Minister of State for Information Technology & Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja has assured to extend full facilitation to the IT companies for investments in Pakistan. Addressing a delegation of Swedish companies in Islamabad today, she mentioned that Special Investment Facilitation Council is facilitating investment in diverse sectors. The Minister of State said digitization of economy is top priority of the …

Finland plans to offer preemptive bird flu vaccination as soon as next week to some workers with exposure to animals, health authorities said on Tuesday, making it the first country in the world to do so. The Nordic country has bought vaccines for 10,000 people, each consisting of two injections, as part of a joint EU procurement of up to …

Rashid Khan’s rise to become a multi-millionaire cricket superstar began in the most desperate of circumstances as a refugee living in Peshawar. However, as an in-demand franchise cricketer with his box of leg-spin tricks, the 25-year-old has now amassed riches which would have been unimaginable when his family fled the war in Afghanistan. His most recent deal in the money-spinning …

Australian opener Usman Khawaja believes that repeated restructuring in Pakistan cricket could be the cause of their poor performance in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. Pakistan were knocked out of the tournament’s group stage for the first time in their history after they lost their two opening games. A stunning super-over humiliation for the Green Team at the hands of the …

FRANKFURT: Romania’s Razvan Marin scored a first-half penalty to cancel out Ondrej Duda’s headed goal for Slovakia as the teams played out a 1-1 Euro 2024 Group ‘E’ draw on Wednesday to both reach the last 16. Belgium also qualified for the last 16 after a 0-0 draw with Ukraine, who exited the tournament despite all four teams in Group …

GEORGETOWN: India can take a huge step towards winning their first major title in over a decade and bury any doubts about their backbone in the knockout rounds when they face defending champions England in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals on Thursday. Despite being backed by the world’s richest cricket board, success on the biggest stage has largely proved elusive …

South Africa demolished Afghanistan’s T20 World Cup dream in ruthless fashion on Wednesday, thrashing the minnows by nine wickets with more than 11 overs to spare to reach the final of the cricket showpiece for the first time. Left-arm wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi (3 for 6) and gangling pacer Marco Jansen (3-16) spearheaded the rout of Afghanistan’s brittle batting line-up for …

WASHINGTON: Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s biggest cloud computing outfit, is making a major push to entice the public sector to join the artificial intelligence revolution, as the generative AI race with Microsoft and Google heats up. AWS and the other cloud giants say that the technology, made famous by ChatGPT, can have a huge impact on improving public services, including …

ISLAMABAD: The government should have no business doing business, Senate Chairman Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani said in an address to a conference on Wednesday. Over 70 presidents of different chambers of commerce and industry, ambassadors and diplomats attended the gathering. In keeping with the “right man right job principle”, the government must play the role of a regulator instead of running businesses …