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It’s very normal, and natural, for milestones like the SLA (Staff-Level Agreement) to be followed by a barrage of ratings agency reports. Foreign...
It seems the mainstream press is finally waking up to the social implications of the new tax regime. So far it’s happily provided uncontested...
We’re only halfway through the year, and already 2024 has produced more high-voltage political shockwaves than any other in recent memory. This way,...
My heart goes out to my Lebanese friends and their families as they get in line to become cannon fodder for the next bloody war in the Levant. But...
How instructive to watch the cold, ruthless logic of the market at play around the Indian election. It turns out that investors are ready to dump the...
Why all the fuss about dragging Ayub Khan out of his grave just to get at Omar Ayub Khan? The man has every right to fight the establishment to...
I fear the recent unrest in AJK was not an isolated affair, nor does the delayed Rs35bn sweetener mean the end of it. In fact, this was just a...
Do you think the country’s labour class, especially daily wagers, spent the Labour Day holiday celebrating and commemorating their “struggles for...
Watching the US House pass a $95 billion “aid package” for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (360-58) reminded me of a comment attributed to Russian-born...
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...