Trading at PSX turns choppy as investors lock in gains

Trading at the Pakistan Stock Exchange remained choppy on Wednesday as early optimism faded in the face of mounting profit-taking. This volatile performance came after a sustained rally over recent sessions, prompting investors to adopt a cautious stance. The benchmark KSE-100 index kicked off the session on a bullish footing, racing to an intra-day peak … Read more

When Karachi watched films together

On weekday afternoons in Karachi, cinema halls once filled with rickshaw drivers, labourers, students skipping lectures, and families looking for relief from the heat. The seats were worn, the projectors unreliable, but the promise was simple: for a few hours, everyone could sit in the dark and disappear into a story. That version of cinema … Read more

Indian FM Jaishankar meets Pakistan NA speaker on sidelines of Khaleda Zia funeral

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar met with Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq at the residence of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia today, December 31 2025. Source: National Assembly Secretariat ISLAMABAD: Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar briefly met Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in Dhaka on Wednesday on the sidelines of the … Read more

How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian Army

new video loaded: How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian Army President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Russian society can tolerate the high human cost of the war in Ukraine. But we’ve analyzed more than 6,000 official complaints by soldiers and their loved ones that paint a very different picture. Our international correspondent Paul … Read more

The Biggest Questions We Have for 2026

[ New York Times editors across the newsroom share their biggest questions as we leave 2025 behind and look ahead to 2026. By Richard W. Stevenson, Mohammed Hadi, Nestor Ramos, Nikita Stewart, Michael Mason, Gilad Thaler, David Seekamp, Lauren Pruitt, Luke Piotrowski and Edward Vega December 31, 2025