ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: A new policy for Pakistani students enrolling to undergraduate medical and dentistry schools overseas has been announced by the Pakistan Medical and dentistry Council (PMDC), and it will take effect for the 2024–2025 academic year. The policy specifies a number of prerequisites that must be satisfied in order to be admitted to these overseas universities. According to the new PMDC policy, students must fulfill one of the following requirements in order to be admitted: Achieve at least 60% marks in FSC (Pre-Medical) from Pakistan. Obtain a minimum score of 550 in each subject of SAT-II. Pass…
Author: Mawadat Fatima
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: A pleasant break from the summer heat is being provided by the mild to heavy rains that are falling in Karachi at a number of locations, including II Chundrigar Road, Liaquatabad, Nazimabad, Tower, and Guru Mandir. Karachi’s weather is expected to be gloomy and have light rain until the evening, according to the Met Department. Over the following five days, the weather is likely to be nice, while Sunday is predicted to bring more rain and thunderstorms. Chief Meteorologist Sardar Sarfaraz said that from tomorrow, a new monsoon system will arrive in Karachi. This will be the…
ISLAMABAD. AUGUST 2: On Friday, the price of gold in Pakistan reached a new all-time high, continuing its record-breaking run. The Karachi Sarafa Association released statistics showing that the price of 10 grams increased by Rs. 2,057 to Rs. 220,593, while the price of gold (24 carats) increased by Rs. 2,400 per tola to Rs. 257,300. The rate that was achieved yesterday, at Rs. 254,900 per tola, was higher than the previous record of Rs. 254,000, which was set on July 18. It is important to note that the Sarafa Association was maintaining gold at a lower cost than international…
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: For the transportation department and commercial vehicle industries, the Sindh government, together with Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, has launched a comprehensive digitalization and automation initiative. The objective of this program is to improve the system’s safety, transparency, and efficiency. The project includes the digitalization of Trans Karachi, the Provincial Transport Authority (PTA), the Regional Transport Authority (RTA), and the Sindh Mass Transit Authority (SMTA). According to reports from a meeting in Karachi led by Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, this process has already started. Minister Memon was provided with a comprehensive update on the status…
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: Today at Finance Division, Minister of State for Finance Ali Pervaiz Malik was visited by Nicolas Galey, the French ambassador to Pakistan. In his assessment of Pakistan’s economic development, pervaiz Malik emphasized favorable developments that have been supported by recent international agency ratings, including rising foreign currency reserves, declining inflation, and a strong stock market. He listed the main ongoing reforms, such as the improvements in the energy sector, the privatization programs, and the reorganization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The digitalization program of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), which is being carried out with assistance from…
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: Turkmenistan and Pakistan have agreed to quicken the TAPI pipeline project’s development. Over a distance of 1,800 km (1,125 miles), the pipeline is anticipated to transport 33 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas annually from Galkynysh, the second-largest gas resource in the world, to the Indian city of Fazilka, which is close to the Pakistani border. Following a meeting between Minister of Petroleum Musadik Malik and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Cabinet of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredow, who was visiting Pakistan for two days, Radio Pakistan stated that “Pakistan and Turkmenistan have decided to accelerate work…
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, was slain, and his funeral prayers were performed at the Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque in Qatar on Friday. The political leader of the Palestinian party, Haniyeh, had lived in Doha with other Hamas political office members. Leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh will be laid to rest in a cemetery in Lusail, which is located north of the capital of Qatar. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards stated that Ismail Haniyeh and a bodyguard perished in the early-morning raid on their Tehran lodging on Wednesday. He had gone to Iran to see President…
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: On Thursday, two restaurants and a movie theater in Jinnah Park were found to have dengue mosquito larvae, according to the Rawalpindi district administration. They fined the companies Rs. 400,000 and gave them a week to put anti-dengue SOPs in place. When the movie at Cinepax unexpectedly halted and the theater announced it was under a tax authority raid, the audience was caught off guard. The movie theater administration told the patrons to leave and that refunds for tickets will be handled on Friday, August 2. One of the people who attended to see “The Glassworker” claims…
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: Pakistan has since 1984 paid the International Monetary Fund (IMF) interest of SDR 2.815 billion ($3.7 billion). This was disclosed in front of the Senate Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, which was also informed that Pakistan has received SDR 21.789 billion from the IMF since 1958, compared to the SDR 29.673 billion that has been sanctioned. The Committee, chaired by Saifullah Abro, voiced unhappiness of the information presented during their discussion of Pakistan’s receipt of IMF money from the first program until June 2024. The Committee suggested to EAD that program-specific information about IMF funding, such as…
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 2: Following an operation against unlicensed residential-commercial constructions, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Enforcement Squad sealed eighteen educational facilities. The following educational institutes were sealed: Thematic Montessori School Minar Public School The Arqam School Al-Huda School Allied School Step College Jinnah Iqbal Educator Diction School Educator School Jinnah Foundation School The Future Education The Future Oasis School The Bestever School These schools were located in the Asghar Mall Housing Scheme, Eidgah Scheme, and Dosehra Ground Scheme areas of Rawalpindi. An RDA representative stated that the Enforcement Squad, including of two Assistant Directors, Building Control, the Building Superintendent, and…
