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He clarified that the dust storm was not a result of Cyclone Nisarga, which he said had passed 750 kilometres away from Karachi's coast. The cyclone also passed by Mumbai's south, he noted. Sarfaraz further said the Met department's airport office had issued a local Met warning to aviation authorities at around 7:45pm about the dust storm's approach. The first gust was recorded at Karachi airport at 8:05pm; it blew for quite a while at the speed of 30-35 knots (65-70km per hour), he added. Earlier this evening, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had issued an advisory asking fishermen of Sindh to remain careful and "not to venture in deep sea till June 4 due to rough sea conditions". "Severe Cyclonic Storm (SCS) Nisarga moved further north-eastward with [a] speed of 20km per hour during last six hours and made landfall near south Gujarat-Maharashtra coast, India," the advisory said. Meanwhile, a massive fire, caused by heavy winds, broke ou...

Meanwhile, the federal cabinet issued directives to the provincial governments for the constitution of provincial finance commissions to ensure equitable distribution of development funds among various areas of the provinces. Addressing a presser after the cabinet meeting, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz said that the matters pertaining to the Provincial Finance Commission in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Balochistan would be supervised by Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar. Mr Faraz said chief ministers and key provincial ministers usually spent development funds in their own constituencies, creating a sense of deprivation among the people of other areas. Under the Provincial Finance Commission, every district would get its share of development funds under a formula, he announced. He said the cabinet meeting also directed the missions abroad to take steps for the release of some 11,376 Pakistanis languishing in jails of different cou...