Walk through any Pakistani bazaar at dusk and you’ll see the country’s real economy at work. Kiryana shops tally credit in worn ledgers. Hawkers sell fruit at wafer-thin margins. Mobile accessories fly off glass counters as commuters head home. This is Pakistan’s informal retail sector, the everyday economy spanning small shops, micro-wholesalers, market stalls, home-based […]
For much of Pakistan’s recent economic history, stability has been treated as a finish line rather than a starting point. In 2025, after years of volatility marked by sudden inflation spikes, high interest rates that followed, unstable exchange rates, and repeated IMF programmes, the country finally appeared to catch its breath. Since the start of […]
The outgoing year, 2025, proved to be an inflationary tsunami, devastating household budgets as prices of food and essential commodities surged to record levels and spilt over into the incoming year, 2026. Pulses, vegetables, fruits, meat, chicken, milk, yoghurt, flour, bread, and even a cup of tea became crushingly expensive, eroding the purchasing power of […]
Violence in western and southern Sudan displaced more than 10,000 people within a three-day period this week, according to figures released by the United Nations’ migration agency on Sunday. Since April 2023, Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have waged what the UN has called a “war of atrocities”, killing tens of […]
Although the provincial government has significantly expanded the air quality monitoring network, the absence of a scientifically grounded comprehensive climate observatory and an updated emissions inventory to assess the actual sources and quantities of environmental emissions is emerging as a fundamental gap in policymaking. As per the daily Air Quality Index, PM2.5 and PM10 levels […]
Google briefly tested a new setting in its Phone app that allowed users to lock calls in portrait mode, a move aimed at addressing complaints about the recently introduced landscape calling screen. The option, labelled “Keep portrait mode on calls,” was added to the app’s beta channel and designed to prevent accidental screen rotation during […]
Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi announced the appointment of former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram as the brand ambassador of the HBL Pakistan Super League. Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Naqvi said Wasim Akram will actively work for the promotion of the PSL and will also be present during the auction of two new […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leadership said the party will move toward dialogue with the government only after securing a “level playing field” through sustained street protests, rejecting the notion of entering talks from a position of weakness. The stance was outlined by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and PTI Secretary-General Salman Akram Raja during a series […]
The Pakistan Meteorological Department forecast light drizzle and rain in Karachi during the night of December 30, with cloudy conditions likely to persist through the day and temperatures expected to drop further, while rainfall and snowfall are also anticipated in several other parts of the country in the coming days. According to the Met Office’s […]
Under the shadow of civil war and questions over the poll’s credibility, voters in Myanmar cast their ballots in apparently low numbers in a general election on Sunday, the first since a military coup toppled the last civilian government in 2021. The junta, having crushed pro-democracy protests after the coup and sparked a nationwide rebellion, […]