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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday strongly criticised India for sponsoring terrorism on Pakistani soil and its failure to adhere to the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in sharing flood-related data. Foreign office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan, in a weekly briefing, said that India conveyed some flood-related information through diplomatic channels, but it did not provide complete data and did not follow the agreed mechanisms under the IWT. The spokesperson reiterated that India is actively involved in sponsoring terrorism within the country. He claimed that Islamabad has already shared ‘documented evidence’ of Indian involvement with both the international community and friendly nations. Read…

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called for a united national response to the devastating floods in Punjab. He urged the federal and provincial governments to rise above political differences and prioritise relief efforts. During a visit to flood-affected areas in Kasur on Friday, Bilawal stressed that the scale of the disaster demands joint action, saying no single provincial government can tackle the crisis alone. “This is not a time for political point-scoring. Natural disasters demand national unity. We must all come together to help our people rebuild their lives,” he said. Read More: Chenab, Sutlej flooding…

When journalist and researcher Nazish Brohi visits Sea View around Independence Day she asks people what it means to them. “They refer to freedom from Indians or Hindus. Rarely do they mention independence from the British.” Many people fail to acknowledge that true independence should also mean ‘azadi’ from the British Raj. Brohi was speaking at a conference on ‘Decolonizing the Law: Human Rights and Legal Reform in Pakistan’ organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Thursday. Pakistan may have achieved independence from the British 78 years ago but its legal system still operates in the shadow of…

If a loved one’s WhatsApp gets hijacked, minutes matter. Here’s the clean, no-panic playbook you can follow, from the very first call to filing a report if money is involved. 1) Confirm it’s really a takeover Call your relative on a normal phone call (or meet in person). Don’t rely on WhatsApp to confirm; the attacker may be replying. Red flags: friends receiving ‘urgent money’ requests, messages asking for a 6-digit code, new login alerts, or your relative being suddenly logged out. Never share verification codes with anyone — not even ‘WhatsApp Support’. Received verification code without requesting it |…

The national assembly ran two sessions today. Not much was acheived in either of them. “Count the quorum,” chorused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf members of National Assembly, as the official session commenced. “We were meant to discuss the floods and the terror attack in Balochistan today, please sit down,” pleaded NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq as the PTI members moved towards the exit. On a day, when Punjab is reeling from over two weeks of relentless, uninterrupted flooding, and the country is overwhelmed with residual damage from recent deathly floods in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, the opposition and the government could not set…

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter raised questions on Friday about the status of an artificial intelligence chatbot complaint against Snap that the agency referred to the Department of Justice earlier this year.In January, the FTC announced that it would refer a non-public complaint regarding allegations that Snap’s My AI chatbot posed potential “risks and harms” to young users and said it would refer the suit to the DOJ “in the public interest.””We don’t know what has happened to that complaint,” Slaughter said on CNBC’s ‘The Exchange.” “The public does not know what has happened to that complaint, and…

Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Sept. 4th, 2025.CNBCClose relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.Mark and Julie Pulte, the father and stepmother of Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump’s appointee as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, since 2020 have claimed so-called “homestead exemptions” for residences in wealthy neighborhoods in both Michigan and Florida, according to the records. The exemption is meant…

The Punjab government has decided to enforce the ban of wheat in feed mills for 30 days – till October 3 – to increase supply for human consumption. The Punjab home secretary imposed this restriction under Section 144(6) of the Criminal Procedure Code 1898. “The use of wheat in feed manufacturing by the feed millers in the province of Punjab is prohibited in the larger public interest,” the provincial Home Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman.  Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure empowers district administration to issue orders in public interest that may place a ban on an activity for a…

Shares of advertising technology company AppLovin and stock trading app Robinhood Markets each jumped about 7% in extended trading on Friday after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index.The changes will go into effect before the beginning of trading on Sept. 22, S&P Global announced in a statement. AppLovin will replace MarketAxess Holdings, while Robinhood will take the place of Caesars Entertainment.In March, short-seller Fuzzy Panda Research advised the committee for the large-cap U.S. index to keep AppLovin from becoming a constituent. AppLovin shares dropped 15% in December, when the committee picked Workday to join the…

Pakistan’s government on Friday said “we decide who stays”, after the United Nations refugee chief urged the country to pause its mass expulsion of Afghans after a major earthquake. Thousands of Afghans who were registered as refugees have surged over the border from Pakistan in recent days, with returns escalating despite a weekend earthquake that killed 2,200 people and flattened entire villages in Afghanistan. It prompted a call by Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: “Given the circumstances, I appeal to the (government of Pakistan) to pause the implementation of the Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan.” Read More: UN…