The Pakistani climber Shehroz Kashif set another record by climbing 8000 meters Manaslu in Nepal on Saturday morning, the eighth highest peak in the world. Shehroz Kashif has climbed the third consecutive peak at an altitude of over 8,000 meters. He is the youngest person to summit three consecutive peaks in the past five months. The 8163-meter-high peak marked the fourth summit of his career.
To prevent gender-based violence, the Islamabad Police is offering an extensive self-defense course for females. Women undergo physical training, armed training, and assault course to make them capable of self-defense in threatening situations. The course lasts one month from 4 October to 4 November, costing Rs. 30,000. Female instructors will impart the majority of the training, and male instructors may interject wherever needed.
The KP government has decided to recheck exam papers of a brilliant female student who got 100 percent marks in her BISE exams. Shahram Khan Tarakai, provincial minister of elementary and secondary education, took notice of the unusual development on Wednesday and arranged for an assessment committee to recheck copies of Qandeel’s and other students’ grades.
Pakistan has been granted the General System of Preferences (GSP) plus status by the European Union (EU), along with six new Conventions. An EU statement had warned Pakistan that it might temporarily lose its GSP+ status over human rights violations. Pakistan’s status has been reassessed in April following an increase in blasphemy accusations and acts of religious violence.
Coca-Cola Pakistan, TeamUp, and the National Incubation Center (NIC) have teamed up with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to retile national roads with plastic waste. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Tuesday, formalizing a joint venture aimed at creating a “world without Plastic”. The first phase is to model a one-kilometer road in the capital.
Pakistan claims that the security threats that were sent to New Zealand Cricket originated in Mumbai, India, where a VPN was utilized to disguise the location of India. The spellings used in fake email IDs also belong to the language Indians speak. Fawad Chaudhry stated that the fake emails that were used to threaten New Zealand Cricket were recently created.
An extremely rare thing has happened in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa so far, a student named Qandeel secured 1,100 out of 1,100 marks in the matriculation examination. Qandeel was the only female student among all students in Pakistan to have made the record by achieving all 1,100 marks.
Pakistan International Airlines flight, which landed in Syria’s capital after more than 22 years, was flanked by two water cannons. Reports indicate that federal aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan and airline CEO Arshad Malik were also aboard the PK-9501. Air service has started to Damascus to carry citizens intending to observe Arbaeen, a Shiite religious observance forty days after Ashura.
Murtaza Wahab, Karachi’s administrator, announced on Wednesday that the government of Sindh is converting Manora Beach into a tourist spot. Wahab added that the provincial government is also constructing a promenade, a pathway for pedestrians along the beach. It is anticipated that the beach will be open to the public in the coming weeks.
In the wake of New Zealand’s dramatic withdrawal from Pakistan, a PCB official said that the incident dealt a blow to the efforts of the board, the government, and the security agencies to restore international cricket in Pakistan. The official opined even bringing the matter forward at the International Cricket Council would have no effect. According to the official, the ICC did nothing in these cases.