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‘Assault, violence, and harassment are absolutely intolerable’ says Superintendent of Police Sadr Inam Sher RAWALPINDI: Police on Thursday arrested a man identified as Ibrahim Yaseen, who was accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy in a madrassa in Rawalpindi. “My son went to offer prayers; on his way back, the suspect who was lying in wait assaulted my son and recorded an indecent video,” said the boy’s father. In the First Information Report filed on Wednesday, the 12-year-old boy was at a madrassa in his village at the village mosque, a double-story building. After completing his duty of calling the prayer (azaan),…

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives to attend a European Council summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 21, 2024.Sameer Al-doumy | Afp | Getty ImagesHungary has accused Ukraine of disrupting oil supplies it gets from Russia and has stationed troops at critical energy facilities across the country as Prime Minister Viktor Orban ramps up the rhetoric around energy and national security ahead of parliamentary elections in April.Orban on Wednesday accused Kyiv of imposing an “oil blockade” on Hungary by delaying the reopening of the Druzhba pipeline which supplies it, and neighboring Slovakia, with Russian oil. Ukraine shut…

Farmers work in the fields of Nanku Village, Qionghai City, south China’s Hainan Province, Feb. 25, 2026. After the Spring Festival holiday, farmers are busy with agricultural production in the farming season across the country. (Photo by Meng Zhongde/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 24, 2026 shows a farmer operating an agricultural machine to plough a field in Qicheng Village, Qinyang City, central China’s Henan Province. After the Spring Festival holiday, farmers are busy with agricultural production in the farming season across the country. (Photo by Yang Fan/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 25, 2026 shows farmers working…

Rollover. Design: Mohsin Alam ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Wednesday that it was in communication with the United Arab Emirates and that there was no issue in the rollover of a $2 billion debt, but did not confirm whether the Gulf nation had formally conveyed its decision to further extend the repayment period. “We are in communication with the UAE authorities and there is absolutely no issue in the rollover of the $2 billion debt,” Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said while responding to a question about the status of the UAE debt. He was speaking to journalists after attending a meeting…

BEIJING — U.S. chip giant Nvidia has yet to recoup its lost sales in China, despite Washington easing some restrictions, and the company is sounding the alarm about rising competition from Chinese rivals.”While small amounts of H200 [semiconductor] products for China-based customers were approved by the US government, we have yet to generate any revenue,” Nvidia’s CFO Colette M. Kress said on an earnings call Wednesday local time, according to a FactSet transcript. “We do not know whether any imports will be allowed into China,” she said.China once accounted for at least one-fifth of Nvidia’s data center revenue.Global AI disruptionThe semiconductor…

Imran Khan with his former brother-in-law Zac Goldsmith outside Kingston mosque, London, in 2009. PHOTO: Newsquest SL Zac Goldsmith, a former UK Foreign Office minister and former brother-in-law of PTI founder Imran Khan, has raised concerns in the UK parliament over Khan’s treatment in prison, urging the British government to ensure he receives fair treatment amid reports of deteriorating health. Speaking during a motion laid out by Baroness Alexander of Cleveden of the Labour Party, Goldsmith said that while Khan’s case was an internal matter for Pakistan, the denial of basic human rights could not be ignored. The motion highlighted…

Curfew imposed in Jandola; school hit by drone in North Waziristan, no casualties reported DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A security personnel was martyred in a drone attack on a check post in Tank district, while three abducted brothers were found dead in Bannu and a separate drone strike hit a school in North Waziristan, officials said on Thursday. In Tank, Naik Nadeem was martyred when terrorists targeted a security forces check post in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district late Wednesday night, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), K-P – Dera Ismail Khan Region, said in an official statement. According to the CTD, the attack took…

“Software is already eating AI” and will continue to do so, according to HSBC, with the bank shrugging off recent market fears about the sector being displaced by artificial intelligence. Software stocks plunged earlier this month as widespread concerns that AI could make software-as-a-service, or SaaS, business models obsolete, sparked a sell-off and warnings of an impending ” SaaSpocalypse .” But in a Tuesday note, analysts at HSBC said they do not expect that software will be usurped by AI, and will instead be a major beneficiary of its development. Consumer AI platform developers — like Google parent firm Alphabet…

Says enough is enough – anyone who cannot carry the weight of the founder’s narrative should step aside Aleema Khan, sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, on Wednesday strongly criticised the party leadership for its inaction regarding her brother’s release from prison and his deteriorating health, saying those unable to shoulder the burden of the founder’s narrative should step aside. “The party seems relaxed as if the founder’s treatment has already been completed. We are not seeing any action from PTI on his health matters. Enough is enough – anyone who cannot carry the weight of the founder’s…

Nvidia on Wednesday delivered strong quarterly results to cap off its fiscal year, outdone only by the chip giant’s outlook for the current quarter, in a sign the AI boom continues apace. Revenue in the company’s fiscal 2026 fourth quarter increased 73% year over year to $68.13 billion, outpacing the $66.2 billion the Street was looking for, according to estimates compiled by data provider LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) increased 82% to $1.62, also exceeding the consensus estimate of $1.53, per LSEG data. Shares of Nvidia were slightly lower in extended trading, down about 50 cents apiece to $195.35.…