Cloudflare outage disrupts websites worldwide before being resolved

KARACHI: Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure company whose network carries roughly 20 percent of global web traffic, said on Tuesday evening that it had resolved a widespread outage that knocked thousands of websites and online services offline for more than two hours and caused cascading disruptions across the internet.

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Minister Tarar says May conflict with India made Pakistan ‘extremely relevant’ again

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has emerged from its brief but intense military clash with India in May as a far more consequential player on the world stage, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Monday, crediting an aggressive diplomatic campaign, battlefield success and unexpected online creativity by the country’s youth for the shift.

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Dar in Moscow for SCO Summit; Pakistan, India back in same room

ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, is leading the country’s delegation at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Council of Heads of Government meeting in Moscow, a gathering that will once again place Pakistani and Indian officials in the same room six months after their brief but deadly military clash beyond the Line of Control.

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Jordan’s King Abdullah awarded Pakistan’s top civilian honour on official visit

ISLAMABAD: King Abdullah II of Jordan, arriving in Pakistan on a two-day official visit, on Sunday received the country’s highest civilian honour and oversaw a display of Pakistani military capabilities alongside Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, underscoring the deepening defence and diplomatic partnership between the two nations.

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Afghanistan turns north in search of trade partners as Pakistan ties fray

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban government is urgently pushing Afghan merchants to redirect trade toward Central Asia’s oil-rich republics, seeking to break decades of reliance on Pakistan after the most serious armed clashes in years and a month-long border shutdown that cost traders hundreds of millions of dollars.

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