At Least 10 People Injured in Shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney
Anyone in the area should take shelter, the police said. They declined to elaborate, and details of the shooting were not immediately clear.
Month: December 2025
America’s ideological shift
PUBLISHED December 14, 2025 KARACHI: The National Security Strategy (NSS) released by the White House last month signals the most sweeping ideological shift in decades. While redefining the US foreign policy, the 33-page document lays out a new ‘America First’ doctrine that the Donald Trump administration argues will pragmatically reshape America’s role in the world. … Read more
Pakistani stuntman Sultan Golden sets reverse drive world record
Pakistani stuntman Sultan Muhammad Golden set a new world record during a stunt show in Quetta, Balochistan, on Saturday. Sultan Golden completed a one-mile drive in reverse in 57 seconds, surpassing the previous record set in 2022 by an American stuntman, who had covered the distance in one minute and 15 seconds. Organisers said the … Read more
Two killed, nine injured in shooting at Brown University
Officials released a video of suspect, a male possibly in his 30s, dressed in black Police officers gather near the site of a mass shooting reported by authorities at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. December 13, 2025 Photo: Reuters More than 400 law enforcement personnel were deployed on Saturday as police sought the … Read more
A memoir of grit and genius
PUBLISHED December 14, 2025 KARACHI: Al Pacino might be among the most popular actors on the planet, but there is much more to the man who shaped some of cinema’s most fantastic characters. In his memoir Sonny Boy, Pacino finally lifts the privacy he protected for decades—even as fame followed him everywhere after The Godfather. … Read more
Snowfall likely to disrupt traffic in northern regions
System of westerly winds is likely to affect northern, western Pakistan between December 13, 15 The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has forecast rain and snowfall in the country’s upper regions from December 13 to 18, and has issued an advisory in this regard. According to the NDMA’s National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC), rain and … Read more
Pakistan’s quiet gaming rise
PUBLISHED December 14, 2025 KARACHI: The room is small and quiet. A desk pushed against the wall. A chair that has seen better days. A young game developer sits in front of a screen, eyes fixed, fingers move almost without thought. On the screen, a character jumps, lands, and moves again. Somewhere in the background, … Read more
When access decides ability
PUBLISHED December 14, 2025 KARACHI: Disability in Pakistan is rarely invisible. It appears in classrooms where ramps are missing, in buses that cannot be boarded, in job interviews that quietly end after a single glance. Yet it is also rarely discussed in any sustained way. For most people, it remains something to be acknowledged briefly, … Read more
The brilliant disorder of the digital literary world
PUBLISHED December 14, 2025 The last two decades have transformed the ecology of literary culture worldwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in the geographically dispersed world of Urdu letters. Social media, with its open gates and restless churn, has become both an agora and an anteroom, a performance space and a rehearsal hall. In … Read more
Norway defends envoy’s presence at SC hearing
Norwegian Ambassador Per Albert Ilsaas attended the case proceedings, causing stir in court, on social media Norway has defended the presence of its ambassador at a Supreme Court hearing in Islamabad as perfectly “in line with international law”, days after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a demarche to the envoy of the Scandinavian country. … Read more