Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country’s southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave blanketed the state of Victoria this week, with hot winds fanning some of the most dangerous fire weather seen since the Black Summer bushfires of […]
Greenland’s political parties issued a rare united rebuke to Washington after US President Donald Trump again suggested using force to seize the mineral-rich Danish autonomous territory, triggering alarm in Europe and highlighting a broader, increasingly muscular US posture across multiple regions. The leaders of all five parties in Greenland’s parliament said they rejected rule by […]
Four miners in northern Afghanistan were suffocated to death by fumes this week while digging for gemstones, a local official told AFP on Saturday. “The incident occurred in Khash District of Badakhshan province where four workers at a mine died”, Ehsanullah Kamgar, the spokesman for Badakhshan’s police told AFP, adding the deaths occurred on Friday. […]
Pakistan’s plan to fully deregulate its sugar sector after nearly eight decades of state control has entered a decisive phase, with the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMA) cautioning that market freedom without strong oversight could deepen long-standing problems instead of resolving them. In a detailed policy report, ICMA has proposed a […]
Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry has announced plans to establish a 100-acre, $80 million Seafood Processing and Export Zone at the Korangi Fisheries Harbour Authority (KoFHA), aimed at boosting the blue economy and global seafood trade. In a statement on Saturday, the minister said the proposed project was aimed at developing, […]
Pakistan and Indonesia have strengthened economic partnership with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the establishment of the Joint Trade Committee (JTC), creating an institutional platform to enhance trade dialogue. The MoU was signed following high-level talks held on Friday, led by Federal Minister for Commerce Jam Kamal Khan and visiting Indonesian […]
Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme (PMYP), announced that Pakistan will exit the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme by June next year. Addressing a diaspora gathering in London on Saturday, he said Pakistan was steadily moving towards economic self-reliance and would no longer require IMF support by mid-2026. He added […]
Cabinet members have suggested that half of telecom spectrum auction proceeds should be deposited with the Universal Service Fund (USF), the entity responsible for developing digital infrastructure in the country. The suggestion came in a recent meeting of the cabinet, chaired by the prime minister. While discussing the upcoming spectrum auction, the cabinet members suggested […]
The Monroe Doctrine was all about the protection of American interests in the Western Hemisphere. It was about not allowing any distant power to put forces in the Western Hemisphere or allying with any country in the Western Hemisphere. A classic example is how the United States reacted when the Soviet Union tried to put […]
Everyone is talking about talks but no one wants to talk. The glaring contradiction measures the difference between optics and hard reality. Within the optics domain everyone desires to look and sound reasonable. The hard reality, on the other hand, is based on cold and calculated assessment of the situation and the advantage that accrues […]