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9/28/2020

Top seed Simona Halep said her first-round win in the French Open 2020 was her perfect birthday gift.

The 2018 champion, who turned 29 on Sunday, swept into the second round with a 6-4, 6-0 victory over Spanish world number 70 Sara Sorribes Tormo.

Playing under the roof, second-ranked Halep trailed 4-2 but claimed the final 10 games to progress in 82 minutes.

“The perfect present was that I won today,” said Halep who was celebrating her 29th birthday.

Moreover, Stan Wawrinka brushed aside fellow three-time major winner Andy Murray in the day’s marquee clash.

Murray, playing his first clay court match since losing a five-set semi-final to the Swiss star in 2017, may have wished it had remained shut as 16th seed Wawrinka swept to a 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 win.

The 35-year-old fired 42 winners past wildcard Murray, now ranked at 111 in the world after being pushed to the brink of retirement by his lengthy battle with a hip injury.

“I should be analysing that hard and trying to understand why the performance was like that,” said 33-year-old Murray after his joint-worst defeat at a Slam.

Wawrinka added: “I was really focused with a champion like Andy, even if the scoreboard is only one side like today, you have to keep focus. You never know what can happen.”

Italian teenager Jannik Sinner had the honour of claiming the first ever win under the roof, demolishing Belgian 11th seed David Goffin 7-5, 6-0, 6-3.

Another rookie winner was Sebastian Korda, the son of 1992 Roland Garros runner-up and 1998 Australian Open champion Petr, who saw off Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Venus Williams, now 40 and who played her first Roland Garros in 1997, saved two match points but not the third as she fell to a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia who hadn’t won a match at a Slam in five years.

Schmiedlova will face Victoria Azarenka, who kicked off her campaign in perfect fashion, in the second round.

On a grim day for Britain, ninth seed and 2019 semi-finalist Johanna Konta was knocked out by teenage sensation Coco Gauff having committed 41 unforced errors.

The 16-year-old American, making her debut in the main draw having been the junior champion just two years ago, eased to a 6-3, 6-3 win despite serving up 12 double faults.



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9/28/2020

All primary and secondary schools across Sindh resumed classes from Monday (September 28).

Schools in the country reopened in phases starting September 15 with universities, colleges and classes IX and X resuming first. On September 23 (Wednesday), secondary classes everywhere in Pakistan except Sindh resumed.

The delay in Sindh was due to the increased number of coronavirus cases being reported from educational institutions. Earlier in the week, Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani announced that all classes in the province will be reopened, however, the implementation of SOPs will be strictly monitored.

The precautionary measures include wearing masks at all times, maintaining social distancing and proper sanitisation. Multiple schools have been using disinfection sprays to sanitise classrooms.

Teachers, students and staff members are also being checked for fevers with a thermal gun at the entrance of the schools.

In a media briefing earlier this week, Ghani had said that all schools not following SOPs will be fined and their licenses might be suspended. The minister said that the education department’s officers will be making surprise visits to schools.

He advised parents to stop letting students travel in vans and buses, and instead suggested that parents pick and drop children themselves.

Some schools in the province will reopen from October 1. Ghani had also given parents the option for their children to continue taking classes online if they were uncomfortable sending them to school.

SOPs for schools

On September 4, Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood and Dr Faisal Sultan, the PM’s assistant on health, had issued a list of precautionary measures that all schools would have to follow when they reopen.

The instructions are listed below:

  • First secondary classes will start first after which primary classes will begin
  • The number of students in a class will be reduced, which means that half of the students will attend the session one day and the other half on the other day
  • Students will have to wear face masks at all times. Dr Sultan said that it’s better if the masks are made at home
  • Social distancing and washing hands should be strictly implemented
  • Sanitisers should be installed in schools and students should be encouraged to use them repeatedly
  • Every student attending school in-person will have to get tested for coronavirus in two weeks
  • Students with lower immunity levels should not be sent to school
  • Students will have lunch inside class during breaks

Mahmood had stressed the importance of the role of principals and teachers in the implementation of SOPs. “The student will be the responsibility of the school,” he said.

Some schools remain closed

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On the other hand, schools in flood-hit areas of the province such as Badin, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Sujawal and Umerkot failed to resume activities as school buildings remained inundated with water.

According to reports, most educational institutions in the areas were turned into relief camps. Other suffered damages during the havoc the monsoon rains wreaked in the province.

Some students were seen wading through knee-deep rainwater to reach their schools.

With additional reporting by Hanif Samoon.



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9/28/2020

A man was arrested in Sindh’s Badin on charges of raping an eight-year-old boy.

The Kadhan police conducted raids to arrest Mohammad Rahim Loond for the rape in Ward No 4 of Kadhan town in Badin district. 

The SHO of the Kadhan police station, Naserullah Halepoto, informed local media that after the police arrested Loond from Badin’s Khoski, an FIR has been registered against him by the victim’s father.

The man took the boy to a deserted place and raped him. A doctor examined the child at the local health facility and confirmed the rape. Residents of the town took to the streets on Sunday to protest against the  rape.



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9/28/2020

Three human skulls and other bones were found in the trash in Karachi’s DHA Phase-I on Sunday night, sending shock waves through residents of the area.

According to residents of the area, some children found the bones while playing. They alerted their families who called the Police 15 Helpline.

The police have taken the bones into custody and sent them to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for analysis.

They said the bones were old and it is possible that medical students used the bones for practice and disposed of them improperly.



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9/28/2020

Here are some of the stories we will be following today (Monday):

  • An important hearing in the fake accounts case against former president Asif Ali Zardari will be held today. Zardari has been indicted in three NAB references, while his sister Faryal Talpur has one reference against her.
  • The chairperson of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, Dr Abdullah Abdullah, will arrive in Islamabad today on a three-day visit to the country. The visit is part of Pakistan’s efforts to seek a political end to the long conflict in Afghanistan.
  • Students across Sindh are back at school today. All classes in the province from primary to higher secondary have resumed. Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani has said schools not following SOPs will be fined.
  • The Privatisation Commission will auction Republic Motors Limited located on Lahore’s Mall Road.
  • Prime Minister Imran Khan will be visiting Peshawar today. Important meetings are expected to take place.
  • Three human skulls were found in the trash in Karachi’s Defence Phase I Sunday night.
  • Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned a meeting of the federal cabinet on Tuesday. Reforms for the power sector and the launch of British airline Atlantic Airways in Pakistan will be on the agenda.
  • Residents of Karachi have complained of increased hours of loadshedding and shortage of gas. People have decided to stage a protest out the SSGC office on Tuesday.
  • Khaleej Magazine conducted a survey on the level of trust people have in Imran Khan. The results were 93.2% positive. People have called the prime minister the best premier the country has had in the last 15 years.
  • ICYMI: Pakistan demanded Armenia stop its military action against Azerbaijan to avoid further escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Sunday.


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