Pakistan carried out precision aerial and drone strikes against 10 locations in Afghanistan in the early hours of Thursday, in what officials described as a direct response to drone incursions launched from Afghan territory a day earlier. The strikes mark a sharp escalation in an already volatile relationship between the two neighbours, pushing the confrontation...
Jamaat-e-Islami launched the next phase of its nationwide campaign against the petroleum levy and rising inflation on Sunday, staging simultaneous sit-ins outside Governor Houses in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta, with party leadership vowing the protests would continue until the government agreed to withdraw the levy altogether. In Karachi, JI workers marched from different parts...
Dharna at Shahrah-e-Faisal Jamaat-e-Islami Blocks Road. Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Chief Monem Zafar announced that Jamaat-e-Islami will hold nationwide protests today against the petroleum levy charges, calling for public participation across the country, with Karachi’s own demonstration centred on Shahrah-e-Faisal, one of the city’s busiest arteries. Party workers are expected to block traffic along the road as...
To understand why the last week has been such a bad one for Tabish Hashmi’s credibility, it helps to understand why anyone believed him in the first place. He is not a career broadcaster who drifted into hosting because a network needed a face. He built an audience from nothing, on the strength of being...
The numbers behind Pakistan’s basic necessities crisis are not hidden, they are published, repeatedly, by the same institutions the government cites when it wants to talk about macroeconomic stability. Taken together, they make the AI data centre pitch look less like ambition and more like a country skipping several chapters of its own story. Start...
Pakistan and Iran are working toward a significant expansion of bilateral trade, with officials from both sides targeting a new benchmark for cross-border commercial activity through enhanced cooperation at their shared frontier. The push comes as both countries look to formalize and expand trade channels that have historically operated through a mix of formal and...