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Tourists enjoy sightseeing in a populus euphratica forest in Mogao Town of Dunhuang, northwest China’s Gansu Province, Oct. 19, 2025. People are heading outdoors to enjoy the pleasant autumn days across China. (Photo by Zhang Xiaoliang/Xinhua)Tourists enjoy sightseeing at a scenic area in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Oct. 19. 2025. People are heading outdoors to enjoy the pleasant autumn days across China. (Photo by Jiang Keqing/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 19, 2025 shows tourists visiting a park in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province. People are heading outdoors to enjoy the pleasant…

PUBLISHED October 19, 2025 KARACHI: Along Pakistan’s porous western border, long-simmering tensions have boiled over after reported precision counterterrorism strikes inside Afghanistan. The Taliban regime reacted with reckless aggression. While Afghan border guards have launched unprovoked attacks in the past too, this time the scale was unprecedented, with coordinated assaults on Pakistani border posts across North Waziristan, Kurram, Chaman, and Zhob. Pakistan responded with measured reprisals, neutralising multiple hostile elements while limiting collateral damage. The timing of this latest escalation, however, adds a new layer of concern. The hostilities coincided with the Taliban regime’s foreign minister, Mullah Amir Muttaqi, visiting…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., Oct. 17, 2025.Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersPresident Donald Trump said Sunday he would slash U.S. funding to Colombia because the country’s leader “does nothing to stop” drug production, in what is the latest sign of friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America.In a social media post, Trump referred to Colombian President Gustavo Petro as “an illegal drug dealer” who is “low rated and very unpopular.” He warned that Petro “better close up”…

This photo taken on Oct. 8, 2024 shows the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)In a world still searching for certainty, China’s Five-Year Plans have offered a sense of direction — one that marries systematic planning with bold innovations, new quality productive forces, green transformation, and domestic progress with global cooperation.BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) — This year marks the conclusion of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), which has steered the country through global uncertainties while maintaining growth and electrifying innovation over the past five years.Despite global challenges such as recurring geopolitical conflicts, soaring global inflation…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Saturday sought, by a majority decision, comments from an Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge on a complaint of misconduct against him. The council—a constitutional forum that can hold superior court judges accountable—also approved proposed amendments to the code of conduct for judges—a move many believe is aimed at silencing outspoken members of the judiciary. According to a press statement, a five-member SJC led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi examined 67 complaints filed against judges of superior court under Article 209 of the Constitution.Of these, 65 complaints were unanimously decided to be…

It also enhances early warning systems, post-disaster assessments for floods, landslides In a landmark achievement that marks a new era in Pakistan’s space exploration journey, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) has successfully launched the country’s first-ever Hyperspectral Satellite (HS-1) from China. The breakthrough not only represents a major technological leap for Pakistan but also demonstrates its growing capabilities in harnessing advanced space science for national development, sustainability, and disaster resilience. The HS-1 satellite is engineered to capture ultra-precise hyperspectral imagery across hundreds of narrow spectral bands, offering unprecedented resolution for the analysis of land, vegetation, water,…

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025.Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence startup Anthropic is doing all it can to keep pace with larger rival OpenAI, which is spending money at a historic pace with backing from Microsoft and Nvidia. Of late, Anthropic has been facing an equally daunting antagonist: the U.S. government.David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, has been publicly criticizing Anthropic for what he’s called a campaign by the company to support “the Left’s vision of AI regulation.”After Anthropic…

PUBLISHED October 19, 2025 A 23-year-old from Alpha unit of the London Metropolitan Police monitors Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube to predict and prevent gang violence and knife crime, using nothing more than publicly available information and online tools that can be used by practically anyone, anywhere. Young men and women of Interpol lead a multinational operation that uses publicly available data to track online recruitment and deceptive job offers, identify recruiters, and match faces via facial recognition to stem the tide of human trafficking. This has resulted in significant successes since 2024. Most of these Interpol officers are less than…

* As the only national-level international helicopter exhibition in China and the world’s second-largest helicopter event, the seventh China Helicopter Exposition, which concluded on Sunday in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, attracted over 400 enterprises from more than 20 countries and regions, setting a record in the event’s history.* The low-altitude economy has gained unprecedented impetus after being included in the government work report in 2024, which positioned it as a new growth engine alongside biomanufacturing and the commercial space sector.* China’s low-altitude economy is projected to hit a market size of 1.5 trillion yuan (about 211.42 billion U.S. dollars) by…

By Haroon Rashid Siddiqi | PUBLISHED October 19, 2025 “Hindustan ki ilhami kitābain do hain: Muqaddas Vaid aur Dīvān-e-Ghālib.” These famous words were penned by Dr Abdur Rahman Bijnori in his seminal dissertation Mahāsin-e-Kalām-e-Ghālib, which he was writing in 1918 when the merciless Spanish flu pandemic cut short his life at the prime age of thirty-three. Though his time was brief, he left behind a luminous treasure on Ghalib — posthumously published from Bhopal in 1921 — that remains one of the finest reflections on the poet’s genius. His remark, audacious yet profoundly reflective, declared that India possessed two revealed…