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All airline travelers, aged six and above, will be required to carry a valid negative PCR test result carried out with 72 hours of travel to, from or within Pakistan, new guidelines issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) stated on Thursday.

All deportees will, however, be exempt from this regulation.

Inbound, outbound travelers and passengers within Pakistan, with the exception of deportees, should register themselves on Pass Track app and submit the required information before their departure to Pakistan, according to CAA guidelines.

Who can travel without vaccination certificate

Beginning from October 1, only fully-vaccinated persons aged between 18 and above will be allowed to travel to, from or within Pakistan. They would be required to hold valid proof of vaccination against Covid-19.

Passengers below 18 years of age may be allowed to travel to, from or within Pakistan without vaccination certificates.

Meanwhile, Pakistani passengers between the ages of 15 and 18 would be allowed to travel to, from and within Pakistan without vaccination certificates until October 31. Proof of partial vaccination will be required from passengers between ages of 15 and 18 by November 1 and full vaccination proof by December 1 this year.

Air travelers below the age of 15 will be able to undertake domestic journeys until further notice in this regard.

People traveling to Pakistan

Pakistani students below the age of 18 and studying abroad will be allowed to travel to Pakistan without vaccination certificates but they will be required to carry full vaccination certificates on their outbound flights.

Foreigners and foreign passport-holders below the age of 18 will also be allowed to travel to Pakistan without vaccination certificates.

People medically advised against vaccination should hold a certificate from classified specialized doctors. Such passengers will be allowed to travel to Pakistan without fully or partially vaccinated requirement.

All airline passengers, six years or older, arriving in Pakistan will need to undergo a rapid antigen test (RAT). Diplomats will, however, be exempt from RAT when they arrive in Pakistan. They will be required to self-quarantine for 10 days.

Passengers testing positive on RAT upon arrival will have to undergo a 10-day quarantine at a government or self-paid facility.

The CAA stated that because of the volatile Covid-19 situation, all passengers arriving in or from or within Pakistan will be subject to fulfill additional stipulation as and when advised by relevant health authorities.

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The federal government has increased prices of petroleum products by up to Rs8.82. The announcement was made shortly after LPG price went up by Rs29 per kilogram.

The finance division issued a notification on Thursday night saying the new prices take effect from Friday, October 1.

The price of petrol was raised by Rs4 and petrol would now cost Rs127.30 per litre.

The price of high-speed diesel (HSD) has been jacked up by Rs2 to Rs122.04 per litre.

Light diesel oil has seen the highest price increase of Rs8.82 and it will cost Rs99.51 per litre.

Kerosene oil will cost Rs99.31 after a price hike of Rs7.05.

The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) had recommended a price hike of Rs5 for petrol and Rs3.5 for diesel.

LPG price

Earlier, OGRA notified a price increase of Rs29 per kilogram for Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

The price of commercial cylinder has been increased from Rs8004 to Rs33. Every cylinder would not cost an additional Rs1334.

LPG cylinder for domestic use has been made expensive by Rs343. Consumers paying Rs2060 for a cylinder will now pay Rs2403.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ended Sindh’s perfect star at National T20 after registering a six-wicket victory on Thursday at the Pindi Cricket Stadium.

Chasing a 151-run target, the Mohammad Rizwan-led men got over the line in 17.4 overs.

Opener Fakhar Zaman led the charge for the side with a typically aggressive 49 off 32 balls. The left-hander hit pacer Mohammad Hasnain for three sixes and a four in the second over the innings as Hasnain conceded 28 runs –most in an over in the tournament so far.

Meanwhile, Sahibzada Farhan, Adil Amin and Musadiq Ahmed took the side past the target.

Farhan scored 45 off 30 balls with the help of three fours and as many sixes. The right-hander added 58 runs for the third-wicket with Adil who scored 26 off 19 balls.

Rumman Raees, Anwar Ali, Danish Aziz and Zahid Mahmood took a wicket each. This was Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s third win in four matches, Sindh too have three wins from four games.

Earlier, Rizwan won the toss and invited Sindh to bat. Sharjeel Khan hit three fours in the opening over of the match bowled by Shaheen Shah Afridi. The left-hander was however pegged back by the bowlers and was eventually dismissed by Arshad Iqbal for 25.

Sindh lost Shan Masood (13) and Sarfaraz Ahmed (0) in one Asif Afridi over to crash to 41 for three (7.3 overs).

Khurram Manzoor and Saud Shakeel did the repair work by adding 56 for the fourth-wicket. The left-handed Saud was dismissed for 32 by Imran Khan Snr who then got rid of Danish Aziz the next ball.

Imran narrowly failed to take a hat-trick as Shaheen spilled a difficult chance in the slips with Anwar Ali the batter.

Anwar hit a last ball six off Muhammad Wasim Jnr as Sindh finished with what looked like an under par score midway. Asif took two wickets for 20 runs while Imran returned figures of 4-0-24-2.

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All fishing boats sailing from Karachi have been recalled in view of the high risk associated with rough seas and a potential tropical cyclone, but at least 70 fishing boats are still missing, maritime authorities and fishermen said on Thursday.

Officials are trying to contact fishermen on the missing boats and there was a strong possibility that a substantial number of them would have sought safe harbor in Balochistan ports.

Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Maritime Security Agency and the Fishermen Cooperative Society have set up a number of monitoring and rescue centers at Karachi Fisheries, Ibrahim Hyderi and Younusabad.

 The administrator of the Fishermen Cooperative Society, Zahid Bhatti, said that their first and foremost priority was to ensure the safe return of the fishermen at sea.

He said that Pakistan Navy was diligently monitoring the situation.

According to the manager of the cooperative society, Nasir Boneri, there were at least 165 fishing boats at sea when the weather started worsening. He said that the launches that had not been able to reach Karachi might have docked on jetties in Pasni, Ormara and elsewhere in Balochistan.

Warning of excessively high waves, he said that the conditions at sea were rapidly deteriorating.

All of the returning fishing boats are safely docked.

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The massive circular debt, amounting to as much as Rs2.28 trillion, is mainly because of line losses, insufficient recoveries and defaults, a report issued by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) stated on Thursday.

Nepra is delegated to regulate the power sector, including issuing licences, determining tariffs, monitoring for maintenance of proper standards and quality of services as well as addressing consumer complaints.

According to the Nepra report, the country’s transmission system was not able to maintain uninterrupted power supply across the country.

The report also stated that fines were imposed on distribution companies (Discos) and K-Electric on account of “violations of performance standards, distribution code and occurrence of fatal accidents”. Nepra, the report stated, had directed K-Eelctric for grounding/earthing all high-tension and low-tension (HT/LT) poles of is distribution system to avoid accidents

Nepra stated that it resolved 91.87% of consumer complaints it received.

During 2019-20, Nepra issued as many as 27 licenses to power producing companies with total installed capacity to generate 1,591.4 megawatts. These licenses included a 55MW coal-fired power plant, four hydroelectric power plants with a capacity of 294.1MW and a nuclear generation plant with 1,145MW capacity. At least 19 solar power plant were also issued licenses.

After the shortfall of residual fuel oil (RFO) at power plants in the summer of FY 2019-20, the Authority took up the issue with CPPA-G and directed it to regularly monitor the fuel stock position at all power plants and take necessary steps to ensure that sufficient fuel stock was available with them.

Citing the January 9, 2021 outage, it stated that the entire country was plunged into darkness  at 11:40pm after the power system collapsed.  The Authority took serious notice of this incident and formed an inquiry committee. In the light of the committee findings, Nepra issued a number of directives.

NTDC was directed to arrange a comprehensive study from a reputed international firm to mitigate the adverse effects of Power Swing and suggest Out of Step (OOS) Protection in order to avoid major power breakdown and blackouts.

NTDC & DISCOs were directed to conduct a study of 500kV/220kV and 132kV systems respectively to find out the defects & deficiencies and suggest remedies for prevention of faults and timely system recovery in case of partial and total breakdowns.

Legal actions was taken against CPGCL, Guddu, NTDC, K-Electric, and other power plants for their lapses, deficiencies and failures in the breakdown.

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Private schools and colleges in Karachi will remain closed on Friday in view of the heavy rain forecast, the All Sindh Private Schools and Colleges Association (ASPSCA) has announced.

ASPSCA Chairman Haider Ali says the decision was made after parents expressed concerns over reports of possible urban flooding in the city.

He said schools and colleges would open in other Sindh cities where clear weather conditions prevailed.

The Met Department has forecast thunderstorm on Friday and Saturday as a weather system, described as a remnant of Cyclone Gulab, moves towards Karachi.

Meanwhile, Sindh School Education and Literacy Department has not decided on the issue.

Some reports claimed that public sector schools were likely to remain open on Friday.

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