<p>Kicking off his election campaign in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday promised to be the voice of the people of AJK in the Centre and globally by bridging the “gap” between the federal capital and the people.</p> <p>Addressing the rally, the PPP chairman said: “We have seen both good and bad times in AJK, but I have not witnessed the conditions that I am seeing today.”</p> <p>He termed the prevailing situation a “test” for the AJK governm

<p>A large-scale field trial on the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into the country’s justice system found that the use of AI resulted in an additional 1,848 cases being resolved per year, an increase of more than six per cent over the average, it emerged on Friday.</p> <p>“This increase does not appear to come at the expense of reduced quality,” observed a <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://elliottash.com/pape

<img src='https://i.cbc.ca/ais/579046d0-6fe5-4136-b5bf-125f3128b7b7,1784317621269/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C252%2C6000%2C3375%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29' alt='A man walking along a street in Tehran, near a huge anti-U.S. billboard featuring an image of a burning White House.' width='620' height='349' title='A huge anti-US billboard featuring a burning White House with the US President and his family members in coffins, alongside text in Persian reading &quot;blood for blood&quo

The government on Friday increased petrol and diesel prices by Rs5.44 and Rs31.05 per litre, respectively, with immediate effect for the next three days until July 20, to pass on the impact of higher import premiums and global prices following...

Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik on Friday said that fuel prices would now be fixed on a daily basis due to fluctuations in international market prices following renewed hostilities between Iran and the US. The government had been announcing...

<p>LAHORE: A judicial magistrate at the Cantonment Courts granted police 14-day judicial remand of four suspects, including one <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013143">related to a senior political figure</a>, in a case of <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2012477">alleged kidnapping and rape</a> of two foreign women.</p> <p>One of those two women is a national of the Netherlands and the other of Venezuela, and a case of their alleged abduction and sexual assault was <a href="https://www.da

<p>In May earlier this year, Islamabad and Beijing commemorated the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic ties, with the bilateral discourse predictably gravitating toward familiar flourishes. Bonds “higher than the Himalayas and stronger than steel” once again resurfaced in official handouts and state-level speeches. Yet, beneath the ceremonial surface of this milestone, a more consequential structural transformation is being engineered.</p> <p>Over the course of this 75-year arc, the relati

<p><strong>• Officials having to rely on ‘less credible sources’ in the absence of river flow information from India<br>• Action to clear Ravi riverbed of ‘temporary encroachments’ on the cards</strong></p> <p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has asked the irrigation department to prepare for flooding under the ‘high-alert category’, amid prevailing uncertainty about river flows due to India’s unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty.</p> <p>A source privy to a meeting cha

<p>Relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2014774">crashed</a> into the Arabian Sea off Karachi last week are urging an international search effort to find the flight recorders to determine the cause.</p> <p><a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2014365">Debris</a> from the K2 Airways freighter was <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013836">recovered</a> shortly after the July 7 crash, but the water in the area is about 3,000 metr

<p><strong>• Senate panel asks PTA to explore alternative mechanism for SIM registration<br>• Regulator says ‘visible 5G coverage’ expected by year-end<br>• Ogra clarifies consumers liable for metered gas leakage</strong></p> <p>ISLAMABAD: Amid concerns about the restrictions surrounding the transfer of e-SIM cards from one phone to another, the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat was informed on Thursday that consumers would soon be able to transfer their e-SIM cards at l