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Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed said in his tweet that the Torkham border with Afghanistan has been closed due to bad conditions of covid-19 in Pakistan. The situation of covid-19 in Pakistan is getting worse day by day. Sheikh Rasheed mentioned in his tweet that the Torkham border crossing has been closed on the orders of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) and “will remain closed until the further orders”.

Five terrorists have been killed in the exchange of fire in Quetta. Counter-terrorism department CTD in his statement said that they killed them at Hazarganji and their bodies have been sent to the hospital. Explosive material and their arms were found in their compound and now are in the custody of CTD. 

Karachi court dismissed the case against Maryam Nawaz and her husband filed by the Quaid-e-Azam Mazar Management Board. Quaid-e-Azam Mazar Management Board filed the plea against Maryam Nawaz and her husband for violating the sanctity of the shrine of Quaid-e-Azam last year. They claimed that last year during their visit to the shrine they physically harmed it and voilated its sanctity.  The Karachi court dismissed the plea.

PM Imran Khan in his tweet announced that he would not go on any of his pirate functions along with protocol and security to prevent the public from the inconvenience and to minimize the expenditure. He said that he would also review the protocol and security provided to the ministers, governors, and chief ministers of the PTI government so that expenditure could be reduced to its most possible extent. 

Outside the Islamabad high court while making media talk Maryam Nawaz said that she thought the PTI government has accepted Israel as a country as PTI giving no response to the statements of news agencies that are saying that Pakistan has accepted Israel. PTI should deny their statements. Moreover, she mentioned that this decision didn’t belong to Imran khan only whereas it is the decision of 220 million people of Pakistan that Pakistan would not recognize the Jewish state.

Shafqat Mehmood Shah said that as students had to face a lot of problems for issuance of their equivalence certificates, an e-portal of Inter Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC) has been launched for their convenience. Now students should not bring their real documents and join the huge queue for submission of fees in the bank. Students of A and O levels, International Baccalaureate Programmes, and religious degrees would be able to issue their equivalence certificates through the e-portal of IBCC. 

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs, Babar Awan, in a letter to Speaker Asad Qaiser, sought the review of the council of Islamic ideology CII about the domestic violence bill 2021. In the letter, he cited different acts of the constitution of Pakistan. He mentioned that after particular amendments the bill has been sent back to the national assembly. 

In a press conference in Islamabad,  Fawad Choudhary said that the government has begun its struggle to negotiate with aggrieved groups of Balochistan. He made it clear that those groups will be treated differently who are linked to India or involved in terrorist activities. Moreover, he emphasized the importance of the development of CPEC for PM Imran Khan. he mentioned that soon Balochistan would become a region of peace.