LAKKI MARWAT: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police thwarted a late-night attack on the Pezu police station in Lakki Marwat district, an official said on Tuesday. According to District Police Officer (DPO) Tariq Habib, policemen at the Gandi Chowk checkpost suspected the “presence and movement of six terrorists” around midnight and confronted them. The DPO said that the policemen were already alert and …
NEW YORK: ChatGPT maker OpenAI has said it will introduce tools to combat disinformation ahead of the dozens of elections this year in countries that are home to half the world’s population. The explosive success of text generator ChatGPT spurred a global artificial intelligence revolution but also triggered warnings that such tools could flood the internet with disinformation and sway …
BEIJING: An international team of astronomers has unveiled the findings of a study on the formation process of high-mass protostellar clusters, where stars like the sun originate. It is known that the distant luminosity observed through telescopes comes mainly from a small number of high-mass stars, weighing at least eight times as much as the sun and born in massive …
RAWALPINDI: A trial court deferred the indictment of former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi till Tuesday (today) in the Iddat case while the Islamabad High Court (IHC) reserved its order on a petition seeking to stay trial proceedings in the case. Senior civil judge Qudratullah was expected to indict the couple on Monday, but did not …
ISLAMABAD: As resolutions seeking a delay in the polls continue to land in the Senate, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has made it clear that general elections scheduled for February 8 cannot be put off “at this stage”. In response to a letter received from the Senate Secretariat along with a copy of a resolution seeking a delay in …
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan on Monday alleged that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif was “playing with the support” of “two umpires” and one of them had recently given a “no-ball” in his favour. Speaking to reporters in Adiala Jail after the hearing of the Toshakhana case, he said recent events which had sidelined the PTI and …
ISLAMABAD: Ahead of the proposed induction of the private sector for divestment and management contracts, the caretaker government has prohibited all forms of union activities in the power sector. This decision encompasses all public sector power companies, including those in the business of generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity, bringing them under the scope of the “Pakistan Essential Service …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday emphasised the need for coordination among regional countries on Afghanistan for regional stability. Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani, while talking to Iran’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Affairs Hassan Kazmi Qomi, said Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries have a key role to play in the region’s peace and stability. According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office, …
ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government on Monday decreased the price of petrol by Rs8 per litre for the next fortnight. In a notification issued today, the Finance Division said the government decided to reduce the price of petrol for the fortnight starting from January 16 as recommended by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority. According to the announcement, the ex-depot price …
CAIRO: China and Egypt on Sunday agreed to push for elevating their bilateral relations to a new level as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is visiting Africa – his first overseas trip at the beginning of …