LAHORE The Punjab government has made the decision to establish its own branch to address the growing number of cybercrime occurrences in the state because it is dissatisfied with the National Cybercrime Investigation Agency's (NCCIA) performance. ...
Pakistan launches a major semiconductor initiative
ISLAMABAD: On Tuesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a plan to train more than 7,000 specialists in semiconductor research and design. According to the prime minister, the INSPIRE program marks Pakistan's entry into the $600 billion glo ...
In Pakistan, TikTok deleted 25.4 million videos in the second quarter of 2025.
According to Tiktok's Community Guidelines Enforcement Report released on Monday, the well-known video-sharing website deleted over 25 million videos in Pakistan during the second quarter of 2025 (April–June) due to violations of community guideline ...
The nation’s first “hyperspectral satellite” is launched by Suparco.
Pakistan's space agency stated that Sunday's launch of its first Hyperspectral Satellite (HS-1) from a Chinese launch center was "a breakthrough achievement." According to a study in the Journal of Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, sat ...
The Titanic sub disaster is attributed by a US agency to poor engineering and insufficient testing.
The US National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday that a private submersible's deadly collapse during a 2023 trip to the Titanic wreckage was caused in part by poor engineering and insufficient testing. Its assessment follows a US Coa ...
Researchers that explore the precision of the immune system are awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine.
On Monday, Japanese scientist Shimon Sakaguchi and American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ransdell awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on how the immune system protects healthy cells, opening the door to pote ...
China introduces visas to entice international tech expertise
In an effort to recruit international talent in science and technology, China launched a new visa program on Wednesday. This is a component of its continuous endeavors to surpass the United States as a global leader in those fields. The August an ...
Musk’s X will challenge an Indian court decision about a technique for removing hidden content.
On Monday, social media company X said that it would challenge a court ruling in India that would permit more than two million police officers across the country to seek takedowns at will using a covert web site known as Sahyog. In its first stat ...
Adoption of next-generation WiFi 7 is approved by PTA
One of the first countries in the Asia-Pacific area to embrace the newest WiFi generation, WiFi 7, was approved by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) on Friday. A press statement states that WiFi 7 and subsequent models will use the ...
Pakistan warns against the military use of AI and demands that it be governed by the UN charter.
Pakistan has demanded that the United Nations charter govern the use of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the military, cautioning that "AI must not become a tool of coercion." Pakistan's request at the UN is in line with broader worrie ...










