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CNN's Fareed Zakaria Never Misses Any Opportunity to Disparage Pakistan
Interviewing Bill Gates on global fight against COVID19, CNN GPS host Fareed Zakaria said on Sunday August 9 that Pakistan "has done almost nothing as far as I can tell, you know, infections are not going crazy, death rates are not going crazy, there may be some underreporting". Needless to say, Zakaria's claim is debunked by "Government Response Stringency Index" and Google Mobility Reports…
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SC orders to register case against KE
Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday has directed to register case against K-Electric over deaths in Karachi due to electrocution during Monsoon rain spell and prolonged power…
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سپریم کورٹ نے کے الیکٹرک کیخلاف مقدمہ درج کرنے کا حکم دے دیا
سپریم کورٹ نے کے الیکٹرک کیخلاف مقدمہ درج کرنے کا حکم دے دیا۔
تفصیلات کے مطابق چیف جسٹس گلزار احمد نے سی ای او مونس علوی کا نام ای سی…
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Pakistan Independence Day 2020: National Resilience Amid Deadly COVI19 Pandemic
On Pakistan's 73rd Independence Anniversary, the people of the South Asian nation have demonstrated their resilience yet again. They have defied all foreign and domestic doomsayers, including media, activists and think tanks of all varieties. Pakistan has successfully fought off the deadly COVID19 virus and begun to bounce back economically. Moody's rating agency has raised Pakistan's…
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Rains wreak havoc in Dadu district, flood more than 350 villages
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Shopping malls, hotels, cinemas, salons in Pakistan to reopen today as restrictions lift
Shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, gyms, theatres, cinema halls, beauty parlors across the country will reopen today (Monday) with the implementation of…
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ملک بھر میں ون ڈے پلانٹیشن ڈرائیو کا آج آغاز ہو گا
ملک بھر میں آج ون ڈے پلانٹیشن ڈرائیو کا آغاز ہو گا۔
تفصیلات ک متابق ملک بھر میں آج ایک دن میں 35 لاکھ پودے لگائے…
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Intermittent rain turns Karachi roads, streets into canals
Intermittent rain hit Karachi on third straight day and turned many roads and streets into rivulets on Saturday.
The citizens are facing severe trouble due…
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India: A Paradise For Pakistani Hindus?
A recent New York Times piece titled "Poor and Desperate, Pakistani Hindus Accept Islam to Get By" talks of "Pakistan’s dwindling Hindu minority". An earlier New York Times story in December 2019 mentioned "the pressure for (Pakistani) Hindus to weigh moving to India". The paper also reported that "the Indian government granted 12,732 long-term visas, compared with 4,712 in 2017, and 2,298 in 2016".…
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PM Imran to preside over Council of Common Interests meeting today
The 42nd session of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) will be held in Islamabad today (Thursday) under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran…
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Karachi to receive heavy downpour from today: PMD
Heavy downpour accompanied by thunderstorms is likely to hit Karachi as fourth spell of monsoon expected to enter the city today (Thursday),…
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COVID-19 claims 711,220 lives worldwide, infects over 18 million people so far
Coronavirus has claimed 711,220 lives worldwide so far and infected 18,977,637 people, while 12,166,746 patients have been recuperated.
The number…
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Beirut faces unprecedented disaster, toll reaches 135
Lebanon's capital Beirut faced nightmare as the massive blast at city port death toll rose to 135.
While describing the…
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Pakistan registers 727 new coronavirus cases with 21 more deaths
The number of corona cases in the country has climbed to 281,863 on Thursday after more infections were reported in different parts of the country.
According to the national database, 727 persons…
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Global Geopolitics: US-China Technology War; India's Regional Isolation; Pakistan's Ties With China, US
Is US-China technology war heating with Huawei ban? Is it part of the larger geopolitical landscape pitting the US as the established superpower against China as the new rising power? Is the fight over Huawei 5G merely a symptom of it? How will it affect global…
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Indian Investigative Reporter Exposes RAW's Covert Ops Against Neighbors
In a new book titled "RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations", Indian investigative journalist Yatish Yadav has essentially confirmed some of what India's neighbors have suspected for a long time. Yadav has added to the revelations contained in a earlier book titled "Mission R&AW" written by ex Indian spy RK Yadav.…
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Pakistan: Hopes Rise For Cheap and Abundant Electricity
Pakistani power sector is continuing its march toward cheap indigenous sources of electricity. Hydropower component has increased 22%, coal 57% and nuclear 8% while oil is down 54% and natural gas and LNG are down 32% and 15% respectively, according to Bloomberg. These…
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Has Intel's Indian-American Techie Risked America's Global Technology Leadership?
Intel has recently fired its Indian-American chief engineer Venkata Murthy Renduchintala, who also served as Group President of the Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group (TSCG), for failure to deliver 7 nanometer semiconductor technology on schedule, according to Reuters. …
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How to Charge Solar Panel Without Sun?
As the huge expenses of electricity have shifted the people’s minds towards the investment in solar panels. Solar panels are becoming the way to common in culture. Solar energy has become one of the sources of saving money. But there is a contrary point what if there is no solar energy or the weather is cloudy having no sun?
Is there any alternative to charging solar panels with no sunlight at all!
Oh yeah, there are some other means of charging solar panels but what are they?…
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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrives in Lahore on one day visit
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in Lahore on a day-long visit in the wee hours of Tuesday.
According to…
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Rogue AI agents are no longer just the stuff of science fiction. When an OpenAI rogue agent launched a cyber attack against AI startup Hugging Face this month, the company fought fire with fire, using an open-source Chinese AI model to defend against it.
During a test in a sandbox, an OpenAI autonomous agent managed to sneak out and attack a website operated by HuggingFace, an AI startup based in New York City.…
Posted by Riaz Haq on July 26, 2026 at 9:33pm — 6 Comments
Pakistan Joins China in World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO)
On July 16 in Shanghai, 29 countries, including China, Pakistan and Russia, signed the founding agreement of WAICO, World AI Cooperation Organization. Every BRICS founding member is in, except India. This agreement follows the launch of the US-led Pax Silica, a 24-member coalition, including India, which is designed to counter China's AI efforts. The stated goal of both these competing groups is to provide global governance, including building guardrails and setting…
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