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THINGS have moved rapidly where the Iran-US memorandum of understanding is concerned. While the physical document was supposed to be signed in Switzerland today, the main stakeholders — including th...
LONG before a church is burned, a mosque vandalised or a mob assembled, the poison that enables such violence has been spreading quietly for months or years. Hate speech rarely begins with physical at...
AFTER the temporary peace deal between the US and Iran is physically signed in Geneva on Friday, an arduous process of negotiations begins between both parties to flesh out the nitty-gritty of a long-...
AFTER three and a half months of war between US-Israel and Iran and an acrimonious temporary ceasefire, a genuine chance at peace seems to be at hand. Early on Monday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif an...
PAKISTAN is out of reasons to treat climate change as tomorrow’s problem. The Economic Survey 2025-26 reports that the country recorded its second-warmest year in 65 years in 2025, immediately after...
OFFICIAL post-budget media briefings in Pakistan are carefully choreographed affairs, full of reassuring phrases like ‘moving in the right direction’, ‘resilience’, and ‘enabling business an...
THE FY27 budget is the first clear signal that the government is ready to transition from stabilisation to growth — without breaching the IMF’s macroeconomic targets. After three years of painful ...
WHILE launching the Economic Survey 2026, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told a hopeful story of economic recovery. Indeed, the numbers support his words. Going from negative growth to 3.7pc is i...
IT appears that the PPP is in a comfortable position to form the government in Gilgit-Baltistan after Sunday’s polls for the region’s assembly. Though the party was leading the unofficial count at...
DELAYS in budget announcements are normal. After all, it is not easy to satisfy different lobbies competing for a bigger share of the shrinking fiscal pie. But the current impasse is of a different or...