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  • This 8-year-old started driving two years ago

    This 8-year-old started driving two years ago

    We have previously heard or seen 13-year-olds driving confidently on Pakistani roads, but this time a YouTube video of an 8-year-old boy driving a full-fledged Toyota SUV with his 10-year-old sister has stunned everyone.

    The video posted on the internet was shot by his own father, who owns the white Toyota Fortuner. The boy claimed in the video that he has been driving since he was six years old, which is even more surprising given that he is struggling to look out the window, confirming that he is unable to obtain a clear view of the road.

    In the comments section, the majority of viewers critiqued the video for encouraging underage driving and putting others’ lives at risk, while others applauded the boy’s driving skills. It is worth adding that this is not the first time a video of this kind has gone viral. Earlier, a kid who seemed to be 11–12 years old was recorded months ago driving a Toyota Land Cruiser on a busy road.

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    Promoting underage driving is becoming a worrisome trend in Pakistan, which the government must address promptly.

  • Man kills nephew after quarrel with boy’s mother

    Man kills nephew after quarrel with boy’s mother

    A nine-year-old child was murdered by his uncle after a quarrel with his mother in Mandi Bahauddin City of Punjab, reports ARY.

    The police said that the accused dumped the child’s dead body in a canal after the gruesome incident. According to police, the accused had a quarrel with mother of the minor child and after he murdered the minor to avenge on his mother.

    The police officials informed that the minor went missing from his home on Sunday evening. However, his dead body was recovered from a canal after the accused was arrested on suspicion.

    Read more- Man kills first-year student in Lahore for refusing to marry him

    Earlier, this month a man in Lahore killed a first-year student for refusing to marry him. After killing the victim, the man named Bilal shot at and injured himself.

    According to the police, the deceased’s body has been transported to a hospital for a post-mortem examination.

  • Pakistan Railways announces two ‘Eid special trains’

    Pakistan Railways announces two ‘Eid special trains’

    Pakistan Railways announced on Monday that it will run two Eid special trains from Karachi to Peshawar and Lahore on April 29 and April 30, respectively, for commuter convenience during Eid-ul-Fitr.

    One special train would depart from Karachi to Lahore and the other from Karachi to Peshawar, according to railway authorities at the Karachi Division’s Divisional Superintendent office.

    First Train – Karachi to Peshawar

    According to them, the first train will depart Karachi for Peshawar at 2:30 pm. on April 29, 2022. The train will pass through Karachi Cantt, Landhi Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Rohri Khanpur Bahawalpur, Multan, Khanewal, Shorkot Cantt, Toba Tek Singh, Gojra, Faisalabad, Chiniot, Chenab Nagar, Shaheenabad, Sargodha, Mandi Bahauddin, Lala Musa, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Taxila and finally reach Peshawar at 11:00 pm

    The train will include 14 economy class carriages. A total of 1,000 passengers will be able to board this train.

    Second Train – Karachi to Lahore

    The second special train would depart Karachi Cantt at 7:45 pm on April 30, 2022, for Lahore.

    It would travel through Landhi, Hyderabad, Nawab Shah, Rohri, Sadiqabad, Rahim Yar Khan Khanpur, Bahawalpur, Multan Cantt, Khanewal, Mian Channu Chichawatni, and other cities before arriving in Lahore at 03:30 the next day.

  • Beijing Covid spike prompts mass testing, panic buying

    Beijing Covid spike prompts mass testing, panic buying

    Fears of a hard Covid lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing as long queues formed on Monday in a large central district for mass testing ordered by the Chinese authorities, according to AFP.

    China was already trying to contain a wave of infections in its largest city Shanghai, which has been almost entirely locked down for weeks and reported 51 new Covid deaths on Monday.

    Downtown Beijing’s biggest district Chaoyang, home to around 3.5 million people, ordered mass testing from Monday for residents and those coming to work there — the area hosts the headquarters of many multinational firms and embassies.

    Many of the capital’s fitness studios and gyms have cancelled classes or closed. Beijing has also imposed tight controls on entry to the city, with travellers required to have a negative Covid test from within 48 hours.

    On the other hand, anger mounts among locked-down Shanghai residents as city reports more Covid deaths

    China’s major financial hub of Shanghai has reported more Covid-19-related deaths, as residents vented their anger over a harsh lockdown and strict censorship online.

    The city, battling China’s biggest coronavirus outbreak so far, reported 12 new Covid-19 deaths, up from 11 a day before.

    On social media, netizens battled against censors overnight to share a six-minute video entitled “The Voice of April”, a montage of voices recorded over the course of the Shanghai outbreak, Reuters reported.

    PAKISTAN REPORTS 105 COVID CASES

    Pakistan has reported 105 coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 1,527,856.

    No new fatalities were reported during this period and the death toll remains 30,369. The positivity rate was recorded as 0.54 per cent while 186 patients are critical.

    Breakdown of deaths and cases: Punjab: 59 cases

    Sindh: 28 cases; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 11 cases; Islamabad: 5 cases

    Azad Jammu and Kashmir: 2 cases

    Similarly, Pakistan reports 52 Covid-19 recoveries

    Pakistan has reported 52 coronavirus recoveries during the last 24 hours, according to the government’s portal for tracking the spread of the disease in the country.

    The total number has risen to 1,494,050 and the recovery rate is 97.8 per cent.

    COOK ISLANDS RECORDS FIRST COVID-19 DEATH

    The tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has reported its first coronavirus-related death, more than two years after the pandemic erupted.

    A 63-year-old woman, who had underlying health conditions, died on her way to hospital on the island of Aitutaki late on Saturday.

    “It is with great sadness that I announce that we have just recorded our first in-country death attributed to Covid-19,” Prime Minister Mark Brown said in a statement Sunday. “She had had all three anti-Covid vaccinations, but also had several serious underlying health conditions.”

    ONLY 29PC HOSPITALISED COVID PATIENTS FULLY WELL ONE YEAR ON: UK STUDY

    Not even one in four people have completely recovered from Covid a full year after being hospitalised with the disease, a UK study indicated, warning that long Covid could become a common condition.

    The study involving more than 2,300 people also found that women were 33 per cent less likely to fully recover than men, AFP reports.

    It also found that obese people were half as likely to fully recover, while those who needed mechanical ventilation were 58pc less likely.

    The study looked at the health of people who were discharged from 39 British hospitals with Covid between March 2020 and April 2021, then assessed the recovery of 807 of them five months and one year later.

  • Customer kills butcher over selling expensive meat

    A customer killed a butcher following a heated argument over selling meat at a high price in the Gojra Road area of Jhang City, reports ARY News.

    According to the initial media reports, the man got into an argument with the butcher over the sale of meat at an exorbitant price. The argument heated up and in the meanwhile, the customer stabbed the butcher to death.

    The assailant ran away from the scene while the police shifted the dead body to a hospital for medico-legal formalities. Following the incident, butchers of area staged a protest against killing of their fellow and demanded the police to bring the culprit to the book forthwith.

  • Another teenage girl in Karachi goes missing

    Another teenage girl in Karachi goes missing

    A week after a minor from Karachi went missing, another girl same as her age, 14-year-old Nimra Kazmi went missing on April 20th from the same area, i.e. Karachi’s Malir district.

    Nimra’s mother said that she left her home at 9am to go to work, but her daughter was not at home when she returned. Despite thoroughly searching for her, she was nowhere to be found.

    According to her mother, Nimra was a grade-10 student and was preparing for her final exams. She appealed to Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah and the Inspector-General of Sindh for the recovery of her teenage daughter.

    As per the police, a case has been registered and a search is underway.

    It is pertinent to mention that Zehra’s whereabouts are still unknown. According to the police, they are putting in all their efforts.

  • 15-month-old in NWA: Pakistan reports first polio case in 15 months

    The first wild poliovirus case was detected in a 15-month-old baby boy from North Waziristan, Pakistan. It is the third case to have been reported worldwide during the ongoing year 2022.

    The National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad has confirmed the type-1 wild poliovirus (WPV1) in a toddler from North Waziristan. The NIH polio eradication laboratory also confirmed another case from the Bannu district in KP, which was detected in the environmental samples collected on April 5. Both viruses detected in the samples are closely related to each other.

    Pakistan reported the polio case in the country 15 months after the previous poliovirus case was reported on January 28, last year from the Killa Abdullah area of Balochistan.

    Secretary Health Aamir Ashraf said, “This is, of course, a tragedy for the child and his family and it is also very unfortunate both for Pakistan and polio eradication efforts all over the world. We are disappointed but not deterred.” He further added, “The case has appeared in Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) where the poliovirus was detected in the environment late last year and where an emergency action plan is already being implemented.”

    According to Anti-Polio Programme, Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has badly been affected by the poliovirus after detection from the environmental samples in the last quarter of 2021. The samples of the virus were found in Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu divisions last year.

    The Health Secretary also revealed that teams have deployed to conduct detailed interrogation into the case detected in North Waziristan. The emergency immunization campaigns are continued to prevent further outbreaks of poliovirus in the country.

    Talking about the issue, National Emergency and Operations Centre (NEOC) Coordinator Dr Shahzad Baig said, “To address the challenges in Southern KP, the Pakistani government and its global partners have already initiated an emergency action plan to address the challenges in this part of the province.”

    The province had reported as many as 22 cases of poliovirus in 2020. However, there was no wild-type virus among the detected case in KP province.

  • ‘Sasta Ramzan Bazaar’ fails to provide relief in third Ashra

    Residents of Rawalpindi are still hoping for some relief at Ramzan Bazaars and utility stores. In the first two Ashras, the ‘Sasta Ramzan Bazaars’ have utterly failed to grab the public‘s interest by offering substandard items at hefty prices.

    People from all walks of life even urged Prime Minister (PM) Shahbaz Sharif to pay unannounced visits to Rawalpindi’s ‘Sasta Ramzan Bazaars’ and other open marketplaces to check the pricing and quality of products being sold in the last ‘Ashra’.

    In fact, all government personnel, even Deputy Commissioners and Commissioners, are expressing minimal concern to provide assistance to the public as they know they will be transferred after the oath of chief minister in Punjab is taken.

    According to trustworthy sources, the Punjab government will deploy strictly professional policemen around the province, especially in Rawalpindi, to bring a positive change despite the fact that the holy month is about to end.

    Read more: Lahore continues to face gas and power outage in Ramzan

    Due to the district government’s incompetence and poor administration, the ‘Sasta Ramazan Bazaars’ organised at Chungi No 22, Jarahi on Adiala Road, Committee Chowk, and Haidri Chowk have all miserably failed to provide assistance to the populace.

  • Pakistani philanthropist Dr Amjad Saqib nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

    Pakistani philanthropist Dr Amjad Saqib nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

    Dr Amjad Saqib, a Pakistani philanthropist and founder of Akhuwat — the country’s largest interest-free microfinance programme — has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. Dr. Amjad Saqib has been nominated by Malta’s Foreign Minister, according to the British organization PA Media. However, as per the information available on the website of Nobel Prize, “Neither the names of nominators nor of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize may be divulged until 50 years have elapsed.”

    “The Committee does not itself announce the names of nominees, neither to the media nor to the candidates themselves. In so far as certain names crop up in the advance speculations as to who will be awarded any given year’s prize, this is either sheer guesswork or information put out by the person or persons behind the nomination. Information in the Nobel Committee’s nomination database is not made public until after fifty years.”

    Dr Saqib earned Asia’s highest honour, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, in 2021 for his humanitarian work in poverty reduction, and has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work in poverty alleviation.

    Amjad Saqib, while talking to The Express Tribune about his nomination said, “My services are beyond such awards and they are purely for the sake of Allah.” He continued by adding: “An official of a foreign country might have recommended my name for the award as people across the world are familiar with my services for humanity… but I am not aware of any such development.”

    Dr Saqib resigned from Civil Service in 2003 and founded Akhuwat the same year. He has been its CEO and main driving force since beginning. With 17 years of successful operations, Akhuwat now presents a viable model of Shariah-compliant microfinance, which is both sustainable and replicable. Besides Akhuwat, Dr Saqib is voluntarily serving many civil society organisations in the realm of education, health, disability, banking and finance. He is also on the board of a commercial bank and a few public universities.

    There are 343 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, including 251 individuals and 92 organisations from

  • ‘Local mosques refused to announce that she was missing because of sectarian issues’: The Minor’s mother makes revelations

    ‘Local mosques refused to announce that she was missing because of sectarian issues’: The Minor’s mother makes revelations

    The case of the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from Karachi’s Al-Falah area is yet to be solved, as police continue to search for her.

    The police also raided a house in Sanghar, but could not find the missing girl. The owners of the cell phones from which the calls for ransom were made had been taken into custody by the police.

    On April 16, 14-year-old The Minor had gone missing from the Golden Town area of ​​Al Falah. Police registered a case and launched an investigation. In this regard, SSP Anti-Violent Crime Cell Zubair Sheikh said that the police were working diligently on the matter.

    Police raids are continuing in Karachi and other cities of inner Sindh. Police first raided a house in Sanghar on Wednesday, but found nothing. Thereafter, another house was raided. The Minor could not be found during the raid, but during the action, police found another girl who is from Karachi.

    In response to a question, the SSP said that the numbers which called to demand ransom were provided by The Minor’s father to the police. They were traced by law enforcers and the suspects were also taken into custody.

    Now the girl’s mother has revealed on Waseem Badami’s show that the local mosques refused to announce her daughter being missing due to sectarian issues.

    Her father has also said that if his daughter is not recovered then he and his family will attempt suicide in front of the Governor House.

    “My daughter wasn’t even going to school for the past one and a half years,” her father told the publication.

    The girl has been missing for nearly a week, but there has been no clue about her whereabouts since she had stepped out of her home to dispose of garbage.

    The father said that they lived on the first floor, explaining that his daughter had gone down to the ground floor to dump garbage, but she never returned.

    After the case was highlighted on social media, Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon visited the girl’s home to assure her family of complete cooperation on part of the law enforcement agency.

    “We’re doing our best,” the police chief told journalists after visiting the family. “Three special police teams have been formed to find the girl. Soon the girl will be with her family. We have no objection if someone from the family wishes to join the investigation team.”

    A team of the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) also met the girl’s father. AVCC chief Zubair Nazir Shaikh said they have formed three teams, and they are working on getting CCTV camera footage to trace the girl’s whereabouts.

    “We’re taking all measures to find the girl and are in touch with her family to gather all information regarding her disappearance,” he said. “A case has already been registered at the Al-Falah police station.”

    A police official said that an investigation into the incident had been launched, with the footage from the CCTV cameras installed in the area being examined to trace the whereabouts of the girl.