KARACHI: Petroleum dealers have called on the government to devise a mechanism for reimbursing the fuel subsidy, which is set to take effect across the country from midnight on Wednesday. On September 13, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a “relief scheme” for users of moto...
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said Pakistan would “practically and diplomatically” stand by Saudi Arabia against Yemen’s Houthi rebels if the situation escalated. Earlier in the day, the Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Houthis accused the rebels of targeting the...
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Pakistan on Wednesday summoned the Charge d’Affaires of the Indian High Commission and lodged a “strong protest” over a “highly provocative and unacceptable” action by an Indian Navy vessel in Pakistan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on Sept 15, the Foreign Office (FO) said. Acco...
Yemeni government forces clashed with Houthi fighters near the Saudi border, with AFP footage showing soldiers in armoured vehicles and trucks pushing across desert terrain under the crackle of machine-gun fire. The Houthis also released footage on Wednesday of the fighting in th...
ISLAMABAD: Power Minister Awais Leghari on Wednesday said the government was working to introduce a virtual grid system in the country, under which consumers would be able to generate and store electricity. Talking to the media after a National Assembly panel meeting, the ministe...
ISLAMABAD: Indian delegates reportedly attempted to interrupt National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq’s address at the 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, as he spoke about climate adaptation and climate justice. According to information available,...
South Africa on Wednesday hit back at new US visa restrictions over its racial equity policies, accusing the Trump administration of distorting its laws and further straining ties between Washington and one of Africa’s most influential powers. The dispute is the latest front in a...
The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has formally asked the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) to move next month’s men’s Asian Champions Trophy out of India or shift all of Pakistan’s matches to a neutral venue, citing the “sensitive bilateral situation” between the two countries. Th...
Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir on Wednesday discussed evolving trends in defence technology and potential areas of cooperation with United States-based defence and critical infrastructure company POWERUS, the military’s m...
Quantum Valley Pakistan, a project likened to America’s Silicon Valley, was launched in Islamabad on Wednesday, with Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal as the chief guest. The Planning Ministry described Quantum Valley Pakistan as a pro...
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity. The ne...
AMID a rising tide of warnings about the grave risks posed by unregulated artificial intelligence, including from leading figures in the American tech industry, the leader of an increasingly unfree world is typically insouciant. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs,” D...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Wednesday claimed that his security detail had apprehended a man allegedly sent to kill him. Gujranwala Police, however, refuted the claim, saying the detained man was a constable deployed for the chief minister’s security. The K...
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Wednesday warned that ongoing talks with the government over the petroleum levy may end if the levy is not withdrawn soon. The talks between the government and JI began on September 7 after the two sides agreed t...
QUETTA: Five people, including a policeman, were killed while another person was injured in an armed attack on a camp of PPP leader Mir Shafiqur Rehman Mengal in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, police said on Wednesday. The attack took place in the Aranji area of Khuzdar’s Wadh t...
Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry said authorities had traced a “network” allegedly linked to the proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), including a weapons dealer. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the minister recalled the government’s move to pr...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed authorities to implement the short-term measures recommended in an inquiry report into the fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) within three months. He issued the directives while chairing a meeting on an ac...