ISLAMABAD: In an important diplomatic development, Russia has changed its experienced ambassador in Pakistan Danila V. Ganich. He has been transferred to the Kremlin for the next assignment. Interestingly, Pakistan recently changed its ambassador for Russia when Shafqat Ali Khan was posted as Additional Foreign Secretary in Islamabad. Khalid Jamali has been appointed ambassador to Russia and he is yet to present his credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jamali has reached Moscow. Well-placed diplomatic sources told The News here Monday that Danila Ganich would return to Moscow next month…
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PTI slams caretaker govts for challenging SC verdict on military courts
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and senior lawyer Hamid Khan has slammed the incumbent caretaker governments in the Centre and provinces for challenging the Supreme Court’s decision declaring the military trial of civilians under the Pakistan Army Act 1952 as unconstitutional. Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Monday, Khan said the interim governments have no mandate to file review appeals against an SC verdict. His remarks came after the caretaker federal and provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan on Friday filed intra-court appeals against the apex court’s…
Read MoreKareena Kapoor spills beans on her plans to make Hollywood debut
Kareena Kapoor recently addressed plans of making her Hollywood debut as the actress enjoyed working in Hansal Mehta’s The Buckingham Murders, which is a story inspired by the American crime drama Mare of Easttown. There were speculations that Kapoor’s upcoming mystery drama, which was mostly filmed in the English language, might be helpful for the actress to make contacts in Hollywood. In conversation with Hindustan Times, the actress put all the rumours to rest, saying she has not done The Buckingham Murders with any “intention to bridge any gap”. She stated, “I love Mare of…
Read MoreDonald Trump calls Kim Kardashian ‘world’s most overrated celebrity’
Donald Trump, former US president thwarted a recently published book that criticises his administration and called Kim Kardashian “the world’s most overrated celebrity.” Trump attacked Jonathan Karl’s book “Tired of Winning,” which claims that after Kardashian requested him for assistance with many clemency cases, the former president and 2024 presidential contender advised her to utilise her celebrity connections to persuade football players to visit the White House. “In the ‘book’ he [Karl] has the World’s most overrated celebrity, Kim Kardashian, supposedly telling me that she ‘would leverage her celebrity to…
Read MoreIn meeting with Ulema, COAS says no space for intolerance, extremism
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir on Friday warned that the use of force and armed action by any militia, entity or group other than the state is “unacceptable”, read a statement issued by the military’s media affairs wing. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army chief remarked during an interaction with the leading Islamic scholars of all schools of thought, who called on him at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi today. “Pakistan belongs to all Pakistanis without any religious, provincial, tribal, linguistic,…
Read MoreAI may make warfare deadly further wrecking world peace: experts
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to completely transform combat, much like gunpowder and the atomic bomb did and it might make conflicts between people unthinkably different and considerably deadlier, as per experts. There were rumours that US President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping would agree to outlaw lethal autonomous weapons before their next conference. Although there didn’t seem to be any agreement from the summit, experts believe it’s an important issue that is already changing armed conflict and intensifying the race for global domination. Analysts claim Beijing is…
Read MoreNo weapons sold to Ukraine or Russia, reiterates Pakistan
The allegations surfaced once again, this time in a BBC Urdu report, which claimed Pakistan sold weapons to two US arms firms, which were then sent onwards to Ukraine. The spokeswoman at the Foreign Office was asked during the weekly presser whether the BBC Urdu report indicated it was a fact that Pakistani weapons were being used in the Ukrainian battlefield, regardless of whether they went through the US or not. “I reaffirm what we have said in the past that Pakistan has not sold weapons to Ukraine or to…
Read MoreGovt challenges SC’s military courts verdict
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Defence on Friday filed an intra-court appeal in the Supreme Court against a five-member bench that had declared the trial of civilians in military courts illegal, reported Geo News on Friday. In the petition, the ministry has appealed to the apex court to revoke the October 23 decision and restore the sections of the Official Secrets Act that were declared illegal. It also urges the Supreme Court to restore Section 59(4) of the Army Act. The petition has also warned that declaring some sections of the Army Act…
Read MoreBad news! WhatsApp to stop offering ‘unlimited’ storage for backups
The prominent messaging platform WhatsApp is set to stop rendering “unlimited storage” for chat backups in the near future. Google, along with the meta-owned app, will notify its users in advance of their decision to remove the unlimited quota option for WhatsApp backups. For now, the storage-limiting feature available on the WhatsApp Business beta for Android 2.23.24.21 update, but the two companies intend to roll out this change to beta testers soon, followed by everyone else next year, WaBetaInfo reported. When implemented, this change will bring WhatsApp’s backup feature at par with that of iOS…
Read MoreShehbaz asks Bilawal to become politically mature
LAHORE: Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) president and former prime minister, termed Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari a “young brother”, a day after the young politicians advised his party’s supremo to “focus on Lahore”. “Bilawal Bhutto is like a younger brother. [We have] worked together for 16 months,” he said, citing their collaboration under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition government. The senior politician’s comment came during a press conference in Quetta, where PMLN leaders, including Nawaz, gathered to meet with Balochistan-based political parties ahead of the…
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