<p>ISLAMABAD: The new management of Ufone and Telenor Pakistan has decided to rebrand the merged telecom company and has filed an application with the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in this regard, it emerged on Monday.</p> <p>Earlier this month, the Telenor Pakistan was formally <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2012241">amalgamated</a> into Pak Telecom Mobile Limited (PTML) — the legal name for Ufone — after final approval by the Islamabad High Court (IHC).</p> <p>Sources in P

<p>Microsoft said Monday it was eliminating about 4,800 jobs — roughly 2 per cent of its global workforce — in a cost-cutting move that will deliver a sweeping restructuring of its struggling Xbox gaming division.</p> <p>The cuts include the deepest overhaul in Xbox’s history, with approximately 3,200 gaming jobs to be shed over the coming fiscal year, four game studios being spun off or sold, and a fifth entering a review process that could lead to closure, the company said.</p> <p>The an

President Asif Ali Zardari will head to Kyrgyzstan on Monday for a four-day official visit, according to the Foreign Office (FO). Accompanied by a high-level delegation, President Zardari will undertake the visit at the invitation of the Kyrgyz...

<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Istanbul on Friday for an official visit to Turkiye at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said a statement by the government.</p> <p>The premier, earlier today <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2012668/pm-shehbaz-cdf-munir-pay-respects-to-irans-assassinated-supreme-leader-khamenei">attended</a> the funeral Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1976870"><u>assassinated</u></a> in a US-I

<figure class='media w-full sm:w-full media--center media--uneven media--stretch' data-original-src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/07/020337438dd8583.webp'> <div class='media__item '><picture><img src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/07/020337438dd8583.webp' alt=' PM Shehbaz Sharif chairs a meeting to review preparations ahead of the monsoon season.&mdash;APP ' /></picture></div> <figcaption class='media__caption '>PM Shehbaz Sharif chairs a meeting to review preparati

<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.gsma.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/The-Mobile-Gender-Gap-Report-2026.pdf">GSMA Mobile Gender Gap Report 2026</a> has highlighted Pakistan as the most improved nation among all surveyed countries in narrowing the mobile ownership gender gap, which sharply declined from 37 per cent in 2024 to 27pc in 2025.</p> <p>Pakistan also ranked among the top-performing nations across the 14 low- and middl

<p>KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday launched the province’s first Google Gemini for Education Corner at NED University and 20,000 Google Career Certificate scholarships for students along with the Google Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) training programme for cabinet members and senior officials.</p> <p>The programmes were launched in collaboration with Google and Tech Valley Pakistan.</p> <p>The launching ceremony was attended by provincial ministers, advisers, Chie

<p>India is investigating a <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2011837">data breach</a> at Tata Electronics that exposed documents linked to Apple’s unreleased iPhone 18 Pro, the country’s IT secretary said on Thursday in the government’s first public comments on the incident.</p> <p>Sensitive lists of components and suppliers as well as photos of iPhone 18 Pro models are among files that were posted on the dark web by a ransomware group that stole data from Tata Electronics, Apple’s Ind

<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Thursday it was closely monitoring internet traffic disruptions caused by a fault in the SEA-ME-WE 5 (SMW5) international submarine cable system, which was likely to cause intermittent degradation in service quality and connectivity.</p> <p>The telecom authority added that Transworld Associates (TWA) is coordinating with the SMW5 consortium to “identify the root cause of the fault” and determine the estimated time for resto

<p>THE recently revealed <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2009327">QS World Universities Rankings 2027</a> have become a topic of considerable conversation for Pakistani social and print media. Reports and posts on the subject have mainly pointed out that no Pakistani university has been ranked among the world’s top 350 universities. The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), at 381, is our top entry in the QS rankings. However, we should remember that a number of individual programmes — though no