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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has said that Pakistan is a nuclear power and will defend its sovereignty at all costs if attacked, regardless of which country is responsible. In an interview with Al Jazeera in Doha on the sidelines of the Arab-Islamic emergency summit, Dar described the recent Israeli strike on Qatar as a grave action against international law, the UN Charter, and the sovereignty of Muslim countries. He warned that if the Muslim world limits itself to statements alone, countries representing 2 billion Muslims will appear to have failed in the eyes of their people.…

Shares of Workday popped 9% on Wednesday after activist investor Elliott Investment Management announced a $2 billion stake in the company.Workday announced a multi-year plan to enhance its operating model and capital allocation framework on Tuesday, and Elliott said it believes the plan will drive “substantial long-term value creation.””We believe CEO Carl Eschenbach, CFO Zane Rowe and the entire Workday team have made substantial progress in recent years, positioning Workday as a unique software franchise with industry-leading growth potential, best-in-class customer retention and a proven management team,” Elliott said in a release on Tuesday.Workday provides software for finance and human resources departments.Last month, Workday said…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, meets with representatives from various groups involved in organizing the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 17, 2025. Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the leading group for the commemorative events, also attended…

ISLAMABAD: A formal reference has been submitted to the Islamabad Bar Council seeking the cancellation of Advocate Imaan Mazari’s licence to practice law. The development is the result of a growing legal and professional dispute involving the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Sarfaraz Dogar. According to Express News on Tuesday, the reference was filed by Advocate Adnan Iqbal, who has alleged that Imaan is involved in activities “deemed to be against the state”. The petitioner has requested the Bar Council to revoke her licence permanently and initiate a formal inquiry. This development comes in the wake of escalating tensions…

The Pakistan cricket team will not play their men’s Asia Cup 2025 match against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday, according to media reports. Geo News reported that the team has been given official instructions to return to their rooms, with the team bus parking outside the entrance to unload the players’ equipment. Earlier, footage run by DawnNewsTV showed team staff loading kit bags into a bus outside the players’ hotel, adding that the bus was headed to the stadium. The PCB will take a final call regarding the national team’s participation in the Asia Cup today after the…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesLONDON — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has weighed in on the chipmaker’s struggles in China after a report claimed the country has banned its AI semiconductors.He said he was “disappointed” after the Financial Times on Wednesday reported that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) had ordered companies including TikTok parent company ByteDance and Alibaba not to buy…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday continued hearings on petitions challenging the super tax, as the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) defended parliament’s authority to impose the levy. A five-member constitutional bench headed by Justice Aminuddin Khan heard arguments from FBR counsel Hafiz Ehsan Khokhar, who maintained that Section 14 of the Finance Act had not been changed, “only its purpose altered.” He argued that the case did not raise questions of legislative competence, adding that taxpayers who had failed to file returns were now “seeking benefits” through litigation. Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, however, pressed Khokhar on whether the National…

U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersWhat was meant to be a short-term assignment for venture capitalist David Sacks in President Donald Trump’s White House appears to have stretched into something much bigger, according to leading Democratic lawmakers.Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., have teamed up with a number of other progressive politicians to question whether Sacks has blown past the 130-day limit for Special Government Employees.In a letter delivered Wednesday morning, the…

ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday stopped one of its brother judges — Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri — from performing his duties as it took up a petition accusing Justice Jahangiri of holding a dubious LLB degree — a move that is bound to deepen the chasm within judiciary. Interestingly, the bench comprising Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar and Justice Muhammad Azam Khan also sought assistance from Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Awan on the question of whether the petition is maintainable. It also appointed senior lawyers Barrister Zafarullah Khan and Ashtar Ali…

ABU DHABI: Spinner Nasum Ahmed produced a miserly spell to help Bangladesh beat Afghanistan by eight runs on Tuesday and keep their Asia Cup hopes alive. Bangladesh posted 154-5 batting first as opener Tanzid Hasan starred with his 52 off 31 balls in Abu Dhabi. Nasum and fellow spinner Rishad Hossain then took two wickets each before pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman returned figures of 3-28 to help bowl out Afghanistan for 146. Taskin Ahmed also claimed two wickets as he wrapped up the innings with the final ball of the match. Bangladesh ended Group ‘B’ with two wins and one…