• Federal cabinet members insist prudent planning averted a worse crisis• PM’s fuel relief scheme set for nationwide rollout from midnight• Local resources kept lights on amid Hormuz disruption, says Leghari• Rs100 relief per litre is all economy can bear right now: Musadik• Govt...
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan government on Tuesday presented a three-month delayed budget of Rs218.845 billion for fiscal year 2026-27, with a deficit of over Rs52bn, seeking additional funds from the federal government to meet various liabilities. It may be mentioned here that...
National selector Aaqib Javed on Tuesday rejected reports of his impending resignation or removal from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as “fake news” amid ongoing speculation about a major shake-up in the board’s cricket administration. In a text-based correspondence with Dawn o...
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The world’s biggest AI companies are working on creating a standards body, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said on Tuesday, as fears rise about the dangers of AI and pressure is on to create a safer version of the technology. OpenAI said it was working with Anthropic and Google on an idea t...
ISLAMABAD: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Tuesday rejected the prime minister’s Fuel Relief Scheme, saying it could not substitute for the abolition of the petroleum levy. On Sunday, PM Shehbaz announced a “relief scheme” for users of motorcycles, rickshaws and vehicles of up to 800...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed state-owned telecom operator Pakistan Telecommunication Mobile Limited (PTML) to immediately stop issuing new ONIC SIMs and eSIMs, activating new connections, accepting new subscriptions and undertaking relate...
The Prime Minister’s Fuel Relief Scheme is set to be rolled out nationwide at midnight between Wednesday and Thursday, with the government finalising arrangements for its launch across the country, according to a statement issued by the office of deputy prime minister. On Sunday,...
LAHORE: On the second day of his visit to Lahore, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi reiterated allegations of police abuse against his party workers, prompting the Punjab government to question his presence in Lahore and remind him of the governance challenges and p...
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Tuesday rolled out body-worn cameras for its police force in a major push to “strengthen accountability, improve public safety and modernise policing”. The project is being launched initially in Lahore on the directives of Chief Minister Maryam Na...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in the pace of advanced AI development on Saturday, winning rare backing from SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and sparking a debate over AI “doomerism”. Here is what some AI leaders and world governments said about r...
LEWIS Carroll set a daunting bar in Through the Looking-Glass: one must run to stay in the same place; to get somewhere one must run twice as fast. How far will our one step forward, two steps back gait take us then? Nations once behind us now run twice as fast to perform 21st-ce...
Saudi Arabia vowed on Tuesday to respond “firmly” to attacks by Yemen’s Houthis, after the group wounded 13 people in the kingdom using ballistic missiles and drones. The Houthis have been engaged in renewed fighting with Saudi-backed government forces since Yemen’s civil war rei...
MUZAFFARABAD: The new Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) president will be elected on September 24, the region’s election commission announced on Tuesday. The office of the AJK president has remained vacant since January this year following the death of Barrister Sultan Mahmood. Previo...
The United States on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that Washington has deployed weapons in space, prompting a warning from China against turning outer space into a “battlefield”, and Russia saying space must be “free from any weapon”. Analysts said that the revelation by W...
ISLAMABAD: An inquiry committee formed to probe the deadly fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has found “systemic and institutional failure” and determined that an electrical failure was the most likely cause of the blaze, it emerged on Tuesday. The August ...
The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crimes, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday. Volker Turk said the remains of what ...
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on Tuesday summoned, under Article 175-E of the Constitution, the complete record of cases related to the transfer of PTI founder Imran Khan to Shifa International Hospital pending before the Supreme Court. Article 175-E, which wa...