Web archive - October 9, 2025

Entertainment

Sabrina Carpenter named Variety’s 2025 Hitmaker of the Year

Sabrina Carpenter will receive Variety’s 2025 Hitmaker of the Year award at the Los Angeles event in December

Pakistan

No more queues as NADRA fully digitises all services

Pak ID app allows citizens to complete biometric, and upload documents, track applications directly via smartphones

Entertainment

‘Wicked: For Good’ breaks box office records before release

‘Wicked: For Good’ sets record for highest first-day ticket pre-sales for a PG movie in Fandango history

Technology

TSMC posts Q3 revenue surge on AI boom

TSMC’s Q3 revenue soars 30% as AI chip demand powers record-breaking growth

Pakistan

TLP using Gaza cause to stir unrest: Talal Chaudhry

Authorities recover weapons, chemicals and riot gear from TLP leaders, minister of state for interior reveals

Pakistan

Ice melts as PM Shehbaz contacts Bilawal to defuse Sindh-Punjab rift

Development follows a meeting in Nawabshah between President Asif Ali Zardari and a PML-N delegation

Entertainment

Disneyland visitor found dead after riding Haunted Mansion attraction

A woman in her 60s was found unresponsive after Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion ride and later pronounced dead

Pakistan, Dera Ismail Khan

Major Sibtain Haider martyred in DI Khan IBO, seven terrorists killed

Weapons, ammunition recovered from killed Khwarij involved in multiple terrorist activities

Pakistan

Imran Khan orders PTI lawmakers to quit Punjab Assembly committees

Party currently heads 14 committees; Imran issued clear instructions for collective withdrawal, says Barrister Gohar

Pakistan

Section 144 imposed in Rawalpindi ahead of TLP rally

Police crackdown led to detention of 117 active TLP workers, while containers deployed near Faizabad Interchange