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Ishaq Dar holds key meeting with Etisalat CEO over PTCL-Telenor Merger delay ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met with Etisalat Group CEO Hatem Dowidar on Monday to address the delayed PTCL-Telenor merger and discuss Pakistan’s outstanding \$800 million dues from PTCL’s privatization. During the high-level discussion, Ishaq Dar highlighted Pakistan’s growing digital economy and outlined the government’s efforts to foster a more business-friendly environment. He urged Etisalat to expand its presence in Pakistan’s telecom and ICT sectors, stressing the strategic importance of the PTCL-Telenor merger in boosting market competitiveness and improving connectivity. Hatem Dowidar…
NewsFeedUS President Donald Trump says a ceasefire deal on Gaza could be reached within days, but major hurdles include the status of the US- and Israeli-backed food distribution system that has been described as a ‘death trap’.Published On 7 Jul 20257 Jul 2025
The Ministry of Education has set several conditions for approval of requests for increasing tuition fees in schools and special nurseries …
African lion confined at compound of local feudal lord’s residence in Punjab’s Gujar Khan city. — ReporterThe Punjab Wildlife Department confiscated an African lion from the residence of a local feudal lord in Rawalpindi’s Gujar Khan city, it emerged on Monday.The recovery was made during a raid in Gujar Khan’s Bewal area whereas a two-year-old big cat of African breed was illegally kept at a compound of the feudal lord. The raid on a tip-off was led by Deputy Director Arfa Batool and Assistant Director Rizwana Aziz. A heavy contingent of the police from the Kallar Syedan Police Station also…
Farewell ceremony for Turkish soldiers who died in Pençe-Kilit Operation being held at Selahaddin Eyyubi Airport, Yuksekova, Turkiye, July 7, 2025. — Screengrab via video/X@tcsavunma Seven more troops hospitalised after inhaling toxic methane gas.Victims honoured at farewell ceremony in southeastern Turkiye.Jailed PKK founder Ocalan expresses sorrow over soldiers’ deaths.Turkiye said on Monday that 12 soldiers had died after being exposed to methane gas during a search operation in caves in northern Iraq, increasing its previous toll of eight.The incident comes at a sensitive time, with Turkiye in talks to end the conflict with the Kurds after the PKK militant group agreed…
‘And Just Like That’ bosses side with Sarah Jessica Parker in Kim Cattrall feudAnd Just Like That staffers and cast members are happy network bosses have stopped pushing to bring Kim Cattrall back.Cattrall, who played maneater Samantha in Sex and the City, reportedly has a feud with the show’s lead star Sarah Jessica Parker. Her issues with cast and executives of the original show led to her declining to join the cast of the sequel. The actress only appeared for a cameo in the second season of AJLT. “This is as far as I’m going to go,” Cattrall said of…
Who: Chelsea vs Fluminense What: Semifinal, FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Where: MetLife Stadium, New Jersey, United States When: Tuesday, July 8 at 3pm local time (19:00 GMT) How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from noon (16:00 GMT) in advance of our live text commentary stream. Chelsea will be hoping to seal their spot in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) final with victory against Brazil’s Fluminense in the opening semifinal on Tuesday. The Blues are striving to become the first side to win the CWC for a second time but face a…
Sharjah – WAM, the Sharjah Astronomical Observatory of the Sharjah Academy of Space and Astronomy, is the phenomenon of rare stellar vengeance, in a scientific achievement added to the academy’s record in the field of careful astronomical monitoring at the international level. The event is one of the most prominent astronomical phenomena that have been documented during the current year, due to its scarcity and difficulty, and the great attention it received from astronomical observatories and researchers around the world. This phenomenon resulted from the crossing of the asteroid “Quaoar”, one of the bodies within the scope of “asteroids beyond…
The Parliament House in Islamabad. — X/@NAofPakistanMQM-P opposes content till primary education level.Kamran Murtaza, Fauzia Arshad reject proposal outright.Parents must decide, says Senator Fauzia Arshad.ISLAMABAD: A heated debate unfolded in the Senate Standing Committee on Education over a proposal to include reproductive health education in the academic curriculum, with members sharply divided on the matter.Senator Quratulain Marri, who presented the bill, argued on Monday that reproductive health content must be part of the syllabus to provide proper guidance to students, especially girls, before marriage. “Children are searching for inappropriate things online. It’s better that they are educated correctly through the…
A sketch of Erin Patterson, who hosted an intimate meal in July 2023 and poisoned her guests. — AFPAn Australian woman murdered her husband’s parents and aunt by lacing their beef Wellington lunch with toxic mushrooms, a jury found on Monday at the climax of a trial watched around the world.Keen home cook Erin Patterson hosted an intimate meal in July 2023 that started with good-natured banter and earnest prayer — but ended with three guests dead. Throughout a trial lasting more than two months, Patterson maintained the beef-and-pastry dish was accidentally poisoned with death cap mushrooms, the world’s most-lethal…