Year: 2023

Donald Trump calls Kim Kardashian ‘world’s most overrated celebrity’

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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…

In meeting with Ulema, COAS says no space for intolerance, extremism

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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,…

AI may make warfare deadly further wrecking world peace: experts

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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…

No weapons sold to Ukraine or Russia, reiterates Pakistan

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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…

Govt challenges SC’s military courts verdict

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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…

Bad news! WhatsApp to stop offering ‘unlimited’ storage for backups

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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…

Shehbaz asks Bilawal to become politically mature

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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 elections…

Pakistan-born lawyer may become first Muslim American judge in US federal appeals court

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In a first for Muslim Americans, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Pakistan-born lawyer Adeel Mangi to serve as a judge on a federal appeals court, reported The Washington Post. If the US Senate approves Mangi’s nomination then the Harvard and Oxford-trained lawyer would become the first Muslim American to serve as a judge on a US appellate court. The lawyer was nominated for the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, based in Philadelphia. His nomination was announced along with seven other judicial nominees. Mangi is currently a…

150,000 illegal immigrants, including Afghans, repatriated: Achakzai

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QUETTA: Balochistan caretaker Minister for Information Jan Achakzai said on Wednesday that 150,000 undocumented emigrants including Afghan citizens had been repatriated. Addressing a press conference at Quetta Press Club, he said that about 250, 000 undocumented Afghan citizens were expected to repatriate to Afghanistan via Chaman Spinboldak crossing point by December.He said that Afghanistan posed two kinds of threats to Pakistan. “One threat is from border while other threat is from undocumented Afghan citizens living in Pakistan,” Achakzai said and added that Pakistan wanted to boost trade with Afghanistan because…