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PUBLISHED November 30, 2025 Before switching on to the actual proposition, I would love to proceed with Mark Twain’s popular saying: “Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile.” “Rule Breakers”, the film under review, is claimed to be “based on the inspiring, true story of Afghanistan’s first all-female robotics team who defied the odds and fought for education and opportunity.” This dramatic venture has been directed by the Academy Award-winning director Bill Guttentag, who has a reputation for working on true and inspiring stories from…

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 4, 2025 shows cargo ships berthed at a container dock of Qinzhou Port in Qinzhou City, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)NANNING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) — The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (ILSTC), a key logistics route connecting western China to global markets, had transported a cumulative total of more than 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo as of Saturday, according to China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd.The corridor connects the Silk Road Economic Belt in the north with the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in the south, coordinating…

PUBLISHED November 30, 2025 A key pitfall that has plagued progressives in recent years is an over-reliance on jargon, technicalities, and argumentation for the sake of it. This, of course, has been one of the great achievements of neoliberalism: peddling ‘technocracy’ with such sustained force that even its supposed opposition has come to accept its fundamental premises. Mamdani took a radical departure from this pretentiousness, adopting a communication protocol that was based on the ‘everyday’ language of New Yorkers. While detractors slated him as a ‘used car salesman’, the vast majority saw his casual strolls around the city — shaking…

PUBLISHED November 30, 2025 KARACHI: President Lula of Brazil had a vision of hosting the 30th conference of the parties in the Amazon, in Belem, in part to raise awareness, allegedly, about the dying state of the Amazon and deforestation more generally. He declared that this COP must be the “COP of implementation.” All this with prior knowledge that the world’s biggest economy, the US, would be sitting this one out. If we set Lula’s aspiration of “the COP of implementation” as the metric by which we measure the success or failure of the COP, then it is hard to…

PUBLISHED November 30, 2025 This year on Universal Children’s Day, as Pakistan prepares for its 2025 review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, I’m forced to reflect on a 35-year-old promise. In 1990, Pakistan was one of the six initiators of the World Summit for Children, a champion for the new UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). We ratified it with a speed that signalled leadership and moral clarity. Thirty-five years later, that promise is a ghost. It haunts the 26 million Pakistani children who are out of school. It haunts the corridors…

Funds will go to small-scale projects in constituencies of ruling alliance lawmakers ISLAMABAD: The government has approved the release of Rs43 billion to give Rs250 million to every member of the National Assembly from treasury benches for development spending as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says such spending is skewed towards districts belonging to the ruling parties. Government sources told The Express Tribune that a steering committee on the Sustainable Development Goals Achievement Programme (SAP) approved the release of Rs43 billion for parliamentarians. They said that funds would be spent on small-scale development schemes in the constituencies of ruling alliance…

States Section 7 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961 applies to all forms of talaq ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ruled that a divorce can be revoked within 90 days regardless of its form under Section 7 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961 (MFLO). The court has clarified that Section 7 of the MFLO applies to all forms of talaq, including talaq-e-bidat — instant triple talaq. Section 7(1) of the MFLO provides that when a husband pronounces “talaq in any form whatsoever”, he is under a statutory obligation to provide written notice of such pronouncement to the wife…

He advised judges to dedicate all their energies to effective justice service delivery to the litigant publicJustice Jamal Mandokhail. ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court’s Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail has urged judges to stand up for the rule of law and give decisions in accordance with the Constitution rather than personal interests “Judges should be bold. Judges should not justify their wrongdoings or infirmities. They should stand up for the rule of law, give decisions in accordance with law rather than personal interests, prejudice or pressure,” Justice Mandokhail said on Saturday. The SC judge was addressing a certificate–awarding ceremony at the conclusion of…

DG ISPR Lt General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry speaks during an interview. Photo: Screengrab ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said the Afghan Taliban regime has become a threat not only to Pakistan but to the entire region and the world, as it continues to facilitate terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil, citing the abandonment of $7.2 billion worth of American military equipment during the US withdrawal. Briefing senior journalists on Nov 25 on the country’s security matters, the DG ISPR noted that Pakistan’s position on the Doha Agreement was “absolutely clear”, saying the…

.Airlines glitch. Photo: Reuters TOKYO/NEW DELHI/PARIS: Global airlines scrambled to fix a software glitch on Airbus A320 jets on Saturday as a partial recall by the European planemaker halted hundreds of flights in Asia and Europe and threatened US travel over the busiest weekend of the year. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury apologised to airlines and passengers after the surprise recall of 6,000 planes or more than half of the global A320-family fleet, which recently overtook the Boeing 737 as the industry’s most-delivered model. “I want to sincerely apologise to our airline customers and passengers who are impacted now,” Faury posted…