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Headlines 9am: No rain for Karachi, farmers foresee food crisis

Here are the headlines from SAMAA TV’s 9pm bulletin.

  • The Met Office has forecast rain in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan from today (Saturday). However, the weather department’s director said Karachi will not experience showers.
  • The coronavirus situation is getting severe in Pakistan. On Friday, the country confirmed the highest number of deaths from virus with 57 fatalities. Sindh also sent home 1,563 people on Friday who had recovered from the virus.
  • State Minister Shehryar Afridi and AlKhidmat Foundation Sindh President Dr Tabassum Jafri have also contracted COVID-19.
  • Karachi transporters have asked the Sindh government to resume public transport. If chinchis and rickshaws are taking to streets after bribing people then why are we not allowed to resume operations, they ask. Transporter Irshad Bukhari says the continued suspension of business has taken a toll on the livelihood of all bus owners and conductors.
  • The All Pakistan Private Schools Association has once again demanded the government reopen educational institutes in the country from June 1. The government has, however, refused.
  • The Sindh Education Board has announced that no student will be failed this year nor positions assigned. The students who failed or did not appear in their ninth and 11th grade examinations will be promoted to the next class.
  • Swarms of locusts are taking out crops across Pakistan. Farmers warn of a food crisis if the situation is not taken care of immediately.
  • Indian television anchorperson Arnab Goswami has been laughed at on social media after calling the locust invasions in India “a Pakistani conspiracy”.
  • According to the ISPR, Pakistan has shot down another Indian spy quadcopter near the Line of Control in Azad Kashmir.
  • Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said India is sabotaging regional peace by repeatedly resorting to aggression against Pakistan.


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