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ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday outlined the details of his recent foreign visits and reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to strengthen international partnerships. Addressing the press, Dar mentioned that he held an important meeting with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and discussed key global issues including Pakistan-India conflict and mounting tension between Iran and Israel. He called his diplomatic missions, that began in July this year, a great achievement and emphasised positive results of the meetings with the international partners. He also addressed a misunderstanding stemming from his participation in a session at the American…

A banner for Snowflake Inc. is displayed at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the company’s initial public offering on Sept. 16, 2020.Brendan McDermid | ReutersMongoDB’s stock just closed out its best week on record, leading a rally in enterprise technology companies that are seeing tailwinds from the artificial intelligence boom.In addition to MongoDB’s 44% rally, Pure Storage soared 33%, its second-sharpest gain ever, while Snowflake jumped 21%. Autodesk rose 8.4%.Since generative AI started taking off in late 2022 following the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the big winners have been Nvidia, for its graphics processing units, as well as…

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the field during the Yale Bulldogs vs Harvard Crimson football game at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts. Adam Glanzman | Getty ImagesA new tradition for HBCU football could be starting at one of the nation’s oldest football stadiums on the campus of Harvard University.”It’s really a cultural event,” said Derek Brown, co-founder of the Essence HBCU Classic, an NCAA football game between teams of historically Black colleges and universities. This year’s inaugural match-up is between with the Morehouse College Maroon Tigers and the Johnson C. Smith University Golden Bulls on Saturday during Labor Day…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to depart for China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of State Summit to be held in Tianjin on Saturday, Radio Pakistan reported. During his visit from August 30 to September 4, the PM will hold high-level meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang to discuss the multifaceted dimensions of Pakistan-China bilateral cooperation. The talks will focus on strengthening economic, political, and strategic ties between the two countries. As part of the visit, PM Shehbaz will attend a grand military parade in Beijing alongside President Xi and…

A Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 taxis at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Boston on September 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSpirit Airlines on Friday filed for bankruptcy protection, just months after the budget carrier failed to secure better financial footing when it came out of Chapter 11 protection in March.Spirit debtholders agreed in its previous bankruptcy, which began in November, to exchange debt for equity, but the carrier avoided bigger changes to cut costs, like getting rid of planes or more dramatically shrinking the carrier’s footprint. Spirit’s aircraft lessors had…

LAHORE: High flooding in Ravi, Chenab and Satlej rivers has claimed 28 lives while ready crops have been damaged across Punjab following excessive dischage of water from India. The Sutlej River at Ganda Singh Wala has been undergoing high level flood where water flow has surged past 350,000 cusecs — the heaviest recorded since 1955. The situation may worsen as more rainfall and potential water releases from India threaten to increase the volume of water in the river. Authorities in Kasur and adjoining districts have been placed on high alert, while evacuations from vulnerable settlements are underway. Punjab Relief Commissioner…

Dillon Angulo, 33, looks at a roadside memorial sign reading “Drive Safely In Memory Naibel Benavidez” next to the site of a car crash where a Tesla driver using Autopilot killed her, and left him catastrophically injured in 2019, on Aug. 12, 2025, in Key Largo, Florida. Eva Marie Uzcategui | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesTesla has filed a motion to appeal the verdict in a product liability and wrongful death lawsuit that could cost the company $242.5 million if it is not reduced or overturned.Elon Musk’s automaker has asked for the verdict to be tossed or for a…

Skipper Salman Agha hit an unbeaten half-century and fast bowler Haris Rauf grabbed four wickets as Pakistan upstaged Afghanistan by 39 runs in the tri-series opener in Sharjah on Friday. Agha hit a 36-ball 53 not out with three sixes and as many boundaries, which lifted Pakistan to 182-7 in their 20 overs. Pacers Rauf took 4-31 and Shaheen Afridi 2-21, while spinners Mohammad Nawaz (2-23) and Sufiyan Muqeem (2-25) dismissed Afghanistan for 143 in 19.5 overs before a noisy capacity 16,000 crowd at the Sharjah stadium. Afghanistan matched Pakistan with opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 27-ball 38 with a six and…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ambassador in Kabul was summoned to the Afghan foreign ministry on Thursday to lodge a formal protest against what the Taliban regime claimed were Pakistani military strikes in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, in a move indicating renewed tensions between the two hyphenated neighbours. Afghan officials “strongly condemned” the strikes which they claimed resulted in the killing of three civilians and injuries to seven others. In its protest note, the Afghan foreign ministry denounced what it called Pakistan’s violation of Afghan airspace and the bombing of civilian areas near the Durand Line, describing the strikes as “a blatant breach…

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Sept. 6, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Marvell Technology plunged 15% on Friday after the artificial intelligence chipmaker’s data center revenue fell short of estimates and it gave lackluster guidance for the current quarter.Here’s how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expectedRevenue: $2.01 billion vs. $2.01 billion expectedRevenue jumped 58% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended Aug. 2, a record for the company that was fueled in part by “strong AI…