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Exactly a month after patching an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome, Google today rolled out fixes for yet another zero-day vulnerability in the world’s most popular web browser that it says is being abused in the wild. Chrome 89.0.4389.72, released by the search giant for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday, comes with a total of 47 security fixes, the most severe of which concerns an “object lifecycle issue in audio.” Tracked as CVE-2021-21166, the security flaw is one of the two security bugs reported last month by Alison Huffman of Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research on February 11. A…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan has emerged as one of the most sought-after tourist destinations over the past few years. The South Asian nation topped several international travel lists such as Forbes’ “The 10 coolest places to go in 2019” and Conde Nast’s “best holiday destination in 2020.”  The Pakistani government and people hoped the development would attract more investment in tourism-affiliated businesses and help create better paying jobs. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s administration announced plans to develop and promote tourism and relax visa restrictions for foreign travelers. But the onset of a global health emergency and the resulting…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan has passed a bill banning corporal punishment for children in a move described as “historic” by rights activists. It comes amid a number of high-profile cases of schoolchildren being badly beaten and even killed in schools, religious institutions and workplaces. Last month, an eight-year-old boy was beaten to death by his teacher for not memorising a lesson in a madrasa – a religious school – in Punjab province. In June 2020, another eight-year-old, a girl working as a maid in Islamabad, was beaten to death by her employers for letting their pet parrots escape.…

By Foreign News Desk Islamabad: Iran is probing an incident in which at least two Iranians were shot dead this week at the Pakistan border, and Islamabad handed over the body of one of the victims, the Iranian foreign ministry said. Monday’s shooting of at least two people carrying fuel across the border led to protests that spread from the town of Saravan to other areas in the south-eastern province of Sistan-Balochistan, including the capital, Zahedan. A provincial security official has said calm has returned to the province with the help of religious leaders. Media quoted prominent Baloch Sunni Muslim…

By National News Desk Islamabad: Global terror financing watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Thursday retained Pakistan on its “grey list” till June after concluding that Islamabad failed to address its strategically important deficiencies, to fully implement the 27 point action plan that the watchdog had drawn up for Pakistan. The global watchdog had in October last year asked Pakistan, which has been on the FATF grey list over issues related to terror financing, to deliver on all 27 points by this February. “To date, Pakistan has made progress across all action plan items and has now largely addressed…

By National News Desk Islamabad: The Cabinet Committee on CPEC has directed the concerned ministries to immediately get vacated 116 acres of prime Gwadar land, which was under the possession of law enforcement agencies. According to the official documents cited by The Express Tribune, the delay in getting the land vacated has slowed down work on two projects that were very critical for the full functioning of Gwadar Port and hampering work on infrastructure projects. A report by Pakist daily stated that under the Gwadar Port agreement signed between Beijing and Islamabad, the land had been leased out to Chinese…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived here on Tuesday on his maiden visit to the island nation during which he will hold wide-ranging talks with top Sri Lankan leadership on various issues such as trade, defence and technology. Khan, who is the first head of state to visit Sri Lanka since the COVID-19 pandemic, will hold meetings with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa. He will also lead delegation-level talks, covering all areas of cooperation between the two countries, including trade, investment, health, education, agriculture, science and technology, in addition to…

By National News Desk Islamabad: Foreign direct investment in Pakistan has seen a 27 per cent decline in the first seven months of the current fiscal, owing mainly to the fall in investment from its close ally China, a media report said on Tuesday. The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Pakistan during the first seven years fell by 27 per cent compared to the same period last fiscal year, Dawn newspaper reported, quoting the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) as saying. The SBP, the central bank, on Monday said that the FDI during July-January FY-21 was USD 1.145 billion against…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: China on Monday urged the US to stop “smearing” the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) and it’s one-party political system, lift sanctions on trade and halt Washington’s backing of “separatist forces” in Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang. In his annual speech at the Lanting Forum, focussing on China-US ties, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the Biden administration should “adjust” the hardline policy pursued by former President Donald Trump towards Beijing to check its growing influence. “We have no intention to challenge or replace the United States. We are ready to have peaceful…

By National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan will get 5.6 million Coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of March, as the country takes strides in inoculating its frontline health workers. The Covid-19 death toll in Pakistan stands at 12,601, after 38 virus-related fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours, health officials said on Sunday. In the same period, 1,329 new cases were reported taking the country’s caseload to 571,174. Pakistan began vaccinating its frontline health workers on February 2. So far, 72,882 health workers have been given at least one of the two anti-Covid-19 shots. The National Command and Operation…