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One Liner
- Federal Govt Announces Muharram Public Holidays. Government on Tuesday announced public holiday across the country on 9th and 10th Muharram.
- CM Sindh Declares Emergency in Province. Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah has imposed a rain emergency in the province after heavy rainfall wreaked havoc in Karachi and other parts of the province.
- Pakistani officials, Taliban meet in Islamabad to discuss Afghan talks
- Pakistan Always Believes in Peaceful Solution of Problems in Afghanistan: FM. A delegation of the Afghan Taliban led by Abdul Ghani Baradar — one of the co-founders of the Taliban — called on Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi today to discuss the Afghan peace process with the Pakistani leadership.
- Bullets recovered from passenger’s luggage at Multan airport. The Airport Security Force (ASF) on Tuesday seized six bullets from Sharjah-bound flyer’s luggage at the Multan International Airport, ARY News reported.
- Africa set to be declared free of wild polio. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to certify on Tuesday that the African continent is free from wild polio, four years after the last cases appeared in northeastern Nigeria.
- Gold price drops Rs2,100 per tola in Pakistan. The price of gold dropped by Rs2,100 per tola to reach Rs116,400 Monday, according to the All Sindh Saraf Jewelers Association
Spotlight by The NewsRun
1. COVID-19 IN PAKISTAN
- Pakistan reported 450 new cases and 11 deaths in the past 24 hours. Pakistan also conducted 23,655 tests in the span of 24 hours (P.S. this data was last updated on August 25 at 9:50am).
2. When a tweet goes terribly wrong
What’s going on? Another blasphemy accusation, this time against political commentator, journalist and human rights activist, Marvi Sirmed. This story isn’t in mainstream media outlets yet. Based on what we have gathered from Twitter chatter, South Asians Against Terrorism & For Human Rights (SAATH) Forum released a statement condemning “the orchestrated blasphemy campaign and allegations against Sirmed.” Sirmed appears to be a SAATH member as well.
The details: According to SAATH Forum’s statement, Sirmed openly criticizes enforced disappearances in Pakistan. She has also shared names, pictures and dates of citizens who she believes were illegally picked up by Pakistani intelligence agencies. Sirmed tweeted a satirical meme that was supposed to be in reference to enforced disappearances. However, some people didn’t think the tweet about ‘a Mullah,’ ‘Jesus Christ,’ ‘God,’ and ‘Baloch missing persons’ was very funny. Instead, Sirmed said her tweet is generating “a lot of abuse, blasphemy allegations and threats.”
The bottom line: Basically, Sirmed intended to make a sarcastic comment about enforced disappearances in Balochistan. Sirmed believes her tweet didn’t insult any religion, but certainly pointed to “Pakistan’s dark forces.” A blasphemy accusation in Pakistan comes with dangerous consequences. Blasphemy can be punishable by death. Even though the state hasn’t formally executed anyone under the blasphemy law yet, mobs and vigilantes bring it upon themselves to target people facing blasphemy accusations.
3. Is the economy right on track?
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan seems to think so. He is over the moon about Pakistan’s current account surplus of $424 million in July 2020. According to PM Khan, the surplus indicates that the economy is “back on track.” In a tweet, he wrote that Pakistan had a current account ‘deficit’ of $613 million in July last year, while the deficit was $100 million last month. He claimed that record remittances (i.e. money sent or transferred to another party) from overseas Pakistanis and a continuing recovery in exports drove the current account balance upwards. Speaking of remittances, Pakistan received record-high remittances worth $2.7 billion in July, a 36.5% increase compared to July 2019.
4. Pakistan’s B2B e-commerce space in the limelight
Karachi based Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace, Dastgyr, raised a six-figure (USD) investment from angel investors in the US, Middle East, and Pakistan. They didn’t disclose the exact amount. Dastgyr is a mobile platform that makes it easy for grocery store owners to get inventory for their stores. Entrepreneurs and investors are reportedly taking a lot of interest in Pakistan’s B2B e-commerce space since there is a lot of opportunity. In the last three months, B2B e-commerce startups Bazaar and Tajir raised over $3 million in funding from local and international investors.
MARKET RECAP
The benchmark KSE-100 index closed at 39,802.60 after rising 181.01 points as of August 24, 2020.
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