ISLAMABAD: Tremors were felt in Islamabad and different cities of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KP on early Monday morning, according to officials.The magnitude of the earthquake was recorded at 5.3 on the Richter scale and the epicentre was at a depth of 10km in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
According to the Seismological Centre, the earthquake was felt in the suburbs of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
In KP, individuals in Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad, Swabi, Shabqadar and different areas felt the tremors. The concern and panic led them to depart their properties and are available out into open locations.
Last week, an earthquake of 4.7 magnitude struck the Kalat district of Balochistan.
According to the Pakistan Metrological Division’s (PMD) National Seismic Monitoring Centre, the earthquake had a depth of 34km, a longitude of 66.71 East and a latitude of 28.92 North.
The residents of Kalat and surrounding areas felt the tremors and left their properties. However, no casualties or injuries were reported.
Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and a former prime minister, has said that a new telethon would be held next Sunday to raise cash for the flood victims.
Imran Khan stated today that he’ll host another telethon in Sindh to raise “billions of cash” once more for the flood victims. He made the announcement while speaking to a Big crowd in Faisalabad.
In order to lessen the impacts of climate change in Pakistan, Imran Khan mentioned that the PTI government has planted 10 billion timber. “We need to build additional dams. The government of our country built ten dams.
To prevent such disasters, we want a suitable water drainage system. The drainage infrastructure for water should be improved across Pakistan.
“The people of the city were experiencing unemployment and the collapse of the textile industries after we arrived in Faisalabad for electioneering in 2018. Within the 3.5 years that the PTI authorities was in energy, Faisalabad’s textile sector expanded and created jobs, while farmers received regular payments.
According to Khan, the last two years of the PTI government saw record crop production. He continued by saying that since “an imported government was installed through a foreign conspiracy,” the situation has changed dramatically as people are now observing a rise in unemployment and fuel prices.
The PTI leader charged that the current administration has ruined the nation’s economy in simply 4 months.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided to send wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Rizwan for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan to find out the extent of his injury, sustained through the match against India Sunday.
After a nerve-wrenching match last evening, Pakistan thrashed the Indian facet by 5 wickets in the group stage match of the Asia Cup. Mohammad Rizwan’s sensible innings set the tone for victory regardless of an injury to his leg.
Mohammad Rizwan scored 71 off 51 balls with 4 boundaries and two sixes, however, the player remained uncomfortable after he tried to collect the ball which triggered him extreme ache in his leg. The wicket-keeper batter performed regardless of the pain.
According to the PCB, Rizwan will now undergo a precautionary MRI scan today (Monday).
According to sources, after the match, Rizwan went to a hospital straight from the stadium.
Pak Advances to Super 4 with Convincing Win over Hong Kong in Sharjah.
The victory by 155 runs was Pakistan biggest margin of victory (by runs) in T20I cricket. Their earlier biggest win by runs was against West Indies in 2018 in Karachi, once they won by 143 runs
Hong Kong had a superb begin to the contest, with Pakistan meandering round at 129/2 after 16.1 overs when Fakhar Zaman departed for 53.
However Khushdil Shah turned the momentum in Pakistan’s favor, with a blistering knock of 35* in only 15 deliveries. His knock included 5 large sixes.
Mohammad Rizwan dropped anchor, scoring 78* off 57 deliveries as Pakistan posted a big rating of 193/2 on the board of their 20 overs.
The Pakistan bowling unit then did the job, as the pace of Naseem Shah and the spin of Shadab Khan proved too hot to handle for Hong Kong.
They had been bowled out for 38, their lowest complete in T20Is. Naseem Shah ended with figures of 2/7 in two overs and Shadab with 4/8 in 2.4 overs as Pakistan secured their passage into the Super 4 stage of the match.
A heavyweight clash against India awaits on Sunday, which was an ideal preparation for Pakistan for the match.
ISLAMABAD: Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a veteran Kashmiri separatist leader and the former head of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), passed away on September 1 of last year. Shortly after Geelani’s passing on this day last year, Indian authorities tightened security in occupied Kashmir. Police went to his home after that and took his body, preventing his family from having a proper send-off.
Geelani had expressed a desire to rest in Srinagar’s Martyrs’ Graveyard during his lifetime. However, Indian authorities were aware that a procession of his supporters would be walking alongside his body during such a burial. So, with only a few closest relatives present, they quickly buried him in the dark.
At the time, Indian police officials hoped to avoid a spectacle, but their actions in the early morning hours of September 1, 2021, did just that; illegally Indian-occupied Kashmir once again became the focus of controversy, and India received widespread condemnation for the disrespectful way it handled the funeral rites. Geelani’s final act was making a political statement; it was inevitable, regardless of how or where he was buried, and it was a fitting conclusion to his illustrious political life. His height was excessive. Even his rivals were forced to admit this.
He started his political career in 1952 from the platform of Jammat-e-Islami (JeI), where he was born on September 29, 1929, in a village on the shores of Wular Lake. As the district chief for Kupwara and Baramulla, he quickly gained notoriety. His first arrest was on August 28, 1962, for resisting the accession and trying to promote a solution to the Kashmir issue, and he spent nearly 12 years of his life jail
Following disastrous flood-induced rains that have claimed millions of lives in Pakistan, Apple has said that it will contribute to relief and recovery efforts there.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced on Twitter that the company would contribute to local relief and recovery efforts.
“The floods in Pakistan and surrounding areas are devastating humanitarian disasters. Our thoughts are with those that have lost loved ones, the many displaced families, and all those affected. Apple will donate to relief and recovery efforts on the ground,” wrote Cook.
World’s youngest Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai offered thanks to the Apple’s CEO for his support.
“Thank you Tim and Apple for providing support to Pakistan in this very difficult time,” she said.
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal also thanked Cook for his support, urged G-7, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED) and Fortune 100 to help Pakistan fight this catastrophe.
“Thanks for the support. Pakistan with the lowest carbon emission is facing the brunt of global warming with 33 million people displaced for no fault,” wrote Iqbal.
“G-7, OECD and Fortune100 must realise their responsibility & help in fighting the calamity,” the minister added.
The continuous monsoon rains that have drowned a third of the country and taken more than 1,100 lives have had an impact on tens of millions of people.
More than a million homes have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the rains that started falling in June, which have caused the worst flooding in more than ten years.
As a twin-turboprop plane takes off under the burning desert sun with dozens of salt canisters connected to its wings, United Arab Emirates (UAE) meteorological official Abullah al-Hammadi scans weather maps on computers screens for cloud formations.
At 9,000 ft above sea level, the plane releases salt flares into the most promising white clouds, hoping to trigger rainfall.
“Cloud seeding requires the existence of rainy clouds, and this is a problem as it’s not all the time the case,” said Hamadi, head of rain enhancement operations within the UAE’s Nationwide Centre for Meteorology.
The UAE, located in one of the hottest and driest regions on earth, has been main the effort to seed clouds and enhance precipitation, which remains at less than 100 millimetres (3.9 inches) a yr on average.
The results of local weather change, combined with a growing population and economic system diversifying into tourism and other areas have pushed up demand for water within the UAE, which has relied on costly desalination plants that make use of seawater.
Officials say they consider cloud seeding might help. Scientists in Abu Dhabi mix shooting hygroscopic, or water-attracting, salt flares with releasing salt nanoparticles, a newer technology, into the clouds to stimulate and speed up the condensation course of and hopefully produce droplets big enough to then fall as rain.
“Cloud seeding will increase rainfall charges by approximately 10% to 30% per yr… According to our calculations, cloud seeding operations cost a lot less than the desalination process,” Hammadi said.
Other countries in the area, together with Saudi Arabia and Iran, have announced similar plans as they face historic droughts.
Edward Graham, a meteorologist on the University of the Highlands and Islands in Britain, said the salt utilized in cloud seeding in the UAE doesn’t hurt the environment.
“In terms of carbon footprint, planes that fly up into the clouds are simply small planes, when compared to the billions of automobiles on the planet and the huge planes doing international air travel everyday, it’s only a drop in the ocean,” he added.
Pilots based on the UAE’s al-Ain airport have to be able to take off at a moments discover, flying over the reddish-yellow desert earlier than directing their plane into the clouds situated on the meteorologists’ screens.
“Cloud seeding is considered the second hardest problem for pilots,” mentioned one flyer, Ahmed al-Jaberi. “When there’s a cloud, we strive to determine the best way we have to go out and in of it and avoid thunderstorms or hail.”
ISLAMABAD: Former PM Imran Khan will appear before the Islamabad High Court today (Wednesday) amidst tight security.
As per the security orders issued by the federal government earlier today, only lawyers on the cause list will be allowed to enter the high court after security checks, and the court has been secured by barbed wire.
Whereas SSP Operations Jameel Zafar has been assigned the first responsibility of ensuring security outside the high court, three superintendents of police (SP), and 9 additional and deputy SPs are providing their services within the court’s vicinity.
Additionally, at least a thousand junior rank officers and officials have been posted across the IHC, whereas the Security Division is responsible for providing security inside the court premises.
The security order also said that Safe City cameras will be used to surveil the area and that every one officers and personnel posted on the ground will be unarmed barring these that have been assigned rooftop duties.
Moreover, 500 short-range and a further 500 long-range armored vehicles have also been stationed carrying tear gas shells. Concurrently, at least 3,000 shells and police vehicles are stationed in police lines.
Tensions nonetheless remained high within the IHC after the deposed premier Imran Khan on Tuesday (yesterday) responded to a show-cause notice issued to him by the court in a contempt case and provided to “take back” the controversial remarks he had made against district and sessions judge Zeba Chaudhry during a PTI rally at F-9 Park in Islamabad earlier this month.
The PTI chief, in a provisional reply, had said that due to “serious misunderstanding and misconception” he had misunderstood that Judge Zeba was not a judicial officer however an executive magistrate performing executive functions on the federal government’s directions.
The reply, submitted by means of Imran’s counsel Hamid Khan, had regretted {that a} improper impression was taken from the PTI chief’s speech that he had threatened the female judge for approving PTI leader Shahbaz Gill’s physical remand.
“Even in any other case, word ‘action’ used in the speech did not denote any ‘illegal/unlawful action’ against any person rather it was used for ‘legal’ and ‘lawful motion’ which is right of every citizen of Pakistan,” the reply had said.
DELHI: Indian industrialist Gautam Adani became the world’s third-richest person on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Tuesday, the first time an Asian has ranked in the top three.
The self-made billionaire has seen his net value more than double to $137.4 billion within the last year, rising 20 spots on the index to now rank just behind Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Bloomberg News reported.
Adani, 60, made his fortune in ports and commodities buying and selling and now operates India’s third-largest conglomerate with interests starting from coal mining and edible oils to airports and news media.
His ballooning net value reflects a stratospheric rise available in the market capitalisation of his publicly listed companies, as investors back the Adani Group’s aggressive expansion of old and new businesses.
Shares within the flagship Adani Enterprises — of which the billionaire owns 75 per cent — have soared more than 2,400pc since March 2020, and doubled in worth in the past six months.
Stock price surges in different group firms together with Adani Transmission, Adani Power, Adani Ports and Adani Green Energy have catapulted Adani past fellow Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani.
Born in the city of Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat to a middle-class household, Adani dropped out of college to work briefly in the diamond industry before beginning his export business in 1988.
In 1995, he won a contract to build and operate a industrial shipping port at Mundra in Gujarat, which has since grown to turn into India’s largest port.
On the similar time, Adani expanded into thermal power generation and coal mining in India and abroad.
In recent times, the conglomerate has forayed into petrochemicals, cement, data centres and copper refining, along with establishing a renewable energy business with bold targets.
Current investments in Indian news media and a bid for 5G airwaves this year have raised hypothesis that the billionaire’s empire might soon impinge on sectors dominated by Ambani’s Reliance Industries.
Prince Charles Monday extended his heartfelt condolences over the devastation floods in Pakistan as the country mourned the deaths of more than 1,000 people.
In a message to the President of Pakistan, Prince Charles said, “My wife and I are deeply saddened by the devastation in the recent floods in Pakistan. Our hearts exit to all of the victims and their family members and to the millions of people that have lost property and their livelihoods.”
“Your country is very special to us, with deep and enduring bonds to the UK,” he added.
Prince Charles also paid tribute to the Government of Pakistan, the military and emergency providers, the countless volunteers and aid agencies who are working in rescue and relief operations in flood-affected areas.
“Instances like these remind us of the fragility of our planet and the pressing need for humanity to stay in harmony with Nature. Our prayers are with all our mates in Pakistan,” he said.
Earlier, Queen Elizabeth also sent a message to the President of Pakistan Arif Alvi and said, “I am deeply saddened to hear of the tragic loss of life and destruction caused by the floods throughout Pakistan. My thoughts are with all those who have been affected, as well as these working in difficult circumstances to help the recovery efforts. The United Kingdom stands in solidarity with Pakistan as you recover from these terrible events.”
Tens of millions of individuals across swathes of Pakistan are battling the worst monsoon floods in a decade, with countless houses washed away, vital farmland destroyed, and the nation´s main river threatening to burst its banks.
Officials say 1,136 people have died since June when the seasonal rains began, but the final toll might be higher as hundreds of villages in the mountainous north have been cut off after flood-swollen rivers washed away roads and bridges.
Relief operation is underway and international aid started trickling in as Pakistan struggled to cope with monsoon flooding that has affected greater than 33 million peoples.
Following disastrous flood-induced rains that have claimed millions of lives in Pakistan, Apple has said that it will contribute to relief and recovery efforts there.
