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WhatsApp New Security Feature displays a pre-chat warning for unknown numbers to help users identify suspicious contacts before replying.

WhatsApp New Security Feature Exposes Scammers Before You Even Reply

Focus Pakistan2026-06-25

WhatsApp is deploying a pre-chat intelligence screen that profiles unknown senders before users open their messages a fundamental rethink of how the world’s most-used messaging platform approaches the fraud problem that has plagued it for years. WhatsApp New Security Feature WABetaInfo confirmed the feature targets both Android and iOS users. This feature becomes active when ... Read more

Imam Bakhsh digital stardom YouTube content creator Jhal Magsi Pakistan

Imam Bakhsh Shows How Talent and Determination Can Overcome Distance

Nayab Fatima2026-06-24

No internet, no hardware, no studio. Simply a village known as Kotra, a cell phone camera, and an adamant refusal to give up. This is how one young man in rural Balochistan became the mastermind behind a digital empire watched by millions JHAL MAGSI: Kotra is situated in Gandawah, in the very depths of the ... Read more

Pakistan Passport Fees move to digital payments as citizens use QR code payments and e-passport services nationwide from July 1, 2026.

Pakistan Ends Cash Passport Fees as Digital-Only System Takes Effect Nationwide

Focus Pakistan2026-06-23

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Directorate General of Immigration and Passports will stop accepting cash payments at all passport offices in Pakistan starting July 1, 2026, as applicants will have to make their payments solely through digital means in a massive reform process that marks the end of decades of cash-based operations in what is one of the ... Read more

KP digital payments system will replace cash counters across government departments and help generate an additional Rs29.4 billion in annual revenue.

KP Goes Fully Digital, Targets Record Rs29 Billion Revenue

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-23

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plans to eliminate every cash counter at every government office by September 1, targeting Rs29.4 billion in additional annual revenue through a province-wide mandate that will force citizens to pay all government dues digitally or not at all. The KP government’s initiative, anchored in the Chief Secretary’s Good Governance Programme, covers 172 ... Read more

PTA tax installment smartphones Pakistan FBR Naveed Qamar Finance Committee

Lawmakers Call for Easier PTA Tax Payments on Smartphones

Nayab Fatima2026-06-22

Millions of Pakistanis are currently using handsets which the government has not approved yet. However, there is now a proposal by the parliamentary panel to make it easier for the FBR to collect that particular tax. Pakistani taxmen have just been issued explicit orders from parliament. In its resolution, the Standing Committee on Finance and ... Read more

Telecom bill private land acquisition clarification issued by Pakistan's IT Ministry on June 20 2026 denying social media claims about the Pakistan Telecommunication Re-organisation Amendment Bill 2026

IT Ministry Denies Telecom Bill Allows Private Land Acquisition After Social Media Backlash

Nayab Fatima2026-06-21

The Pakistan Telecommunication Amendment Bill 2026 is under consideration in the Senate; however, the Ministry of IT maintains that the landowner will continue to have all the rights for negotiations, objection, and compensation while there is a penalty of Rs50 million for those who violate access agreements but do not oppose them. The Ministry of ... Read more

SpaceX stock surges 37 percent after IPO as shares close at $185 in debut week

SpaceX Stock Turns $1,000 Into $1,370 in Just Five Days

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-21

SpaceX shares closed at $185 on June 18, capping a debut week that turned a $1,000 investment at the $135 IPO price into $1,370, even as the stock shed 8.3% over two consecutive sessions. The company listed on the Nasdaq under ticker SPCX on June 12 at $150 per share. It then rebounded to its ... Read more

Pakistan first indigenous UAV engine AKAL Alsons Group Eurosatory 2026 Paris defense exhibition

Pakistan Unveils First Indigenous UAV Engine in Paris

Nayab Fatima2026-06-19

And for the very first time, an unmanned aircraft engine that was completely designed, constructed, and assembled in Pakistan has made its mark in the international arena right before the eyes of the global defense community in Paris. The world-renowned Pakistan-made UAV engine took its first-ever step onto the international platform when it was exhibited ... Read more

Avanceon Wins Gulf Contracts worth $11.6 million across Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia

Avanceon Wins $11.6 Million Gulf Projects, Expands Regional Footprint

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-19

KARACHI: Avanceon has locked in USD 11.6 million worth of fresh contracts across Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, notifying the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Thursday that the Lahore-based automation company has expanded its Gulf footprint at a pace few Pakistani engineering firms have managed to replicate. In a notice to Pakistan Stock Exchange, company ... Read more

BYD sodium-ion battery third generation MC Cube-SIB ESS grid storage technology

BYD’s New Sodium-Ion Battery Promises 33-Year Lifespan

Nayab Fatima2026-06-19

Lithium is certainly all the rage right now. But then BYD came up with a battery technology that would last longer than pretty much anything out there not only in China but everywhere else. Most batteries have a life span of a decade or less. Recently, BYD has launched a battery which promises to work ... Read more