Author: Gulsah Dogar

KUALA LUMPUR: A meeting was held between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and the King of Jordan, King Abdullah II, on the sidelines of the 8th Extraordinary Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Riyadh. “The meeting created opportunities for bilateral cooperation between Malaysia and Jordan, besides highest-level visits in 2024, as well as private sector collaboration, especially in drone 2technology and military cooperation. “We also discussed the need to address the tension in the West Bank and Baitulmaqdis, especially the Israeli settlers’ aggression against the Palestinians,” he said in a Facebook post about the Saturday meeting.…

Apple has always been against allowing iPhone users to sideload apps on the iPhone. Sideloading is when apps from a third-party app store are downloaded on a phone. Google allows Android users to do this, but Apple has not thus earning it the “walled garden” nickname. Apple claims that apps installed on the iPhone from a third-party app store could contain malware or other security issues and since Apple can’t vet apps not downloaded from the App Store, it believes that it is better to just not allow it. Another reason why Apple doesn’t want to allow sideloading on the iPhone is to prevent…

Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Foreign Minister of Bhutan Dr. Tandi Dorji, who is in China to hold the China-Bhutan boundary talks, in Beijing. Wang Yi said, China and Bhutan are linked by mountains and rivers and enjoy profound traditional friendship. The conclusion of boundary negotiations and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bhutan fully serve the long-term and fundamental interests of the country and nation of Bhutan. China is ready to work with Bhutan in the same direction, seize the historic opportunity, complete this important…

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori has said Japan will continue to stand by the Rohingya refugees and work towards their voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable returns to Myanmar. Japan will also assist Bangladesh and the host community here, said the Japanese ambassador. “As the crisis is turning into its sixth year, it is essential to keep the attention of the global community, while multiple emergencies have been taking place in different parts of the world,” he said. The ambassador attended the inauguration ceremony of “The Project for improved shelters at Nayapara Refugee Camp” in Cox’s Bazar on Monday. This…

ISLAMABAD, Facilitation Desks and Representation Receiving Centers, established at the Election Commission Secretariat in Islamabad to facilitate public, will continue to operate during the public holiday on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. According to a statement by an ECP spokesperson on Friday, Representation Receiving Center has been established at the ECP Secretariat with the purpose of receiving objections related to constituency delimitation from concerned individuals. These centers will remain in operation without any interruptions until the deadline for objection submissions on October 27, 2023. Furthermore, individuals can obtain maps from the Election Commission, with payment required in accordance with legal regulations…

A special court established under the Official Secrets Act on Monday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case. The cipher case pertains to a diplomatic document that reportedly went missing from Imran’s possession. The PTI alleges that the document contained a threat from the United States to oust Imran from office. The PTI chief was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison in the Toshakhana graft case on August 5. The IHC had suspended his sentence on Augusy 29 but he remained in jail because he was on judicial remand in the cipher case. On September 30, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)…

The buzzphrase of the last few months has been generative AI, and the latest report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, writing in his latest Power On newsletter, says that Apple is working out how to bring it to Apple products from the iPhone to the Mac. Gurman claims that while Apple has some catching up to do to match the steps taken by Google and Microsoft to introduce generative AI into their products, that the process has begun. I met with Apple’s CEO Tim Cook last month and asked him about numerous topics from iPhone gaming to Vision Pro. And I quizzed him…

Apple has warned that a bug in the iOS 17 software powering its latest iPhone 15 Pro model is causing smartphones to overheat. Some consumers, who purchased the new device, complained about their devices becoming uncomfortably hot during normal use. The iGiant has now said that’s not unexpected, especially when setting up the iPhone 15 Pro for the first time, and that a software bug it’s now trying to fix made matters worse. “We have identified a few conditions which can cause iPhone to run warmer than expected,” the company told Forbes. “The device may feel warmer during the first few days after setting…

Experts have fanned out in India’s southern state of Kerala to collect samples of fluid from bats and fruit trees as the deadly Nipah virus killed two people amid the latest outbreak, and at least four more have tested positive. The state is battling its fourth outbreak since 2018 of a virus for which there is no vaccine, and which spreads through contact with the body fluids of infected bats, pigs or people, killing up to 75 percent of those infected. “We are testing human beings … and at the same time, experts are collecting fluid samples from forested areas that could…

UAE – Pakistan’s Serene Air is offering 10kg extra luggage to passengers on UAE to Pakistan flights till the end of next month. The carrier took to microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) to announce that it would give 50kg (40kg plus 10) for the passengers flying in the Economy Class, 30kg (20 plus 10) for the Free Baggage category and 10kg on purchasing Nil Baggage ticket on UAE to Pakistan flights till September 30. UAE-Pakistan is one of the busiest air corridors as the Emirates is home to 1.7 million Pakistanis, the second largest expat community in the Gulf country.…