Pak-Afghan border. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE ISLAMABAD: When the defence ministers and spy chiefs of Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban regime sat across the table in Doha last week, scepticism was high about whether the Qatari-hosted talks could deliver any meaningful breakthrough. However, with Qatari and Turkish mediation, the two sides reached a ceasefire agreement, at least…
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Image collage of Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar. — SC website ISLAMABAD: Two members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) – Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar – have raised strong objections to the approval of the amended Judges’ Code of Conduct, warning that the changes undermine judicial independence,…
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly session, convened on the directives of Chief Minister Sohail Afridi to begin punctually, was adjourned on Tuesday due to a lack of quorum as lawmakers failed to show up in sufficient numbers. Despite the chief minister’s instructions to start proceedings on time, the session collapsed shortly after it began, with…
Online scams draining Pakistan’s economy, costing billions and exposing widespread cyber illiteracy Beware of con artists, cyber influencers and digital scammers. Fraud emanating from such sources is now a global phenomenon, and Pakistanis are no exception. While the country has more than 120 million social media users, and around half of its population is in…
Dakota Johnson‘s feature directorial debut is taking root. Charli xcx and Jessica Alba are in talks to star in A Tree Is Blue, which Johnson is set to helm. The film has a script from Vanessa Burghardt, who is also in talks to star. Plot details have not yet been disclosed for the project that…
As global competition in autonomous driving intensifies, Europe has emerged as the latest frontier for China’s rapidly advancing self-driving technology. Start-ups such as Pony.ai, WeRide, AutoX, DeepRoute.ai, Momenta and Baidu’s Apollo Go are expanding their trials and partnerships across European cities, transforming Europe into the next stage of technological rivalry. What began as a domestic…
After earlier this year launching a marketplace that allows websites to charge AI bots for scraping their content, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare is pushing for increased regulation in the AI sector. The company’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, says he’s in London to speak with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where he’s proposing stricter…
The collapsed deal comes just a few months after Iran’s supreme leader criticised elements of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, and Western signatories still party to the deal threatened to impose sanctions. Iran’s decision is not, however, an unprovoked escalation but the culmination of years of failed…
Sean Seddon, Wahiba Ahmed and Anna Foster Gaza health crisis will last ‘for generations’, says WHO chief Gaza is experiencing a health “catastrophe” that will last for “generations to come”, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a massive increase in…
