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RAWALPINDI: Voicing strong concern over highly incendiary statements by India’s defence minister and military leadership, Pakistan Army on Saturday warned that in the event of renewed hostilities, Pakistan “shall not hold back but will respond resolutely, without any qualms or restraint”. Indian leaders have been issuing provocative statements since their military’s humiliating setback in the brief conflict with Pakistan in May, which saw the loss of several Indian warplanes, including prized Rafale jets, during the aerial engagements. “We have noted with grave concern the delusional, provocative and jingoistic statements coming from the highest levels of the Indian security establishment,” the…

President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago on Saturday, marking the latest escalation of his use of federal intervention in cities.But the same day, a similar mobilization of 200 National Guard troops in Oregon was temporarily blocked after a federal judge found President Donald Trump was likely overstepping his legal authority in responding to relatively small protests near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.Trump voiced his frustration on Sunday morning about the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, who he appointed during…

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to publicly disclose $11 billion worth of discrepancies in trade data reported by two government entities over the last two fiscal years, raising questions about the credibility of the country’s external sector indicators. Government sources told The Express Tribune that imports reported by Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) were $5.1 billion lower than those reported by Pakistan Single Window (PSW) for fiscal year 2023-24. The difference widened further to $5.7 billion in the following fiscal year, they added. PSW’s import figures, which are considered more comprehensive and include all import entries,…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has underscored that the right to pension is a constitutionally protected entitlement, not a matter of generosity, and is inherently tied to the dignity and livelihood of retired employees. “Pension is not a matter of bounty, charity, or benevolence – it is a right protected under Articles 9 and 14 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 and inseparably linked with the right to life, dignity and livelihood, for without sustenance in old age, these rights ring hollow,” states a 10-page judgment authored by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah. The ruling noted that…

White House National Economic Adviser Kevin Hassett talks to reporters on the West Wing driveway at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 27, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersWhite House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that layoffs for federal employees will begin if President Donald Trump decides that congressional negotiations to end the government shutdown “are absolutely going nowhere.””I think that everybody’s still hopeful that when we get a fresh start at the beginning of the week, that we can get the Democrats to see that it’s just common sense to avoid layoffs like that,” Hassett said on CNN’s “State…

PUBLISHED October 05, 2025 In recent years, Pakistani filmmakers, especially those working in alternative cinema, have been making rounds in the international circuit. They are doing more than just telling a story; they are representing and questioning the very world those stories come from. Dealing in Desire by Saba Karim Khan and Sarmad Sultan Khoosat is that kind of film. It is just over thirteen minutes long and feels like a powerful combination: part poem, part performance, and part visual essay. It stars Rasti Farooq, who performs a woman living in a body that is both wanted and judged —…

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor incorporates proven components.Courtesy: GE VernovaVan Buren County is a rural redoubt in southwestern Michigan, a quiet corner of a swing state. Pillow soft sand dunes shift and shape along the shores of Lake Michigan. And the county seat – Paw Paw – is named after a quintessentially Midwestern fruit.”It is a beautiful natural environment with gorgeous sand dunes that you don’t see in other parts of the world,” says Daywi Cook, whose family has lived in this area for five generations. “A lot of folks like to live here because of the…

PUBLISHED October 05, 2025 LAHORE: South Asia is once again restless. Pots bang in Dhaka, pirate flags wave in Jakarta, young Nepalis dodge curfews by tunnelling through VPNs and Sri Lankans march until their prime minister flees. The newspapers, hungry for shorthand, dub it the Asian Spring. On one hand, these are undeniably uprisings of the dispossessed, angry at corruption, unemployment, and dynastic rot. On the other, they fit all too neatly into a familiar script: Western “democracy promotion” amplifying dissent, financing NGOs, and guiding “leaderless” networks toward regime change. Leaked intelligence, whistleblowers and official pronouncements across the spectrum suggest…

PUBLISHED October 05, 2025 The concerns regarding forced conversion are not a new phenomenon in our part of the world. Almost a century ago the All India Muslim League chalked out the rules for conversion in this region. The All India Muslim League adopted a resolution in December, 1927 at Calcutta which addressed the issue of forced conversion. Historian Ghulam Ali Allana’s book Pakistan Movement: Historic Documents describes the League’s demand as follows: “Every individual or group is at liberty to convert or re-convert another by argument or persuasion, but that no individual or group shall attempt to do so…

Keith Heyde stands on site in Abilene, Texas, where OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure buildout is underway. Heyde, a former head of AI compute at Meta, is now leading OpenAI’s physical expansion push.OpenAIIt wasn’t how Keith Heyde envisioned celebrating the holidays. Rather than hanging out with his wife back home in Oregon, Heyde spent late December visiting potential data center sites across the U.S.Two months earlier, Heyde left Meta to join OpenAI as the head of infrastructure. His job was to turn CEO Sam Altman’s ambitious compute dreams into reality, seeking out vast swaths of land suitable for expansive facilities that will…