CUPERTINO: Apple went small — cutting prices as well as screen sizes — unveiling a new iPhone and iPad aimed at reaching more customers and boosting replacements, at a low-key product unveiling on Monday...
The new iPhone SE will debut at $399 for US customers without a contract subsidy, a significant cut from the price of its larger iPhones...
The company also updated its iPad Mini with 5G connectivity and a reworked design that makes it look like the higher-end iPad Air and Pro models...
Apple also updated its base-model iPad with a new camera for working and learning from home...
She also said her family was planning to take the case to the International Court of Justice as the governments of Pakistan and Kenya would “never provide them justice”...
“The [alleged] signs of torture on Arshad Sharif shaheed invalidate Pakistan government’s stance that he was killed due to mistaken identity,” he tweeted...
On the face of it, at least statistically, Pakistan is going through a period of economic growth...
The recent Chinese investment package is being touted as proof of global investor confidence returning to Pakistan...
They chanted slogans demanding that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif order brick lining of the canal...
ISLAMABAD: The police helped free 15 of a family who were being held as bonded labourers by a brick kiln owner...
Talking to Dawn, Noon police Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Abid Ikram said the owner of the brick kiln was arrested and he was charged with PPC’s section 344 for wrongful confinement for 10 or more days, section 374 for unlawful compulsory labour and 506 for criminal intimidation...
SYDNEY: An Australian man was jailed on Monday for 18 months on animal cruelty charges after bludgeoning to death nine puppies with a brick while high on methamphetamine, commonly known as ice...
LONDON: Jonathan Trott followed Graeme Swann, Kevin Pietersen and Matt Prior into the international wilderness on Monday to leave England desperately short of experience ahead of this year's Ashes series against Australia...
Trott was forced to admit that he is no longer capable of coping with the demands of Test cricket following a dismal return to the side in the drawn series in West Indies
TOBA TEK SINGH: A feasibility report by the National Engineering Services of Pakistan and two private consultant companies on the proposed brick-lining of Trimmu-Sidhnai (TS) link canal has estimated the project cost at Rs7 billion...
The report adds that as a result of brick lining, 550 cusecs of water will be saved which is wasted in seepage...
In Pakistan’s case, the first major corruption scandal in Benazir Bhutto’s tenure involved the serving naval chief at the time (in the Agosta submarine case)...
Pakistan has traversed a fair distance in terms of entrenchment of the rule of law since the lawyers movement of 2007...
SIALKOT: The brick kilns across the district have stopped production in the rainy season after the first widespread torrential rains of the monsoon badly affected the bricks which had not been baked yet...
A majority of the brick kiln labourers, thousands in number, in the district belong to south Punjab and they have gone back to their native places to have a break from work inadvertently due to rains...
MUZAFFARGARH: Two brick kilns on Dera Ghazi Khan Road were sealed over child labour and cases were registered against their owners here on Sunday...
District Coordination Officer Hafiz Shaukat Ali with District Officer Labour Tahir Gurchani paid a surprise visit to at Bakhtawar Brick Kiln Qalandar Brick Kiln at Noor Kubra and found children making the bricks...
“The red sandstone used in the minarets of Jahangir’s tomb is not available in Pakistan and needs to be imported from India; the government of Pakistan has to issue an NOC for it,” he elaborates over tea that has been specially called for from the bazaar nearby...
“From among Pakistan’s several Mughal monuments, Jahangir’s tomb has the most complex decorative elements...
64pc of brick kiln workers reported prevalent sexual harassment in the workplace, and only 2...
The report, formulated by the Labour Quami Movement and the Pattan Development Organisation, assessed the brick kiln industry’s compliance with Pakistani labour laws and the country’s international obligations under eight labour-related conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)...
FAISALABAD: The district administration and police officials managed to stop a brick kiln workers’ march on Lahore near Nishatabad Bridge here on Monday...