Pakistan on Tuesday unveiled locally developed drones to fight the locust attack threatening food security.
Pakistan-made “drones will revolutionise the country’s agriculture industry”, Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry said, sharing the photo of drones on Twitter.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Science and Technology signed an agreement with a private company, ABM-SATUMA, for the production and agriculture application of the drones to deal with locust crisis. The drones would be handed over to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
There is another good news for Pakistanis who like to travel as the Passport Index, the world’s leading real-time passport ranking tool, has ranked the country’s travel document at 192 in the Individual Passport Power Ranking (IPPR) 2020 and it is a significant improvement from last year.
The Pakistani passport’s ranking jumped six places higher from the 198th position in 2019.
IPPR is compiled by combining both the Mobility Score (MS), the number of countries one can visit without a visa, or a visa on arrival can be obtained, and United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index (UNDP HDI). The higher the Mobility Score, the better the IPPR ranking. UNDP HDI serves as the deciding factor in case passports have the same Mobility Score.
The Pakistani passport has a Mobility Score of 33, and those who hold one can access seven countries visa-free and get a visa on arrival in 26 nations.
Broadcast journalist and TV anchor talks about these two important developments in her recent vlog.
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