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QUETTA: Unidentified armed men kidnapped 20 police recruits undergoing training at the Kalat Police Training Centre while they were travelling in a passenger van along the Quetta-Karachi Highway in Mastung district, officials said. A senior Balochistan government official confirmed the abduction to ...
THE much-anticipated, and somewhat dreaded, emergency in KP was finally proclaimed by the president on Oct 11. The federal cabinet’s recommendation, the summary of the prime minister’s advice to the president, and the proclamation — all three momentous developments — occurred on the same day. The su...
State Minister for Interior Tallal Chaudhry on Saturday rebuked Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman for reportedly seeking his “share” in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s governance following the imposition of governor’s rule and an emergency in the province. The minister was addressin...
Police arrested Indian “cockroach” movement founder Abhijeet Dipke, according to several media reports on Saturday, after he was detained on Friday ahead of a Delhi rally that drew hundreds of people waving the national flag and demanding the resignation of India’s election chief. Dipke was arrest...
North Korea has tested a “new-type” precision-guided torpedo system that uses artificial intelligence for target detection and guidance, state media reported Saturday, as the nuclear-armed country steps up weapons testing. The announcement came days after Pyongyang said it had test-fired two types o...
KARACHI: A septuagenarian man died of rabies at a local hospital, raising this year’s tally from the deadly infectious disease in Sindh to 40, officials said on Friday. They said that the victim, a resident of Baldia Town, was bitten by a dog over three weeks back but he did not seek preventive trea...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake jolted Balochistan’s Khuzdar district on Saturday, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). The quake occurred at 10:07am at a depth of 25 kilometres, the PMD said in a post on X. The PMD said the earthquake’s epicentre was located 48 kilometres northwest...
Bangladesh is battling to contain the world’s worst measles outbreak, a crisis exacerbated by weak data, inadequate outreach and vaccination gaps that experts say offers a warning to other nations about the deadly risk of falling immunisation rates. Bangladesh, whose routine vaccination programme fa...
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Saturday told AFP that Pakistan had so far withstood the shock from skyrocketing energy prices due to the US-Israeli war on Iran, but that attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were “worrying” for the country’s longer-term economic ...
UNITED NATIONS: More than 340 children have been reportedly killed and hundreds more injured in Gaza since a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was announced, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Friday, warning that children continue to face grave risks despite the truce. “For families mourning ...
Anthropic, the creator of the AI assistant Claude, confirmed on Friday it is circulating a draft bill among US lawmakers aimed at regulating artificial intelligence to address the lack of federal legislation on the risks posed by the new technology. According to the draft, first reported by Politico...
Commander National Strategic Command (CNSC) Lieutenant General Aamer Raza warned the country’s adversaries on Saturday that “any miscalculation will be met with a response far beyond the imagination or the calculation of the initiator”. “To those who harbour hostile designs across our borders, our s...
