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Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Friday said that “there are clear early signs of fourth wave starting” in Pakistan. “Two weeks ago, I had tweeted that our artificial intelligence models are showing the possible emergence of a fourth wave. Now there are clear early signs of a fourth wave starting,” he said in a...

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday told a Senate panel that a power-sharing formula in Afghanistan is the best way to avoid a civil-war-like situation in the neighbouring country. Briefing members of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Pakistan is already handling Afghan refugees in its limited resources and could not deal...

LAHORE: A review board of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday issued its detailed verdict in a case related to the detention of proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) leader Saad Hussain Rizvi, Dawn News reported. According to the report, the three-member board led by Justice Malik Shehzad observed that, if Saad is not required to the government in any other...

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday visited the Corps Headquarters Mangla and was briefed about operational preparedness, training and administrative matters. The army chief was also apprised of the ongoing ‘Corps War Games’ aimed at evaluating operational plans in wake of the emerging battlefield challenges, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. Gen Qamar...

The federal government has moved with a blitzkrieg-like swiftness on the need to reconcile the Baloch separatists. The move started Monday, when Prime Minister Imran Khan said he was considering holding talks with the ‘angry Baloch’. It continued on Tuesday with COAS Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa declaring Army support. On Wednesday, a new governor was appointed in Quetta, Zahoor...

The death of legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar does not leave a vacuum in the Indian film industry considering he had not acted in a movie for nearly three decades, nor starred in one for much longer. At the age of 98, the days of his prime had been long past him, with a new crop of heroes like...

AT PENPOINT While Prime Minister Imran Khan said the Chinese system was better than Western democracy, he was perhaps conscious that he was making an expression of choice, but he seemed to once again be haring off after some system that would give him an assurance of power. What he also did not seem to see is that the dichotomy...

Child abuse is an unreported but alarming issue in every civilized society. Half of the children across the world exposed to violence and survivors’ trauma, along with its consequences, are commonly obscured from the public view. In this era of globalization, there is a need for designating time to educate and empower the most vulnerable segments of society, children...

Human development is the process of enlarging people’s opportunities and improving their well-being. The concept of human development was developed by Mehboob ul Haq, the famous economist of Pakistan. He argued that the current measures for human progress have failed to account for the purpose of development to improve human lives. The basic capabilities valued virtually by everyone include...

Pinning the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution, the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that variants like delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines.” He added that passing the four millionth recorded death worldwide from Covid-19 was a “tragic milestone” which “likely underestimates the overall toll” of the deadly...

Chairman China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Asim Saleem Bajwa has urged the investors from Singapore to tap the huge opportunities in the newly established Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Pakistan. Speaking at a webinar on Investment Opportunities in CPEC-related SEZs, organised jointly by Pakistan High Commission and the Embassy of China in Singapore, on Thursday, Bajwa said that Singapore investors...

KARACHI,(TLTP): The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has revealed that Afghan spy agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS), had issued Pakistani computerised national identity cards (CNICs) to the terrorists associated with outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from the database of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). The revelation was made by FIA Director Sindh, Zone-I, Amir Farooqui in a press conference on...