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KARACHI: After eight years, a judicial magistrate on Tuesday acquitted Senior Sindh Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon and five others in a case pertaining to the recovery of liquor from his Dr Ziauddin Hospital room. The then chief justice of Pakistan, Mian Saqib Nisar, had raided the room and allegedly ...
KARACHI: The city experienced hot weather on Tuesday as the temperature rose to 38.7 degrees Celsius with humidity recorded at 43 per cent, making conditions uncomfortable for people. A Met official said October is usually a warm month in Karachi and is often referred to as the city’s “second summer...
IN China, people are being paid to fold clothes, wipe tables, and open microwave doors. Wearing virtual reality headsets and exoskeletons, they repeat the movements hundreds of times so humanoid robots can learn them. Across China, similar centres have people performing other painfully ordinary task...
SOME statements by the ruling party leaders hailing the decision to impose a state of emergency and governor’s rule in KP bring to mind the words of a political leader following the military operation in East Pakistan in 1971: “Thank God, Pakistan is saved.” In fact, that action led to the separatio...
WASHINGTON: About 1.5 million internet-using children in Pakistan experienced sexual exploitation or abuse facilitated by digital technology in a single year, according to new research, as a senior United Nations official warns that artificial intelligence and overlapping global crises are creating ...
AS the information minister on Tuesday proclaimed that the people of KP had “welcomed” the imposition of governor’s rule and emergency in the province, he seemed to be forgetting that citizens had also distributed sweets and celebrated when the late Gen Pervez Musharraf overthrew Nawaz Sharif’s gove...
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: The PTI has urged National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq to issue production orders for its nine detained MNAs ahead of the National Assembly and Senate sessions scheduled for Tuesday. In a letter to NA Speaker, Chief Whip Amir Dogar claimed that the nine MNAs were “currently detai...
ISLAMABAD: The emergency proclamation issued under Article 232 applies to all of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, not just the 12 terror-stricken districts of the province, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference alongside his cabinet colleague Attaullah Tarar, the law minis...
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Tuesday called for giving provinces half the profits of oil and gas companies or half the wellheads, observing that no proper mechanism exists for implementation of joint and equal control of the federation and provinces over natural resources. The demand was made...
OHIO: US President Donald Trump said that the United States “might have gone too far” in targeting Iran’s leadership. “We might have gone too far with the leaders because we don’t know who the hell we’re dealing with any more,” he said during a campaign rally in Ohio, according to Middle East Eye. “...
ISLAMABAD: A joint meeting of opposition parties on Tuesday demanded the immediate withdrawal of the emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and called for respecting the democratic mandate of the people of the province. According to a statement issued after a meeting of the opposition ...
• Coalition says struck sites ‘supported Houthi missile, drone operations’• Aerial threat alerts issued for Riyadh, Eastern Province; blasts heard near Dhahran• Trump warns rebels; Erdogan pledges support for Riyadh RIYADH: Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Tuesday...
