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• He added that PDM was nothing more than a mess of people of different ideologies.

• Shah said that out of 8,685 tested samples 466 cases were detected positive that constituted 5.4 percent current detection rate.

• He has revealed that nineteen essential items are made available all over Pakistan to utility stores.

• The President said we must make a vow to turn Pakistan into a great nation by demonstrating a strong resilience to our own people and to the international community as well.

• He issued these directives while chairing a meeting on development projects to be proposed for inclusion in PSDP 2021-22.

• Pakistan struck back strongly in the last four overs after South Africa had been well-placed at 159 for three after 16 overs.

• During the last 24 hours most of the deaths had occurred in the Punjab followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

• The Punjab health department conducted 4,035,683 tests for COVID-19 so far while 200,235 confirmed cases recovered altogether in the province.

• 35 patients were declared as negative and likely to be discharged, he added.

• The number of corona cases in Peshawar had reached 39,558 with 1376 people had died from corona in Peshawar, he added.

• He said that other than senior citizens, only those were getting vaccines privately who could afford it.

• The Foreign Minister will have delegation-level talks with Foreign Minister Maas at the Federal Foreign Office.

• The foreign minister said Russia fully supported Pakistan's strategy and policies regarding Afghanistan.

• There was no change in the price of per tola and ten gram silver.

• He also directed members of PTI district organizing committee to monitor fair distribution of Ramzan Package.

• In last 24 hours weather remained dry in most parts of the country while, hot in Sindh and south Balochistan.

• Shibli said Imran Khan was advancing the agenda of "all are equal in the eyes of the law", with steadfastness and determination.

• He appreciated and congratulated the Khyber Teaching Hospital Board and management for their efforts.

• The Foreign Minister said Pakistan is a peace loving country and it desires good relations with all its neighbours including India.

• The death toll due to the Coronavirus pandemic has now reached 15,329.

• Asad Qaiser said the incumbent government is striving hard to ensure the protection of the rights of the people as given by the Constitution.

• He said public cooperation is essential to efficiently deal with the current situation of corona pandemic.

• Gill said the alliance of opposition parties has disintegrated as it was doing negative politics to harm the country.

• He said vaccine inequality will slow down the recovery process from the Coronavirus pandemic.

• He said PDM stands divided and it poses no threat to the government.

• He will have delegation-level talks with Germen Foreign Minister.

• Sinopharm said on Friday that it will be able to supply 100 million COVID-19 vaccines a month starting from April.

• After a lockdown a year ago caused widespread misery and one of the sharpest downturns of any major economy, the central government is desperate to avoid a hugely unpopular second shutdown.

• With more than 600 people killed by security forces trying to quell the movement, the international community has increasingly raised the alarm on the crisis.

• The quake hit at a depth of 82 kilometres (50 miles), about 45 kilometres southwest of Malang city in East Java.

• "Paramilitary troops opened fire in self-defence after being challenged by over 400 people," a senior Election Commission official said.

• In a separate statement, EIG, a Washington-based energy investment firm, said the new venture is valued at approximately $25.3 billion.

• "The economy should fill the hole created by the pandemic in 2020 at the end of 2022," Confindustria said in an economic forecast report.

• The two-day visit comes as the Biden administration attempts to return to an Iran nuclear deal abandoned by its predecessor -- a deal Israel opposes.

• A police source told AFP the 52-year-old journalist had been shot by two men on a motorbike.

• A detailed discussion and decision on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during Ramazan will take place on Monday.
• During the last 24 hours, Pakistan reported 5139 new positive cases and 100 deaths.

• At least 134,648,510 cases of coronavirus have been registered.

• Northern Irish justice minister Naomi Long, of the centrist Alliance Party, noted that Johnson and Lewis "denied the existence of borders, even as those borders were being erected".

• Francis concluded his message by invoking "the Lord's blessings of consolation and peace" for the queen and for "all who grieve (Prince Philip's) loss."

• The US Navy said earlier this week that the USS John Paul Jones had asserted "navigational rights and freedoms" in the vicinity of Lakshadweep Islands.

• Rouhani inaugurated the three cascades of 164 IR-6 centrifuges, 30 IR-5 and another 30 IR-6 devices at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment plant in a ceremony broadcast by state television.

• On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed three soldiers accused of committing "high treason", without elaborating on which enemy the Kingdom believed was aided.
• The Kingdom said that the three men were convicted in court and a later royal order served as a death warrant.

• Under the new law, only Saudi nationals will be eligible to work in shopping malls, but only a few positions will be exempt from the law, details of which have not been released.

• The Alibaba business empire has come under intense scrutiny in China since its billionaire founder Jack Ma’s stinging public criticism of the country’s regulatory system in October.

• On April 7, DRAP had stopped both the centers from administering Sputnik V, saying that they deviated from the recommended storage temperature of the vaccine.

• The minister added that as a result, Pakistan has witnessed one of the smallest increases in public debt in the world after COVID-19, while sharing data of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook.

• Regulators in China have punished e-commerce giant Alibaba with a massive $2.78 billion (18.2 billion yuan) fine over practices deemed to be an abuse of the company's dominant (and monopolistic) market position.
• Alibaba in particular has remained under scrutiny since last year, when co-founder Jack Ma criticised Chinese regulators as being "behind the times", after the company's financial arm Ant Group was investigated.

• The South Asian country currently has five refineries with a total capacity of 417,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to Pakistan's 2020 economic survey, the largest of which stands at 150,000 bpd.

• There will be new avatar stickers available in the Facebook app, as well as new camera effects and stickers on Messenger and Messenger Kids.

• A banking crimes court granted pre-arrest bail to the two till April 17 and sought arguments from the FIA ​​and other parties on the jurisdiction.
• Lahore sessions court also extended the interim bail of the Tareens till April 22

• Didi, backed by Asian technology investment giants SoftBank, Alibaba and Tencent, is looking to list as soon as July, according to the people.

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives,Asad Umar has said that Pakistan needs economic transformation by redefining resource allocation and incentive structure. Asad Umar was addressing a seminar organized at the Planning Commission in which the Economic Advisory Group/PRIME Institute gave a presentation outlining a conceptual framework for economic transformation.

• But the company’s net orders - which are adjusted for cancellations - remained in negative territory for the first quarter, with a total of minus 61 net orders dominated by a Norwegian cancellation unveiled in the previous month.

• The NA-75 seat fell vacant after the death of PML-N MNA Syed Iftikharul Hassan last year.
• A tight contest is being expected between PML-N's Nosheen Iftikhar and PTI’s Ali Asjad Malhi.

• The penalty, equivalent to around 4% of Alibaba’s 2019 revenues, comes amid an unprecedented regulatory crackdown on home-grown technology conglomerates in the past few months that have weighed on company shares.

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KARACHI: The weather report on Friday (April 9, 2021) and the forecast for Saturday

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LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Muhammad Qasim Khan on Friday directed the Pakistan Broadcasters...

BELFAST: Britain on Friday renewed appeals for calm after police in Northern Ireland faced another barrage of petrol...

ALMATY, (Kazakhstan): A three-man crew docked at the international Space Station Friday after a flight honouring the...

VIENNA: The EU said Friday that the first week of talks to save the landmark 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear programme...

NAYPYIDAW, (Myanmar): Myanmar’s junta refused on Friday to let a UN envoy visit the country, despite mounting...

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KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday formed AJK general election-2021...

KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Karachi commissioner to remove all marriage halls built on amenity...

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday directed Sindh chief secretary and the secretary of Food Department to...

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KARACHI: All the major wholesale and retail markets remained closed here on Friday after the Sindh government ...

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Railways Muhammad Azam Khan Swati discussed construction of civil infrastructures...

KARACHI: Counsel General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Karachi, Holger Ziegpler has inaugurated the...

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Chief Justice here on Friday asked the Chief Secretary Punjab to appear before the...

LAHORE: The Board of Revenue (BoR) and NADRA on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), under which ...

LAHORE: All-rounder Mohammad Hafeez will become the second Pakistani player and sixth overall to feature in 100 ...

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has received an unprecedented and overwhelming response from the passionate...

LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Muhammad Qasim Khan on Friday reprimanded PML-N MNA Javed Latif and...

LAHORE: Secretary-General of Pakistan Peoples Party Nayyer Bukhari has said that the Central Executive Committee...

LAHORE: The Punjab government has approved nine development schemes of various sectors with an estimated cost of ...

LAHORE: The novel coronavirus continued to played havoc, as more 58 fatalities including 33 in Lahore were reported...

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KARACHI: National Clearing Company declares daily settlement information

KARACHI: The following transactions member to member subsequently reported on Friday

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KARACHI: The following were the revised rates of debt securities on Friday

KARACHI: On Friday after market close, PKR continued to go up against USD in both interbank

KARACHI: Karachi Shipping Intelligence report incorporating changes till 7 am on Friday

LONDON: The following were Thursday official prices

KARACHI: The Karachi Port handled 170,854 tonnes of cargo comprising 104,602 tonnes of import cargo and 66,252 ...

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LAHORE: The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has procured a heavy contingent of transformer trolleys to ensure...

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, a judge of the Supreme Court, stated the protectors of the Constitution violated...

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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will keep on watch, decisions of the committee constituted for...

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ISLAMABAD: International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) and the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB)...

PESHAWAR: The Advanced Robotics and Automation Lab (ARAL), University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar...

ISLAMABAD: All bus stands in the federal capital would remain close from Friday night 12am till Sunday night 12am,...

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WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), treasuries' department's

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KARACHI: JLI Capital Growth Takaful Fund Rates on Friday (April 9, 2021)

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KARACHI: Continued sluggish performance by the local cotton market resulted in lowering of the ‘Spot Rate’ by Rs...

KARACHI: Official KCA spot rates for local dealings in Pakistan rupees on Friday

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BEIJING: China’s refined copper imports are expected to fall by around 27% in 2021 from last year’s bumper ...

SINGAPORE: Asia’s gasoline cracks fell for a third session on Friday, while regional demand outlook remains cloudy...

HAMBURG: South Korea’s state-backed Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp purchased an estimated 46,229 tonnes of...

KARACHI: On Thursday, at PMEX the traded value of Metals, Energy, COTS/FX and indices

BEIJING/CHENNAI: India and Indonesia have emerged as key beneficiaries of a Chinese ban on Australia’s coal ...

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KYIV: All Ukrainian regions have started the 2021 spring grain sowing, seeding a total of 853,260 hectares of wheat,...

MANILA: Asia’s iron ore benchmarks slipped on Friday as steel futures in Shanghai stretched their losses, but the...

NEW YORK: The US Agriculture Department set the prevailing world market price for upland cotton at 64.92 cents per...

LONDON: Gold slipped more than 1% on Friday, weighed down by a jump in US Treasury yields and a rebound in the...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures reversed early gains to end lower on Friday, but posted a second straight...

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LONDON: Copper prices edged lower on Friday as strong Chinese inflation data raised fears that the world’s biggest...

KARACHI: SSGC has launched first 24/7 Mega Service Centre in Karachi. This is for the first time in the history of...

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FAISALABAD: Govern-ment is making serious efforts to overcome the shortage of cotton and cotton yarn and hopefully a...

PESHAWAR: The decomposed bodies of 16 miners kidnapped nearly a decade ago in of Dara Adam Khel area of Khyber...

LAHORE: Sugar supplies are likely to be normalized from Saturday in the provincial metropolis as over 600 metric ...

LAHORE: Disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Khan Tareen and his son Ali Tareen appeared ...

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ISLAMABAD: National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) is said to have given its consent for provision of...

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ISLAMABAD: Asim Ahmad, FBR Member IT (BS-21 officer of Inland Revenue Service), has assumed the charge of chairman...

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NEW YORK: The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Friday, paring some of the week’s losses, as a...

LONDON: Sterling steadied on Friday, having touched a two-month low against the dollar in early London trading, and...

ISLAMABAD: Under the directive of Prime Minister of Pakistan, Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan, (USC) launches...

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PARIS: US aircraft manufacturer Boeing said Friday it had recommended that 16 clients flying its 737 MAX models...

KARACHI: Indus Motor Company (IMC) becomes Pakistan’s first company to install one of the largest rooftop mounted...

ISLAMABAD: The reforms introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) for ease of doing...

LAHORE: The dream of exporting around 10 million tons of irri-6 rice to China could turn into reality if sustained...

LAHORE: United Business Group (UBG) on Friday sent a set of 40 growth oriented proposals for the upcoming federal...

PESHAWAR: Business community here on Friday criticised the government for its decision to increase the power tariff...

ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) Board, Nadeem Lodhi and President of the ZTBL,...

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