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Listen to article In a meeting with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif assured that the government’s commitments would be honored, and all concerns raised by PPP would be addressed accordingly, Express News reported. During the meeting, the PPP delegation expressed objections regarding the controversial canal projects and highlighted security concerns in the Kurram district. The PPP also expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of relief for flood victims in Balochistan. PM Shehbaz reassured the delegation that the government’s commitment to resolving the issues related to the canals, security in Kurram, and aid for flood-affected…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Saudi Arabia to visit the kingdom’s crown prince and prime minister ahead of meetings with United States diplomats focused on a bilateral minerals deal and ending Ukraine’s war with Russia. Saudi state television reported Zelenskyy’s arrival in Jeddah, a port city on the Red Sea where the Ukraine-US summit will be held on Tuesday. He will meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday, before Ukrainian officials – including Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov – sit down with the Americans on Tuesday. “Ukraine has been seeking peace since the…

Anna Barclay | Getty ImagesShares of Trump Media dropped more than 10% in intraday trading Monday, accelerating the company’s downward slide since President Donald Trump took office.The company behind Trump’s preferred social media app Truth Social was trading below $20 per share around 3:00 p.m. ET — down about 50% from its closing price on Jan. 20, the day Trump was sworn in. Stock Chart IconStock chart iconTrump Media (DJT) Stock PriceMonday’s sell-off put Trump Media on pace for its worst day since Jan. 21, when DJT stock retreated from the buying frenzy that preceded the Republican president’s inauguration.Since then, the company has suffered a seven-week…

The Trump administration has targeted USAID as part of his efforts to trim government spending and reduce ‘waste’.The United States has cancelled 83 percent of all the programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) following a six-week review, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,” Rubio wrote in a post on the social media platform X. Rubio did not specify exactly which programmes were being…

CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBitcoin dropped under the $80,000 level on Monday, dragged by the continued selling pressure in the equities market.The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last lower by 5% at $78,714.96, its lowest level since November, according to Coin Metrics.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconBitcoin in the past dayShares of companies linked to the crypto space also slid. Coinbase fell roughly 14%. Robinhood lost 17%, and bitcoin proxy play Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, declined 16%.Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are coming off their fourth week in a row of outflows. They logged $867 million of outflows last…

Listen to article ABBOTTABAD: National Assembly Opposition Leader Omar Ayub said on Sunday that the opposition alliance, under the banner of Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ain Pakistan (TTAP), was working on launching a protest movement against the government, citing a lack of rule of law in the country. Speaking to the media in his constituency in Haripur, Ayub criticized the current government, claiming that nothing positive could be expected from it. He highlighted the worsening economic and law and order situations, saying, “In past two years, the depreciation of the rupee has resulted in a loss of Rs4,000 billion, corruption is on the rise, and no…

The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartous after four days of fighting between security forces and pro-Assad armed fighters. The unrest came only three months after the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in an offensive by opposition fighters. Reports from the Latakia region told of killings, kidnappings, theft, harassment and even public murders. So, what happened and who did this? Here’s what we know about the violence: What’s happening in Syria? On March 6, government forces began deploying to the coastal cities of Syria, including Latakia, Banias, Tartous and…

Elon Musk’s social media platform X experienced several outages on Monday morning, leaving some users unable to load the site.Nearly 40,000 users reported problems with the platform around 10 a.m. ET,  according to the analytics platform Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to the service. Around 28,000 people were experiencing issues as of 11:30 a.m. ET. A cause for the outages was not immediately clear.X did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.Musk acquired X, formerly known as Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022. The Tesla CEO slashed the company’s headcount by about…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The PML-N’s Punjab government has engaged a private special prosecutor to represent the prosecution in the Supreme Court in all cases related to May 9, 2023 incidents. “Mr Zulfiqar Abbas Naqvi, Advocate Supreme Court, is hereby appointed as Special Public Prosecutor in terms of Section 18 of Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 to represent the state in all cases related to the 09th May, 2023 incidents before the Supreme Court,” said a notification issued by the Punjab Public Prosecution Department on Saturday. The notification stated that a professional fee of Rs200,000 per petition/case will be paid upon the logical conclusion…

Europe’s imports of weapons made by the United States have skyrocketed in the past five years, raising serious questions about whether the continent can achieve its vaunted goal of defence autonomy. New research released on Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a leading defence and armaments think tank, shows Europe increased its imports of weapons two-and-a-half times over in the past five years compared with the previous five years. Two-thirds of those imports came from the United States. Europe’s ability to build its own weapons will materially affect how well it can defend Ukraine after a US…