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PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: Life, as the flamboyant and charming Georgia Miller puts it in her ultra-Texan drawl on Ginny & Georgia, is “always either a tightrope or a feather bed.” She’s sharing this famous quote, attributed to American writer Edith Wharton, with her fiancé, Paul Randolph, the mayor of the show’s fictitious town of Wellsbury, Massachusetts, where the story is set. The imagery illustrates the contrast between two aspects of life: the challenging, risky, and potentially rewarding path of “the tightrope,” versus the comfortable, safe, and potentially less fulfilling path of “the feather bed.” But Randolph doesn’t quite…

PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: It is well known that when power is left unchecked, it can lead to disaster. Throughout history, numerous individuals and nations have struggled to emerge as the dominant power, but there is one that remains undefeated — the United States of America. John Hersey’s Hiroshima explores this country’s relentless pursuit of global dominance through the lives of six survivors and the tragic bombing of Hiroshima. Though this event occurred decades ago, we remain subversive beings, dominated and controlled by the US. Hiroshima remains relevant in today’s world, while in the modern era, as the US…

Staff members transfer newly arrived giant pandas at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, June 28, 2025.Four Japan-born giant pandas arrived here on Saturday evening.The four pandas — 24-year-old Rauhin and her three daughters, 8-year-old Yuihin, 6-year-old Saihin and 4-year-old Fuhin — were sent to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for quarantine.In 1994, China began cooperation on giant panda conservation with Adventure World amusement park, located in the coastal town of Shirahama in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture. The two countries have bred 17 cubs together and established the largest overseas…

PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 SUKKUR: Since their childhood, life for women like Dulari has never been easy. Looking at their situation, it seems that their lives are stuck in an endless cycle of misery. New Pind is one of the most densely populated areas of Sukkur where diverse communities including Sindhi, Urdu speaking, Punjabi, Pathan, Brohi, Saraiki, Hindus, and others are living without even the basic civic facilities. The main road leading to New Pind from Sukkur is damaged with big craters in some places, and being the only main road of the locality, it remains buzzing with traffic all…

PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: It’s a flaw that has quietly cost lives: pulse oximeters, the fingertip devices used to measure oxygen levels, often give falsely reassuring readings in patients with darker skin. In hospitals around the world, including Pakistan, this subtle error means critical cases get missed, interventions come late, and outcomes worsen. The machine doesn’t discriminate, but the data does. Not many noticed. Fewer still tried to fix it. At the Annual MIT Policy Hackathon, a young public health student from Pakistan stood up and proposed a solution. Later, at Harvard, he went on to build an AI…

Passengers for the flight from Haikou to Jeddah line up to check in at Haikou Meilan International Airport in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, June 28, 2025. (Hainan Airlines/Handout via Xinhua)HAIKOU, June 29 (Xinhua) — More than 8.3 million passenger trips are expected to pass through two major airports in China’s southern island province of Hainan as the summer travel season begins on Tuesday, airport authorities said.Haikou Meilan International Airport is forecast to handle nearly 4.6 million passenger trips over the next two months, with around 30,400 flights scheduled.The airport has expanded its international network with new routes to Tokyo,…

PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: On 3 June, the Daily Mail ran a headline that many dismissed as melodramatic, but few could ignore: “Putin knows a nuclear revenge attack will force Ukraine’s surrender. These are the four ways he’d strike… and we’re powerless to stop this holocaust.” Quoting Col Richard Kemp, a former British commander in Afghanistan, the piece imagined multiple escalation scenarios where Russia, cornered by battlefield setbacks and deep strategic losses, might resort to tactical nuclear use. The framing may have sounded like tabloid frenzy but it struck a chord with the evolving anxiety in the West: that…

Primary teachers association demands promotion committees by April 9. PHOTO: AFP PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: It was the final week of May, and Amar Gul, a 24-year-old history teacher passionate about her job at a private school in Islamabad, dedicated herself to designing lesson plans and organising extracurricular activities. She had just begun to feel settled in her role, often staying back late to help with school events, when out of the blue, the principal called for a quick meeting. It came as quite a shock to her when she was informed her that her contract would not be…

CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk waves after ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ market in celebration of his company’s initial public offering in New York June 29, 2010.Brendan McDermid | ReutersAt the time of Tesla’s IPO 15 years ago, the company had generated roughly $150 million in revenue in its lifetime. That came almost entirely from the Roadster, a two-seat electric sportscar that boasted a range of 236 miles on a single charge.The Model S sedan was still in the lab, two years away from hitting the market.”The Model S, which is planned to compete in the premium…

A general view of destruction in North Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, on May 17, 2025.Amir Cohen | ReutersTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday pleaded for progress in ceasefire talks in the war in Gaza, calling for a deal that would halt the fighting in the 20-month-long conflict as Israel and Hamas appeared to be inching closer to an agreement.An Israeli official said plans were being made for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to travel to Washington in the coming weeks, a sign there may be movement on a new deal. The…