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Two bunch of people would have started this week with long faces. One, swing traders with long Brent positions itching to make a quick buck from all...
To understand why the foreign minister replaced the finance minister at the CCI (Council of Common Interests) you only have to understand why Ishaq...
If IS-K (Islamic State-Khorasan) really did strike Moscow this week – and it has hit concerts and football matches in Europe before – then we’re...
Some say it was stubborn food inflation that forced SBP’s hand at the MPC, combining with the usual Ramazan effect and typical incompetence of price...
Not much of what new finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, said in his first official media interaction was new – privatisation, digitalisation,...
Two is a trend, they say, and twice in two weeks now the market has shrugged off concerns of international rating agencies – about a weak coalition...
Fitch’s doubts about securing a post-SBA (Stand-By Arrangement) IMF lifeline show that even leading IFIs (international financial institutions)...
Mr Market knows best, goes the old saying, so perhaps its best to look at the wild swings at the stock exchange to make some sense of what is in store...
None of the top politicians and political parties making promises about free houses and hundreds of electricity units for the poor — all made and...
The killing of three US servicemen in a drone strike on the Syrian-Jordanian border, claimed by Iran-backed group Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI),...
Nobody’s talked about it yet, but you can be sure that one party that watched the Iran-Pakistan missile and drone exchange very closely was the...
For what it’s worth, Fazlur Rahman’s trip to Kabul has left me five hundred rupees richer. I bet with a journalist friend that the maulana would...
It’s still hard to figure out which is worse. Pretty and/or entitled brats with fancy connections landing high-paying news anchor/talk show host...
Who could’ve known that Yemeni Houthis, battered and broken after almost a decade of ugly war, will light the fuse that, possibly, sparks a wider...
You have to see it to believe it, but it seems one of the unintended casualties of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is going to be the myth of free media....
Why do you think Genocide Joe – POTUS’s new nickname advocated by American Muslim champions of the Abandon Biden campaign ahead of the US election...
Now is the time, with a four-day truce in place, to listen to the resistance in Gaza about a solution to the conflict instead of imposing one on them...
Oh hush hush, ummah’s leaders, lest you wake. Heads of Muslim states, from rich Arab princes and kings to democrats controlling some of the...
This week’s column is an embarrassed response to a riveting reader’s comment from last week, where I lamented that Israel’s success in derailing...
Israel’s success in bulldozing all attempts of international mediation in the Gaza conflict (thank you Uncle Sam) means bombs, bullets and white...
A recent Bloomberg report notes: Asked on Friday whether Israel should delay the ground operation, President Joe Biden told reporters “Yes.”...
Once again war is poised to shake the political calculus of the Middle East. For, it’s always war, never peace deals or shuttle diplomacy, that...
One of Wall Street’s enduring lessons, “inverted yield curves don’t always predict recessions, but all recessions have inverted yield curves”,...
Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammad bin Salman’s recent interview to Fox TV was a classing exercise in strategic ambiguity, saying plenty...
Here’s a scenario. The president doubles down on his deadline for the election, the supreme court agrees that it was indeed the prerogative of the...
An old Indian friend, editor of an international newspaper in the Gulf, asked last week if it was alright to run a story suggesting that...
Pakistani monetary authorities can only count their sorrows as King Dollar’s unrelenting advance pushes Asian currencies to lows not seen in months,...