Riyadh: There was a meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Bill Gates in Saudi Arabia. In which Shehbaz Sharif reiterated his commitment to continue working together to ensure a strong partnership with the Gates Foundation.

Shahbaz Sharif met Bill Gates, founder and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on the sidelines of a special session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Riyadh on Monday.

Bill Gates praised the immunization and polio vaccination program in Punjab under the leadership of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and proposed to spread this type of program across the country.

The Prime Minister reiterated his commitment to continue working with Bill Gates to ensure a strong partnership between Pakistan and the Gates Foundation.

Beijing: Elon Musk, the founder of the well-known US company Tesla, met with the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang.

Elon Musk on Sunday confirmed his meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang on his social media platform X.

He wrote in his post that it is an honor to meet with Premier Li Qiang.

“We have known each other now for many years, since early Shanghai day,” added Musk.

Honored to meet with Premier Li Qiang.

We have known each other now for many years, since early Shanghai days. pic.twitter.com/JCnv6MbZ6W

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2024

Elon Musk arrived in China yesterday on an unannounced visit to introduce Full Self-Driving, or FSD, the most autonomous version of Tesla's Autopilot software in China, and to share data collected from China abroad. Meetings with several senior Chinese officials are expected to discuss permission to move.

The company has stored all data collected by its Chinese team at its facility in Shanghai since 2021, as required by Chinese regulators, and has not yet transferred data collected from China to the US.

It is pertinent to note that Tesla made the first agreement with the Chinese authorities to set up its own plant in Shanghai in 2018, which was the first plant of the company to be set up in any country outside the United States.

Currently, there is no news regarding whether Elon Musk, in the meeting with the Chinese Premier Li Qiang, has discussed to introduce Full Self-Driving or FSD in China and transferred the data collected from China to abroad in this regard.

Notably, rival Chinese automakers such as Xpeng are trying to gain an edge over Tesla by developing similar software.

Islamabad: The Islamabad high court (IHC) has canceled the miscellaneous plea of federal investigation agency (FIA) with fine and given a sign to act against director general FIA in contempt of court.

According to the details, the hearing was done on two similar pleas in IHC regarding the audio leaks. Justice Babar Sattar heard the pleas of Bushra Bibi and former chief justice’s son Najam Al Saqib. The court also heard the miscellaneous pleas of FIA, intelligence bureau (IB), Pakistan telecommunication authority (PTA) and Pakistan electronic media regulatory authority (PEMRA).  

The court imposed the fine of Rs5,00000 on FIA on filing plea.

 Justice Babar stated that the contempt of court can also be started against the director general FIA. He questioned that with who’s approval the miscellaneous application of IB was filed.  

Court summoned the IB’s joint director general in person.

The additional attorney general said that joint director general IB had given the approval.

Justice remarked that he will be having a name the parents will be given him a name. On which additional attorney general replied that his name is Tariq Mehmood.

Justice said that he must be appear in the court on next hearing. He said that the miscellaneous applications have filed so it should be heard at first will be fixed these ones. It should be decided that who filed the pleas?

The attorney general Usman Mansoor said that IB, FIA and PTA filed these pleas.

Justice also said that those pleas have come will be heard and then a verdict will be pronounced. He questioned that who gave them the authority to file pleas.

The additional attorney general responded that director general FIA gave the authority to assistant director.

Justice Babar Sattar asked to read the part of the application related to where he was being objectional.

The additional attorney general said that FIA pleaded to transfer this case to another court.