Today’s outlook: Inter, matric exams begin, Shehbaz Sharif in court
Notes from the newsroom
Here are the stories we are following today, Saturday, July 10:
- A fire erupted at a shoe factory in Karachi’s Korangi. Seven fire trucks have reached the site to douse it.
- Pakistan reported 35 deaths and 1,828 new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The infection rate in the country has increased 3.79%.
- PML-N’s Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz will appear in a Lahore sessions court in the sugar scandal case.
- Saudi Arabia will celebrate Eidul Azha on July 20. In Pakistan, the Ruet-e-Hill committee will meet on July 10 to sight the Zil Hajj moon.
- The Pakistan Meteorological Department has forecast rain with thunderstorms in upper Punjab, upper Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir.
- Pakistan has persuaded the Taliban to negotiate with the US for lasting peace and stability in the region, PM’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf said in an interview. “Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan peace process could merely be of facilitator, anything beyond this is not possible,” he pointed out.
- Intermediate and matriculation exams begin across Pakistan.
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