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Deportations from Iran and Pakistan have left millions of Afghans homeless, hungry, aid falling short to meet needs Afghan refugees wait in a queue to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham on October 27, 2023. PHOTO: AFP KABUL: In the dull glow of a single bulb lighting their tent on the outskirts of Kabul, Samiullah … Read more
[ Tells Saudi counterpart Pakistan’s reserves improving, investor confidence growing Trade barriers placed on foreign products are mistakenly considered a benefit by many politicians, when in fact they hurt their own citizens and economy and in turn make exports more difficult. photo: file ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb has said that Pakistan’s … Read more
Intended as China’s version of Dubai’s palm-shaped artificial island, Ocean Flower Island is a $12 billion monument to debt-fueled economic excess.
[ Reaches $244m in Dec, reversing last year’s surplus; FDI records outflow of $135m KARACHI: Pakistan’s current account deficit reached $1.174 billion during the first half of FY26, marking a sharp reversal from a surplus of $957 million recorded in the same period of last year, as rising imports, weaker capital inflows and persistent structural … Read more
Daily-wage workers, salesmen stunned by ruins of Gul Plaza, fear loss of livelihoods Smoke rises as firefighters spray water to extinguish a massive fire that broke out in the Gul Plaza Shopping Centre building, in Karachi, Pakistan, January 18, 2026. PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI: Gul Plaza may have been reduced to ashes, but the deeper tragedy … Read more
Leaders from more than 60 countries have been invited to serve on the Peace Council. PHOTO: REUTERS NUUK: Donald Trump no longer needs to think “purely of peace” after being snubbed for a Nobel, the US president said in comments published on Monday, adding the world will not be safe until Washington controls Greenland. Trump … Read more
[ Minister cites $17b savings, says 8,000MW capacity dropped from expansion plan, circular debt reduced by Rs780b Sources said that Pakistan also took up the issue of decoupling the two policy loans amounting to $1.05 billion that the World Bank wants to approve together. photo: file ISLAMABAD: A delegation of the World Bank and the … Read more
The blaze, which broke out late Saturday night, has destroyed most parts of the building. PHOTO: REUTERS The death toll from a massive fire at Gul Plaza shopping mall on MA Jinnah Road in Karachi has risen to 26, while the number of missing people has reached 83, officials said on Tuesday. The blaze, which … Read more
. UMERKOT: The wheat crisis in Umerkot district has intensified, causing a sharp increase in flour prices, which have reached Rs135 per kilogram. Officials from the Food Department are accused of reducing the monthly wheat quota for flour mills, leaving mills with only 14 bags per spon, far below the actual requirements. As a result, … Read more
As Chabahar falters, geography reasserts Pakistan’s centrality in regional connectivity ISLAMABAD: Last week’s arrival of Noor Ahmed Noor in New Delhi – the first Afghan chargé d’affaires appointed under the Taliban government – marked a quiet but consequential moment in regional diplomacy, signalling a subtle recalibration in India’s engagement with Kabul at a time of … Read more