By Tariq Derya
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military on Sunday sent a strong message to statespersons as well as the media to abstain from bringing up the forces and their top brass in their commentary on the country’s current political situation.
By Staff Reporter
LAHORE: Millers in Punjab had increased local flour prices by Rs11 per kilo after the provincial government had stopped releasing wheat on official low rates, industry official said on Saturday.
By Staff Reporter
ISMALABAD: A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) swept away a major bridge on the Karakoram Highway in the Hassanabad village of Hunza valley on Saturday, disconnecting Gilgit and Hunza from the rest of the country.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former test cricketer Shahid Afridi on Saturday broke his silence over why he cheered Shehbaz Sharif as new premier, an apolitical gesture for which PTI social media whipped the wannabe politician for days on end.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Saturday announced the immediate withdrawal of a review petition filed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the apex court for restoration of section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (PECA) 2016.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The new government is likely to axe Imran Khan’s cherished Single National Curriculum (SNC) initiative.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief and former prime minister Imran Khan has refuted that he had ever wanted to bring his own army chief.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government will set up an impartial inquiry commission to probe the alleged foreign conspiracy behind the ouster of former prime minister Imran Khan, a senior minister said on Thursday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz has said she was above the dirty politics of assassinating rival politicians’ characters by attacking their private lives for their public actions.
She said this while responding to allegations that her party was currently working on life-like forged videos or images, created using Artificial Intelligence, to sully PTI leader and former premier Imran Khan’s reputation.
This technology is called ‘deepfake’. It is being extensively used in fifth generation political propaganda campaigns with quite a success; however, because it is still not perfect, it can be detected.
By Naveed Hussain
ISLAMABAD: The powerful political elite have pushed the country’s top medical regulator to the brink of collapse by indiscriminately using it as a rubber stamp to serve their vested business interests, Independent Pakistan has learnt.
