Topic 1: Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar says Pakistan's economic growth rate is increasing despite Covid-19 pandemic that hit economies of many countries around the world.

Topic 2: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain says overseas Pakistanis, particularly those living in the United Arab Emirates, are an asset for the country.

Topic 3: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib says the government's steps to streamline the system are showing positive results.

Topic 4: National Command and Operation Center has decided to close educational institutions with high positivity rate of Omicron.

Topic 5: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi has urged the United Nations and the OIC to send their fact finding missions to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir to monitor the gruesome human rights violations being committed by the brute Indian forces in the territory.

Topic 6: The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reiterated the world body's position on Kashmir dispute that it should be resolved on the basis of the UN Charter, Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements between India and Pakistan.

Topic 7: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart Antony Blinken have held talks in Geneva to reduce chance of a wider conflict in Ukraine.

Topic 8: The Islamic State group attacked a Syria prison housing fellow jihadists and a military base in Iraq in near simultaneous deadly operations that revived fears of an IS resurgence.

Topic 9:UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has condemned air strike on a prison that left 70 people killed in Yemen's Saada area.

Topic 10: US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed to "push back" against China and condemned North Korea's spate of missile tests, while Biden underlined US commitment to defending Japan, in virtual talks Friday.

Topic 11: Sports

Topic 12: Weather

Credits:

Host: Iram Chaudhary    

Co-Host: Haq Nawaz

Producer: Asif Iqbal

Executive Producer: Abdul Raoof Khan