KARACHI: The remaining HBL Pakistan Super League matches to be held here will proceed as per schedule despite the terrorist attack on the Karachi Police Office on Friday evening, Dawn has learnt. According to a source in the Pakistan Cricket Board, the players of the franchise sides currently staying in the city “continue to enjoy the presidential level of security” provided to them. The …

ISLAMABAD: Law­makers sitting on the opposition as well as treasury benches in the National Assembly on Friday blasted Finance Minister Ishaq Dar over his “failure” in resolving the prevailing economic crisis in the country as the lower house of parliament continued debate on the crucial IMF-dictated Finance (Supplementary) Bill, 2023, generally known as the mini-budget. Members also took the finance minister …

KARACHI: Honda Atlas Cars Ltd (HACL) on Friday increased the price of vehicles by Rs260,000-Rs550,000 while Pak Suzuki Motor Company Ltd (PSMCL) extended its plant shutdown for two days. Besides, bike assemblers also announced price hikes while steel bar markers continued coming out with new rates. After a third price hike by Honda Atlas in the current year, the new …

KARACHI: South Korean companies are on the brink of operational shutdown in Pakistan because of import restrictions and a delay in the clearance of containers stuck at the port. In a recent interview with Dawn at the office of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (Kotra), senior officials from the state-backed trade body as well as the local chamber of Korean investors said …

ISLAMABAD: Prices rose significantly in the outgoing week, both on on-year and on-week bases, mainly led by onions, chicken, cooking oil and a massive jump in fuel prices, official data showed on Friday. As a result, short-term inflation, measured by Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), jumped to 38.42 per cent on a year-on-year basis for the week ended on Feb 16, …

Twitter said on Friday it will allow only paid subscribers to use text messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) method to secure their accounts. After March 20, “only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use text messages as their two-factor authentication method,” the company tweeted.     Two-factor authentication, meant to make accounts more secure, requires an account holder …

ISLAMABAD: Google has removed 14 apps from its app store at the request of the National Database and Registration Autho­rity (Nadra), which officially took up the matter with the Alphabet-owned US tech company regarding the breach of personal data of Pakistani residents. Nadra has taken up the issue with Scott Beaumont, Google’s president for Asia Pacific; Hiang Choong, its legal …

BRUSSELS: Tech giants including Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok face strict online content rules in the European Union due to their huge number of users. The new rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), classify companies with more than 45 million users as very large online platforms (VLOPs) and require them to do risk management and external and independent …

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has opened a centre housing a mosque, church and the country’s first official synagogue with the aim of promoting interfaith coexistence in the Muslim nation. The oil-rich Gulf federation, which normalised relations with Israel in 2020, is home to a small but active Jewish community that usually prays in private. With three houses of worship …

WASHINGTON: The top US diplomat to Afghanistan apologised on Thursday for tweets that suggested struggling Afghan women might find inspiration in African American history and culture, particularly the #BlackGirlMagic social media movement. US envoy Karen Decker tweeted that several of her posts earlier in the week went “awry” despite her “best intentions” when she suggested Afghan women could learn from examples such …