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Rizwan, Imam to miss President’s Trophy

Departments fail to submit mandatory fitness reports, ruling out the two Pakistan stars from the tournament LAHORE: Pakistan batters Imam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Rizwan face further uncertainty after being denied permission to play in the domestic President’s Trophy Grade-I for failing to submit mandatory fitness-test reports, sources said. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) requires players to … Read more

Realty tax collection falls 29%

[ ISLAMABAD: Income tax collection from the real estate sector dipped 29% to Rs28 billion in the first two months of this fiscal year, compared to Rs91 billion paid by Pakistan’s marginalised salaried class, which is also hit by continued hikes in petrol prices. Glaring and widening gaps in income tax payments by these two … Read more

China, Iran among countries that have used AI to aid spying, Anthropic says

Incidents were found and disrupted between January and July, and they originated in China, Iran and West Africa Anthropic said Thursday it shut down multiple cases of state-sponsored surveillance operations that used its artificial intelligence (AI) models and warned that governments and state-aligned actors are increasingly using AI to spy on ethnic minorities and dissidents. … Read more

Elversberg face Bayern in Bundesliga clash

The Saarland club have stunned Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Moenchengladbach to sit unbeaten after two games Elversberg forward David Mokwa celebrates scoring his side’s third in Saturday’s 3-2 win over Bayer Leverkusen. Photo: AFP BERLIN:  Four years after plying their trade in the semi-professional fourth division of German football, newly promoted SV Elversberg welcome defending … Read more

PSX down 669 points at midday

[ KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) was trading lower at the Friday noon break as the benchmark KSE-100 index slipped 668.83 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 168,196.21, after an early slide that took the market as low as 166,141. Trading was suspended under the exchange’s regular Friday schedule, which splits the session around … Read more