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11/01/2023

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15/10/2022

ICC Throws Surprise Birthday Party for Babar Azam at Captains’ Day Media Call.

07/09/2022

Babar Azam’s long reign as the number 1 T20I batter in the world has finally come to an end as fellow cricketer, Mohammad Rizwan, has replaced him at the top.

07/09/2022

ISLAMABAD: Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Ali Hosseini on Tuesday offered his government’s support to complete Iran-Pakistan (IP) Gas Pipeline project and hinted to extend cooperation in other fields of mutual interest.
Ambassador Hosseini, in an interview, said Iran was willing to further strengthen mutual trade cooperation; completion of energy projects, especially the IP gas pipeline; progress in the establishment of border markets; finalization of a free trade agreement, and collaboration on major ports and security areas.
He said there were no sanctions on the export of gas from Iran and Pakistan could take full benefit of it to fulfill its energy needs. The IP gas pipeline was a key project in that regard and both countries realized its importance.
The gas pipeline project was being deliberated by the technical committee, he said, adding its completion would also open new avenues for mutual cooperation between the two countries.

07/09/2022

The Ministry of IT and Telecom (MoITT) has prepared a package to facilitate the Information Technology (IT) industry which is likely to be approved soon.
Sources said that the package proposes incentives, including tax exemptions, to facilitate the IT sector, freelancers, and startups. The package also includes fiscal and non-fiscal incentives demanded by the IT industry. Sources have also revealed that except for some additions, the package is almost the same as the one announced by the previous PTI regime. The previous government’s package could not be started due to the non-cooperation of the Federal Board of Revenue FBR and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).
Secretary General Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA), Hira Zaineb, confirmed that the MoITT has prepared a package in consultation with the industry. Currently, these are just recommendations while the list is longer than the previous package. She said that the Industry needs to see the latest announcement to comment further on it. She also stated the package is long due, and the industry is waiting for it.

07/09/2022

Pakistan & East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) Cable International Network Co. Ltd. has completed the construction of a submarine cable infrastructure, providing connectivity from Karachi to Marseille, France.The Pakistan-Egypt segment connects Karachi and Zafarana, Egypt, the total length of which is 5,800 KM. The connectivity from Pakistan to France is now fully completed and ready for service.

This was informed by the management of PEACE Cable, whose officials held an online and in-person meeting with Chairman PTA, Maj. Gen. Amir Azeem Bajwa (R), at PTA Headquarters. The delegation comprised Peace Management COO, Mr. Sun Xiaohua, Peace Management Director Mr. Zhang Donghai, Commercial Director Mr. Chirs Zhang, (Online), and Peace Cable, Country Manager Pakistan, Mr. Shoaib Ashfaq Qureshi, (In Person).

07/09/2022

Punjab’s Department of Fisheries has established Asia’s largest and first-ever fish library in Lahore for people interested in researching fish farming. The library houses more than 50,000 books on fish farming under one roof that provide information on suitable habitats and atmospheres for aquatic life. International researchers frequently visit the library as well.

The library administrator stated that it has material on medical research, journals, and international research publications, with new ones added to it every two to three years. He added that the books had been collected after several hectic years despite receiving minimum funds from the government’s development packages. The administration is also working on digitizing the library soon.

06/09/2022

YouTube Goes Down in Pakistan Once Again

06/09/2022

Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police has announced hundreds of jobs to address the shortage of workforce after receiving approval from Interior Minister, Rana Sanaullah Khan.
According to the details, the recruitment process will begin soon. Unlike previously, applications will be received online. Applications submitted through any other mode will not be entertained.
The recruitment process will be carried out simultaneously in all provinces. A Deputy Inspector General (DIG)-ranked official will oversee the recruitment process to ensure merit and transparency. The job posts are for constables, however, eligibility criteria hasn’t been specified yet.

06/09/2022

China has put together 200 tons of onions and will soon dispatch via Karakoram Highway to the flood-hit people of Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Mao Ning said on Monday.

“Based on Pakistan’s needs, the Chinese side has put together 200 tons of vegetables and will deliver them via the Karakoram Highway as soon as possible,” she said during her regular briefing while responding to a question asked by APP correspondent. Mao Ning, a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), took over as 33rd spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry.

China Meteorological Administration provided Pakistan with real-time weather forecast and technological support, she added. She announced that on top of the RMB 100 million emergency humanitarian assistance, the Chinese government has decided to provide additional disaster relief supplies worth RMB 300 million.

06/09/2022

06/09/2022

Instagram’s parent company Meta has been fined €405 million for mishandling teenagers’ data. The decision and fine were finalized by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after an investigation into the company’s data handling practices.The DPC’s decision came in on Friday last week, with a promise to share “full details” this week. The investigation had originally started two years ago and focused on two ways in which the social network had breached General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules.

The first breach was caused by Instagram allowing young users aged between 13 and 17 to set up business accounts on the platform, which made their information publicly available. Instagram also made some young users’ profiles public by default.
Meta has said in a statement that it already updated its profile settings for Instagram last year so that anyone under 18 automatically has their account set to private. Content on a private account cannot be seen by anyone unless you specifically allow it, and adults can’t message teens who don’t follow them. Meta has said that “we disagree with how this fine was calculated and intend to appeal it.”

This is the third and largest fine the DPC has imposed on Meta. The second-largest fine (about $267 million at the time) was imposed last year when DPC found that WhatsApp did not properly inform users about its data collection practices, particularly how it shared the data with Meta. WhatsApp was ordered to update its privacy policy, and the company planned to appeal.

WhatsApp’s privacy policy issue turned into a massive controversy last year with millions of people switching to other messaging apps such as Telegram, Discord, Signal, and others. Telegram reported record growth in its user base during that time.

There was also a much smaller fine earlier this year worth $18.6 million. It involved Meta’s bad record keeping around security breaches.

06/09/2022

Kohli reveals Dhoni was lone supporter after quitting captaincy.

06/09/2022

After India's defeat, Hindu extremists called Arshdeep Singh a 'Khalistani'

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06/09/2022

KARACHI: Gold worth two crore rupees brought to Pakistan from Dubai was stolen during the flight.
According to Express News, the biggest theft incident in the aviation history of Pakistan came to light, during the flight, 1542 grams of gold worth two crore rupees of a jeweler was stolen.
Jeweler Mohammad Monis, a passenger who came to Karachi from private airline flight No. EZ 335, was coming to Karachi on the afternoon of September 4 by a private airline flight.
In a conversation with Express News, the victim, jeweler Muhammad Monis, gave the details of the incident in the following way: During the flight, one and a half kg of gold disappeared from the bag kept in the luggage above the seat.
According to the sources, the passenger Muhammad Munis was bringing back half the value of the legally exported jewelery in the form of gold and the customs authorities had been informed in advance about the arrival of the gold in Pakistan, the gold was owned by Noortan Jeweler of Karachi.
Customs officials posted on duty told Express News that a detailed search of the plane was conducted based on the passenger's report and 100% screening of all passengers and goods was also carried out, but no gold could be recovered from any passenger. The incident may have taken place at the time of departure from Dubai Airport, but the affected passenger claims that the presence of gold was confirmed during the flight and the gold was stolen during the flight itself.

Muhammad Younis said that the loss of gold was immediately reported to the flight crew, on which the crew informed the security authorities and after landing the aircraft, the Pakistan Airport Security Force conducted a 100 percent scanning of the passengers in search of the gold. Gold could not be recovered.

05/09/2022

The Punjab government is considering reducing the syllabus of classes 1 to 10 on account of the delayed commencement of the current academic year in schools.

According to sources, Punjab’s School Education Department (SED) has already started working on decreasing the syllabus by 20% for all classes from 1 to matric.
SED Punjab will make the final decision after taking all Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISEs) into confidence and an official announcement will be made in due course.

On the other hand, students and their parents have lauded the decision of the provincial government, claiming that the students would have been overburdened if the syllabus wasn’t reduced.

Earlier today, it was reported that the Punjab government is considering introducing a law to regulate private schools. In this regard, SED Punjab has already forwarded a summary to the provincial cabinet.

05/09/2022

Russia is to halt all gas supplies to Europe until western sanctions are removed.

05/09/2022

Liz Truss to be next UK prime minister.

05/09/2022

Qatar to allow beer sales at World Cup games three hours before kickoff.

05/09/2022

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04/09/2022

Vivo Donates Rs. 10 Million to Pakistan’s Flood Victims.

04/09/2022

Mitchell Starc Breaks Saqlain Mushtaq’s Record.
Australian pacer, Mitchell Starc, became the fastest bowler to pick up 200 ODI wickets, breaking Saqlain Mushtaq’s long-standing record on Saturday.

04/09/2022

SWABI: The Federal Investigation Agency on Friday issued another notice to former National Assembly speaker and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Asad Qaiser in the party’s prohibited funding case, PTI local leaders told Dawn here.

Mr Asad was first summoned on August 11, then on August 18 and August 29.

The FIA has summoned Mr Qaiser to its Peshawar office on Sept 5 (Monday).

Mr Qaiser, however, claims the two accounts were used for provision of salary to the office-bearers, who worked in the party’s provincial office when he was PTI provincial president.

04/09/2022

KARACHI: In what appears to be a renewed wave of street crimes in the metropolis, armed muggers shot dead a human resource manager in front of his family and a teenager when they put up resistance to their robbery bids in different parts of the city on Friday.
Also on Friday, three more people were shot at and wounded by armed robbers over resistance in the city.
Gulistan-i-Jauhar SHO Pervez Bhutto said Zeeshan Afzal, 41, did some shopping from the Bin Hashim superstore near Munawar Chowrangi and drove to the Baloch Ice Cream shop with his wife and two children late on Thursday night.
The family was having ice cream when two armed robbers riding a motorbike pulled up there. One of them showed Afzal his pistol upon which he tried to grab his hand to tackle the armed robber. However the robber opened fire on him and escaped along with his accomplice from the busy area famous for restaurants and eateries on Prof Ghafoor Ahmed Road.

04/09/2022

LAHORE: Multan has again been included along with the venues of Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi for the eighth edition of the HBL

Pakistan Super League (PSL) as the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced to hold the premier T20 event from Feb 9 to March 19 next year.

Last time, Multan was included for the first time as a venue for the 2020 edition but later due to Covid-19 pandemic the city was ousted from the list.

Friday’s decisions were taken in HBL Pakistan Super League’s governing council which met here at the National High Perfo­rmance Centre.

All six franchises were represented along with PCB officials who are members of the GC. PCB chairman Ramiz Raja chaired the meeting.

“The meeting congratulated the GC on a hugely successful and record-breaking HBL PSL 7 which was the first one ever to be staged in Pakistan uninterrupted since the start of the league in 2016. The successful organisation of the tournament was made possible despite significant external challenges and record revenue and viewership was attained through the two action-packed leagues in Karachi and Lahore,” a PCB press release said.

“Some important discussions around the scheduling for the next edition of the HBL PSL were made. It was decided that the HBL PSL 8 will run from Feb 9 to March 19, 2023. At least four venues will be used for hosting the matches, including Lahore, Karachi, Rawal­pindi and Multan. Further discussions for firming up the detailed schedule will take place between the franchises and the PCB in due course,” it added.

04/09/2022

LAHORE: As the government estimates put the destruction of the standing crops at around 900,000 acres by floods in south Punjab, it has launched a detailed survey to assess the loss of lives and properties, besides the direct or indirect impact of the calamity on the people.

It has already exempted all flood-hit areas from the collection of Abiana and Maalia (per acre taxes on crops and irrigation water).

“Around 900,000 acres of land have been affected by the massive floods and rains in various districts of south Punjab, while 40 people have been killed during the calamity. Another 37 people have been killed due to collapsing of houses,” Punjab Local Government & Community Development Department Minister Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed told reporters at a press conference here on Friday.