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...
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Tabish Hashmi Kicked Out of GEO News? Or Was It a Publicity Stunt
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...
Before AI, Pakistan Needs Actual Electricity, Water and Bread on the Table
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 Target $10 Billion in New Border Trade Cooperation
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...


