In a rare and candid admission, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has acknowledged that the country functions under a hybrid political system where power is shared between the civilian government and the military establishment. His remarks have once again brought the spotlight on the powerful role of the army in Pakistan’s governance structure. Admission of...
In a striking public declaration, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has lauded U.S. President Donald Trump as a “man of peace,” asserting that Trump played an instrumental role in facilitating the ceasefire with India earlier this year. Sharif’s remarks mark a dramatic diplomatic posture, especially given India’s consistent rejection of any third-party intervention in the...
Updated: Sep 26th, 2025 Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has filed a lawsuit against rival OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets through hiring its former employees. Intensifying the ongoing conflict between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, a complaint was filed in California federal court that former xAI employees were poached to obtain...
Updated: Sep 26th, 2025 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the ministers of the G4 have reviewed the state of negotiations for reforming the Security Council while reiterating their commitment to the goal. After their meeting on Thursday, he posted on X that the “G4 reiterated its commitment to reforming the United Nations including the...
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas, riding high on rising support for statehood while also facing relentless Israeli attacks, on Thursday, denounced Hamas and offered to work with the US President Donald Trump to implement a peace plan endorsed by the UN. Speaking through a video link after the US barred him from coming to New York...
Updated: Sep 26th, 2025 US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced tariffs of up to 100% on imports of branded and patented pharmaceutical drugs, starting October 1, 2025. The move could hit the Indian pharmaceuticals sector hard as it is significantly dependent on trade with foreign countries, particularly the US. In a post on Truth...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 A team of researchers at Stanford University has developed a genetically engineered strain of ‘Phocaeicola vulgatus’ that may open new frontiers in microbiome-based therapeutics, particularly for preventing kidney stones. The work, published in ‘Science’ and titled ‘Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic’ demonstrates how the...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 Representative image The Moon is slowly rusting and Earth may be to blame, according to a new study published in Nature’s journal Geophysical Research Letters. As per the report, scientists have discovered that high-energy oxygen particles escaping from Earth’s atmosphere can travel across space and interact with iron-rich minerals on the...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to five years in prison (image: IANS) A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of conspiring criminally with Libya over illegal election campaign funding. The court on Thursday, however, acquitted Sarkozy of passive corruption, embezzlement...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 A rooftop sniper opened fire on a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday morning, killing one immigration detainee and critically injuring two others, as per officials. According to ICE, the gunman fired indiscriminately at the Dallas field office, striking an ICE transport van in the...