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21st Death Anniversary of Ashfaq Ahmad Commemorated

Lahore: Twenty-first death anniversary of writer, playwright, and broadcaster Ashfaq Ahmad is being observed on Sunday. Ashfaq Ahmad wrote dozens of TV dramas and hosted the famous Radio Pakistan program ‘Talqeen Shah’. According to Radio Pakistan, his renowned PTV plays include ‘Munchaley ka Soda’, ‘Aik Muhobaat Sao Afsaney’, ‘Tota Kahani’,

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Govt Fully Supporting Provinces in Flood Response: Muqam

Shangla: Minister for Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Affairs Engineer Amir Muqam has announced that the Federal Government is providing complete support to provincial governments in dealing with the challenges posed by devastating floods. The Minister made these remarks while distributing relief cheques to the families of thirty-six individuals who lost their

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Rain-Wind/Thundershower Forecast in Sindh and South Punjab

Karachi: Rain-wind/thundershower is expected in Sindh and South Punjab, while heavy falls are also likely at isolated places in Sindh during the next twelve hours. However, partly cloudy weather with rain-wind/thundershower is expected at isolated places in Northeastern Punjab, Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir. Hot and dry weather will

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Jeddah: Microsoft’s Azure cloud services have been disrupted by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, the US tech giant says. Users of Azure, one of the world’s leading cloud computing platforms, would experience delays due to problems with internet traffic moving through the Middle East, the company noted.

According to BBC, Microsoft did not clarify the cause of the damage to the undersea cables, but mentioned that it had managed to reroute traffic through alternative paths. It emphasized that traffic “that does not traverse through the Middle East is n…

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Jeddah: Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said, though it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the incident. There has been concern about the cables being targeted in a Red Sea campaign by Houthis, which the group describes as an effort to pressure Israel to end its genocidal war on Gaza. However, the Houthis have denied attacking the lines in the past. It blamed failures affecting the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

According to TRTworld.com, the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable is run by Tata Communications, part of the Indian conglomerate, while the India-Middle East-Western Europe cable is run by another consortium overseen by Alcatel-Lucent. …

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