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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday brushed off online trolls who mocked him for responding to an AI-generated riddle featuring Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe on the social media platform X. On Tuesday, the defence minister and PML-N stalwart replied to an AI-generated image of Monroe on X, which...
Israeli settlers on Friday beat an American photojournalist working for The Washington Post while she was covering ongoing violence against Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank. Heidi Levine, a veteran photographer, was taken to hospital in Ramallah following the attack, with AFP phot...
LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Friday claimed that the “head of a party” was “extremely upset” about not being appointed the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, without naming anyone. “The head of a party is extremely upset over being denied a role in the imposition of governor rule in Khyber...
LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Friday claimed that the “head of a party” was “extremely upset” about not being appointed the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, without naming anyone. “The head of a party is extremely upset over being denied a role in the imposition of governor rule in Khyber...
ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation rose to 11.38 per cent year-on-year in the week ending October 15, driven largely by higher food prices, according to official data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Friday. Of the 51 essential items monitored during the week, prices of 23 commodi...
New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia acknowledged on Thursday that she had failed the bar exam, a prerequisite for practising law in the United States, as her credentials face scrutiny. Zacharia has described herself as a lawyer during television appearances and on social media, and listed...
RAWALPINDI: Forensic evidence collected from the crime scene in the Hina Javed murder case has matched with the DNA samples of her husband and domestic servant, according to DNA analysis report. The report, a copy of which is available with Dawn, concluded that the DNA samples of Hina’s domestic ser...
KARACHI: A district and sessions court in Karachi on Friday acquitted alleged drug queenpin Anmol alias Pinky in two narcotics cases. The first case was registered with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in 2018 while the second case was registered at the Gizri police station in 2021. Anmol, who...
Police detained India’s ‘cockroach’ movement founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday, live images from his group showed, ahead of a protest called by him in capital Delhi’s central business district, the latest rally to demand the resignation of India’s election chief. The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (...
KARACHI: A district and sessions court in Karachi on Friday acquitted alleged drug queenpin Anmol alias Pinky in two narcotics cases. The first case was registered with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in 2018 while the second case was registered at the Gizri police station in 2021. Anmol, who...
The Foreign Office (FO) on Friday condemned Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s “provocative remarks” threatening aggression against Pakistan, saying such statements highlighting the neighbouring country’s “hegemonistic mindset”. Singh on Thursday had warned Pakistan that any “fresh terrorist ac...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Friday announced changes to the compensation packages for police officers martyred or injured in the line of duty as part of efforts to promote peace in the province. The provincial government has increased compensation for the families of martyred p...
