Headlines 9am: Pakistan play England in second Hampshire Test
via SAMAA
Here are the headlines from SAMAA TV’s 9am bulletin.
- Over 750 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths were reported across Pakistan on Wednesday. Nearly 16,000 known active cases still remain.
- Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate the BRT project in Peshawar at 3pm. The project was launched in October 2017 by then chief minister Pervez Khattak who had set a six-month deadline for its completion.
- Pakistanis have begun preparations for Independence Day on August 14. Stalls are set up at different spots in major cities selling Pakistan flags and badges.
- It rained on Wednesday night in Karachi’s Sharae Faisal, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Saddar, Karsaz and Burns Road.
- The second Test match between Pakistan and England will begin today. Fawad Alam is likely to be included in the playing 11, replacing all-rounder Shadab Khan. Alam hasn’t played for the national side in the last 11 years.
- On this day in 2000, singer and song-writer Nazia Hassan lost her battle against lung cancer.
