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  The Interior Ministry on Friday asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block “illegal VPNs” across Pakistan, citing their use by terrorists to “facilitate violent activities” and to “access pornographic and blasphemous content”. Virtual Private Networks, better known as VPNs, are widely used around the world to access content that may be inaccessible or blocked for internet users in their home country. In the case of Pakistanis, they are used to access X, among other restricted websites. On Wednesday, the PTA  said  that VPN usage would be restricted in the future to curb access to pornographic content, following a  disruption  that rendered VPNs dysfunctional across the country on Sunday. In a statement, the authority claimed it had so far blocked 100,183 URLs containing blasphemous content, as well as 844,008 pornographic websites. It also claimed that approximately 20 million attempts were made from within the country to access pornographic...

  But his apocalyptic warnings about immigration and championing of isolationism found their mark with voters battered by the post-Covid economy and eager for a change from the Biden years. The campaign pointed to a nail-bitingly close contest, but the results came surprisingly fast, delivering a crushing victory that included wins in the swing states of Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Trump is the first president in more than a century to win a non-consecutive second term. He is also the only person to be elected as a convicted felon — he will face sentencing in a New York court for fraud on November 26. Already 78, Trump is on course to break another record as the oldest-ever sitting president during his four-year term. He will surpass Biden who is set to step down in January at the age of 82. The Republican former president’s address to a crowd of jubilant supporters came despite the fact that only Fox News had so far declared him the winner of the presidential electio...

  GILGIT: Twenty-two people drowned, while one person was saved on Tuesday after a bus carrying them plunged into a river in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district on Tuesday, according to rescue officials. “Sixteen dead bodies have been recovered from the river, while the search for the remaining persons continues,” Senior Superintendent of Police Diamer, Sher Khan, told media. He added that a woman, who was a bride, had sustained injuries and was receiving treatment at a hospital. Sharing details of the accident earlier, Rescue 1122 spokesperson Shaukat Riaz told media that a bus coming from Astore fell into the Indus River from Telchi bridge in the limits of Diamer district in Gilgit-Baltistan on Tuesday afternoon. “The vehicle was part of a wedding procession heading towards Punjab’s Chakwal district,” he said. He added the passengers who were onboard the bus had been identified and women were among the drowned. “Nineteen of them belonged to Astore while four were from the Chakwal ...

  Humayun Khan   PESHAWAR : A two-member bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Syed Arshad Ali adjourned hearing till 17th December against Election Commission’s notice issued to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur regarding assets, on Tuesday. The court deferred the hearing till 17th December, allowing the petitioner’s lawyer, Malik Akhtar Hussain, time to prepare the case. The Election Commission issued a notice to Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur regarding allegations of assets. In another case, the Peshawar High Court dismissed a petition filed by Maulana Naseem Hassan Shah, who won the NA-39 Beno National Assembly seat. The petitioner’s lawyer argued that the petitioner opponents, Asghar Ali and Malik Ehsan, filed a complaint with the Election Commission alleging that Shah was a member of the Ideological Council and received benefits, violating Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution. PHC reserved verdict on Gandpur pl...

  (Reuters): The heads of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said they would work with the incoming US administration of Republican Donald Trump to continue to provide financing to developing countries hit by climate change. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva told a panel during the UN COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan that the global lender had worked with Trump during his previous term and looked forward to doing so again. “They have a mandate from the American people,” she said. Georgieva said she was confident that the US private sector would continue to invest in green technologies. “It is the business proposition to stay ahead of the curve, and I have no doubt that this will continue,” she said. The election of Trump, who is expected to pull the United States back from global efforts to fight climate change, has raised questions about the ability of the IMF and the World Bank – where the U.S. is the largest shareholder – to ramp up funding for countries ar...