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Climate challenges

Pakistan cannot afford to confront its climate crises one disaster, one season and one international summit at a time.

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Constrained partnership

Constrained partnership

The Global Fund’s observations point to serious weaknesses in governance & institutional accountability.

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Dawn

Zafar Mirza

Amazon’s big move to own the world’s product data as AI shopping battle heats up

Amazon’s big move to own the world’s product data as AI shopping battle heats up

Amazon is reportedly planning to take control of product information across the digital landscape to reinforce its presence in AI-powered shopping....

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The News International

Ruqia Shahid

COP has a guest-list problem

COP has a guest-list problem
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Dawn Prism

Mannan Samad

Under fire

KP police are increasingly vulnerable as they play a frontline role in ongoing operations against terrorists.

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Pakistan's moment between deterrence and diplomacy

The central problem of regional order is how to make states feel secure without making their neighbours feel threatened. The Middle East has struggled...

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The Express Tribune

Durdana Najam

How is China reacting to Jensen Huang's Nvidia resignation?

How is China reacting to Jensen Huang's Nvidia resignation?

Hundreds of thousands of Weibo comments made Jensen Huang's resignation the top tech topic in China on Thursday. Many users sounded less like...

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The News International

Pareesa Afreen

The five stages of AI grief

The five stages of AI grief

People facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, the Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross famously wrote, experience five stages of grief:...

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The Frontier Post

The Frontier Post

Islamabad To Become Pakistan’s First Cashless City By December 31

Islamabad To Become Pakistan’s First Cashless City By December 31

ISLAMABAD: The government has set December 31 as the deadline to transform Islamabad into Pakistan’s first cashless city, launching an ambitious...

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Naya Daur

Naya Daur News Desk

Used car imports

THE government’s effort to restrict used car imports appears to be faltering. So suggest the numbers. Despite...

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

K&N's SmartCooking Recipes: Chapli Kabab Bread Cutlets

K&N's SmartCooking Recipes: Chapli Kabab Bread Cutlets

Crispy bread cutlets stuffed with K&N’s Chapli Kabab and melted mozzarella, coated in seasoned breadcrumbs and fried until golden.

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

SpaceX and Tesla advance toward historic, potential $3.4 trillion mega-merger

SpaceX and Tesla advance toward historic, potential $3.4 trillion mega-merger

Negotiations regarding a potential mega-merger between Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla have progressed significantly, with special independent board...

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The News International

Hafsa Naeem Baig

Jensen Huang’s exit and US scrutiny imperil $3 billion in Chinese AI projects reliant on Nvidia

Jensen Huang’s exit and US scrutiny imperil $3 billion in Chinese AI projects reliant on Nvidia

The intersection of Jensen Huang's sudden resignation as Nvidia's CEO, intense U.S. regulatory scrutiny, and fresh investigative findings...

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The News International

Hafsa Naeem Baig

Is Claude down? Anthropic investigates widespread login issues

Claude users faced login problems on Friday as Anthropic investigated an outage affecting its AI chatbot, coding assistant and developer platform. The...

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The News International

Pareesa Afreen

WhatsApp tests standalone location updates for status

WhatsApp tests standalone location updates for status

Sharing where you are on WhatsApp status currently means finding a photo first. WhatsApp is now working on a way to post a location on its own, with...

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The News International

Pareesa Afreen

Diplomatic reset?

Career diplomat Natalie Baker has been nominated as the next US ambassador to Pakistan. Pending Senate confirmation, she will formally fill a post...

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The Express Tribune

Editorial

EU leaders convene at first AI summit to confront tech gap and funding disputes: What to know

EU leaders convene at first AI summit to confront tech gap and funding disputes: What to know

The historic first-ever EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) summit in Dublin brings European Union leaders together to confront the bloc's widening...

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The News International

Hafsa Naeem Baig

SpaceX to attempt first-ever Starship land recovery and tower catch in historic 15th Flight

SpaceX to attempt first-ever Starship land recovery and tower catch in historic 15th Flight

SpaceX’s 15th Starship flight test (Flight 15) marks a major milestone in aerospace development, with the company planning its first attempt to...

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The News International

Hafsa Naeem Baig

ICE breaks the record for the most arrests and deportations in agency’s full history

ICE breaks the record for the most arrests and deportations in agency’s full history

More arrests have been made in the fiscal year of 2026 than in the Agency’s entire history. Almost 491,000 immigration arrests, and more than...

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The News International

H. Anjum

Moscow car bombing kills military colonel, leaves former Ukrainian PM's aide injured

Moscow car bombing kills military colonel, leaves former Ukrainian PM's aide injured

A car bomb explosion in Moscow has severely injured a former aide to Ukraine's pro-Russian ex-prime minister, a day after another blast killed a...

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The News International

Bisma Saleem

US Treasury chief blames Commerce Dept for failure in Nvidia scandal

US Treasury chief blames Commerce Dept for failure in Nvidia scandal

US Treasury chief blames Commerce Dept for failure in Nvidia scandal US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday blamed the Commerce Department for...

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Dawn Business

Afp

US midterm elections & their geopolitical significance

THE outcome of the 2026 US midterm elections represents more than a domestic political setback for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It...

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Pakistan Observer

Dr Muhammad Khan

Soldier honored for scolding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Soldier honored for scolding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a top award to the service member who scolded him and his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier following a...

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The News International

The News Digital

Microsoft outage leaves Outlook, Teams, Copilot disrupted for 11 hours: Here’s what happened

Microsoft outage leaves Outlook, Teams, Copilot disrupted for 11 hours: Here’s what happened

Microsoft's efforts to repair a global cloud outage have not worked as planned, leaving Outlook, Teams and Copilot disrupted across dozens of...

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The News International

Pareesa Afreen

Pakistani dramadom is having a huge moment

Pakistani dramadom is having a huge moment

“Main bara ho kar pita banna chahta huu’n” (“When I grow up, I want to become a pita”). Pita is the Hindi word for father. The speaker was...

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Arab News Pakistan

Sahar Ali

Beyond diplomacy

Beyond diplomacy

Constitutional federalism needs to work for economic development.

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Dawn

Laraib Sajid

Dutch government plans meeting with collation partners before collapse hits

Dutch government plans meeting with collation partners before collapse hits

The Dutch government has just announced its biggest effort to protect against a total collapse of its government, after a debate about wealth taxes...

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The News International

The News Digital

Logitech gives 7,000 employees paid day off to play GTA 6

Logitech gives 7,000 employees paid day off to play GTA 6

Logitech has found a way to get ahead of the GTA 6 sick-day rush: it is giving more than 7,000 of its employees an extra paid day off to play. The...

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The News International

Pareesa Afreen

The Price Of Knowledge, The Fortune Of Fame

The Price Of Knowledge, The Fortune Of Fame

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing”— Oscar Wilde Those who grew up in our part of the world will remember a...

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The Friday Times

Huzaima Bukhari

Ambition without scale?

Ambition without scale?

Competition among brands is desirable, but proliferation of incompatible platforms undermines supplier competitiveness.

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Dawn

Ehsan Malik

Midterm lessons

Midterm lessons

Growth is no longer enough as a political argument.

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Dawn

Asif Saad

Missing Persons: Who Is Afraid of the Whole Truth?

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Daily Times

Sajid Salamat

Beyond Robots: From Haze to Blue Skies, Lessons from Beijing

Beyond Robots: From Haze to Blue Skies, Lessons from Beijing

During my recent visit to Beijing for the seventh World Media Summit, I found myself thinking about two very different kinds of progress. One was...

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Daily Pakistan

Usman Mujib Shami

Green energy: A public health imperative in Pakistan

CLIMATE change is no longer merely an environmental concern; it is a growing threat to public health and sustainable development in Pakistan. Rising...

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Pakistan Observer

News Desk