’s truly something for every taste.

When it opened Eater Las Vegas wrote “Leave it to Jose Andrés to take on the steakhouse – the most boring dining concept – and completely turn it on its head.” Conde Nast Traveler called it “a bacchanalian feast,” Gayot “a celebration of the carnivorous,” and the Daily Meal “A must-stop when in Las Vegas.” They are all correct.

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Karima Baloch’s husband blames Pakistan’s ISI for her killing, asks Canadian govt to reopen case

September 28, 2023 by economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

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Hammal Haider, the husband of Baloch political activist Karima Baloch, has accused Pakistan’s ISI of killing her and has called on the Canadian government to reopen the investigation into her death. Haider made the statement during a protest in front of the United Nations in Geneva organized by the Baloch National Movement.

The husband of Baloch political activist Karima Baloch , who was mysteriously killed in Toronto in 2020, has accused Pakistan’s ISI of killing her and asked the Canadian government to reopen the investigation.

Hammal Haider participated in a protest in front of the United Nations in Geneva to demand justice for Karima Baloch and other Baloch political activists killed in Pakistan and foreign soils.

The protest was organized by Baloch National Movement (BNM) during the 54th Session of Human Rights Council.

Hammal said, “We believe that the Canadian government and Canadian justice system didn’t do well for Karima Baloch who died in suspicious manner and suspicious circumstances and we have been requesting the Canadian government to investigate her case. But, we have seen no interest from the Canadian government. So, it is our firm belief that the Canadian government is not concerned about our activists living in Canada and they are not interested in the Karima Baloch case”.

He added, “She was a high profile politician and her assassination was taken up by all the international media. All over Balochistan, the people are demanding a thorough investigation in her case. But, unfortunately we have not seen anything from Trudeau’s government or Canadian government right now. So, we are trying our best to pursue this legally and pressurize the Trudeau government to start a new investigation in Karima Baloch’s case”.

Karima, who was listed by the BBC in its 100 most inspirational and influential women for her work in human rights, was granted asylum in Canada in 2016.

Hammal Haider said that Karima was getting several life threats because of her work towards human rights in Balochistan.

He said, “We believe that the Pakistan intelligence agency is behind Karima’s killing because they have also been trying to kill other activists abroad. Ahmad Waqass Goraya is a prime example and we have some information that they are also gathering information about other political activists. So, there is no doubt that the Pakistani military establishment, especially the Pakistani ISI is behind killing”.

The protest in front of the UN was joined by over a dozen of BNM activists who raised slogans like Balochistan is not Pakistan”, “down with Pakistan”, “Baloch want freedom”, “fascist state Pakistan”, and “Stop Baloch Genocide”.

Dr. Naseem Baloch, Chairman of Baloch National Movement said, ” Pakistan Army has been doing barbarism in Balochistan for over seven decades and the world is aware about this. But, we were also aware that activists living abroad will also be targeted”.

He added, “Karima Baloch had revealed about the threats she was receiving. She was bravely engaged in her struggle despite her maternal uncle was abducted and killed by the Pakistani agencies. And one day we got the news about Karima’s death. Whatever she revealed before her death it clearly indicates the kind of threats Baloch diaspora has been facing”.

A large number of political activists and other intellectuals in Balochistan have disappeared. Many of them are tortured and extra-judicially killed by the Pakistan army and other secret agencies.

A large number of Baloch who migrated to foreign countries to protect their lives are now feeling unsafe after the death of Karima Baloch in Canada and journalist Sajid Hussain Baloch in Sweden in 2020.

Karima Baloch was a Baloch human rights activist and a dissident. She was granted asylum in Canada in 2016. She was found dead after having gone missing in Dec 2020 in Toronto.

She was slated to be buried on January 25, but, before the corpse could be transported from Karachi to Balochistan, Pakistani authorities forcibly took Karima’s body along with her family from the airport to her hometown, Balochwarna reported.

Later, she was buried under Army watch as thousands who came to pay their last respect weren’t allowed near her, the Balochistan Times reported. Prior to her burial, the mobile services were suspended in the district, and Tump and surrounding areas were put under strict lockdown.

Karima’s death sparked protests across Europe and North America as the Baloch diaspora took to the streets in Toronto, Berlin and Netherlands calling on the Canadian government to investigate.

Karima had campaigned vigorously against the disappearances and human rights violations in the troubled Balochistan province of Pakistan.

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Lina Khan vs Jeff Bezos: This is Big Tech’s real cage match

September 28, 2023 by economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

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His forcefully nurtured creation, Amazon, sold as many items as possible as cheaply as possible and delivered them as quickly as possible. The result is that $40 out of every $100 spent online in the United States goes to Amazon and Bezos is worth $150 billion. Lina Khan made her reputation with a very different idea: What if pleasing the customer was not enough?

Jeff Bezos made his fortune with one truly big idea: What if a retailer did everything possible to make customers happy?

His forcefully nurtured creation, Amazon, sold as many items as possible as cheaply as possible and delivered them as quickly as possible. The result is that $40 out of every $100 spent online in the United States goes to Amazon and Bezos is worth $150 billion.

Lina Khan made her reputation with a very different idea: What if pleasing the customer was not enough?

Low prices, she argued in a 95-page examination of Amazon in the Yale Law Journal, can mask behavior that stifles competition and undermines society. Published in 2017 while she was still a law student, it is already one of the most consequential academic papers of modern times.

These two very different philosophies, each pushed by an outsider unafraid of taking risks, at last have their much-anticipated confrontation. The Federal Trade Commission, now run by Khan after her stunning rise from policy wonk to policy player, on Tuesday filed suit against Amazon in federal court in Seattle. The suit accused Amazon of being a monopolist that used unfair and illegal tactics to maintain its power. Amazon said the suit was “wrong on the facts and the law.”

Bezos, 59, is no longer in charge of Amazon on a day-to-day basis. He surrendered the CEO reins to Andy Jassy two years ago. But make no mistake: Bezos is Amazon’s executive chair and owns more of the company than anyone else. It is his innovations, carried out over more than 20 years, that Khan is challenging. The FTC complaint quotes him repeatedly.

Silicon Valley spent the summer transfixed by the prospect of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg literally fighting each other, despite the odds of this actually happening being near zero. Khan and Bezos are, however, the real thing — a courtroom clash that could have implications far beyond Amazon’s 1.5 million employees, 300 million customers and $1.3 trillion valuation.

If Khan’s arguments hold sway, the competitive landscape for tech companies will look very different going forward. Big antitrust cases tend to have that effect. The government achieved only a muddled victory in its pursuit of Microsoft 25 years ago. Yet that still had enough force to distract and weaken a much-feared software empire, allowing 1,000 startups to bloom, including Amazon.

It’s due largely to Khan, 34, that imposing major changes on the retailer is even thinkable. After spending a few days interviewing her and those around her for a profile in 2018, I thought she understood Bezos because she was so much like him. Very few people can see possibilities unseen by others and successfully work toward them for years, getting others to join along the way. But these were attributes they both shared.

“How does change happen in history?” asked Stacy Mitchell , an early Khan ally who is co-executive director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a research and advocacy group that promotes local power to fight corporations. “Lina has captured imaginations in a way that has enabled the reform movement to engage a wider set of people.”
edtfgvFor years, every article about Amazon featured the line “Amazon declined to comment,” another form of control. Khan likewise never willingly surrendered to me a piece of personal data, even if it was inconsequential.

Amazon and the FTC declined to comment for this article.

Bezos’ unlikely saga long ago entered the realm of myth. He spent his childhood summers on his grandfather’s West Texas ranch, wanted to be a theoretical physicist but became a Wall Street analyst instead. He had no retailing background. He was interested in ideas, not things.

Amazon was not the first online store — it wasn’t even the first online bookstore. It spent lots of money foolishly and drove many employees mercilessly. The whole enterprise nearly failed in the dot-com crash in the early 2000s. But the media was fascinated by it, customers liked it, and that gave Bezos room to run.

A former Amazon engineer once memorably described Bezos as making “ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.” A company that puts “attendance reminder” signs in bathroom stalls telling warehouse workers they will be “reviewed for termination” if they screw up their time keeping is a company with overwhelming ambition.

Reformers are just like entrepreneurs: They too are fighting against reality, trying to carve out space for their vision of how things could be better. Khan’s journey to confronting Amazon in federal court is in some ways an even less likely tale than Bezos’. And so, like Bezos in the early years of Amazon, she has become a figure of fascination.

The daughter of Pakistani immigrants by way of London, Khan had the natural instincts of a good journalist. At Williams College, where she worked on the school newspaper, a friend described her as especially interested in understanding power, particularly the way it conceals itself to seize more power. She was in her late 20s when she wrote her paper on Amazon — about Bezos’ age when he quit his Wall Street job to drive with his wife at the time, MacKenzie Scott, west to Seattle and his destiny.

Antitrust law was the traditional tool used to rein in companies that became too powerful. Antitrust played a major role in the 1890s, marking the beginning of the Progressive Era, and again in the 1930s under the New Deal. But by the early 1980s, antitrust was at a low ebb. The so-called consumer welfare standard reduced antitrust down to one issue: the price customers paid. If prices were low, there was no problem.

The Microsoft case was important and influential, but it was very much an aberration. In the early years of this century, the prevailing laissez-faire philosophy allowed not just Amazon but other startups to rise much quicker than they might otherwise have. Facebook and Google charged users nothing, and were allowed to acquire their way to dominance. Six of the eight most valuable U.S. companies are tech companies — seven if you consider Tesla a tech firm.

Government was slow; Silicon Valley was fast. The marketplace would decide the fate of corporate empires. By 2015, when Khan was entering law school, hardly anyone was interested in promoting competition through government intervention. Criminal justice reform, environmental law, immigration — those were the topics that appealed to students. She chose antitrust, practically alone.

Anyone with a radical idea in Washington faces so many obstacles that it is not surprising it happens so rarely. When Khan was nominated to be chair of the FTC in 2021, Amazon complained that she was biased.

“She has on numerous occasions argued that Amazon is guilty of antitrust violations and should be broken up,” the company wrote in a 25-page petition to have Khan recused from any judgment on it.

The logic: If you are critical of a company, you can’t be allowed anywhere near it as a regulator. Khan survived this challenge but it was only the first. To go against the live-and-let-live attitude of many bureaucrats, a relentless determination is required.

A hostile media is another hurdle. Dozens of Wall Street Journal editorials, opinion essays and letters to the editor have criticized Khan over the last two years. They called for Congress to investigate her, argued she didn’t understand that monopolies were actually good and accused her of letting people die by blocking a drug company merger.

Then there is the lobbying. Amazon spent $10 million in the first half of this year, five times the 2013 level. It gave money to hundreds of trade associations and nonprofits in 2022, some of which issue pro-Amazon reports without publicizing their funding. Under the “know your enemy” philosophy, Amazon has also been staffing up with Khan’s former FTC colleagues.

Getting to court offers little relief. Well-steeped in decades of the consumer welfare standard, judges are not particularly encouraging to Khan’s arguments. Cases against Meta , Facebook’s parent company, and more recently Microsoft have faltered. The Amazon case incorporates aspects of the consumer welfare standard, which might make it more palatable in court.

It’s a formidable amount of opposition. Even some of her ideological foes are impressed that Khan is nevertheless having such an impact. By sheer force of intellect, she is opening up a conversation about how companies are allowed to behave.

“Five years ago, you would have been laughed out of the room if you challenged the consumer welfare standard,” said Konstantin Medvedovsky, a former antitrust attorney who is now a hedge fund analyst. “Now serious people make that argument at major conferences and are taken seriously. That’s Lina’s triumph.”

Medvedovsky is not very sympathetic to Khan’s enforcement agenda. He was one of the critics who derided the reform movement as “hipster” antitrust. Still, he said, “It’s hard not to be somewhat in awe.”

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‘UFO-like’ flying car with eyewatering £236k price tag pictured before 2025 launch

September 28, 2023 by www.express.co.uk Leave a Comment

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A UFO-like flying car , which will set back customers £236,000, has been pictured for the first time as the landmark technology moves closer to take-off.

Created by California-based automotive and aviation company Alef Aeronautics, the Model A vehicle premiered at the Detroit Auto Show this week.

After finally receiving legal approval in June to fly from the US government, tech fans have been eagerly awaiting the chance to see the new car in action.

The car wowed industry experts as it made an appearance at the highly influential auto show in Michigan.

California-based automotive and aviation company Alef Aeronautics created the car

California-based automotive and aviation company Alef Aeronautics created the car (Image: SWNS)

According to Alef Aeronautics, Model A would not only boast capabilities to drive on roads but also take off in a bid to avoid traffic jams.

The electric vehicle was awarded a limited FAA Special Airworthiness Certification, meaning testing on its flight capabilities and production were allowed to take place.

Jim Dukhovny, Alef founder and CEO, said that while the version seen in Michigan was “not the final consumer version… it is pretty close”.

He told the Robb Report website that the company was aiming to begin production on the first car by “the end of 2025”.

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The car wowed industry experts as it made an appearance

The car wowed industry experts as it made an appearance (Image: SWNS)

The company says the car is 100 percent electric and is drivable on public roads.

It also has the capacity to vertically take off and land.

Alef notes that it can also fly above some obstacles “until a desired destination is reached”.

Within the car, one or two passengers could be driven or flown and the cabin is stabilized by a bespoke gimbaled rotating cabin blueprint.

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The electric vehicle was awarded a limited FAA Special Airworthiness Certification

The electric vehicle was awarded a limited FAA Special Airworthiness Certification (Image: SWNS)

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At around 17 feet long, the vehicle is said to be able to drive around 200 miles – or fly 110 miles.

It is also designed to fit into any parking space or garage.

Dukhovny added after the FAA certification: “We’re excited to receive this certification from the FAA. It allows us to move closer to bringing people an environmentally friendly and faster commute, saving individuals and companies hours each week.

“This is one small step for planes, one giant step for cars.”

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