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China’s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, is underway on Nov. 15, 2025. The Sichuan returned to the shipyard in Shanghai at around 5 p.m. Sunday after completing its maiden sea trial. (Photo by Zhang Liang/Xinhua)SHANGHAI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — China’s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, returned to the shipyard in Shanghai at around 5 p.m. Sunday after completing its maiden sea trial.The three-day mission tested the indigenously developed ship’s propulsion and electrical systems, as well as other equipment, achieving the expected results.The Sichuan will undergo follow-up tests in accordance with established plans.Being the new-generation…

PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 ISLAMABAD: After the collapse of Istanbul dialogue and two terror attacks on its soil originating from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s any likely decision to simultaneously exercise the options of blocking across the border human and trade movement and flexing security muscles can compound Kabul’s woes and build internal pressure on the regime to normalise ties. According to trade statistics, Afghanistan exports to Pakistan were equal to 45 percent of its total exports in 2024, making Islamabad the single largest trading partner. Kabul’s heavy dependence on Islamabad and given its landlocked country status, the western neighbour has limited alternatives…

Locals praise police, stating that they stood alongside them to ensure peace in region PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday killed five terrorists in a joint operation in Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts. According to Express News, the operation targeted the presence of the Fitna al Khawarij in the border areas of Takhti Khel and Howaid. Fitna al Khawarij is the state-designated term for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its allies. The operation was carried out under the supervision of Bannu Regional Police Officer (RPO) Sajad Khan, with strong support from local residents. During the…

* Chinese museums and cultural institutions are turning the spotlight on bamboo and wooden slips, or jiandu — the country’s primary writing medium for thousands of years before the invention of paper.* To date, Chinese archaeologists have unearthed more than 300,000 inscribed bamboo slips.* Once buried underground as silent witnesses to China’s history, these fragile artifacts are now being revived as sources of cultural inspiration and economic vitality.WUHAN/CHANGSHA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Curator Hou Liming stands beside a replica of one of China’s most remarkable archaeological discoveries — a tomb where an official was buried with 1,155 word-bearing bamboo slips…

Athar Minallah, Supreme Court Judge. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ruled that a state that fails to safeguard the inheritance rights to its women fails in its duty to uphold the principles of equity, faith and justice. “It is incumbent upon the State under the Constitution and the clear injunctions of Islam, to ensure the effective and unfettered realization of women’s right to inheritance. This right is not a concession granted by human law but a divinely ordained command, explicitly declared in the Holy Quran,” says a seven-page judgement authored by Justice Athar Minallah while hearing a case…

The exterior of the main entrance of Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.FordDEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor is swapping its 1950s “Glass House” headquarters for a new, modern industrial facility to promote collaboration and better appease thousands of employees who have returned to offices in recent years after remote working.The new 2.1-million-square-foot facility in Dearborn, Michigan, is ceremoniously opening Sunday, although construction is expected to continue into 2027.It replaces a 12-story, rectangular-shaped headquarters roughly three miles away in the city that is expected to be demolished. The new building marks Ford’s sixth headquarters since its founding in 1903.Currently…

By Shabina Faraz/Abdul Rahim | PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory? Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns such as Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, Surbandar, Damb, Gaddani, and Karachi. Over two million people are directly involved in this industry that has steadily declined because of rapid paradigm shifts toward modern boat technologies, lack of institutional support, and the dwindling market demand. Once the pride of Pakistan’s coastal communities, is now on the verge of extinction. According to Muhammad Moosa,…

PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 KARACHI: I came across a reel on Instagram recently that described Dr Victor Frankenstein as the “OG f***boi”. As funny as this Gen Z take on the titular protagonist of Mary Shelley’s classic of Gothic horror may sound, it may not be that far off — especially when taking into account the life of one of the likely inspirations behind Dr Frankenstein: Mary’s husband and pre-eminent English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. In an era we otherwise remember for extreme prudishness, Percy — and Mary herself, to an extent — championed radical ideas on politics, social…

Fan Zhendong competes during the men’s singles final match of table tennis between Fan Zhendong of Shanghai and Lin Shidong of Hainan at China’s 15th National Games in Macao, south China, Nov. 16, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)MACAO, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Shanghai’s Fan Zhendong beat Lin Shidong of Hainan 4-1 to defend the table tennis men’s singles title at China’s 15th National Games here on Sunday.Despite a slow start, trailing 9-4 in the first game, Fan pocketed seven points in a row to clinch an 11-9 win.Lin, 20, won the second game 11-8, but 28-year-old Fan was unstoppable afterwards, taking the…

PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 KARACHI: When Steven Knight set out to dramatise the making of Ireland’s most famous drink, few expected him to stir such potent contradictions. House of Guinness is not just a period drama about ale and ambition — it’s a story about class, faith, and the uneasy marriage between profit and conscience. To create a soap opera around history on streaming platforms, elements such as sensationalism, and exaggeration of historical events, provocative or low-quality production values appealing to voyeuristic tendencies, and the development of over-the-top, scandalous narratives involving conspicuous consumption, excess, and the blurring of taste and…