Major Irfan Bercha and Major Raja Zeeshan Jahanzeb were martyred in the incident, stated the ISPR.
"Search and rescue helicopters and army troops have reached the incident site," the statement added.
A mob comprising hundreds of protestors, including the employees of the factory Kumara was the manager of, had tortured him to death on Friday and later burnt his body over blasphemy allegations.
A first information report was registered against 900 workers of Rajco Industries on the application of Uggoki Station House Officer (SHO) Armaghan Maqt under Sections 302, 297, 201, 427, 431, 157, 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code and 7 and 11WW of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The applicant stated that the protesters had slapped, kicked, punched and hit Kumara with sticks in his presence, and dragged him out of the factory on Wazirabad Road where he died. They then set the body on fire. The SHO said he was helpless in front of the mob owing to shortage of personnel.
The body was brought to the airport in an ambulance where Punjab Minister for Minority Affairs Ejaz Alam Augustine received it and dispatched it via a Sri Lankan Airlines flight with state honours.
Other officials present on the occasion included Special Representative to the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony Hafiz Mohammad Tahir Ashrafi, Honorary Consul General of Sri Lanka Yasin Joya and representatives of the Punjab Home Department and Sri Lankan High Commission.
Speaking to reporters at the airport, Ashrafi said the whole nation would have to unite to eradicate extremism the way it had eliminated terrorism from the country.
"Today is a day of grief but we promise that the killers of Priyantha Kumara will be brought to justice," he said.
The confirmed case in the man, who had arrived on Nov. 29, makes Thailand the 47th country to have found the new variant, Opas Karnkawinpong, Director-General of the Department of Disease Control, told a news conference.
"This first confirmed case of Omicron variant is a 35-year-old man who is a U.S. citizen who lived in Spain for a year," Opas said adding that the patient had mild symptoms.
Opas said health authorities were conducting further tests of people who had come into contact with the man, but said all contacts so far were low risk.
A spokesman for the Spanish Health ministry declined to comment on this case but added: "Our detection system has so far proved successful. We have detected five cases in Spain."
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Opas said authorities had also limited travel from other African countries and were monitoring international travelers for more potential cases.
Thailand reported 4,000 new coronavirus infections and 22 new deaths on Monday, taking the tally to more than 2.1 million cases and 20,966 deaths since the pandemic started last year.
More than 57% of people in Thailand have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, health ministry data showed.
The rout sent bitcoin's price and the amount invested in bitcoin futures back to where they were in early October, before the massive price surge that sent the token to its all time high of $69,000 on Nov. 10.
"Our expectation is the rest of Q4 will be a hard month; we aren't seeing the strength in bitcoin that we generally see after one of these crushing days, leverage markets have been completely reset, and open interest within leverage markets has completely reset," said Matt Dibb, chief operating officer of Stackfunds.
Crypto data platform Coinglass showed open interest - the total number of futures contracts held by market participants at the end of the trading day - across all exchanges was last at $16.5 billion compared with $23.5 billion on Thursday, and as much as $27 billion on Nov 10.
Traders said the weekend fall was connected with the broad move away from riskier assets in traditional markets over worries about the omicron variant of the new coronavirus, combined with lower trading liquidity.
As prices fell further, investors who had bought bitcoin on margin saw exchanges close their positions, causing a cascade of selling. A range of retail-focused exchanges closed more than $2 billion of long bitcoin positions on Saturday, according to Coinglass.
Some exchanges allow traders to place bets 20 times or more the size of their investment, meaning a small move in the wrong direction can cause exchanges to liquidate clients' positions when their initial investment is gone.
Bitcoin rival ether , the world's second-largest cryptocurrency, which underpins the ethereum network, was also hit on Saturday, but less hard.
It last traded at $4,112, versus its Nov. 10 high of $4,868, but it has climbed steadily on its larger rival.
"This will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods," Sarah Gilbert said in the Richard Dimbleby Lecture," "The truth is, the next one could be worse. It could be more contagious, or more lethal, or both."
She said."We cannot allow a situation where we have gone through all we have gone through, and then find that the enormous economic losses we have sustained mean that there is still no funding for pandemic preparedness," "The advances we have made, and the knowledge we have gained, must not be lost."
According to the results of 254 different polling station of the constituency, PML-N representative Shaista Malik Parveiz bagged 46,811 votes while emrged victorious with a lead of 14,500 votes while the PPP s representative Aslam Gill remained runner up by securing 32,313 votes.
According to forum 47, the results of 254 were calculated. Out of 440485 votes in the constituency, 80997 votes were casted. The voters turn-out remained 18.59 per cent out of which 50936 were males and 30959 females citizens whereas, 898 votes were wasted.
Earlier, Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz’s (PML-N) candidate Shaista Malik Pervaiz filed application against polling staff of constituency NA-133.
As per details, the candidate stated that in the polling station of constituency 232, 233 and 234 the presiding officers were involved in compelling public to cast vote in favor of Pakistan Peoples Party s (PPP) candidate.
It comes as Mr Trump remains banned from Twitter and Facebook following the attack on the US Capitol in January.
Donald Trump's said, "$1bn sends an important message to Big Tech that censorship and political discrimination must end."
"As our balance sheet expands, Trump Media & Technology Group will be in a stronger position to fight back against the tyranny of Big Tech."
Mr Trump announced plans to launch Truth Social earlier this year, saying it would allow conversation "without discrimination on the basis of political ideology".
The Trump Media & Technology Group has partnered on the project with Digital World Acquisition, a so called special purpose acquisition company (Spac) or "blank cheque company".
Spacs, which became a major story in the US stock market at the start of this year, are shell companies that are set up with the sole purpose of merging with a private firm to take it public. However, they have lost much of their lustre after some of the companies that merged with them failed to deliver on their ambitious financial projections.
On Saturday, Mr Trump's firm said it had secured the $1bn from from "a diverse group of institutional investors" without revealing who they were. According to reports, the social media venture is now valued at almost $4bn.
It would appear to underscore the former US president's ability to attract strong financial backing despite the controversy surrounding his time in charge.
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