The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday barred authorities from taking “coercive measures” against eateries legally operating and serving sheesha under permits or licences issued by the relevant authorities. The written order, seen by Dawn, was issued for the proceedings held ...
Punjab Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Saturday defended Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz amid recent criticism of her use of a government jet for a private visit and her remarks on the province facing a terrorism threat from neighbouring provinces. “The issue these days is not ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for a BRICS summit alongside leaders from India, Russia and Iran as wars, trade and energy test the divided grouping. The conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, along with global trade turbulence and energy security...
AI agents being tested by OpenAI attacked software service RubyGems two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, researchers said, the latest revelation of cyberattacks linked to major artificial intelligence (AI) developers that have spooked the public and sp...
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi on Saturday called for strengthening the district judiciary, describing it as the “backbone” of the country’s justice system. “The district judiciary is the backbone of our justice system and for most citizens, this is the first contac...
Shafqat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first ambassador to Armenia, presented his letters of credence to President Vahagn Khachaturyan at a formal ceremony at the presidential palace, it emerged on Saturday. President Khachaturyan warmly welcomed Ambassador Khan, congratulated him on his a...
LAHORE: Around 100 Pakistani Sikh pilgrims, including women and children, were stopped at Faisalabad International Airport on Friday from travelling to India to perform religious rituals at Gurdwara Sri Hemkund Sahib, after the immigration authorities raised questions over their ...
INTENSE fighting has broken out between the Saudi-backed government of Yemen, and the pro-Iran Houthi Ansarallah group that currently holds the capital Sanaa and much of the north. While the hostilities will add to the miseries of the Yemeni people, the conflict is tied to the US...
“No man is an island, entire of itself; … any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” JOHN Donne wrote these words four centuries ago, and Ernest Hemingway later used a part of the...
GOOGLE’S new local office gave the government a week to celebrate. It was inaugurated at the Prime Minister’s House, where Pakistan and Google signed an MoU three days later. Pakistani students will receive free access to Google AI Plus and Gemini for a year, while Google is targ...
Saudi authorities said on Friday drones launched from Iraq led to the temporary closure of a crucial oil export route used to bypass the lockdown of the Strait of Hormuz. Riyadh has increased its use of the East-West pipeline, which links Abqaiq, near the Gulf, to the port of Yan...
GILGIT: Federal Minister for Law and Justice Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Friday that consultations on the constitutional and legal status of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) were under way, while the federal government was considering an arrangement to give the region a share in the N...
• Identifies cell of threat actors running three weapons development programmes• Claims it banned accounts as soon as it detected illegal activity PARIS: A group in Yemen attempted to use Anthropic’s Claude chatbot to build guided rockets and missiles, the US firm has revealed, a...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Rules of Procedure and Privileges Committee on Friday directed Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and the Airport Security Force (ASF) to initiate disciplinary action against staff members accused of misbehaving with senators, saying such conduct damages...
• Says 1,914 cases of violence and abuse against children were reported from January to June 2026• Urges speedy trials, strict punishment for perpetrators ISLAMABAD: PPP Vice President Senator Sherry Rehman on Friday expressed deep concern over what she called a “serious child pr...
• Passes resolution against Maryam Nawaz; terms her remarks about ‘security threats from neighbouring provinces’ harmful to national unity• PML-N claims her statement is being misread, misrepresented PESHAWAR: After suspending the day’s agenda, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on ...
ISLAMABAD: In a controversial decision, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday approved the contentious Integrated System Plan (ISP) 2025, entailing a total investment of about $58 billion in the power generation and transmission sectors over 11 years....
• PTI delegation meets Fazl; both sides discuss joint strategy on national issues• Opposition leaders to review conference preparations on 15th ISLAMABAD: The JUI-F on Friday agreed to participate in the multi-party conference (MPC) being organised by the PTI ahead of its long ma...