Author: Samman Iqbal

In the fast paced world no one has time to read wordy articles, hence, we at Inflics work hard to keep you informed of the latest news with short excerpts.

CDA tenders for parrot cages, pots at Presidency face backlash

Capital Development Authority (CDA) had floated Rs1.94 million tender notice for construction of new cages for parrots and Rs17.83 million and Rs13 million for procurement of Terracotta and Matqa pots for nursery at President House, Islamabad, and “different ornamental plants and Morpankh plants” respectively. The tenders, in stark contrast to PTI government’s austerity drive, raised concern on social media.

PM Imran directs to explore possible increase in retirement age

Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the Ministry of Finance to increase superannuation age limit of civil servants and early retirement of dead wood within two days. Current superannuation age of civil servants is 60 years, but due to increase in average life expectancy to 69 years, at least three years can be added to retirement age.

Disappointed cricket fan made famous by memes found

Mohammad Akhtar – the cricket fan, who had travelled three hours to enjoy the Pakistan vs Australia match, was captured looking utterly disappointed as Asif Ali dropped a fairly easy catch. Akhtar’s expressions became fodder for a viral meme. People on social media used it to express their disappointment for everything from cricket to politics to every daily life matter.

Bank Alfalah criticised for firing employee over abusive Tweets

Hasan Zaidi, an editor for Dawn magazine, had complained to the bank to take strict action against an employee who had been repeatedly using abusive language on Twitter. However, social media users were particularly not happy with the bank’s decision to terminate an employee based upon his personal actions.

Mobile phone tax exemption given to international travellers to be withdrawn

The facility of registration of one mobile phone on one international passport will soon be revoked by the government. The decision has been taken to generate additional revenue as well as to stop the misuse of the baggage rule after the DIRBS system, that aims to curtail smuggling of mobile phones failed to achieve the desired results.

Punjabi among five new languages to be added to Facebook ad breaks

As number of users watching original videos on Facebook has reached around 720 million, with 140 million people using the service daily, the social networking website is now looking to compete with YouTube and other rivals. Hence, ad breaks have now been made available in Canada, and support will be added for five more languages — Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Swedish and Telugu.