WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Thursday that Washington supports Pakistan’s efforts to stabilise its economy, including by reaching agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and this support was unwavering. The department’s spokesperson, Matthew Miller, highlighted this robust US support for Pakistan’s endeavours at his daily news briefing when a journalist questioned the US rationale for helping Islamabad …

After turning in a depressed performance for three consecutive sessions, bulls returned to the trade floor at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) as shares gained more than 1,200 points in intraday trade. The benchmark KSE-100 index gained 1272.13, or 1.8 per cent, to stand at 71,929.77 points at 4:27pm from the previous close of 70,657.64. Finally, the index closed at …

The federal government on Friday established the National Cyber Crimes Investigation Agency (NCCIA), rendering the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cybercrime Wing as “defunct”. A day ago, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar had announced that the government was forming a separate authority to “safeguard the digital rights of people” and “counter propaganda and rumours on social media”. “There must be an end to harassment, …

A 3-year-old girl injured in a drive-by shooting in Fort Worth that hurt five others on Wednesday night has lost a kidney, her family says. The child was one of six people between the ages of 3 and 19 who were shot while sitting outside a West Fort Worth apartment Wednesday night. Five of the victims were hospitalized and one …

Texas Instruments is known for its computers and semiconductors. You probably don’t think of movies when you think of the longtime Dallas-based business, but the company’s DLP (Digital Light Projection) technology helped change movie-going. “This is the digital cinema DMD,” DLP Cinema Senior Systems Architect Tim Ryan said holding a small square chip. “A Digital Micromirror Device.” The technology developed …

Jerry Don Elders, a man convicted of murdering 61-year-old Robin Waddell while on the run from police back in 2021, has been sentenced to death. A Johnson County jury found Elders guilty of capital murder last week and had been considering his punishment during the sentencing phase of the trial this week. With a capital murder conviction, Elders faced either the death …

The powerful tornado that ripped through Interstate 35 in Marietta, Oklahoma, left a North Texas husband badly injured. Jeff Frederickson and his wife were on their way back home to Colleyville after driving up to Minnesota to pick up his family’s prized 1971 Thunderbird. They knew storms were popping up across Oklahoma on Saturday and felt it was safer to …

A large crowd of Palestinian protesters filled the plaza of the Collin County Jail Thursday morning. They gathered in support of the 21 people arrested on the campus of the University of Texas Dallas Wednesday evening. “Being here really puts pressure on them to move the process along,” UT Dallas student Fatima Ahmed said. “It also let the people in …

Two Northwest ISD students are under arrest and are facing felony charges after district officials said they collaborated on a “troubling and violent” document that outlined a plan to attack a middle school and named 32 students and staffers as targets. In a statement obtained by NBC 5, Northwest ISD said a parent alerted administrators at Truett Wilson Middle School on Wednesday about a …

The search is on for the gunman who injured six people, including four children, in a drive-by shooting outside a West Fort Worth apartment building Wednesday night, police say. Fort Worth police were called to the Miramar Apartments and Townhomes on the 3000 block of Las Vegas Trail at about 7:30 p.m. after reports of a shooting. When they arrived, …