<p><strong>• Targets halving growth rate by 2035<br>• PM calls rising population one of country’s biggest national challenges<br>• Welcomes Chinese firm’s investment to modernise Pakistan’s grain storage infrastructure</strong></p> <p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government will soon convene a meeting with the provinces, the administrations of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), and other stakeholders to formulate a comprehensive strategy to reduce the country’s popul

<p>Every year, as the sugarcane crushing season approaches, Pakistan finds itself trapped in the same debate. Farmers demand higher cane prices to offset rising production costs. Sugar mills argue that increased procurement prices make sugar commercially unviable. Governments intervene to broker settlements, while consumers brace for higher retail prices.</p> <p>By the end of the season, all of them have negotiated a price. Yet almost no one asks the most important question: why does Pakistan co

<p>Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday launched the country’s first privately developed orbital rocket, a key test of national efforts to compete for a bigger share of the global commercial launch market.</p> <p>The Vikram-1 rocket lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 0635 GMT, leaving behind a plume of fire and smoke, carrying several customer payloads and in-orbit experiments on its maiden orbital mission, dubbed “Mission Aagaman”.</p> <p>It suc

<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

<p>Mykhailo Fedorov, celebrated by many for innovative, tech-driven approach, was sidelined for military old guard</p><p>Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s abrupt dismissal of Ukraine’s youthful and innovative defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, at precisely the moment Kyiv appeared to be gaining advantages in several spheres of its war with Russia has exposed, not for the first time, a troubling flaw in the president’s leadership.</p><p>The move, which has startled senior European officials and caused

<p>China and Pakistan on Friday called on the United States and Iran to end fighting and return to the negotiating table, after they met in Shanghai, according to a government statement issued by Beijing.</p> <p>China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar jointly “expressed concern over the deterioration of the current situation, calling on the involved parties to immediately cease hostilities… (and) return to dialogue”, the statement by Beij

<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>• 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

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif asserted on Friday that the security of Chinese in Pakistan was paramount for us. I would like to say with fullest force at my command that the security of Chinese brothers and sisters in Pakistan is paramount for us,...

<p>Move comes as prediction platforms rapidly gain popularity and offer opportunities to bet on virtually anything</p><p>Kalshi is expanding its wagers to include bets on drug trial results, an expansion into new predictions territory as platforms continue to rapidly gain popularity and offer opportunities to bet on virtually anything.</p><p>The betting platform said the expansion into clinical trials and FDA regulatory decisions would help surface information on drug trials that otherwise go un