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Azma Bokhari says government and state have decided to deal firmly with the group Police officers stand as they use tear gas to disperse supporters of TLP during a solidarity march for Gaza in Lahore on October 10, 2025. Photo: Reuters The Punjab cabinet has approved imposing a ban on Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan and forwarded a summary to the federal government for further action. It was announced by Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari while addressing a press conference in Lahore on Friday. She revealed that the Punjab cabinet has approved the ban on TLP and sent the case to the federal…
A Z-20T helicopter performs during the 7th China Helicopter Exposition in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, Oct. 17, 2025. The exposition opened on Thursday in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, featuring an expanded low-altitude economy exhibition area and debuting multiple military helicopters, civilian helicopters and other low-altitude aircraft. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)A Z-20T helicopter performs during the 7th China Helicopter Exposition in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, Oct. 17, 2025. The exposition opened on Thursday in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, featuring an expanded low-altitude economy exhibition area and debuting multiple military helicopters, civilian helicopters and other low-altitude aircraft. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)A Z-20T helicopter performs during the…
Encroached land. PHOTO: NNI/FILE KARACHI: The demolition of vacated houses at the Northern Bypass Afghan Refugee Camp continued smoothly on Thursday, following the repatriation of Afghan refugees from the area. Under the supervision of the Malir Development Authority’s Anti-Encroachment Department and with the presence of heavy police contingents, more than 200 empty houses were demolished during the day. Officials said the operation is proceeding without resistance, and structures identified for demolition will be cleared by Friday. They added that viral videos on social media – showing encroachers marking and occupying empty homes in the settlement – prompted swift action from…
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023.Gonzalo Fuentes | ReutersTop proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending that Tesla investors vote against a pay plan for CEO Elon Musk that would grant him nearly $1 trillion more in stock.The “mega performance equity award” to Musk, designed to retain the CEO long-term, “has an astronomical grant value conditioned upon far-reaching performance targets that, if achieved, would create enormous value for shareholders,” ISS wrote on Friday.Tesla’s 2025 annual shareholder meeting and proxy vote is scheduled for…
KARACHI: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has dismissed claims of an extremely cold or record-breaking winter across Pakistan, stating that scientific data and climatic patterns do not support such forecasts. The PMD said that meteorological instruments and sea-level conditions linked to La Nina clearly contraasually severe winter in Sindh or other parts of the country. From a technical perspective, the overall intensity of the winter season is expected to remain moderate. In response to unverified reports and social media content, the PMD explained that winter forecasts for December to February are prepared using verified systems operated in collaboration with the…
Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to allow his deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area, as the Republican president moves to dispatch military personnel to a growing number of Democratic-led locales and expand the use of the armed forces for domestic purposes.The Justice Department asked the court to block a judge’s ruling that halted the deployment of hundreds of troops over the objection of Illinois state officials and local leaders, while litigation challenging Trump’s plan continues.Given events on the ground, the judge questioned the administration’s stated reasons for sending in the military. A…
Shares of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk dropped Friday, after President Donald Trump said his administration aims to cut the cost of brand name GLP-1 weight loss drugs to $150 per month, a fraction of their current list price.”In London, you’d buy a certain drug for $130 and even less than that … $88 as of… a month ago. And in New York, you pay $1,300 for the same thing,” Trump said during a Thursday afternoon event about in vitro fertilization at the White House. “Instead of $1,300 you’ll be paying about $150 and they’ll be paying $150 so we’re…
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has issued two regulatory frameworks — the Digital Identity Regulations 2025 and the National Data Exchange Layer (NDEL) Regulations 2025 — to modernise Pakistan’s identification system and advance the government’s Digital Pakistan vision. The frameworks were developed with the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication and approved by the Ministry of Law and Justice. Under the Digital Identity Regulations, NADRA will build a national digital ID ecosystem, enabling citizens to verify their identities online via biometric and digital credentials. This will allow access to public and private services — including banking, taxation, healthcare,…
A demo setup of racks of AI servers connected with Credo cables, displayed at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California.CredoIn July, Elon Musk posted photos from inside an xAI data center called Colossus 2, which the artificial intelligence startup aims to turn into a massive supercomputing facility in Memphis, Tennessee.Musk’s pictures, posted to his X feed, didn’t show off the pricey Nvidia racks that are filled with powerful graphics processing units. Rather, he focused on the wires behind the servers, including one image with thousands of neatly organized purple cables connecting the computers together.Those purple cables are the…
George Santos, who was expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives, arrives for the sentencing in his criminal corruption charges at Central Islip Federal Courthouse in Central Islip, New York, U.S., April 25, 2025.Shannon Stapleton | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Friday evening said he has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately.Trump, in a Truth Social post, wrote that Santos “was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison.”Santos, 37, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison after pleading…