Covid-19

Mr Gates conveyed his special appreciation for Pakistan Army for supporting national polio drive and ensuring proper reach and coverage of polio campaigns this year, particularly through involvement of community leaders and influencers.

“It is clear that Pakistan's high dependency on consumption rather than investment and exports is a major cause of its boom-busts cycle of the economy,” said Nadeem A. Siddiqui, IFC Senior Country Manager for Pakistan.

National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the total caseload of the virus now stands at 911,302 with 831,744 recoveries so far with positivity rate near 4%.

Web attacks in 2020 stood at 6.3 billion globally out of which 736 million attacks involved the financial services sector. SQL Injection and Local File Inclusion have been identified as two leading methods of cyber attacks