Today’s top Pakistan current affairs July 29, 2020. These are the latest breaking news about Pakistan which will be helpful for aspirants in test preparation of current affairs, Pakistan affairs, General knowledge for NTS, PPSC, CSS, FPSC, KPPSC, SPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, OTS, PTS, and other Govt Jobs, exams & MDCAT, ECAT Entry test preparation.
1. COVID-19 IN PAKISTAN
2. Pakistan Telecom Authority side steps court order
What’s going on? The state-owned PTA blocked online game, PUBG. The PTA received multiple complaints about the game being addictive, a waste of time, and detrimental for the physical and psychological health of children. However, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) ordered PTA to unblock PUBG after hearing petitions filed against the ban. Despite the IHC’s order, the PTA is still pushing forward with its ban.
The details: The PTA issued a press release explaining why it will continue to block the game. The PTA approached PUBG’s management to discuss key concerns. However, PUBG reportedly hasn’t responded yet. According to the PTA, the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) gives it the jurisdiction to block online content for the sake of public order, decency, or morality.
The bottom line: The PTA claims to be acting in the public interest. However, a swarm of social media users are speaking out against the ban with this hashtag: #PUBGKholoImranKhan.
3. Clashing over accountability laws
Some new legislation proposals came up, such as changes to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO). The opposition and govt reached a pleasant consensus, and lived happily ever after (obviously kidding). Opposition leaders actually staged a walk-out. The opposition drafted 35 amendments to the NAO bill, but the govt said ‘not happening.’ Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, said the opposition’s suggested changes will make the accountability process meaningless. According to Qureshi, the opposition’s proposals include:
The opposition couldn’t stomach the govt’s amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) either. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former PM, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, claimed the amendment is frightening and has the potential to turn Pakistan into a “horrible dictatorship.”
3/ What to read: This Washington Post op-ed written by @ban.fair.and.lovely (i.e Anum Chandani, Marvi Ahmed, and Hira Hashmi) a Pakistani-led initiative that is pushing to ban Unilever’s skin whitening product, Fair & Lovely. Even though Unilever recently dropped the whitening reference and renamed its product, Glow & Lovely, Chandani, Ahmed and Hashmi don’t think a name-change is enough. In the past, Unilever rebranded Fair & Lovely in Ghana to ‘Even & Lovely’, but apparently kept the same ingredients.
MARKET RECAP
The benchmark KSE-100 index closed at 38,627.27 after rising 406.11 points as of July 28, 2020.
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