KARACHI, Islamabad, 28 March, 2021, (TON): Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah evaluating the advancement of improvement plans of three divisions animals and fisheries, colleges and boards, and law and prosecution guided them to finish their progressing plans with the goal that they could be taken out from the following year's spending plan for taking new activities.

 He decided to further strengthen livestock and fisheries sectors so that the export of fisheries and halal meat could be initiated at a large scale.

 The chief minister was informed that the livestock and fisheries department had a portfolio of Rs10, 451.448 million for 26 schemes against which Rs4, 346.089m had been released showing a throw-forward of Rs6, 105.359m.

MULTAN, Pakistan, 20 March, 2021, (TON): The Pakistani farmers association, Kissan Ittihad, on Friday rampaged on their work vehicles to fight the climb in costs of electricity, composts, rural items, and diesel.

The farmers have also announced to stage a dharna on March 31 to continue their protest, sources said.

According to the protesters, the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has bought agricultural commodities at very low prices, so much so that farmers could not even attain a breakeven.

Despite losses, farmers were compelled to pay hiked prices for diesel, electricity, and fertilizers, they argued. “Everything is so expensive, the agricultural community is on the verge of collapse,” the protesting farmers said.

The farmers have demanded a waiver of the electricity bills for running tube wells as well as subsidy on electricity, fertilizers, and diesel.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, 18 March, 2021, (TON):  The Pakistani territory of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) is intending to construct two hydroelectric-fueled pilot "mining farms" to exploit a bullish worldwide digital currency market, a minister overseeing a new government crypto policy told on Wednesday.

The declaration comes as digital currencies are acquiring standard acknowledgment, with Bitcoin's value arriving at record levels as financial backers, for example, Elon Musk empty assets into it, and the main enormous U.S. bank, Morgan Stanley, offering its abundance the board customers admittance to bitcoin reserves.

Crypto mining farms include huge interests in PC server farms which require immense measures of force. Pakistan has framed a government advisory group to form another crypto strategy. The expense of the mining project presently can't seem to be resolved.

“People have already been approaching us for investment, and we want them to come to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, earn some money and have the province earn from that as well,” Zia Ullah Bangash, advisor to the provincial government on science and technology said.

Both mining and exchanging digital forms of money as of now exists in a legitimate ill-defined situation in Pakistan, however, and government authorities would need to give a make way towards sanctioning the area before it very well may be officially opened to financial backers.

In 2018, the State Bank of Pakistan said digital currencies were not lawful delicate and the controller had not approved anybody to bargain in them in the country. Pakistan additionally is right now on the worldwide Financial Action Task Force dim rundown, and one of the territories the worldwide tax evasion guard dog has requested that Islamabad better control is cryptographic forms of money.

Still, mining and trading in cryptocurrencies thrive in Pakistan, with apps like Binance and Coinbase among the most popular downloads in the country, according to web analytics company SimilarWeb.

“It’s really just our government that is not participating right now, people all over Pakistan are already working on this, either mining or trading in cryptocurrencies and they are earning an income from it,” Bangash said. “We are hoping to bring this to a government level so things can be controlled and online fraud or other scams can be prevented.”

ISLAMABAD, 15 March, 2021, (TON): The Hindu community in Pakistan's restive KPK has decided to exculpate the horde that vandalized and torched an extremely old sanctuary in the area.

The local clerics and members of the Hindu community held a meeting on Saturday in order to sort out the problem.

As per the dialogue, informally called 'Jirga', the accused have tendered an apology over the attack and a similar incident in 1997.

The Muslim clerics have assured full protection to the Hindus and their rights as per the country's Constitution.

A compromise proclamation from the meeting would be introduced to the Supreme Court, in an offer to get the release of the accused from detainment.