Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and Senator Taj Haider passed away in Karachi on Tuesday following a brief illness, his family confirmed. He was 83 years old. In a statement, the family said Haider had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Karachi. His funeral prayers will be offered on Wednesday (April 9) after Zuhrain prayers at Masjid-o-Imambargah Yasrab, Phase 4, Defence Society, Karachi. His wife confirmed the news, stating: “My husband, PPP Central General Secretary Senator Taj Haider, has passed away.” Expressing deep sorrow over the loss, PPP Sindh General Secretary Waqar Mehdi said Haider was a…
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Elon Musk-owned social media company X announced Monday it will implement new regulations targeting parody, fan, and commentary accounts starting April 10, BBC reported. Under the updated policy, any account impersonating another person or entity must include the terms “fake” or “parody” at the beginning of its account name. Additionally, these accounts must use profile images that differ from those of the individuals or organisations they imitate. The platform said the new measures are designed “to help users better understand the unaffiliated nature of PCF accounts and reduce the risk of confusion or impersonation.” X urged impacted users to update…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended AI-generated art, saying that despite its flaws, the technology ultimately benefits society. His comments come amid renewed backlash from fans and artists after Ghibli-style AI images went viral. “I think the democratisation of creating content has been a big net win for society. It has not been a complete win; there are negative things about it for sure, and certainly, it did something about the art form, but I think on the whole, it’s been a win,” Altman said on a podcast hosted by Varun Mayya. The viral trend followed the launch of ChatGPT’s GPT-4o…
US President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Nasa has assured lawmakers that returning astronauts to the moon would remain the agency’s main strategy, quelling concerns that Trump’s space agenda would focus instead on travelling to Mars, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Since taking office, Trump has fixated on sending missions to Mars with little to no mention of the moon in his public comments, stirring fear among space contractors and US allies that the president and his future Nasa administrator could upend years of work and investments toward a multi-mission lunar astronaut programme. But Jared Isaacman, a…
Haball, a Pakistan fintech firm, raised $52 million to expand its shariah-compliant supply chain financing and payments services, the company said on Tuesday. The funding, led by Zayn VC and Meezan Bank, includes $5 million in equity and $47 million in strategic financing, and will support Haball’s growth plans for the country, the company said in a statement. The money will also help Haball’s expansion into the Middle East, starting with Saudi Arabia this year, it added. “Supply chain finance in Pakistan is nascent but is expected to be worth over $9 billion; driven by the severe financing gap faced…
A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, a flight hailed by Moscow as an example of fruitful Russia-US space cooperation. The Russian Soyuz 2.1 a rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Kim and Russians Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky, docking three hours later with the ISS, Russia’s Roscosmos state space corporation said. Once the hatches were opened, Kim and the Russians were shown smiling and hugging their companions on the station, which now has 10 people on board, including four NASA…
The National Park Service on Monday returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, following backlash after her presence on the page was dramatically reduced. The agency said the reduced mention of Tubman had been made without approval by top leadership. Until mid-February, the top of the NPS’ “What is the Underground Railroad?” page featured a large photo of Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor,” records from the Wayback Machine show. Next to it was a quote from Tubman about her experience coordinating the clandestine network for slaves seeking freedom. Related article…
As the Trump administration continues to expand its deportation actions, startling scenes have emerged in recent weeks of masked federal agents in plain clothes detaining international students on campus or near their homes, raising serious questions about those tactics and their authority to wear face coverings. There is no federal policy dictating when officers can or should cover their faces during arrests, but historically they have almost always worn them only while performing undercover work to protect the integrity of ongoing investigations, law enforcement experts told CNN. Practices have seemingly changed due to the concern agents will be targeted as…
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a lower court-ordered deadline to return to the US a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, granting the Trump administration additional time to review the case. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal worker and father of three, was deported last month after the Trump administration admitted to an “administrative error.” The error resulted in Abrego Garcia, 38, being put on a plane and sent to El Salvador’s notorious high-security prison CECOT, despite a 2019 ruling by an immigration judge that protected him from deportation due to death threats from a gang…
If there were a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. For more than four decades, the Grammy-winning bass player has inspired countless listeners around the globe to “Get Up Off That Thing.” He has created some of funk music’s most infectious bass grooves, and his muscular bass lines can be heard on records by Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, and Luther Vandross. His blistering live version of “Run for Cover” is a textbook example of playing “in the pocket”—that magical moment when a band’s rhythm section…
