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Another young life stolen, another future erased—Allah Daad Wahid’s memory haunts Karachi University’s silent halls. The University of Karachi is a world in itself. Walking through the shade of trees and exploring the long roads across multiple seasons, you meet a lot of people you wouldn’t otherwise encounter. Sometimes, you don’t even meet them—you just keep hearing about them. And sometimes, you don’t hear about them at all until they become a story themselves. Allah Daad Wahid is one such story, with no conclusion. A life fulfilled, yet half-lived—cut short and taken away brutally, leaving everyone who knew him devastated.…

Workers go about their job at a granite mine on Feb. 26, 2025 in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. Kostiantyn Liberov | Libkos | Getty ImagesUkraine might have turned the tide in its rocky relations with the U.S. by offering President Donald Trump’s administration access to its critical minerals as part of wider peace negotiations, but experts warn that question marks remain around the value and accessibility of such deposits.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to travel to Washington Friday for a potential signing of a deal with Trump that would see Kyiv and the U.S. jointly develop and monetise Ukraine’s deposits…

Strong winds and blocked roads hinder rescue mission for 42 workers caught in Uttarakhand avalanche.More than 40 construction workers are trapped under the snow due to an avalanche near India’s border with Tibet. Blizzard-like conditions caused the avalanche on Friday at a camp near the mountain village of Mana in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. It initially trapped 57 workers who were clearing out snow from the camp. Fifteen of them were rescued while 42 are still missing, said Ridhim Agarwal, an official from the state’s disaster relief force. Disaster response teams are trying to reach the trapped workers at…

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, here on Friday.Noting that China and Russia are friendly neighbors and true friends, Xi said he and President Vladimir Putin have communicated twice this year, making overarching plans for the development of China-Russia relations and having in-depth exchanges on a series of major international and regional issues.He said the…

Poetry isn’t merely surviving — it’s alive in protests, on billboards, in memes, echoing from parliament to Pepsi ads. This is a question that comes up from time to time in drawing rooms, lecture halls and literary festivals across this country; and there is a fairly standard answer. Yes, poetry is either dead or very quickly dying. A myriad of reasons are presented: young people are reading less and less, they are not committing themselves to the serious academic study of poetic nuances and devices, the education system no longer teaches humanities with the same rigor, social and governmental institutions…

China’s Ministry of Commerce accuses Washington of ‘shifting the blame and shirking responsibility’ over opioid crisis.China has warned the United States of “countermeasures” after US President Donald Trump announced he would impose new tariffs on Chinese goods in response to the smuggling of fentanyl. Trump on Thursday flagged an additional 10 percent duty on Chinese imports while announcing that his proposed 25 percent tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods would go ahead on March 4. Trump said on Truth Social that the new tariff, which would come on top of a 10 percent duty imposed on Chinese goods earlier this…

RAWALPINDI: Thursday’s extraordinary meeting of the Pakistan Football Federation Congress was vital. This time, things couldn’t go wrong. And so for this one, after two previous meetings in the last few months couldn’t bring the desired results, the deputy secretary general of the Asian Football Confederation flew in. Vahid Kardany’s presence at the meeting was the key to providing the reassurance and removing the distrust that had seeped in with global football body FIFA and the AFC adamant that the constitutional amendments — that largely centred on the candidacy of the PFF president — were key to holding the PFF…

Melkinimages | E+ | Getty ImagesThe egg aisle is anything but cheaper by the dozen these days — and that’s becoming a big problem ahead of the Easter holiday.The makers of Easter egg dye kits are bracing for the potential fallout if the egg shortage doesn’t begin to clear up before the April 20 holiday. For many companies that specialize in these activity sets, egg dye kits and related products make up a significant share of annual revenue. Diminished sales could have a major impact on their bottom lines.”I think sales will be down,” said Ashley Phelps, founder and CEO…

At least four people, including Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani – chief of the (JUI-S) – were martyred and around a dozen others injured in a suicide blast at the Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak area of Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. A statement released by the Central Police Office confirmed that the explosion, that took place after Friday prayer at the mosque situated inside Darul Uloom Haqqania compound, was a suicide bombing, Express News cited police sources. Zulfiqar Hameed, Inspector General (IG) of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province earlier told local news channels that at least four people were martyred and around a dozen others injured in the…

The Israeli army has acknowledged its “complete failure” to prevent the October 7 attack by Hamas, admitting that it had, for years, underestimated the Palestinian group’s capabilities. The summary of an Israeli army investigation, published on Thursday, said it “failed in its mission to protect Israeli civilians”. “October 7 was a complete failure, the IDF (military) failed in fulfilling its mission to protect Israeli civilians,” a senior Israeli army official told reporters following the publication of the investigation. “Too many civilians died that day asking themselves in their hearts or out loud, where was the IDF?” said the official, speaking…