Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated his government on achieving 5.37% GDP growth during the 2020-2021 financial year. He took to Twitter to highlight the growth, claiming that the rise in GDP had led to the creation of substantial jobs and an increase in per capita income. PM Imran asserted that the economic reforms have been recognized internationally as a “success”.

Google honored the late Pakistani human rights activist Perween Rahman on Saturday by publishing a doodle in her memory. She led the Orangi Pilot Project, widely hailed as one of the best projects in the country’s largest metropolis Karachi. It is one of the most successful non-profit programs in the South Asian country, helping local communities to escape poverty.

Baloch Nationalist Army, a newly emerged terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the Lahore blast on its social media account. They have appointed Mureed Baloch as their spokesman. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid stated in a TV show in the evening that Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility, but that intelligence agencies were unable to determine who carried out the terrorist attack.

An official Punjab Police Twitter account, DPRPP Official, has been hacked, a spokesperson said on the microblogging platform earlier today. The hacked account has nearly a million followers. Hackers shared piles of tweets within hours and changed the user name to Pʋmp. The Punjab Police spokesperson reported that the department’s official Twitter account had been hacked.

Pakistan Army has been declared as the rising global military power. According to the recently published Military Strength Rankings 2022, the Pakistan Army has been designated the 9th most powerful military force in the world. The Pakistan Army was ranked as the 15th and 10th most powerful army in the world during the Military Strength Rankings 2020 and 2021, respectively.

Doctors in Peshawar achieved another milestone by replacing heart valves. The Peshawar Institute of Cardiology has successfully performed a heart valve replacement procedure without having to undergo chest surgery. PIC spokesman Rifat Anjum said that this was the first successful operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The operation was successfully carried out under the TAVI procedure.

A new type of frog has been named after Greta Thunberg, the climate activist from Sweden. Greta Thunberg is the latest celebrity to have an animal named after her. The newly-discovered frog species has been named “Pristimantis gretathunbergae” by a scientific journal. Approximately a decade ago, the frog was found in a mountain range in the Panamanian rainforest.