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Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2016

Edition: First

Dates: 4 to 23 February 2016

Administrator: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)

Format: Twenty20

Venue: United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Winner: Islamabad United

Islamabad United won by: 6 wickets

Runners-up: Quetta Gladiators

Participants: 5

Matches: 24

Player of the series: Ravi Bopara (Karachi Kings)

Ravi Bopara made: 329 runs and 11 wickets

Ravi Bopara: English cricketer

Most runs: Umar Akmal (Lahore Qalandars)

Umar Akmal made: 335 runs

 Most wickets: Andre Russell (Islamabad United)

Andre Russell took: 16 wickets)

Andre Russell: Jamaican cricketer

Man of the match award winner: Dwayne Smith (Barbadian cricketer)

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Islamabad police have introduced a high tech ‘E-Police Desk’ system for registration of complaints without any human interaction and to get them resolved through prompt action.

E-Police Desk introduced on 17 March 2021.

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Lt. General Munir Afsar  became the first serving military officer to be appointed chairman of NADRA.

Appointment date: 02 October 2023.

Munir Afsar takes over the position of chairman from Asad Rehman Gilani

NADRA: National Database and Registration Authority

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Pakistan joined the UN on September 30, 1947.

In 1993 Pakistan was elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council.

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Malala Yousafzai, world's youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, was awarded a prestigious honorary fellowship by Oxford University's Linacre College on April 18, 2023 making her the first Pakistani to receive the honour

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• Punjab government appointed BS-19 police officer Amara Athar as chief traffic officer (CTO) of Lahore.
• Amara Athar is the first woman police officer holding the key traffic control assignment in Lahore.
• Appointed in December 2023.
  
• Amara Athar is also the fourth woman police officer posted in Lahore.

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 The Punjab government on November 28, 2022 launched a Web 3.0 portal to become the first province in the country to introduce the third generation of the World Wide Web.

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Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkwa, Mahmood Khan on 31 Jan 2021 said that entire population of the province start receiving free healthcare facility with extension of Sehat Card Plus scheme.

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Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati and Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani inaugurated a tourist safari train which is aimed at promoting the culture and the natural beauty of Potohar Region.

The safari train will operate for three days in a week, namely Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The routes involve the picturesque landscapes of Potohar, consisting of Margallah Hills, Sangjani tunnel and bridges like Chablal Bridge, Haro Bridge, Ghazi Borotha and Attock Khurd bridges. This train will pass through the old iron girder bridge on the Indus between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces.