The federal government is planning to complete the extension of Metro Bus from Peshawar Morr to New Islamabad International Airport within 3 months. While briefing the committee, Secretary Planning said that two parts of the new Metro route have been completed and work on the remaining two is in progress which will be completed by March 2020.
The iconic ’90s show ‘Legends Of The Hidden Temple’ is coming back after over 20 years with a twist. This time the participants will be adults. In addition, the show is brought back by Quibi and will not be aired on Nickelodeon. The show will not be in same same setting this time, but will happen in an actual jungle!
The Buddhist trail will be developed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Azad Jammu Kashmir; giving way to the Buddhist pilgrims from all across the world to visit Pakistan. Pakistan will be working towards the preservation and restoration of Buddhist cultural heritage, to further facilitate the Buddhist trail. One of the oldest Buddhist monument lies just 60 kilometres away from Islamabad, on the grassy hill of Haripur.
Malala Yousafzai is featured on the last Teen Vogue cover of 2019, which highlights “brilliant, world-changing demands of teens across the world” in a decade defined by “the rise of youth activism” and protest. During an interview with the magazine, Malala stressed how education is the best investment anyone can make as it allows one to explore opportunities
Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) is ready to increase gas prices for the first half of 2020 in order to meet the revenue shortfall. People have already experienced an increase in petrol and gas prices several times till now and once again the domestic users will incur an increase of 191 paisas while for the commercial users there will be a hike of 31 paisas.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked/processed a total of 933,775 URLs so far. The URLs were related to objectionable or pornographic images, texts and videos on the internet including blasphemy, pornography, judiciary, hats speech etc. PTA has established a directorate “Web Analysis Directorate” to evaluate complaints received from different quarters and the general public and block objectionable material over the internet.
European group, EU DisinfoLab, has exposed over 200 ‘fake’ news outlets managed by an Indian network to influence the European Union and the United Nations with content critical of Pakistan. During the investigation, the DisinfoLab found that the news outlets were managed by Indian stakeholders, with ties to a large network of think tanks, NGOs, and companies from the Srivastava Group.
A recent report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked Pakistan ranked 151 out of 153 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index Report 2020 index. The country has drastically slipped from 112 in 2006 to 151 in 2020 and only managed to surpass Iraq and Yemen. Among the seven South Asian countries included in the index, Pakistan charted at the very bottom.
Pakistan’s top court has declared that the tenure and other service terms of the post of chief of army staff (COAS) shall be determined through simple legislation (act of parliament). The current status of the COAS is to continue for a period of six months after which a fresh legislation (act of the parliament) shall determine his tenure and other terms of his service.
Switzerland has rejected Pakistan’s request to provide five years old tax information under the Automatic Exchange of Information. The bank accounts’ information that Switzerland will share in September 2021, will pertain to the accounts positions for the calendar year 2020. Since Pakistan’s demand had no legal justification, the Swiss authorities have informed that they cannot provide any information before January 2019 period.