Topper students in SSC Federal Board Exams 2022 from GB visited the Canadian High Commission and met with Wendy Gilmour, High Commissioner of Canada to Pakistan.
Evk2CNR in collaboration with GB-EPA and KIU Students arranged a clean up campaign at the track of Passu Glacier.
Statement attributed to Maryam Nawaz about climate change ‘fake’ : Marriyum Aurangzeb
ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (APP): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Friday said the statement attributed to Maryam Nawaz regarding climate change in some sections of media was “fake”.
The minister, in a tweet, said it was “unfortunate” to attribute a twitter handle with Marriyum Nawaz Sharif which was not verified one.
Marriyum Aurangzeb urged the media to cite only verified twitter handle while reporting.
پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ن) کی نائب صدر مریم نواز شریف سے موسمی تبدیلی کے حوالے سے منسوب بیان جعلی ہے۔ مریم نواز شریف کے اپنے مصدقہ ٹویٹر ہینڈل کے سوا دیگر کو ان سے منسوب کرنا افسوسناک ہے۔ میڈیا سے گزارش ہے کہ صرف مصدقہ ٹویٹر ہینڈل کا حوالہ دے۔
— Marriyum Aurangzeb (@Marriyum_A) August 26, 2022
SBP injects Rs 317.8 bn into market
KARACHI, Aug 26 (APP): State Bank of Pakistan on Friday injected Rs 317.8 billion into money market through its Open Market Operation.
Rs 241.8 billion were injected as reverse repo purchase — Rs 68.250 billion for seven days and Rs 173.550 billion for 63 days.
Rs 76 billion were pumped into the market through Shariah Compliant Mudaraba based OMO– Rs 69 billion for 7 days (face value of collateral) with 15.14 % cut-off and
Rs 7 billion for 63 days (face value of collateral) at 15.20 % cut-off rate.
Rains cause heaviest floods in Pakistan’s history: Sherry
ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (APP): Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Friday said the abnormal monsoon torrential rains caused the heaviest floods in the country’s history that submerged many parts of the southern region.
She was addressing the meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change held under the chair of MNA Nuzhat Pathan.
Sherry said the situation was bad as rains has not been taking any breaks with up to 1,100 millimeters rains in many flood-hit areas, adding, “30 districts of Sindh have been submerged and this committee should take notice of that.”
The minister underlined that it was a natural disaster but the mother nature was brought to this level after unbridled anthropogenic activities.
She mentioned that the communication link with Balochistan had also ended, adding, “Our helicopters are reaching the affected areas but they are coming back due to unfavourable weather conditions.”
There were many people still trapped in the affected areas and the government had no idea about where to draw the accumulated water, Sherry Rehman said.
Secretary Ministry of Climate Change Asif Haider Shah also briefed the committee on the mandate of the ministry in the prevailing scenario and presented his suggestions to the forum.
MNA Murtaza Javed Abbasi raised the issue of crushing plants installed at the Margalla Hills National Park and Khanpur Dam areas.
Inspector General of Forest, Ministry of Climate Change Ghulam Qadir Shah told the committee that there were 31 crush plants functional as of now in the region and 11 of them were registered and the rest were illegal.
“We have closed down several crush plants and cases of five crushing plants are also under trial in the Supreme Court.”
He underscored that Afghan mafia was behind the ordeal. “We raised our voice at the assembly as young children are suffering 30% hearing loss and the people have been protesting against the plants for the past two years. Due to these rains, the crushing waste is going into Khanpur Dam,” he added.
The Afghans were allowed by the provincial government and they belonged to an influential mafia whereas the crushing plants were stopped for 30 days at the behest of the Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chairperson Committee said the people were getting sick from these crushing plants and many diseases, including eye cancer were occurring among the masses of the locality.
The chairperson summoned the KP Chief Secretary and directed that the next meeting would be held in the same area and also called the Ministry of Water Resources to participate in the meeting.
Overseas ministry to send workers abroad for free: Minister
ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (APP):Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Sajid Hussain Turi has decided to send Pakistani workers and professionals abroad for free.
Chairing a high level meeting here Friday, he directed the digitization of the Protector Office to make the process of Protector faster, transparent and easier. Fees ranging from 50 thousand to 100,000 rupees are being abolished from Pakistani workers and professionals for services, he informed.
During the meeting, the minister was briefed by Federal Secretary, DG Bureau of Immigration, DG Overseas Employment Corporation and other senior officers.
Th minister said that the Ministry will soon send the summary of fee abolition to the Cabinet for approval. Protector offices will be established soon in Bannu, Abbottabad, Sukkur, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, he said and added that the licenses of overseas promoters pending for three years were also issued.
A summary would be prepared soon to fill the vacant posts so that the efficiency of the institutions can be improved, he added. He said that strict action would be taken against officials involved in illegal activities and corruption.
The minister stressed the Community Welfare Attachés to improve their performance for the welfare of overseas Pakistanis. However, an online meeting of all community welfare attachés will be held every fortnight to review the performance.
“I will not tolerate any negligence regarding the complaints of overseas Pakistanis, he warned and urged the Welfare attaché to provide easy access to Pakistanis living abroad for solving their problems and welfare. The Ministry’s doors are always open for all kinds of cooperation and problems of overseas Pakistanis”, he said.
On the instructions of Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, an online complaint portal is being established for overseas Pakistanis, he added. Opportunities will be found in different countries for the export of OEC Pakistani manpower. He also hinted to initiate training and foreign language classes for OEC manpower export.
