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Mir Raza Wafflix
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Mir Raza Wafflix owner’s brutal murder after Karachi abduction sparks outrage over city’s security failures

Mir Raza, the twenty six year old entrepreneur behind Karachi’s popular dessert chain, was found dead in Gulistan e Jauhar on Wednesday, days after he was allegedly abducted from outside his home in the city’s PECHS neighbourhood, in a case that has reignited public anger over the deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan’s largest...

Waqar Zaka trading competition
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Waqar Zaka Wins Global WEEX TradFi Masters Trading Contest

Pakistani technology entrepreneur and crypto trader Waqar Zaka has won the WEEX TradFi Masters, a global multi asset trading championship, after outperforming more than 3,000 participants from around the world using his own capital and posting a 74 percent return over a 20 day trading window. The competition, organised by the international cryptocurrency exchange WEEX,...

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The savings we refuse to collect

A Senate committee sits down, does the arithmetic, and arrives at a number most governments would treat as urgent: four to five trillion rupees a year, sitting unclaimed, simply because the federal government still runs ministries the Constitution told it to hand over in 2010. That is not a rounding error. It is close to...

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Pakistan’s Neutrality in the Iran War Is Costing More Than It Buys

Since the war began on 28 February with the joint American and Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Pakistan’s position has not moved an inch on paper. The Foreign Office has condemned the strikes on Iran. It has condemned Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the Gulf states. It has repeated, briefing after briefing, that there...