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A non-functional distribution box of Safe City cameras installed near a residential apartment in Karachi’s posh Clifton area has reportedly been stolen, it emerged on Thursday. “This was a non-energised/non-operational pole site near Sea Rock Apartments at Seaview, where the theft of a distribution box was reported to local police on November 6,” South Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Syed Asad Raza told Dawn . Quoting a staff member from a nearby hotel, the South police chief said, “A vehicle with a crane was witnessed working on the pole hours before the theft was reported. “Since then, a few switches and the battery are missing,” the DIG added. The officer said the distribution box was installed at an “extreme height”, adding that it would not have been possible for one person to steal it. He noted that the cameras were also not functional. The location of Sea Rock Apartments in Clifton. — screengrab via Google Maps DIG Raza observed that the locality was a “completely blacke...

Dr Arfa Sayeda Zehra had the rare ability to distill an entire philosophy into a single sentence. I came across one of her interviews yesterday where she observed, “Aj ki nasal Urdu parh nahi paati, likh nahi paati, magar sunti hai to lutf leti hai” [Today’s generation cannot read or write Urdu, but they take pleasure in listening to it]. The command she held over the language was such that within that simple reflection lies a diagnosis not only of linguistic decay, but of an entire behavioural condition; one that captures what it means to live in a society where expression has been displaced by efficiency, where our mother tongues have been diluted by foreign dialects. The language of ambition vs the language of affection We, her students, are the generation she describes, “urdu parh nahi paati, urdu likh nahi paati magar urdu sunti hai tou lutf leti hai. Fluent in fragments, emotionally literate yet linguistically estranged. We can speak Urdu, even admire its cadence, but we ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Collin Graf scored 2:41 into overtime and surging San Jose came back to beat Minnesota. Macklin Celebrini fed Graf the puck in the middle near the goal mouth. Graf deked Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson, leaving an open net to put away the winner for just his second goal of the season. Will Smith had his seventh goal of the season and Yaroslav Askarov made 28 saves in goal for San Jose, which has won four in a row and has points in seven straight. Celebrini had two assists in the game and has three goals and five assists during a four-game point streak. Matt Boldy had a second-period, power-play goal for Minnesota, which had won two in a row and four of five since losing five straight to end October. Gustavsson stopped 16 shots. Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday: BRUINS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 3 BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak scored twice to move past 400 goals for his career, and added an assist, as the Boston Bruins won their seventh consecutive game, 5-3 over the Toronto ...

Hit to all parts by India in the Asia Cup final at the end of September, Haris Rauf turned to domestic cricket to rediscover his mojo. On his return to international cricket, the grind of first-class cricket paved the way for a fiery spell of fast bowling that clinched victory for Pakistan with the 32-year-old ripping through the Sri Lankan top-order, and finishing with figures of 4-61, as the hosts scraped to a six-run win in the first One-day International at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday night. “It wasn’t easy to win tonight,” Haris said at the post-match press conference. “It wasn’t easy to bowl in the dew but you keep trying as a bowler to pick wickets and in the end we won, which was important.” The performance was important for Haris as well. Slammed for being too easy to put away in the highly-charged Asia Cup final against arch-rivals India, the right-armer got back to work with Islamabad in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. “You keep giving your best effort and try to m...

Pakistan were put into bat after Sri Lanka won the toss in the opening One-day International of the three-match series at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. “We would’ve also liked to bowl first too due to the dew [in the later stages],” Pakistan skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi said at the toss. “Pindi is a high-scoring ground.” Pakistan come into the game on the back of a 2-1 series triumph against a depleted South African side, shorn of big names, last week in Faisalabad. That series triumph marked a successful beginning to Shaheen’s fresh stint as the new Pakistan captain, having replaced Mohammad Rizwan last month in an abrupt manner. Sri Lanka, though, present a more difficult challenge. The Islanders, led by Charith Asalanka, in contrast, arrive in Rawalpindi with a full-strength team and in top form in the format — having won the last six of their seven ODI series, including those against the strong India and Australia to rise to fourth in the International Cricket Council O...

Security sources said on Tuesday that a clearance operation to eliminate three terrorists was underway at the Cadet College Wana in South Waziristan on Tuesday, a day after the education facility came under attack . An operation was underway to eliminate three khwarij present inside the Cadet College, security sources said, adding that it was being reported that all of them hailed from Afghanistan. Fitna al Khawarij is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), while khwarij refers to terrorists associated with it. The security operation will continue till the eradication of the last terrorist, security sources asserted. They added that the terrorists were hidden in a building that was located far away from the cadets’ residence. They asserted that the clearance operation was being carried out with great expertise to ensure that the cadets’ lives remained safe and they were not harmed. The security source said the terrorists w...

TORONTO — The last time Joe Thornton was at the Hockey Hall of Fame, he was celebrating the wedding of then-Sharks teammate Brent Burns’ parents. “Let me tell you, we rocked so hard that night, I didn’t think I’d be invited back,” Thornton said from the Hall’s podium Monday night before a crowd of family, friends, peers, and fellow hockey royalty.  “But here I am,” he continued. “And this time, I stay forever.” And he arrived on the first ballot, no less. That his Hall of Fame plaque was presented on-stage by the legendary Lanny McDonald — iconic moustache meets beloved beard — made the moment all the more meaningful, Thornton calling his induction to the hall “an honour of a lifetime.” The newly minted inductee, never shy about storytelling and known for delivering a great one-liner, was met with whoops and cheers from those in attendance as he started into his speech, all smiles and teary-eyed. He’d been that way all evening. As the events got underway earlier Monday ni...

In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the chips, but their ambitions have hit a new obstacle: electric power. “The biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it’s the power and…the ability to get the builds done fast enough close to power,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged on a recent podcast with OpenAI chief Sam Altman. “So if you can’t do that, you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in,” Nadella added. Echoing the 1990s dotcom frenzy to build internet infrastructure, today’s tech giants are spending unprecedented sums to construct the silicon backbone of the revolution in artificial intelligence. Google, Microsoft, AWS (Amazon), and Meta (Facebook) are drawing on their massive cash reserves to spend roughly $400 billion in 2025 and even more in 2026 — backed for now by enthusiastic investors. All this cash has helped alleviate one initial bottleneck: acquiring the millions of chips ne...

As the government made moves toward the passage of the 27th Constitutional Amendment, former judges and top lawyers on Monday urged Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi to summon a full court meeting to discuss the proposed legislation. The request came in a letter, dated November 9 and a copy of which is available with Dawn , that was penned by senior counsel Faisal Siddiqi. It was also signed and endorsed by former SC senior puisne judge retired Justice Mushir Alam, former Sindh High Court (SHC) judge retired Justice Nadeem Akhtar and 11 other top lawyers. View this post on Instagram The letter said that the missive was being written “not in normal times but in times that present the greatest threat to the Supreme Court of Pakistan since its establishment in 1956”. It termed the 27th Amendment Act as the “biggest and the most radical restructuring of the Federal Appellate Court structure since the enactment of the Governme...

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The cream always rises to the top. Even though you might think this is a recap from the CO-OP Tour Challenge, the last Grand Slam of Curling event, it’s not.  Canada’s Team Rachel Homan will face Switzerland’s Team Silvana Tirinzoni and Canada’s Team Matt Dunstone will go up against Scotland’s Team Bruce Mouat at the KIOTI GSOC Tahoe finals in Stateline, Nev. For Homan, it’s her eighth straight GSOC final and 10th finals match against Tirinzoni, where she currently holds a record of 7-2. But Homan’s not the only Canadian with a streak of making the finals, Dunstone has now reached his third straight Slam final after beating fellow countryman Brad Jacobs in the semifinals. Saturday’s results ( Full scores and standings ) Draw 17 – Men’s and Women’s tiebreakers Kang 7, Einarson 0 McEwen 7, Retornaz 3 Gim 7, Kitazawa 2 Draw 18 – Women’s quarterfinals Hasselborg 7, Yoshimura 6 (SO) Tirinzoni 6, Gim 4 X. Schwaller 5, Fujisawa 4 Homan 7, Kang 2 Draw 19 – Men’s quarterfinals...

All was quiet in Sana Bahadar’s mind when she entered the squash court on the last day of October for her quarterfinal at the CNS Squash Championships. Her immediate aim: to clinch the fourth game and move a step closer to claiming another title. It wasn’t to be. The hotly-contested first three games had been indicative of a battle to the end and Sana would soon have to put her body on the line to win when her opponent’s racket hit her in the throat. Struggling to breathe as she clutched her throat, Sana stumbled out the glass door and into the stands. Her father, Sher, rushed over and crouched in front of her, asking what happened. He told a concerned referee rushing over that she had been hit in the throat, but the referee told him not to interfere during play. “I was speaking for Sana because you don’t understand sign language,” Sher quipped to silence the referee. He opened his mouth to argue with Sher but shut it just as quickly, staring at the medical officer and Sher attendin...