Sixteen Big Tech CEOs will be joining President Trump on his upcoming summit with president Xi Jinping in China this week, according to media reports. The Big Tech executives in attendance are expected to include Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook.
In response, Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman issued the following statement :
“It’s telling that when Donald Trump wants to put…
The PTI on Thursday expressed concern and anger over reports of Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi being “suddenly and secretly” taken to the hospital in the middle of the night and then taken back to jail.
“The entire matter is shrouded in unusual secrecy, a lack of transparency, and serious human rights violations, which have raised countless questions in the minds of the nation,” the party…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 17 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.****
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
Donald Trump’s own allies and many other Republicans have quietly started to fear the worst about the midterms. According to new…
Welcome to The #questionable-edits OSM Iceberg!
Over the past 5 months I have been collating some of the strangest, funniest and most excruciating examples of vandalism, mistakes and creative mapping. This Iceberg takes its name from the #questionable-edits channel on the OSM World Discord where we share the weird, wild and wonderful things we’ve seen while mapping. It should be…
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Thursday dismissed claims regarding a missile attack near Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involving its flight, terming it “entirely baseless and false”.
Several media reports had claimed that a PIA flight on Tuesday had narrowly escaped a missile attack during landing at the Fujairah airport.
“PIA clarifies that the news circulating regarding…
BEIJING/PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani forces targeted the Afghan Taliban’s military installations in Kabul and Nangarhar on Monday night, the government said, as Islamabad pressed on with Operation Ghazab lil-Haq.
The operation was launched on the night of February 26, following _unprovoked firing_ by the Afghan Taliban from across the border.
Security sources had reported the development late…
BEIJING/PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani forces targeted the Afghan Taliban’s military installations on Monday night, security sources said, as Islamabad presses on with Operation Ghazab lil-Haq.
The operation was launched on the night of February 26, following _unprovoked firing_ by the Afghan Taliban from across the border.
Security sources said that during the strikes on Monday night,…
BEIJING/PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday dismissed reports that Pakistan had declined China’s push for talks with the Afghan Taliban, saying that “any unnecessary speculation or fabrication of facts in this regard is unwarranted”.
The statement from the FO spokesperson, Tahir Andrabi, came in response to queries about media reports that claimed Pakistan had declined China’s…
In the following interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the uprising that took place in Iran in January 2026, comparing notes about resistance to various forms of authoritarianism.
Following the countrywide protests in Iran on January 8, 2025 and the bloody crackdown that followed, the Palestinian…
In the following interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the uprising that took place in Iran in January 2026, comparing notes about resistance to various forms of authoritarianism.
Following the countrywide protests in Iran on January 8, 2025 and the bloody crackdown that followed, the Palestinian…
LAHORE: A Pakistani national was repatriated to his home country from India on Tuesday after spending 17 years in jail on charges of spying.
“Muhammad Shahid Iqbal Bhatti, a Pakistani citizen imprisoned in India, was repatriated to Pakistan via the Wagah-Attari border today,” Pakistan’s High Commission in India said in a post on X.
Separately, an official told Dawn that Bhatti was a…