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A top Pakistani court on Wednesday summoned caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-haq Kakar to personally appear before it on November 29 in a case involving 55 missing students from the restive Balochistan province and asked the government if it should refer the matter to the UN. The Islamabad High Court directed Kakar to appear before it if he did not secure the recovery of the missing Baloch students, according to the recommendations of the Baloch Enforced Disappearance Commission, Dawn News reported. Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani passed the order while hearing a case regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission…
Dear Parents, Much as we would like to camouflage it, the truth remains that gadget addictions are a part of our adult lives too. It is only when we can desist from our own cravings that we can begin to devise means to correct our young ones. And we must do more than scratch the surface to know what lies beneath these incorrigible habits we have developed. Presuming that we have ditched our own fixations with gadgets, and we are all set to help them kick theirs, let us try to dissect the anatomy of our children’s obsession with these…
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said Saturday’s top-of-the-table clash with Manchester City is so exciting he would tune in to watch it from anywhere in the world, but added one game does not determine his team’s title chances. “It’s not a test on how close we get to City, it’s just a really super exciting game, I would watch it wherever on the planet,” Klopp told reporters on Friday. “We have to prepare for it properly and we know we have to be at our best to get a chance. We will see.” Klopp’s team have gone unbeaten in their last…
If you’re a long time reader of Digital Trends, you’ll know that, of all the Black Friday deals we plan to shop today, there was one laptop brand that we were looking forward to seeing discounted above nearly all others. It is the Dell XPS line, which our reviewers continuously load praise on. While a lot of these Black Friday laptop deals come directly from Dell themselves, you can be sure that there are some Amazon Black Friday laptop deals in the mix as well. If you’ve made it here because you are a fan of Dell, and not just…
Enjoying the cooler breeze these days, thinking winter is finally here? Well, not yet. Winter months in the UAE will officially start only after December 21. Dr Ahmed Habib from the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) told Khaleej Times that winter in the UAE usually begins around the third week of December, approximately 100 days after the appearance of the Suhail star in August. The Suhail star, a common name (in the Arab world) for several stars often observed near the southern horizon, marks this seasonal shift towards winter. This signals the beginning of the chilliest phase, with temperatures notably…
A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered authorities to produce former Prime Minister Imran Khan for trial on November 28 on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer said, in what would be his first public appearance since he was jailed in August. The former cricket star has been embroiled in a tangle of political and legal battles since he was ousted as prime minister in a vote on no-confidence in 2022, which he denounced as unfair. “The court has ordered that Imran Khan be produced on Nov. 28,” Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Panjutha, said in a post on the social media…
Sitting in a quaint corner of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) in Hall 2, Raneem Ahmed’s fingers move with precision across the surface of the Braille keyboard display. While the Israel-Hamas war rages on disrupting lives and livelihoods, this Palestinian expat works purposefully, with her fingers gliding over the raised dots, feeling the patterns, and translating words into different messages of hope. Raneem exhibits a calm and composed demeanour, displaying patience and determination, as she navigates the Braille characters for the several people who queue up next to her booth, wanting her to type a special message for their…
This month is great for casual and serious Lego fans looking to beef up their collection. There are an absolute ton of Lego Black Friday deals you can throw your money at. It’s even better if you’re a Star Wars fan because there happen to also be a lot of Star Wars-themed Lego sets that have gone on sale, with one of the coolest ones we found being this X-Wing Fighter set. It includes one of the most iconic vehicles in the franchise, and you can even pair it with this Tie Fighter Lego set and have TWO of the…
Sharjah government’s human resources department has confirmed that employees will get an extra holiday for UAE National Day. In an advisory shared on social media, the authority said official holiday dates will be from Saturday, December 2, until Monday, December 4. Work shall resume on Tuesday, December 5. While these are the same dates that were announced for the UAE private sector and government entities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi — some of those in Sharjah will have a longer weekend. Since the emirate is off on Friday and this year’s National Day holiday starts on a Saturday, government employees…
The militant Hezbollah group fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel on Thursday, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Lebanon killed five of the group’s senior fighters. The waves of rockets sent over the border represented one of the most intense bombardments since Hezbollah started attacking Israeli posts in the country’s north at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. Hezbollah has said that by heating up its actions on the Israel-Lebanon border, it is easing pressure on the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s crushing aerial, ground and naval offensive has left more…