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Diamer Basha Dam: an iconic Dam for Gilgit Baltistan

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Diamer-Bhasha Dam is a concreted-filled gravity dam, in the preliminary stages of construction, on the River Indus between Kohistan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Diamer district in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan administered Kashmir. Its foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1998.

Pakistan begins construction of Diamer Bhasha Dam

Third greatest dam to be utilized for water stockpiling, water system and force generation.Pakistan’s Diamer Bhasha dam will expand the nation’s water stockpiling limit from 30 to 48 days.

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan started the development of one of the country’s biggest dams on Wednesday to meet water and power needs. Diamer Bhasha dam will be the country’s third huge dam to be worked after Tarbela and Mangla dams. It is a multi-reason dam that will be utilized for water stockpiling, flood relief, redirect water for water system and force age.

PM Imran Khan initiates the dam

“Diamer Bhasha dam will be the greatest dam in Pakistan’s set of experiences,” PM Imran Khan declared at the dispatch service in Chilas, adding that the dam will profit the country both financially and naturally particularly individuals of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Water Resources Minister Faisal Vawda, WAPDA, FWO and other senior authorities went to the function.

Produce clean energy, make occupations and water lands

Pakistan is presently zeroing in on clean energy to relieve the environmental change sway. The double advantages of “producing power from water rather than heater oil or coal” will save the country billions of dollars spent on bringing in fuel while diminishing the adverse consequence on the climate” the head noted.

The hydel power venture would produce 4,500 MW of moderate, clean energy while boosting nearby industry and furthermore making in excess of 16,000 positions in the nation, said China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa. The dam’s 6.4MAF (million-section of land feet) of water would inundate at any rate 1.2 million sections of land of the agrarian region. Diamer Bhasha dam would build the country’s stockpiling limit from 30 to 48 days.

Diamer-Bhasha dam
Diamer-Bhasha dam

KEY FEATURES OF DIAMER BHASHA DAM

Dam Type – Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC)

Tallness of Dam – 272 meters

Spillways – 14 entryways

Net Storage – 8.10 MAF

Live Storage – 6.4 MAF

Introduced Capacity – 4500 MW

Cost – Rs1.406 trillion

World’s tallest RCC dam

The supply with 272-meter tallness will be the tallest roller smaller cement (RCC) dam on the planet. It will have a spillway with 14 entryways and five source for flushing out residue. The redirection framework includes two passages and a redirection channel. It will likewise incorporate the development of forces to be reckoned with.

Cost and fruition

The dam project with an all out monetary expense of about Rs1.4 trillion (Dh30 billion) is relied upon to be finished in 2028, as per Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) director resigned Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain.

Advantages OF DIAMER BHASHA DAM

– Generate 4,500 MW of clean energy

– Create 16,000 positions

– Irrigate in any event 1.2 million sections of land of agrarian land

– Increase water stockpiling limit from 30 to 48 days

– Help diminish flood damages

– Store 8.1 million section of land feet (MAF) of water

Agreement granted to joint endeavor

On May 13, Pakistan marked an arrangement worth Rs442 billion (US$2.6 billion) with the Chinese state-possessed firm China Power to construct the dam on River Indus close to Chilas in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Consultancy contract

The consultancy contract worth Rs27.18 billion has been granted by WAPDA to Diamer Basha Consultants Group (DBCG) that incorporates development plan, development management and agreement organization of the dam project. The joint endeavor of DBCG involves 12 public and unfamiliar counseling firms including seven from Pakistan, and one firm from every US, UK, China, Turkey and Switzerland with Pakistan’s NESPAK as the lead firm.

When was the dam proposed?

The leader lamented that it took the country over 40 years to at long last start the development of the Diamer Bhasha dam that was first proposed in 1980. “This will be Pakistan’s third huge dam though adjoining China has constructed almost 5000 enormous dams” and in excess of 80,000 dams altogether, he said.

The dam first visualized in quite a while affirmed for development in 2006 by then military ruler and previous president Pervez Musharraf who said “Water and energy are incomprehensibly important issues for us. We need to fabricate all dams.”

50 MW Attabad Hunza Hydropower Project to be constructed

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Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has decided to construct the 50 MW Attabad Hydropower project. The proposed site for the project was visited by Wapda Chairman Lt-Gen Muzammil Hussain (retd) in the last week of September 2020. He was accompanied by GB Chief Secretary, Wapda General Manager (Hydro Planning), General Manager (Projects) Northern Areas and other officers concerned.

The project is located on River Hunza, 20 kilometer upstream of Karim Abad and 130 Km from Gilgit. Wapda Chairman said that 50 MW Attabad Lake Hydropower Project, will prove to be instrumental in meeting the electricity demand of Hunza and Nagar valleys.

Wapda has released Rs 22 million to its hydro planning formation for carrying out in-house feasibility study of the project. The feasibility study is likely to be completed by the first quarter of 2021 while the Attabad Lake Hydropower Project will be completed in four years.

50 MW Attabad Hydropower Project

In 2018 Central Development Working Party (CDWP) had dropped the approval for the project after inability of the concerned ministries to generate resources from international donors.

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India official cautions to prepare for new COVID-19 waves

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An Indian logical counselor said Wednesday the nation — held by quite possibly the most dangerous Covid floods seen by any nation — should be prepared for new waves and gravely needs more oxygen from different nations.

Confronting basic deficiencies of emergency clinic beds and oxygen, the admonitions came as India announced 3,780 new pandemic passings, another day by day high, and 382,000 new cases. Specialists say the pinnacle may not be gone after weeks.

As indicated by the International Red Cross, India is enduring the worst part of a Covid emergency seriously hitting all of South Asia.

K. Vijay Raghavan, the Indian government’s important logical counselor, said the nation of 1.3 billion must be prepared for more difficulty even in the wake of whipping this wave which has taken India’s caseload over 20 million diseases.

“Stage 3 is inescapable given the undeniable degrees of coursing infection. However, it isn’t sure about what timescale this stage 3 will happen. We ought to get ready for new waves,” Raghavan told a news meeting.

With the public authority confronting analysis as patients pass on in roads outside medical clinics as a result of the bed deficiencies, transfers of oxygen and hardware have been showing up from the United States, France, Britain, Russia and different nations as of late.

Furthermore, India will require more oxygen from different nations to battle the flood until numbers balance out, another administration official said.

“We didn’t and need more oxygen,” the top government official told correspondents, talking on state of obscurity. “In the event that we could get more oxygen more lives would be saved.”

India is likewise as yet squeezing the United States and different nations to ease limitations on fares of crude materials for Covid medications, for example, remdesivir and tocilizumab, the authority added.

India, the world’s greatest conventional medications creator, was a significant provider of remdesivir a year ago when the pandemic ejected yet cut creation when its own first wave fell back.

‘Criminal demonstration’

Clinics the nation over were all the while enduring Wednesday while courts have ventured up tension on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu patriot government over its reaction.

“Confirmations suspended inconclusively,” said Devlina Chakravarty, overseeing head of the Artemis clinic in Gurgaon, close to Delhi, in a Twitter articulation accusing oxygen supplies.

covid 19 in India

Clinics in Kolkata, Bangalore and other significant urban communities additionally detailed genuine deficiencies.

Stung by developing indignation, the national bank said that $6.7 billion in modest advances would be given to oxygen, antibody and medication makers just as clinics to help facilitate the emergency.

India’s courts have in the interim become progressively vocal pundits of the Modi government’s treatment of the emergency.

Delhi’s administration says it needs 700 tons of oxygen daily for its overpowered medical clinics yet the Supreme Court was disclosed to Wednesday that it is just getting 585 tons.

Battling a danger to give disdain procedures over its refusal to send more oxygen, focal government legal counselors said the city needs just 415 tons.

The court gave the public authority until Thursday morning to give an arrangement to send additional provisions.

A Delhi High Court which conveyed the hatred intimidation blamed government legislators and authorities for “living in ivory towers” while the loss of life mounts.

The High Court in Allahabad said the passings of individuals in Uttar Pradesh state clinics “is a criminal demonstration and at least an annihilation” by those intended to guarantee oxygen supplies.

The public authority in India’s most crowded state has denied there are oxygen deficiencies. It has been blamed by city bunches for terribly under-announcing the quantity of pandemic passings.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has called for “pressing” global activity to forestall “a deteriorating human disaster” across South Asia.

It featured the instance of Nepal where it said “numerous medical clinics are full and spilling over” with Covid-19 patients and the day by day caseload is multiple times higher than one month prior.

Astronauts return to Earth after spending 6 months in space

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Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule returned to Earth early Sunday, splashing down off Panama City early Sunday, a NASA Livestream showed.

Boats were retrieving the spacecraft and crew after their six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

The crew reported they were feeling well, NASA said.

The capsule splashed down at 2:56 am (0656 GMT) in the dark in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast after a six-and-a-half-hour flight from the ISS, images relayed by NASA’s WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft showed.

Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japan´s Soichi Noguchi went to space last November as the crew on the first fully operational mission to the ISS aboard a vehicle made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has become NASA’s favored commercial transportation partner.

Astronauts return to Earth after spending 6 months in space
Handout photo dated April 24, 2021 shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour as it approached the International Space Station less than one day after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts, Commander Shane Kimbrough and pilot Megan McArthur with astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, joined the Expedition 65 crew shortly after docking to the Harmony module’s forward-facing international docking adapter. Photo by NASA

Seven astronauts remained on the ISS including a new crew of four who arrived on a different SpaceX craft last week.

“Thanks for your hospitality,” Hopkins said earlier as the capsule undocked from the space station for its return journey. “We’ll see you back on Earth.”

Prior to that, two American astronauts made a test mission to the ISS in May and stayed for two months.

That was the first launch to the ISS from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. It was also the first crewed mission run by a private company, as opposed to NASA.

Until then US astronauts had caught rides to the ISS aboard Russian spacecraft.

Middle East Quartet express ´deep concern´ over violence in Jerusalem

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WASHINGTON: The four members of the Middle East Quartet — the US, Russia, the EU and the UN — on Saturday expressed “deep concern” over violence in Jerusalem, a day after clashes wounded more than 200 people.

The Quartet envoys “express deep concern over the daily clashes and violence in East Jerusalem, in particular last night´s confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli security forces at Haram Al-Sharif/Temple Mount,” the group said in a statement.

“We are alarmed by the provocative statements made by some political groups, as well as the launching of rockets and the resumption of incendiary balloons from Gaza towards Israel, and attacks on Palestinian farmland in the West Bank.

“The Envoys noted with serious concern the possible evictions of Palestinian families from homes they have lived in for generations… and voice opposition to unilateral actions, which will only escalate the already tense environment.

“We call upon Israeli authorities to exercise restraint and to avoid measures that would further escalate the situation during this period of Muslim Holy Days.”

Middle East Quartet express ´deep concern´ over violence in Jerusalem

Despite international pleas the violence has continued Saturday, with dozens more people injured as Israeli police fired water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse Palestinian protesters in annexed east Jerusalem.

The Quartet has been more active since US President Joe Biden took office earlier this year, after falling largely dormant during the administration of Donald Trump, who was seen by Palestinians as biased towards Israel.

The statement reiterated the group´s “commitment to a negotiated two state solution.

EU and India agree to resume long-stalled trade talks

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The European Union and India agreed to restart talks on a free trade deal that have been frozen since 2013.

Between the EU and India there is a close relationship but also a lot of untapped potential,' European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said

Chinese rocket debris crashes into Indian Ocean – state media

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The remaining parts of a Chinese rocket that was plunging back towards Earth have collided with the Indian Ocean, the nation’s space organization says.

The main part of the rocket was obliterated as it reappeared the climate, yet state media revealed that garbage landed only west of the Maldives on Sunday.

There have been long periods of hypothesis over where the rocket may land, and US authorities and different specialists cautioned its return gambled likely setbacks.

In any case, China demanded the danger was low.

The Long March-5b vehicle reemerged the climate at 10:24 Beijing time (02:24 GMT) on Sunday, state media revealed, refering to the Chinese Manned Space Engineering office. There were no reports of wounds or harm.

It said garbage from the 18-ton rocket, probably the biggest thing in a very long time to have an undirected plunge into the climate, arrived in the Indian Ocean at a point 72.47° East and 2.65° North.

China dispatches first module of new space station

Space garbage evacuation showing dispatches

US Space Command, then, essentially said the rocket had “returned over the Arabian Peninsula”. It didn’t affirm the arrival point detailed by Chinese media, saying rather that it was “obscure if the garbage [had] affected land or water”.

The observing help Space-Track, which utilizes US military information, said the rocket was recorded above Saudi Arabia before it fell into the Indian Ocean close to the Maldives.

The uncontrolled return of the rocket prompted pointed analysis from the US in the midst of fears that it could land in an occupied region. US and European sites followed its return, and there was a lot of theory via online media about where the trash may land.

Chinese rocket debris crashes into Indian Ocean - state media

“Spacefaring countries should limit the dangers to individuals and property on Earth,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in an explanation. “Unmistakably China is neglecting to fulfill capable guidelines with respect to their space trash.”

Space specialists, notwithstanding, anticipated that the odds of anybody being hit were little, not least in light of the fact that such an extensive amount the Earth’s surface is covered by sea and enormous spaces of land are uninhabited.

The primary section from the Long March-5b vehicle was utilized to dispatch the principal module of China’s new space station a month ago.

Initially infused into a circular circle roughly 160km by 375km (99 miles by 233 miles) over the Earth’s surface on 29 April, the Long March-5b center stage before long started to lose stature.

Different space flotsam and jetsam displaying specialists anticipated that a large portion of the vehicle would wreck during its last dive through the air, in spite of the fact that there was consistently the likelihood that metals with high liquefying focuses and other safe materials could get by to the Earth’s surface.

At the point when a comparative center stage got back to Earth a year prior, funneling thought to be from the rocket was distinguished on the ground in Ivory Coast in West Africa.

China has harnessed at the idea that it has been careless in permitting the uncontrolled return of so enormous an article.

Discourse in the country’s media had portrayed Western reports about the potential risks implied as “publicity” and anticipated the flotsam and jetsam would fall some place in worldwide waters

As of late, China has made no mystery of its space aspirations.

The nation has emptied billions of dollars into its space endeavors, and in 2019 it turned into the primary nation to send an uncrewed meanderer to the most distant side of the Moon.

President Xi Jinping has likewise advocated the undertakings and state media has much of the time cast the “space dream” as one stage in the way to “public restoration”.

The Tiangong space station could be going as ahead of schedule as one year from now – and there is additionally talk in Chinese media of missions to Mars and a likely common lunar station with Russia

Saudi Arabia reopens borders for foreign tourists

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RIYADH: In a bid to boost its tourism sector, Saudi Arabia has decided to reopen its land, sea and air borders for foreign tourists.

Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Tourism for Strategy and Investment Princess Haifa Al Saud said that Riyadh will start receiving foreign tourists from 17th of May.

“As many as 93 new companies have entered the Kingdom’s tourism market and the government has provided SR120 billion as incentives for the sector to counter the effects of coronavirus,” Princess Haifa said, adding that the volume of domestic spending on tourism increased by 33 per cent over the past summer.

She maintained that the kingdom’s tourism sector started receiving foreign tourists in 2019. “However, during the coronavirus pandemic, our first task was the safety and security of citizens and expatriates in Saudi Arabia, and we were able to provide the vaccine and reached a stage that enabled us to open the land and airports.”

“In 2018, the contribution of the tourism sector to the gross domestic product (GDP) was 3.2 per cent, which is equal to SR147 billion of the volume of spending, and in 2019 it amounted to SR169 billion, with an increase of 3.5 per cent. In 2020, the volume of spending dropped to SR63 billion due to coronavirus-related procedures, resulting in a sharp drop in the number of pilgrims” Princess Haifa added.

According to Princess Haifa, the percentage of women working in the tourism sector reached 11 per cent and the tourism sector’s contribution to GDP at the global level is 7.9 per cent and it ranges between 10 and 12 per cent in the countries which attract the largest number of tourists, Gulf News reported.

“The volume of foreign investments in the tourism sector is SR30 billion, and a total of 50,000 new hotel rooms will be operational within two years. The first phase of the tourism strategy targets eight destinations and this will contribute to creating new jobs,” she said adding that the government’s priority is to empower Saudi men and women who possess many skills to work in tourism,” she said.

In Skardu’s mountainous district, ladies villagers’ conventional lifestyle overturned by environmental change

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In Skardu’s mountainous district, ladies villagers’ conventional lifestyle overturned by environmental change

Rosi Bi, a moderately aged lady from Skardu’s distant Sadpara town, can plainly illustrate how quickly vocation in her space has been influenced by environmental change.

“Our forefathers have been livestock farmers for quite a long time, and we as well, used to procure our meat and potatoes through our cows and their milk. Be that as it may, presently, everything has transformed,” she said.

“We can at this point don’t raise cows as the snow and sporadic climate patterns influence the supply of grain. Today, the animals are just saved for domestic use. To make a living we develop potatoes and different vegetables instead.”

Situated close the majestic, shading changing Sadpara Lake in the Karakorum mountain range, Sadpara town is around 30 kilometers from Skardu, the capital city of the Baltistan area in Pakistan. It has a complete populace of 3,000.

The ladies hailing from Sadpara town have been cultivating dairy cattle professionally for quite a long time. However, similar as Rosi Bi, have been adversely influenced by environmental change. Large numbers of their husbands live outside the town because of business opportunities, so these ladies are solely responsible for raising their kids as well as domestic chores.

Rosi Bi is a specialist on livestock cultivating however is currently investigating elective means to procure a pay. Like different families in the town, she owns a modest measure of land — around 1,200 to 1,800 square yards — where she farms potatoes and different vegetables. Because of the long winter there is just one cultivating season, however request is becoming because of increased tourism. The ladies supply most of their crops straightforwardly to inn owners, and acquire about PKR 100,000 (USD 644) every year selling potatoes and PKR 50,000 (USD 322) for different vegetables.

The territory of Gilgit-Baltistan is a mountainous locale. The three extraordinary mountain ranges – the Karakoram, Himalayas and Hindu Kush – make it an incredible tourist fascination. The area is home to K2, the world’s second highest top, plus five different peaks more than 8,000 meters. This territory has the world’s largest fresh water reservoir as 5,100 small and huge glaciers and 119 lakes. Pakistan’s northern areas are also home to more than 300 species of natural life, including the imperiled snow panther and earthy colored bears. A 6,592 square kilometer forest also adds to the magnificence of this space.

Skardu's mountainous women

Tragically, erratic changes in environment have profoundly influenced this excellent area. This is basically knowledgeable about the effect it has on developing steers grain, which has gotten extremely troublesome.

Ghufranullah Baig, an assistant chief Gilgit Baltistan’s disaster the board authority affirmed that the locale is confronting severe climate conditions. As indicated by Baig, temperatures this year fell as low as – 34 in Deosai, a public park around there. Skardu city confronted a record four feet of snowfall this year. Alongside a drawn out winter season, weighty snowfall and downpour, the Karakorum ranges are also confronting another geographical marvel in the shape of debris stream, with three such instances recorded in 2019.

Kotham Pine town which is situated around 6 kilometers from Shigar, the second largest city of Baltistan, witnessed weighty debris stream this year.

“The whole town was asleep yet we woke up when we heard a strange noise. We came out from our homes and saw a sight which we won’t ever neglect. An enormous measure of mountain rock and mud blended in with downpour water was gushing down and destroying our town,” said Ruqqaiya Bibi, a resident of the town.

Two casualties were accounted for in this disaster, which also executed in excess of 150 dairy cattle and washed away the standing harvest.

Ruqqaiya Bibi lost her home, cows and all the other things she claimed in this episode. As the public authority gave an exceptionally low add up to villagers in terms of help, she is currently subject to relatives for survival.

Most ladies in the area have a destiny similar to that of Rosi Bi and Ruqqaiya Bibi. Through sheer resilience, they are figuring out how to survive even with severe climate conditions and flighty disasters like floods and landslides. In the event that they figure out how to survive these disasters, they lose every one of their belongings and need to start another life and another means of pay.

In Skardu, ladies farmers are encountering a similar situation, where environmental change is driving them to go amiss from centuries old traditions to receive new means to make money.

Engaging ladies

The Agha Khan provincial support program (AKRSP) which has been working in this district to enable ladies for quite a long time has now stretched out its operations to environmental change-hit areas. The association is preparing ladies to adapt to severe climate conditions.

Shabana Raza, who works with the Durain Cassim Fund of AKRSP, said the association is making ladies stronger against environmental change and financial prosperity is a measure.

“Mass forest cutting is the basic reason behind substantial floods and land sliding in this sensitive ecosystem,” she said, adding that the association is inspiring ladies to plant more trees.

“Ladies are building up their own nurseries, planting trees and furthermore selling them. We give saplings and afterward repurchase [grown ones] from them — through this system, hundreds of thousands of trees have been planted.”

She also said ladies are being prepared so they can participate in various financial activities. “There is an increase in tourist stream and we are dealing with ecotourism, which increases request of milk, other dairy products and vegetables. Generally ladies used to consider selling milk as a sin. We teach them, give preparing to egg bring forth, yogurt and cheese bundling and the development of slow time of year vegetables. Presently these ladies are very much prepared business owners. We are also persuading them to proceed with cows cultivating, especially of mountain goats and sheep, so we can restore the conventional shawls and rug industry which has a popularity in the worldwide market,” said Raza.

Habiba Iqbal from Aastana, a region in the suburbs of Skardu, used this preparation to start her own nursery of eucalyptus trees as a side business to support her family. Gulshan Begum is currently running a salon in Kehkashan Market in Skardu. She started her business fan investment of PKR 20,000 (USD 129).

At first we confronted difficulties yet we have cleared path for forthcoming business owners, said Gulshan while recalling her underlying business days.

However, while some ladies have immediately adjusted to their new openings, Ruqqaiya Bibi of Kotham Pine is still sitting tight for a chance to restart her life. Rozi Bi, as well, is searching for without interest government loans so she can start weaving conventional shawls. They are examples of ladies living in these mountainous regions who, however resilient despite disaster, still need support to conquer the challenges welcomed on by environmental change.

KP, GB and AJK to enforce lockdown

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ISLAMABAD: The governments of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday issued mandatory instructions for all their subsidiaries on the occasion of Eidul Fitr to curb the spread of coronavirus.

In this regard, the respective governments have decided to increase the number and capacity of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) deployed at all entrances to the northern territories, Geo News reported.

The National Highway Authority (NHA) and the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) have been especially instructed to display special banners at the relevant toll plazas for public awareness.

In line with NCOC’s theme of “Stay Home, Stay Safe”, the respective governments have issued orders to close all tourist spots and hotels to restrict the movement of people during the Eid holidays, while the LEAs have been deployed at various tourist spots to ensure compliance.

The nine-day countrywide lockdown will be imposed tomorrow. All the shopping malls and public parks would also be closed from May 08-16. The private transport, taxi cabs and rickshaws, however, will be allowed with 50 percent occupancy.

Practically, the lockdown will be effective from 6:00pm on Friday (today) and will continue till May 16. In view of ban on movement of public transport, the people having no private vehicles, will also move from major cities like Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi to their native towns by Friday evening. By doing so, they will have to pay double of actual fare.

Meanwhile, at least 108 more people succumbed to the coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 18,537 as the country grapples with the third wave of coronavirus.

According to the official data provided by National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday, 4,198 cases were reported as 46,467 tests were conducted across the country during the last 24 hours.

NCOC teams to enforce Covid restrictions during Eid holidays

Punjab remains the worst-hit province by the pandemic, both in terms of cases reported as well as deaths followed by Sindh, KP and Balochistan. The highest death toll in the last 24 hours was in Punjab, with the province reporting 68 fatalities.

The government of Punjab has decided to impose a complete lockdown in the province from May 08-16, owing to the increasing number of coronavirus cases. The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Lahore at 69 percent, Multan 77 percent, Mardan 59 percent and Bahawalpur 58 percent. The maximum oxygen beds were also occupied in four major areas of Gujranwala with 55 percent, Swabi 67 percent, Peshawar 62 percent and Swat 57 percent.

Around 651 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in the country while no COVID affected person on ventilator in GB and Balochistan. Some 46,467 tests were conducted across the country on Wednesday, including 16,023 in Sindh, 16,762 in Punjab, 7,304 in KP, 4,199 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 1,015 in Balochistan, 372 in GB, and 792 in AJK. Around 743,124 people have recovered from the disease so far across Pakistan, making it a significant count with over 90 percent recovery ratio of the affected patients.

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