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Aug 15, 2025

Hammad Hassan

Flags, quiet victories, and the long game of diplomacy

In recent months, our diplomacy has been tested again. The Pahalgam incident sent tempers soaring on both sides of the border.

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Farhan Bokhari
Aug 05, 2025

Farhan Bokhari

India’s global power status gets knocked down

As the political discord deepens across Indian controlled Kashmir, the glaring contradictions continue on India’s economic front. Once India was repeatedly celebrated as the world’s latest economic success story.

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Farhan Bokhari
Aug 01, 2025

Farhan Bokhari

Pakistan clinches breakthrough in US tariff negotiations

The final outcome is a 10 percent reduction from the initially announced tariff of 29 percent by the United States.

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Farhan Bokhari
Jul 31, 2025

Farhan Bokhari

Foreign online companies receive rare break in Pakistan

The case of the tariff on digital sales in last month’s annual budget, triggered criticism from members of Pakistan’s emerging information technology sector.

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Web Desk
Jul 31, 2025

Hammad Hassan

From one click to a trap: the growing menace of online fraud in Pakistan

What’s alarming isn’t just the frequency, but the quiet shame that follows. Most victims don’t report the fraud out of shame

Opinion

Web Desk
Jul 30, 2025

Afshan Subohi

Reviving Pakistan’s industry: Bold policy or business gamble?

While manufacturing has consistently featured in development plans, Pakistan has never adopted a stand-alone national industrial policy,

Opinion

Farhan Bokhari
Jul 29, 2025

Farhan Bokhari

All eyes on SBP: will interest rates bring relief or more jitters?

Supporters of a further lowering of interest rates have argued that a decline in inflation has helped to build up a case for the same

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Web Desk
Jul 22, 2025

Farhan Bokhari

Pakistan’s resilience tested by rainfall

By the latest count reported on Tuesday, at least 200 people had died while more than 500 were injured in rain-related incidents across Pakistan

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Farhan Bokhari
Jul 17, 2025

Farhan Bokhari

As rains lash on, climate change hits Pakistan’s way of life

One key trigger for the rain related aggravation has come from a faster melting of glaciers across the northern areas, notably Gilgit-Baltistan

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Web Desk
Jul 15, 2025

Afshan Subohi

Who’s really running Pakistan’s economy?

Perpetually in crisis, successive governments in Pakistan have repeatedly asked struggling citizens and businesses to sacrifice in the present for promised future gains that rarely materialise for them