Pakistan
Ex-president Asif Ali Zardari tests positive for COVID
PPP co-chairman was fully vaccinated

Karachi: Former President and co-chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party Asif Ali Zardari has tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19).
According to details, Asif Ali Zardari tested positive for the coronavirus disease and immediately quarantined himself at home.
Foreign Minister and PPP Chairman Bilawal said that his father was not only vaccinated but had also received booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine — which enhances immunity against the virus.
"He is fully vaccinated, boosted, isolating with mild symptoms, and undergoing treatment. We are praying for his swift recovery," the foreign minister said in a tweet.
President Zardari has tested positive for Covid. He is fully vaccinated, boosted, isolating with mild symptoms and undergoing treatment. We are praying for his swift recovery.
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) July 28, 2022
Pakistan
Pakistan, UK ink reciprocal agreement to return criminals
The agreement included ongoing work to improve and expand UK-Pakistani law enforcement cooperation.

Islamabad: Pakistan and the United Kingdom have signed reciprocal agreement to return foreign criminals and immigration offenders from the UK to Pakistan.
In a press release, UK Home Department said the agreement underlined both countries’ ongoing commitment to tackle issue of illegal migration and the significant threats it posed to both nations.
The agreement included ongoing work to improve and expand UK-Pakistani law enforcement cooperation.
Pakistan
President urges youth to participate in monsoon plantation drive to cope with climate change
"Pakistan was the eighth country most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change"

Islamabad: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday called for concerted efforts by all segments of society to carry out extensive plantations in a bid to save the country from the horrendous effects of climate change.
In his message on the launch of the national monsoon tree plantation drive, he urged every citizen, particularly youth, to actively participate in the campaign by planting trees in residential areas, on roadsides, and near industrial zones.
President Alvi said Pakistan was the eighth country most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change.
He mentioned that rising mercury levels were resulting in glacier melting and urban flooding.
During the last 19 years, he said, Pakistan suffered around 173 incidents related to climate change besides the massive destruction this year as well.
The president said as per international standards, a country required 25 percent forest cover, however, pointed out that Pakistan only had 4.8 percent of the green area according to a World Bank report.
He emphasized carrying out plantation at a large scale across the country and mentioned the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami as the largest such plantation project in the country’s history.
Under the project, he said, 1.81 billion trees had been planted by June 2022. By 2023, around 3.29 billion trees will be planted.
President Alvi said 10,000 saplings were planted in the premises of the Aiwan-e-Sadr in 2021, while a Miyawaki forest was also raised at an area of 1.5 acres under the Green Presidency Initiative.
He expressed confidence that an increase in forest cover would help mitigate the effects of climate change in the country and would also control urban flooding.
Also, the extensive plantation would result in the preservation of wildlife and flora and fauna in the country, he added.
Pakistan
Rain-wind, thundershower expected in most parts of country
Heavy falls are also likely at scattered places in Sindh, eastern Balochistan and Punjab

Islamabad: Rain-wind/thundershower is expected in Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan during the next twelve hours.
Heavy falls are also likely at scattered places in Sindh, eastern Balochistan, South Punjab and Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the period.
Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning:
Islamabad and Peshawar twenty-five degree centigrade, Lahore twenty-eight, Karachi twenty-seven, Quetta twenty-one, Gilgit twenty, Murree seventeen and Muzaffarabad twenty-two degree centigrade.
According to Met Office forecast for Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, partly cloudy/chances of rain-wind and thundershower in Srinagar, Jammu, leh, Pulwama, Anantnag, Shopian and Baramula.
Temperature recorded this morning:
Srinagar, Anantnag and Shopian nineteen degree centigrade, Jammu twenty-eight, Leh fourteen, Pulwama and Baramula twenty degree centigrade.
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