PM Shehbaz to undertake official three-day China visit: DPM Dar

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to undertake a three-day visit to China, starting May 23, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Tuesday.

DPM Dar made the announcement while addressing the launch ceremony of the IBI Pakistan Digital Economy Centre in Islamabad.

He said that the premier would undertake an official visit to China from May 23 to 26. Dar added that…

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Synthetic Minds | The Agent Got a Wallet. Commerce Will Never Be the Same.

On 30 April Cloudflare and Stripe launched an open protocol giving AI agents identity, authorization and payment capabilities, no human required. This is the infrastructure making agentic commerce real at production scale, the moment agents stopped being tools and became autonomous economic actors.

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  • * The proposal `Civil Protection Areas` was approved with 24 votes for and 7 votes against. The approved tag `emergency:*=yes` was
    

proposed by AndreaDp271, who maintains a interactive map which shows the infrastructure for…

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Question Regarding Forum Moderation Transparency and Feedback

seize:

then there has been no communication from the Privacy Guides team, or forum moderators around what came out of this topic in regards to the Privacy Guides team and forum moderators

This is pretty typical as @win11.shading291 noted it takes a while… and as @jonah has said he will not put any sort of SLA on answering matters, so don’t expect an improvement on this.

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General elections in Gilgit-Baltistan to be held on June 7

General elections in Gilgit Baltistan will be held on June 7, the GB Election Commission announced on Saturday after a four-month delay.

General elections for the assembly were scheduled for Jan 24, 2026. However, days after the announcement, the elections were postponed indefinitely due to harsh weather conditions in the region.

The GB Election Commission Secretariat, in a notification…

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PPP demands election schedule for Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly amid months-long delay in polls

GILGIT: The PPP has demanded that the election schedule for the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly be issued immediately, as the election commission has yet to announce a timeline, four months after the legislature completed its tenure.

General elections for the assembly were scheduled for Jan 24, 2026, while local government (LG) polls — announced after a gap of 20 years — were set for Feb 14, 2026.…

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Pakistan in talks with Afghanistan but Kabul must demonstrate ‘visible and verifiable actions’: FO

Pakistan is holding talks with Afghanistan to end the current conflict between the two countries, but Kabul must “demonstrate visible and verifiable actions”, said Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi on Thursday.

Since Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq against terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan on February 26, diplomatic contact between the two sides had largely ceased.

The talks…

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PM Shehbaz expresses gratitude to foreign ministers after quad moot, reiterates Pakistan’s commitment to peace

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday expressed his gratitude towards the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Egypt after a quadrilateral meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East, appreciating their confidence in Pakistan’s efforts for peace.

The meeting, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, brought together foreign ministers from Pakistan,…

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PM Shehbaz expresses gratitude to foreign ministers, reiterates Pakistan’s commitment to peace

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday expressed his gratitude towards the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Egypt after a quadrilateral meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East, appreciating their confidence in Pakistan’s efforts for peace.

The meeting, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, brought together foreign ministers from Pakistan,…

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How should we handle Proton's misleading marketing?

Just an update, currently at minimum I think nobody disagrees that update: Warning about Proton kill switch on macOS by jonaharagon · Pull Request #3205 · privacyguides/privacyguides.org · GitHub should definitely be done, so I’m merging that PR in the interest of updating our site quickly.

However, I won’t mark this as completed since of course we’re still discussing additional changes on…

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Palo Alto closes privileged access gap with $25B CyberArk acquisition

Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks has completed its $25 billion acquisition of Israel-based identity security firm CyberArk, bringing privileged access and identity security into the core of its platform strategy.

With this acquisition, Palo Alto aims to extend privileged access controls across human, machine, and AI identities, reduce standing privileges, limit lateral movement, and stop…

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PSL franchise Multan Sultans sold for record Rs2.45bn; new owner says name will be changed to Rawalpindi

Pakistan Super League franchise (PSL) Multan Sultans on Monday was sold to Walee Technologies for a record Rs2.45 billion ahead of the tournament’s 11th edition.

At the auction in Lahore, show host Fakhr-i-Alam informed bidders that the winning bid would also cover the annual fee to maintain ownership of the team for the next 10 years.

Speaking at the auction ceremony, the new owner of the…

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FM Dar underscores importance of expanding trade, economic ties with the EU

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Monday chaired a high-level inter-ministerial meeting to review measures aimed at strengthening Pakistan’s economic and trade cooperation with the European Union (EU).

According to a post shared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on X, the deputy prime minister underscored the importance of expanding trade and economic ties…

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