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Australia supports cricket training for blind women

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ISLAMABAD, NOV 10 – The Australian High Commission sponsored a five-day cricket training for visually impaired women and girls from across Pakistan, organised in collaboration with the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) on 5-10 November.

The training builds on Australia’s support to PBCC in the formation of Pakistan’s first blind women cricket team in 2018, which played its first international Twenty20 game last year.

Speaking at the award-giving ceremony at the conclusion of the training today, the Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Geoffrey Shaw shared that Australia’s support aims to provide more women and girls with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy sport, compete and demonstrate their ability.

“Sport can help reduce gender stereotypes and negative perceptions associated with people with disabilities. Australia and Pakistan share a passion for cricket, so we are happy to support the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council’s efforts to bring women and girls living with disabilities into the sport,” Dr Shaw added.

Coach Tahir, who coached the national blind men’s team, helped these players push their boundaries.

The Chairman of Pakistan Blind Cricket Council, Syed Sultan Shah, said, “Cricket for the blind is a highly competitive game which enables people with visual impairment to become people of vision – a vision of an accessible future full of exciting opportunities for all.”

Two blind factory workers invented blind cricket in Melbourne, Australia, in 1922 when they improvised the game using a tin can containing rocks. A few years later, in 1928, the first sports ground and clubhouse for blind cricket was built at Kooyong in Melbourne.

Military officials to brief lawmakers on national security

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ISLAMABAD : Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaisar has summoned a meeting of lawmakers of both upper and lower houses of Parliament for a briefing on the prevailing national security situation on Wednesday (tomorrow).

Military officials will brief the lawmakers on the security situation during the meeting to be held at 2pm

A formal invitation for the meeting has been extended to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, PML-N leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif, and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal leader Asad Mahmood, PML-Q leader Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema, Balochistan National Party Chief Akhtar Mengal, MQM-Pakistan leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Balochistan National Party leader Khalid Hussain Magsi, Grand Democratic Alliance leader Ghaus Bakhsh Khan Mahr, Awami Muslim League Chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, and Awami National Party leader Ameer Haider Khan Hoti have also been invited to the high-level moot.

Besides, senators Mushahidullah Khan, Sherry Rehman, Muhammad Ali Saif, Mir Kabeer Ahmed Muhammad Shahi, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar, Siraj-ul-Haq, Sitara Ayaz, Dr Jehanzeb Khan Jamaldini, Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, and Aurganzeb Khan have been invited to attend the meeting.

Federal Ministers Pervaiz Khattak, Ijaz Ahmed Shah, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, Shafqat Mahmood, Asad Umar, Shibli Faraz, the Prime Minister’s advisor on parliamentary affairs Dr Babar Awan, and Special Assistant on National Security Division Dr Moeed Yousaf will especially participate in the meeting.

Special invitations have also been issued to the president and the prime minister of Azad Kashmir, the governor and caretaker Chief Minister of Gilgit Baltistan and Attorney General Khalid Mehmood Khan.

Pakistan records 1,637 new infections, 23 deaths within 24 hours

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ISLAMABAD : The statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has shown that 1,637 new cases of COVID-19 and 23 more deaths were recorded across the country during the last 24 hours.

The tally of deaths reached up to 7,000 in Pakistan, whereas, the number of active cases of COVID-19 reached up to 20,045.

31,904 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours and 319,431 patients recovered from the virus, whereas, the total count of infections stands at 346,476.Two departments including Computer Science and Information Technology (IT) of the University of Lakki Marwat have been closed till November 16 after the emergence of COVID-19 cases.

Earlier on November 8, it emerged that Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad had cancelled scheduled examinations of BA, BSC, and B.com amid a sharp increase in coronavirus cases. The examinations were scheduled to take place from November 9 till 13.

According to the administration of the university, the new date of the examinations of BA, BSC and B.com would be announced later.

In a wake of Covid-19 second wave, the Ministry of Interior had issued new guidelines on Monday for federal government offices.

As per details, the interior ministry has issued a notification according to which only 50 percent of employees of all federal government offices should be allowed to attend their offices from November 10.

The new order will remain in effect from November 10 to Nov 25, the notification stated.

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in its session, held in Islamabad yesterday, had expressed concern over the soaring rate of COVID-19 positive cases in the country.

The NCOC meeting expressed concern over the increasing ratio of positive cases in the country, which has reached to 4.5 per cent.

“Positive rate of coronavirus cases rapidly increasing in big cities, which is at maximum in 15 major cities of the country,” it was observed in the NCOC meeting. “Maximum positive rate of coronavirus cases has been reported 16.59 per cent in Hyderabad,” the meeting observed.

“The rate of positive cases in Gilgit is 15.38 per cent and Multan at 15.97 pct,” the meeting was informed. Mover the rate of positive cases in Muzaffarabad was recorded at 14.12% and 11.11% in Mirpur Azad Kashmir.

“The corona positive cases ratio in Peshawar reached to 9.63 and in Quetta 8.03 per cent,” the meeting was briefed. Islamabad have 7.48 pct, Karachi 7.12 per cent, Lahore 5.37 pct and Rawalpindi 4.63 per cent ratio of positive coronavirus cases.

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PM to take part in SCO moot

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will be participating in the 20th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State (SCO-CHS), being held in video conference format on 10 November 2020.

The invitation to the Prime Minister to attend the SCO-CHS was extended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who would chair the Meeting. Leaders from all 8 SCO Member States and 4 Observer States will attend, besides the UN Secretary General and the Secretary General of SCO.

The SCO-CHS is the highest forum of SCO. It adopts documents and decisions that provide policy guidelines for determining priorities and major areas of activities of the Organization.

The 20th SCO-CHS will adopt 16 documents including Moscow Declaration reflecting member states’ stance on important regional and international issues.

Besides Pakistan, SCO’s current membership comprises China, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. SCO’s major objectives include promoting mutual confidence and good-neighborly relations among member states, strengthening regional peace, security and stability, and creating a framework for effective cooperation in political, cultural, trade and economy, science and technology, education, energy, transportation, tourism, environmental protection and other fields.

SCO is an important forum for further enriching our deep rooted historical and cultural links with member states, providing these ties a sound economic foundation, and promoting Pakistan as a regional trade and transit corridor.

Since becoming a member in 2017, Pakistan has been actively contributing to the promotion SCO’s multi-sectoral agenda through participation in various SCO mechanisms.

Pakistani-American moves SCP for Presidential System

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ISLAMABAD, NOV 9 – A Pakistani-American has moved Supreme Court of Pakistan for the repeal of parliamentary democracy in the country and for the court’s directive to the Prime Minister to hold a referendum for the introduction of a Presidential form of government in Pakistan.

Currently living in New York, Mr. Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry on Monday filed a Constitutional Petition through Khalid Abbas Khan advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan, praying that the “matter in question may kindly be referred to the Prime Minister to hold a referendum in accordance with Article 48(6) of the constitution 1973 to obtain votes in Yes or No form.”

Khalid Abbas Khan, while briefing media, said that the petition has invoked the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under Article 184(3) of the constitution.

The petition states that the enormous problems faced by the country and people of the country could only be resolved through the introduction of a presidential form of government in Pakistan.

While making federal and provincial governments respondents, the petition states that parliamentary form of the government is the source of political instability in the country. With the introduction of parliamentary form of government the people of Pakistan have been deprived of political justice, which has been promised under the provisions of the constitution.

The petition states that under the constitution “the state has to exercise its power through the chosen representatives of the people” and there is no specific provision of the constitution which restricts that the chosen representatives have to be elected under a parliamentary system of government. This could be done under a presidential form of government either.

The petition in its content has presented a complete road map of the Presidential form of government, which it argues should be implemented in the country.

After the partition of India, Pakistan became an independent state and under Indian independence Act 1947, the government of India Act 1935 became the interim constitution of the country. The Act lacked certain provisions which were required for the functioning of independent government in an independent state. Therefore a constituent assembly was formed to draft a new constitution for the country. The process of constitution making started with a 9 years delay which was very disappointing.

Absence of priorities, palace intrigues and infighting resulted in inordinate delay in the process of constitution making in the country. The member parliament remained busy in infighting and unnecessary petty conflicts which resulted in the dissolution of the federal cabinets.

The petition states that the people of Pakistan have been deprived of political justice since independence, for instance the ruling parties in Pakistan have always secured less than 51 percent votes in elections which brought them to power. And minority rule is against the very essence of democracy.

The petition states that parliamentary form of government fuels political polarization in Pakistani society, which is divided along sectarian, religious and ethnic lines.

Allama Iqbal had great affection with Germany: Envoy

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ISLAMABAD, German Ambassador Bernhard Schlagheck on Monday said Pakistan’s national poet Allama Muhammmad Iqbal had a great affection with Germany and its culture.

Paying homage to Allama Iqbal on his 143rd birth anniversary, the ambassador said Iqbal had a life long affection with the German writers, poets and culture, as among his wonderful books and writings “Eastern and Western Dewaan” was considered to be his master piece by the Germans.

Ambassador Bernhard Schlagheck said Allama Iqbal had studied in Germany and keeping in view his strong affection with Germany and its culture, a road (Iqbal-Ufer) had been named after him in the country.

Acknowledging his services that he had rendered in the fields of literature and philosophy, he said, “Muhammad Iqbal roughly around century later responded to the German poetry and its poets with his master piece writing-the ‘Message of East’.”

The envoy said,“There was a kind of ongoing dialogue between these two important thoughts of poets. I am very grateful for their inspiration in my life and a wonderful opportunity to see, how different-cultures have different-approaches for solution of societal problems.”

The best way to pay tributes to Allama Iqbal was to understand his message and imbibe his teachings, he added.

‘Pfizer corona vaccine over 90% effective’

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Today is a great day for science and humanity. The first set of results from our phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial provides the initial evidence of our vaccine’s ability to prevent Covid-19,” said Dr Albert

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ISLAMABAD: Large-scale trials of a coronavirus vaccine candidate produced by Pfizer/BioNTech have revealed that it is 90% effective, said the manufacturer in a statement.

In what is being touted as possibly the biggest news regarding the virus ever since it originated, the vaccine’s effectiveness can mean in can hit the markets for treatment by the year’s end in some countries of the world.

The study shows that people who received two doses as part of the trial saw 90% fewer symptomatic cases of Covid-19 than participants who were given a placebo.

“Today is a great day for science and humanity. The first set of results from our phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial provides the initial evidence of our vaccine’s ability to prevent Covid-19,” said Dr Albert Bourla, the Pfizer chairman and chief executive.

The study focused on 94 participants out of a total number of 43,000 people. These participants were offered the two-dose vaccine and 28 days after they received their first inoculation, remained protected.

“To me, this is the best possible outcome,” Ugur Sahin, co-founder and chief executive of BioNTech told.

Pfizer expects to produce 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses by 2021.

The company referred to the development as a “critical milestone in our vaccine development” adding that the welcome news came at a time when hospitals were being filled to their maximum capacity and economies were struggling to remain open.

Pfizer said that the vaccine’s Phase 3 trial began this year on July 27 and has involved 43,538 participants in total out of which 38,955 have received a second dose of the coronavirus vaccine as of November 8, 2020.

“Approximately 42% of global participants and 30% of U.S. participants have racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds. The trial is continuing to enroll and is expected to continue through the final analysis when a total of 164 confirmed COVID-19 cases have accrued,” said Pfizer in its press release.

The manufacturer further added that the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) had found no health risks attached with the vaccine and has given the green signal for further studies to be conducted.

It said that the study of the virus will also include whether it has potential to protection to those who were previously infected with the virus and those who were infected against “severe COVID-19 disease”.

The high percentage of those protected makes the findings compelling. In the past, vaccine regulators have said they would approve a candidate that proved itself 50% effective – protecting half of those who get it. The company says there have been no serious side-effects.

The welcome news could not have come at a more crucial time as October proved to be the worst month for the COVID-19 pandemic with over 10 million new infections reported across the globe in just 21 days.

PRCS on high alert to deal with Covid-19 second wave: Abrar

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16 patients currently being treated at Red Crescent Corona Care Hospital in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Red Crescent Society is on high alert to help tackle the second wave of Covid-19 and is taking all possible steps to augment the government’s efforts to fight off the pandemic, said Chairman PRCS Abrar ul Haq during his visit to the hospital.

Secretary General PRCS Khalid bin Majeed and officers concerned accompanied him.

Abrar ul Haq said all departments of the state-of-the-art medical facility were fully functional and that the medical and paramedical staff was doing its best to treat the patients.

At present, 16 Covid-19 patients are admitted to the Red Crescent Corona Care Hospital (RCCH), out of which 10 are men while six are women. It may be mentioned here that the inflow of coronavirus-affected patients in the RCCH has considerably grown in the recent weeks.

Talking to reporters on the occasion, he said besides free-of-cost treatment facilities, psychosocial support was also being provided to the patients currently admitted to the RCCH.

Abrar ul Haq said the PRCS had taken plenty of initiatives to contain coronavirus as well as to educate the masses about how to avoid contracting the infection since the outbreak early this year.

Secretary General Khalid bin Majeed said the RCCH Medical Superintendent Dr Saim and his team were working day and night to take care of the patients. He said it was due to the team’s indefatigable efforts that dozens of corona patients who were almost dead when brought to the hospital recuperated and walked back home fully recovered.

He said the PRCS was in regular contact with the local administration and coordinated steps were being taken to contain the resurge of the disease.

Abrar ul Haq said among some larger-than-life initiatives taken by the PRCS were the launch of Corona Muhafiz Response Campaign, Agahi Helpline and establishment of Red Crescent Corona Care Hospital in Rawalpindi.

He said as the coronavirus continued to wreak havoc across the country with number of cases rising exponentially amid the second wave, the efforts of PRCS to help the vulnerable and save maximum lives will continue with utmost commitment and unflinching resolve until the monster was completely defeated. He also warned that according to medical experts, the second wave of Covid-19 could be more lethal and hence the masses needed to strictly adhere to safety guidelines and the standard operation procedures as recommended by the government. “Care is the best cure for this disease,” he added.=DNA

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Allama Iqbal believed Jews have no right over Palestine

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ISLAMABAD, NOV 9 (DNA) – Allama Dr. Mohammad Iqbal was a famous poet who not only represented the Muslims of the subcontinent but the whole Muslim Ummah.

Iqbal had a very deep personal interest in the problem and future of Palestine and Arabs, as in his opinion Palestine was a greatest tragedy of this century for the Muslim World, and if it is not solved it would definitely influence the whole Muslim World.

He had a firm belief that the Jews have no right over Palestine, as they had willingly migrated from Palestine long before it was captured by Arabs. He used to say in his spceches that if Jews had their rights over Palestine then Arabs can have their rights in Spain as well.

The advice and sympathies of Iqbal with Palestine were part and parcel of every Palestine conference held in India in his time.

He believed it to be unfair to give homeland to Jews in Palestine, he came with the suggestion that if Jews have to be rewarded with a homeland at all, they should be given land in Germany from where they had been asked to leave.

He always the supported the just cause of Arabs who were fighting to defend their homeland as he urged the muslims all over the World to support Arabs in their just struggle.

He was a true leader, may he would have lived long for the guidance of Muslim Ummah.

Allama Dr. Iqbqal  may God have mercy on him – says: “Muslims are martyred in Palestine, and their women and children are killed, and their blood is shed in Jerusalem, which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque to which the Messenger – may God’s prayers and peace be upon him – was taken prisoner – and Israa is a religious fact.

Al-Aqsa Mosque in its entirety is an endowment for God – the Almighty – in Islamic law, and it is not permissible to own it for anyone at all, so the claim of the Jews to own part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is null and void from the legal and historical point of view”.=DNA

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