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LAHORE: Despite losing the recent One-day International home series against South Africa, Pakistan national women’s team were well prepared and had no extra pressure to face arch-rivals India in the forthcoming ICC World Cup, captain Fatima Sana said on Tuesday. The Fatima-led team won the third and final ODI against South Africa in Lahore on Monday but the tourists took the series 2-1. Fatima and Wasim were addressing a press conference along with in-form batter Sidra Amin at a local hotel in Lahore before the squad left for Colombo to participate in the World Cup starting on Sept 30. “There…
ISLAMABAD: Japan has expressed interest in participating in the multibillion-dollar Reko Diq copper and gold mining project in Pakistan. So far, Japan’s investment has mainly remained confined to Pakistan’s auto sector. Now, it is keen to become an investor, along with local and international players, in the gigantic Reko Diq project. Earlier, Saudi Arabia showed interest in pumping capital into the scheme, along with acquisition of a 15% shareholding. Following a query about the participation of Japan, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet was apprised that the Japanese were eager to become part of the project. The Finance…
ISLAMABAD: While directing the Pakistan Hockey Federation president Tariq Hussain Bugti to hold PHF elections in two months, a parliamentary panel on Tuesday asked the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to complete the inquiry against the game’s governing body. A sub-committee of the Standing Committee of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC), which met here at the IPC ministry with MNA Sheikh Aftab Ahmed in the chair, discussed the matter of PHF’s pending elections. After hearing all stakeholders including representative of ministry of law, attorney general office, PHF officials and IPC ministry, the committee directed Bugti to hold the PHF elections in a couple…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesABILENE, Texas — Sam Altman stood on a patch of hot Texas dirt, the kind that turns to dust storms on dry days and mud slicks after a sudden rain. Behind him stretched the outlines of what will soon be a massive data center complex in the west-central part of the state, where heavy wind often meets extreme heat.It was a fitting backdrop for the OpenAI CEO…
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 23, 2025 shows the Tianmen grand bridge under construction in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. The Tianmen grand bridge on the Anshun-Panzhou highway, with a length of 1,553 meters and the bridge floor hung about 560 meters above the canyon water, finished its closure on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 23, 2025 shows the Tianmen grand bridge under construction in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. The Tianmen grand bridge on the Anshun-Panzhou highway, with a length of 1,553 meters and the bridge floor hung about 560 meters above the canyon water,…
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank said on Tuesday that Pakistan’s current economic growth model does not support poverty reduction, causing income gains to stall, with poverty already at an eight-year high in 2024. The ‘Reclaiming Momentum Towards Prosperity: Pakistan’s Poverty, Equity and Resilience Assessment’ report by the World Bank further disclosed that the aspiring middle class, which constitutes 42.7% of the population, is “struggling to achieve full economic security”. “The aspiring middle class is facing significant non-monetary deprivations, such as limited access to safe sanitation, clean drinking water, affordable energy and housing,” the World Bank said, adding that this points to…
Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares surged on Wednesday to reach their highest point since 2021 after the company said it will invest more in artificial intelligence and rolled out new AI products and updates. Shares of the company jumped over 6%, while its total gains year to date rose above 107%. The tech giant plans to increase spending on AI models and infrastructure development, on top of the 380 billion yuan ($53 billion) over three years it announced in February, Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wu said Wednesday at Alibaba Cloud’s annual flagship technology conference.”We are vigorously advancing a three-year, 380 billion [yuan] AI…
The case of GHQ has hit another road bump, this time over WhatsApp. Founder of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf Imran Khan was ordered to attend the trial through videolink in the last hearing, which Imran vehemently opposed. Imran’s lawyers and Imran himself announced their boycott of the case proceedings and have petitioned the Lahore High Court to allow Imran to be able to physically present during hearings. Imran’s lawyers, Salman Akram Raja, challenged the Home Department’s notification in Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday. The petition argued that under Article 10A of the constitution, a fair trial is mandatory. The petition requested…
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has called for strengthening the partnership between the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the United Nations to foster a culture of peace and tolerance in a world marred by conflicts. Speaking at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) High-Level Event on Peace and Tolerance, held in New York to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the birth of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), he stressed that this partnership should prioritise promoting interfaith and intercultural dialogue, safeguarding sacred sites and religious symbols, and combating terrorism and violent extremism in all its forms. Senator Mohammad Ishaq…
The steel frame of data centers under construction during a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters Talk about bad timing. OpenAI’s first Stargate development to come online — a data center in Texas that’s stuffed to the brims with Oracle and Nvidia infrastructure — did so just as investors started questioning the sustainability of the artificial intelligence firm’s trajectory.Shares of Nvidia and Oracle, the major players in OpenAI’s push to establish data centers that are essentially the heart of ChatGPT, fell Tuesday. Their moves were all the starker when…