Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif and Afghan Defence Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid shake hands following the signing of a ceasefire agreement mediated by Qatar and Turkey in Doha on October 19. Photo: Reuters ISLAMABAD: Declaring that the Afghan Taliban were not the “darling of Pakistan”, the chief military spokesperson has warned that any cross-border…
Oscar winner Renée Zellweger is set to star in and produce the psychological thriller Phantom Son, with David Yates to direct and Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios to finance and co-produce the project. Phantom Son will center on Ronnie, a young and struggling runaway taken in by Audrey (Zellweger), a lonely woman whose own son was…
Proposals include creation of constitutional court, Changes in Article 160(3)A, Article 243 on cards Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addresses a media briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York, US on June 3, 2025. SCREENGRAB ISLAMABAD: The federal government has set in motion the process for the 27th Constitutional Amendment, proposing…
BANNU/ RAWALPINDI: Security forces on Monday killed three terrorists belonging to Fitna al-Khawarij in two separate operations in North Waziristan and Tank districts, as five police personnel were injured the same day in an armed attack on the North Waziristan district police officer’s (DPO) convoy near Bannu, officials said. The incidents come amid the continuing…
Joe LunardiNov 4, 2025, 08:45 AM ET Close Resident college basketball bracketologist for ESPN Contributor to SportsCenter, ESPN Insider Published first public bracket in 1995 A new men’s college basketball season has finally arrived. With it comes inevitable questions, both obvious and arcane, about players, teams and, most importantly, what will happen 5½ months from…
Universal’s turn-of-the-century The Mummy franchise is back from the dead. Brendan Fraser, who led the trio of movies made between 1999 and 2008, and Rachel Weisz, who starred in the first two, are in talks to star in a new Mummy sequel. Radio Silence is set to direct. The filmmaking team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and…
An artificial intelligence model developed by Alibaba Group Holding has emerged as the top performer in a high-profile “real money, real market” experiment that pitted six leading US and Chinese systems against one another in cryptocurrency trading. In the first round of testing on US research firm Nof1’s Alpha Arena, which concluded on Tuesday, Alibaba…
Iran has released two French nationals who were detained there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Cécile Kohler, 41 and her partner Jacques Paris, 72, have been released from Evin prison, Macron said on Tuesday, with France’s foreign minister later confirming they were “safe” at the embassy in Tehran “ahead…
Pakistan’s competition watchdog has called for national steel policy, dedicated ministry to rescue ailing sector ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has recommended the overhaul of the steel industry by announcing a national policy and setting up a dedicated ministry to revive the sector, which is struggling to survive in the face of several…
Experts warn poor governance, reliance on fossil fuels stalling Asia’s path to a sustainable, climate-resilient future ISLAMABAD: The race toward a sustainable future across Asia is being slowed by a lack of coordination. Experts warn that the region’s most urgent sustainability challenges are tangled in fragmented governance, weak enforcement, and deep dependency on fossil fuels…
