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Waqas Naeem Islamabad: In January, hot on the heels of the enactment of the controversial cyber law amendment, the Parliament also approved the Digital Nation Pakistan Act. The Act, which intends to help develop a blueprint for…

AFP/APP Stockholm: Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming industries from banking and finance to film and journalism, and researchers are exploring how AI could revolutionize scientific fields—potentially even earning a…

News Desk Islamabad: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) confirmed on Friday that a global IT outage, triggered by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has also impacted Microsoft users in Pakistan. The…

AFP/APP Tokyo: Tokyo stocks closed lower on Wednesday, weighed down by falls on Wall Street and a tsunami warning issued by Japanese authorities in the morning after an earthquake in Taiwan. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.97…

News Desk Islamabad: The National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) has been granted the mandate to conduct 6-month Advanced Certification Courses in the fields of AI/data science and blockchain for Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) after…

Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday upheld a woman’s right to dissolve her nikah (marriage) if her husband has mistreated her. The top court made this decision in response to a woman’s writ petition seeking the dissolution…

Asem Mustafa Awan All religious schools of thought in Muslim Ummah have the same stance on interest (riba) that it is un-Islamic and oppressive. Addressing a seminar in Karachi on the topic of usury, leading scholars of all schools of…