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PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: Wars are the continuation of policy by other means. This famous dictum by Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz forms the bedrock of post-industrial modern warfare. Every conflict makes military leaders unlearn some older lessons and learn new ones. However, the ‘principles of war’ distilled over space and centuries in time, remain unchanged. Any violation of these ‘imperatives’ costs dearly in time, effort and treasury, besides causing loss of life and limb. The recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran – with the US dragged into the fray at the 11th hour – is instructive,…

Listen to article Heavy rain and flash flooding across Pakistan have killed 45 people in just a few days since the start of the monsoon season, disaster management officials said Sunday. The highest toll was recorded in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) that borders Afghanistan, where 10 children were among 21 killed.  The disaster management authority said 14 of those victims died in the Swat Valley, where media reported a flash flood swept away families on a riverbank. In Punjab, along the frontier with India, 13 fatalities have been recorded since Wednesday. Eight of them were children who died when walls or roofs…

Listen to article Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir received a call from Iran’s top military commander on Sunday, with Tehran thanking Islamabad for its support during the 12-day war with Israel, Iranian Press TV media reported. During the conversation, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, praised Islamabad’s “courageous stance” during the crisis and thanked the people of Pakistan for their “bold positions” in condemning what he called unprovoked attacks by the Zionist regime. He credited Islamabad for standing by Tehran as Israeli strikes targeted senior military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians—including women and…

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate floor in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesRepublican Sen. Thom Tillis, N.C., will not run for re-election when his term is up, he announced Sunday, hours after he voted against advancing President Donald Trump’s tax bill and drew the president’s ire.”As many of my colleagues have noticed over the last year, and at times even joked about, I haven’t exactly been excited about running for another term,” Tillis said in a statement.”That is true since the choice is between spending…

Israel’s attack on the Evin Prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran, on June 23 killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday. At the end of an air war with Iran, Israel struck Tehran’s most notorious jail for political prisoners, in a demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear sites to aim at symbols of Iran’s ruling system. “In the attack on Evin prison, 71 people were martyred, including administrative staff, youth doing their military service, detainees, family members of detainees who were visiting them and neighbours who lived in the prison’s vicinity,” Jahangir…

Israeli air strikes killed two people in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood on Sunday, bringing the total death toll from attacks across the enclave to at least 17, according to medical sources. A separate strike in the Daraj neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City left one woman injured, health officials told reporters. Yesterday, Israeli attacks killed 37 people in Gaza, including at least nine children. Spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 35 people died in seven drone and air strikes across the enclave, while two others were shot dead in the Netzarim corridor while waiting for food aid. Three children were killed…

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote, part of the 9th edition of the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair, held at the Dôme de Paris in the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025.Mustafa Yalcin | Anadolu | Getty ImagesInsiders at artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia have dumped more than $1 billion in stock over the last year, according to a report from the Financial Times.About $500 million worth of sales occurred over the last month as the market notched new highs and shook off geopolitical tensions that had rattled…

Lando Norris won the Austrian Grand Prix from pole position in a McLaren one-two on Sunday after fending off championship-leading team mate Oscar Piastri in an early wheel-to-wheel duel and then withstanding intense pressure to the end. The Briton’s third victory of the season cut Australian Piastri’s Formula One lead from 22 to 15 points after 11 of 24 rounds, with the two McLaren drivers locked in an increasingly private title battle. Charles Leclerc completed the podium for Ferrari with teammate Lewis Hamilton fourth and George Russell, last year’s winner in Austria, fifth for Mercedes. Red Bull’s four-time world champion…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner (not pictured) and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. Ken Cedeno | ReutersPresident Donald Trump said that Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has “to do the right thing” if he is elected mayor of New York City, or he could see federal funding dry up.”Let’s say this, if he does get in, I’m going to be president and he’s going to have to do the right thing, or…

ZHEJIANG, CHINA – MARCH 16 2023: A view of the logo of ERNIE Bot, an AI chatbot service developed by Chinese search engine Baidu.Long Wei | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesOn Monday, Chinese technology giant Baidu plans to make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source, a move by China’s tech sector that could be its biggest in the AI race since the emergence of DeepSeek. A Baidu spokesman confirmed the plan and said the open sourcing will be a gradual roll-out. Will it be a shock to the market on the order of DeepSeek? That’s a question which divides…