. India’s unilateral act of putting the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) in abeyance is unlawful and devoid of rationality. Pakistan has rightly aired its concerns at every forum, soliciting the world community’s endorsement to stand up against this policy of ‘water aggression’, as it is tantamount to weaponisation of shared natural resources. Pakistan’s permanent representative…
. The relentless rise of power sector circular debt to nearly Rs1.7 trillion in the first quarter of the current fiscal year is a glaring alarm that stopgap financial measures are failing to cure the sector’s diseased core. The Rs79 billion surge from July to September this year reflects the persistent drain that circular debt…
Ikea just announced a bunch of super cheap, colorful Matter-over-Thread devices that will work with any platform, and it feels like Christmas came early for the smart home. The 21 new products include a line of smart bulbs starting at just £4 and two new remote controls that start at just £3 (US pricing is…
. The writer is the Head of Research at UCSI University, Malaysia. He can be reached at naveed.r.khan@gmail.com Ambitious and timely though it is, Pakistan’s National Artificial Intelligence Policy (2025) lacks comprehensible national data governance policy. We speak of machine learning before ensuring that the machines have anything reliable to learn from. The NAI policy…
National Army Museum Thousands of Kenyan soldiers fought in the British army during the world wars One day, some 85 years ago, Mutuku Ing’ati left his home in southern Kenya and was never seen again. The 30-something Mr Ing’ati had disappeared with no explanation – for years his family desperately tried to track him down,…
Lucy HookerBusiness reporter Getty Images A great leader is a huge asset for company, of course, but can anyone be worth $1 trillion? That is the pay packet Tesla shareholders have approved for Elon Musk, as long as he meets the targets they have set over the next 10 years. In the meantime he won’t…
This season, dominated by superstars Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, was a memorable and perhaps era-defining one on the ATP Tour. But there’s one more tournament to play — and there’s a lot on the line. While most professional tennis players have started their blink-and-you’ll-miss-it offseason, the elite men are still in action and focused…
Fox Sports has parted ways with NFL analyst Mark Sanchez, following his arrest in Indianapolis last month following an altercation with a truck driver. “We can confirm that Mark Sanchez is no longer with the network. There will be no further comment at this time,” a Fox News spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter. Fox on…
A man has collapsed and died while clearing a drainage channel in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district. The 68-year-old man, who ran a drainage firm, was found unconscious on Tuesday afternoon by his sister in a back alley off Portland Street near Changsha Street. He was found lying next to a one-metre-deep (3.2 feet) opening…
. Protecting women is the state’s foremost responsibility —and Islamabad’s zero-conviction record shows it is failing that duty spectacularly. The latest figures from the capital city reveal a justice system that is neither functioning nor inspiring confidence. In just the first half of 2025, as many as 373 cases of violence against women were reported…
