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ISLAMABAD: Since the enactment of the 26th Constitutional Amendment, the Supreme Court on Thursday granted the first relief to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan by accepting his bail petitions in eight cases linked to the May 9, 2023 violent incidents. According to legal minds, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi passed a very cautious order, which could be considered as an attempt to provide a win-win situation for both sides — the prosecution and the petitioner. Many lawyers had expected the apex court to remand the matter back to the Lahore High Court (LHC) — which had rejected…

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon MuskManuel Orbegozo | Chip Somodevilla | ReutersElon Musk, the world’s richest person, asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI in early 2025, court filings on Thursday revealed.The filing is part of a legal case between Musk and OpenAI that was initiated last year. The case is proceeding in a federal court in Northern California, and a judge recently said OpenAI can move ahead with counter claims against Musk, who co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit with Sam Altman and others in 2015.When Musk…

BAJAUR/WANA: More than 30 suspected terrorists were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) they were assembling inside a mosque in Bajaur district went off on Thursday. The incident came hours after at least 15 suspected terrorists were eliminated in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in South Waziristan district, officials and sources told The Express Tribune. Sources said that terrorists from the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were using a mosque in the remote Hilki Charmang area of Bajaur, where security forces are engaged in a counterterrorism operation. The terrorists were preparing an IED for a major attack on security forces, which…

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025.I-hwa Cheng | Afp | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Friday showered praise on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on a visit to Taiwan, saying that anybody looking to take a stake in the company would be “very smart.”This comes at a time when the U.S. administration has signaled interest in acquiring stakes in tech companies, especially those in receipt of funding under the U.S. CHIPS Act.Huang, who said the main purpose of his trip to Taiwan was to thank TSMC for…

ISLAMABAD: China and Pakistan on Thursday delivered a collective message that the current geostrategic developments and realignments are not going to have any negative fallout on their “iron-clad and all-weather strategic partnership.” The development came during the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who led his country at the Pakistan-China Strategic Dialogue and held a meeting with Pakistan’s civil and military leadership. Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday on the third and last leg of his three-nation trip. He earlier travelled to New Delhi…

Lahore: One thing Nolberto Solano is very clear about is that being head coach of Pakistan’s football team is no bed of roses. Things didn’t come easy for him as a player, he says. And he doesn’t expect them to be any better for him as coach. That’s what has brought the Peruvian former Newcastle United cult hero to football’s backwaters in Pakistan. The sport in the country has seen little progress due to a decade-long institutional crisis in the Pakistan Football Federation. There have been some highs, notably Pakistan’s historic victory over Cambodia in 2023 — the first time…

An Nvidia chip is seen through a magnifying glass in Beijing, China, on August 1, 2025. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesNvidia has asked some of its component suppliers to stop production related to its made-for-China H20 general processing units, as Beijing cracks down on the American chip darling, The Information reported Friday. The directive comes weeks after the Chinese government told local tech companies to stop buying the chips due to alleged security concerns, the report said, citing people with knowledge of the matter.Nvidia reportedly has asked Arizona-based Amkor Technology, which handles the advanced packaging of the company’s…

KARACHI: The Provincial Anti-Corruption Court acquitted SBCA’s former director general Manzoor Kaka and other accused in the case of illegal land allotment to Nasla Tower on Thursday. Provincial Anti-Corruption Court Judge Aminullah Siddiqui acquitted all the accused for lack of evidence.Those acquitted include former SBCA DG Manzoor Qadir Kaka, former director Ali Mehdi Kazmi, former director Ali Ghufran, former deputy director Sami Siddiqui and Ali Zafar Jafri, among others. The court ruled in its verdict that the prosecution failed to prove accused’s involvement in illegal allotment of land to Nasla Tower. The residential building was declared illegal and demolished on…

PESHAWAR: As Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) residents continue to reel from the devastating floods that claimed 393 lives, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has warned of another spell of heavy rains, flash floods, urban flooding, and landslides from August 23 to 26. According to a PDMA report, the recent deluge left 393 people dead and 190 others injured across the province. Among the deceased were 300 men, 53 women, and 40 children, while the injured included 145 men, 27 women, and 18 children. The floods also damaged 1,618 houses — 1,185 partially and 433 completely destroyed. Buner remained the worst-hit district,…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024.Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersMeta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter.The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information.Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases larger rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud infrastructure. Earlier this year Google…