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Pakistans civilian and military leadership has stressed the need for unity and reforms as the nation celebrates 79 years of independence today. According to state-run Radio Pakistan, the day dawned with a 31-gun salute in Islamabad and a 21-gun...

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide expressed his countrys appreciation of Pakistans mediatory role in the ongoing US-Iran conflict on Thursday, saying it was a service to the world and, hence, also to us. Eide, who is on a two-day visit to...

<p><strong>• Naqvi says centre in Islamabad will combine detention, investigation and summary trial facilities under one roof<br>• Initiative aims to speed up disposal of minor offence cases, reduce procedural delays</strong></p> <p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to embark on a major transformation of its policing system, with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi announcing a series of reforms inspired by successful international law enforcement models, including the establishment of a China-style Law

<p>EVERY discussion about data protection in Pakistan reaches the same conclusion: we still don’t have a comprehensive data privacy law.</p> <p>Technically, that’s true. The Personal Data Protection Bill has sat in draft form since 2018, and after years of delay it’s easy to assume Pakistan’s approach to data governance is on hold.</p> <p>That assumption can now be challenged.</p> <figure class='media w-full sm:w-1/2 media--right media--embed media--uneven' data-original-src='htt

<p>Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users</p><p>A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms.</p><p>The Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children??

<p>North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile over the Sea of Japan on Thursday, Seoul’s military said, with the launch coming after Pyongyang lambasted Japan’s military build-up in the Pacific.</p> <p>North Korea, which since 2019 has repeatedly declared itself an <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1984888">“irreversible” nuclear state</a>, featured among growing regional threats in a recent Japanese government assessment.</p> <p>Tokyo’s Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi <a hre

<p>“And worse I may be yet. The worst is not<br>So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’”</p> <pre><code> — William Shakespeare, *King Lear* </code></pre> <p><strong>PROLOGUE</strong></p> <p>The United States’ on-again, off-again war against Iran continues. While we are witnessing another lull at the time of writing, after a brief escalation following the signing of the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2008730/pm-says-us-iran-have-signed-deal-electroni

<p>Government introduces several measures, including monitoring of computers, for pupils aged 16 to 19</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/europe-live">Europe live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Danish teenagers will have to make an oral defence of their written essays to combat AI cheating, the government has announced.</p><p>Pupils aged 16 to 19 at upper secondary school (known in Denmark as <em>gymnasiet</em>) will also be encouraged to do written assignmen

<p>THE 2024 upheaval that <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1850245">toppled Sheikh Hasina’s government</a> in Bangladesh, alongside the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2018286">youth-led protests over joblessness in India</a>, point to a shared crisis across South Asia: strong economic growth has not translated into enough good jobs for a workforce that is more educated than ever before. As access to schooling and universities has expanded, so have people’s employment expectations — e