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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday expressed concern to Beijing about “malicious cyber activity” by Chinese state-sponsored actors, days after her department reported such a breach. The incident, which the US Treasury Department revealed last week, occurred in December and resulted in access to some of its workstations and unclassified documents. In a virtual…
BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan’s Sohail Adnan (front) in action during the final of the British Junior Open Squash Championships at the University of Birmingham on Monday. Courtesy of the British Junior Open website ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s promising youngster Sohail Adnan etched his name in history on Monday when he defeated Egypt’s Moez Tamer Elmoghazy in the final of…
RAWALPINDI/LAHORE: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced plans to expand its domestic and international operations by launching new flights from January. The national flag carrier is adding flights to Kuwait, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam and Jeddah. A PIA spokesperson said the airline has introduced new international routes to Kuwait, Bahrain and Doha, in addition to expanding…
DR Manmohan Singh, who died aged 92 last week, will be remembered in opposite ways. As finance minister and prime minister, he condemned “left-wing extremism” as the biggest threat to India’s internal security. The sahukar-backed right agreed. Consequently, too many left-wing intellectuals and academics are imprisoned over unfounded claims that they posed a threat to…
ISLAMABAD: With the Constitutional Court set to resume hearing a petition against mass deportation of Afghans on Tuesday (today), the federal government assured the Supreme Court that the validity of PoR cards issued to registered refugees had been extended until June. 30. The public interest petition, which will be heard by a seven-judge bench headed…
North Korea fired a missile on Monday while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited South Korea, where he warned that Pyongyang was working increasingly closely with Russia on advanced space technology. Blinken’s trip came as investigators sought to arrest conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has barricaded himself in his residence after being accused…
Responding to reservations raised by PPP spokesperson Shazia Marri about the government not consulting the party on key decisions, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday said differences in a coalition government were inevitable, but they did not necessarily indicate a problem. Already at odds with the PML-N over how to govern the country, differences between…
Indian Maoist guerrillas killed nine members of the security forces on Monday when they detonated a roadside bomb that sent their vehicle into the air, police said. Photographs published by Indian media showed a deep crater opened in the road by the explosion. More than 10,000 people have been killed in the decades-long insurgency waged…
Tag Heuer will replace Rolex as Formula One’s official timekeeper this season as part of a new 10-year partnership with French luxury giant LVMH, the Liberty Media-owned sport announced on Monday. Formerly F1 timekeeper from 1992 to 2003, the brand will have a significant presence across the season’s 24 races with on-track activations and branding….
Posts by multiple users on social media platform ‘. However, Imran did not make the top 50 and was included as an honorable mention. The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center (RISSC) is a research institute based in Amman, Jordan. It has been publishing an annual report titled ‘The 500 Most Influential Muslims’ since 2009, recognizing…
