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Law minister Azam Nazeer Tarar addresses a press conference hours after the Supreme Court announced its verdict in the Punjab polls delay case. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB/Radio Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Monday that the formal notification for the appointment of the Chief of the Defence Forces (CDF) would be issued in due course, assuring that there was “nothing for anyone to worry about”. Speaking to The Express Tribune after attending a photo exhibition organised by the Federal Ombudsperson for Protection Against Harassment, he said the notification process was routine and awaited the return of Prime Minister Shehbaz…

Punjab accounts for 78 per cent of the total cases, followed by Sindh with 14 per cent LAHORE: Sahil, an organisation monitoring gender-based violence, has reported a significant rise in crimes against women across Pakistan during the first eleven months of 2025 in its annual report. The report has been compiled from data published in 81 national newspapers spanning all four provinces, the Islamabad Capital Territory, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan. It shows that 6,543 incidents were reported in 2025, compared with 5,253 cases in 2024. This reflects an increase of nearly twenty-five percent over one year. The incidents…

The logo of an Apple Store is seen reflected on the glass exterior of a Samsung flagship store in Shanghai, China Monday, Oct. 20, 2025.Wang Gang | Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesThe cost of your smartphone might rise, analysts are warning, as the AI boom clogs up supply chains and a recent change by Nvidia to its products could make it worse.AI data centers, on which tech giants globally are spending hundreds of billions of dollars, require chips from suppliers, like Nvidia, which relies on many different components and companies to create its coveted graphics processing units.But…

ISLAMABAD: Several Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials have been dismissed, demoted or censured for many offences, including negligence that contributed to the 2023 Greece boat tragedy in which over 200 Pakistani migrants lost their lives. According to government sources, the Interior and Narcotics Control secretary carried out the accountability process and issued orders for various penalties. The officials were dismissed over various charges ranging from criminal negligence and corruption to unprofessional conduct. The secretary also rejected multiple appeals. Sources said the secretary conducted a case-by-case review of departmental accountability proceedings and appeals. In the Greek boat tragedy case, a deputy…

LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday announced a sweeping crackdown against fake news, warning that social media misinformation had reached a point where “90 per cent of online news is false” and would now face coordinated action from the state. Speaking at a press conference in Lahore, Naqvi said the information ministry and the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) would initiate action “on a massive scale”, adding that the state would no longer allow individuals to “declare a living person dead, a dead person alive, or make any allegation they please without evidence”. He emphasised that while he…

Samsung Electronics’s Galaxy Z TriFold media day at Samsung Gangnam in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 2, 2025.Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesSamsung Electronics on Monday announced the launch of its first multi-folding smartphone as it races to keep pace with innovations from fast-moving rivals. The long-anticipated “Galaxy Z TriFold” will go on sale in South Korea on Dec. 12, with launches to follow in other markets including China, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates, the company said in a press release. The phone will be available in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2026, with more details to be…

Veolia’s CEO reflects on how the ground-breaking women in her family unlocked her career ambitions, why she wishes she had trusted her instincts earlier and why reframing our mindset is key to tackling global sustainability challenges.Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia, credits her pioneering family for shaping her confidence and career choices. “I come from a genealogy of powerful women who break barriers and the boundaries which were supposed to be put on them,” she told CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick on the “Executive Decisions” podcast. Her mother was the first woman in Airbus’ design center in the 1970s, and her grandmother traveled solo through Afghanistan in the 1950s. From an early age, they instilled…

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is presenting federal budget for fiscal year 2025-26 in National Assembly on June 10. Photo : x.com/NAofPakistan ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb reiterated on Monday that it was not the government’s job to give jobs, in a statement that came on the heels of capital flight in the absence of an enabling business environment and a high unemployment rate. Addressing a seminar on population growth, the finance minister said “it is not the government’s job to give jobs and we have to get out of that mindset; it is the ladies and gentlemen who are freelancers…

Customers shop at a duty-free shopping mall in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province on Nov. 30, 2025. The Haikou Customs supervised a total of 2.38 billion yuan (about 337 million U.S. dollars) in duty-free sales during the first month (from Nov. 1 to 30) of the implementation of the expanded offshore duty-free policy, up 27.1 percent year on year. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 30, 2025 shows a duty-free shopping mall in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province. The Haikou Customs supervised a total of 2.38 billion yuan (about 337 million U.S. dollars) in duty-free sales during the…

Broadcom ‘s custom chips are no threat to Nvidia , according to the latter’s CEO. Broadcom’s application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), also known as custom chips, have soared in popularity with hyperscalers, such as Alphabet ‘s Google. The key partnership led to the successful launch of Google’s Gemini 3. The latest iteration of the AI model was trained on Google’s chips known as tensor processing units (TPUs), co-designed by Broadcom. If you ask Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, however, there’s nothing to worry about at his company, whose stock has been under pressure since Gemini 3 came out late last month. Nvidia’s all-purpose…