Pakistani government makes teaching of the Holy Qur’an compulsory from next academic year starting from August. This decision will be implemented in every school across Pakistan excluding Sindh.

The legislation has already been introduced in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Accordingly, Gilgit Baltistan and Balochistan will also implement and adopt this Single National Curriculum (SNC) syllabus for mandatory teaching of the Holy Quran from class 1 to 5.

Schools under Pakistan Army, Airforce and Navy will also implement SNC which makes teaching of the Holy Quran mandatory. However, Sindh govt has not given any decision regarding implementation of SMC.

Chief Justice Lahore High Court Muhammad Qasim blamed Defence Housing Authority for occupying lands and said DHA has occupied 50 kanal of High Court land.

However, High Court received 65 kanal as an alternative to 50 kanal given to DHA. LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim still mentioned that DHA occupied their land as if the chief justice is willing to take that 50 kanal back even after getting 65 kanal in 2016 as alternative.

PML-N MNA Javed Latif visited Lahore Court for pre-arrest bail plea on Tuesday, but he was arrested as a result of rejection of his pre-arrest bail plea. Javed Latif sought pre-arrest bail for case registered against him for remarks against state institution, spreading panic and motivating violence against the State.

Javed’s lawyer admitted that these remarks were given by Javed but he also said that his remarks were not against the state but the clip taken as evidence was incomplete to make an impression against him just for sake of FIR. However, investigation officer stated that MNA Javed’s remarks were clear offence against the state to motivate violence and create destabilisation.

Federal Minister for Education, Shafqat Mahmood, while talking about the students who are against government’s decision regarding conducting of Cambridge International examinations in Pakistan, said that the kind of language students are using is a failure of parents, teachers and governments.

He said that it was really upsetting to see the kind of language students were using on Twitter to record their protest against these examinations. While talking to a local TV channel about developing situation as a result of third wave of covid-19, Shafqat Mahmood said that it was very shameful to see students who were barely 16 to 17 years old using this kind of language. Federal Minister said all provincial Minister agreed with this decision regarding the exams and said that we shouldn’t delay it further.

Talking about rising cases of covid-19 Shafqat Mahmood said that he was not an expert in this field that he could comment on it but being the education minister it was his responsibility to highlight the importance of conducting examinations. When Shafqat was asked about online exams, he replied that Cambridge International Examinations never gave them an option of online exams and they have never conducted online exams in any part of the world however some universities conducted online exams because their classes were also online that time.

Prime Minister Imran Khan in a ceremony where he announced big relief package for famers, also said that the Federal Government of Pakistan has allocated 40 billion PKR to import cattle semen.

Pakistan has so many castle farms but still we have to import some dairy products because of lack of productivity, therefore we have allocated 40 billion PKR so cattle farmers can improve breeding of their cattle, which will increase production of dairy product three times in 2 years and allow Pakistanis to fulfil their own needs and export dairy products like cheese and butter as well.

Prime Minister Imran Khan also said that Pakistani farmers are still using outdated methods for agriculture, we will send our agents through motorcycles who will visit farmers and their agricultural lands and they will teach them new techniques of farming which will give them extra yield so they will be able to sell their agricultural product instead of only using it for themselves.