Naqvi unveils US, Australia-based owners of new HBL PSL franchises

Interior Minister and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday unveiled the owners of the two newly auctioned HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchises, announcing that the successful bidders are based in the United States and Australia. Addressing a press conference following the bidding ceremony, alongside the US Chargé d’Affaires and the new […]

Pakistani banking stocks top Asia-Pacific rankings

Seven Pakistani banking stocks ranked among the top performers in the Asia-Pacific region in 2025, supported by a combination of low base valuations, improving profitability, a relatively high interest-rate environment, balance-sheet clean-up, and renewed investor confidence in Pakistan’s macroeconomic outlook during the year. Pakistani banking stocks were led by the Bank of Punjab (BOP), the […]

Pakistan, Muslim countries ‘strongly condemn’ Israeli FM’s visit to Somaliland as ‘illegal’

The foreign ministers of Pakistan and more than 20 other Muslim-majority countries on Thursday strongly condemned the recent visit by Israel’s foreign minister to the ‘Somaliland’ region of the Federal Republic of Somalia, calling it a clear violation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Foreign Office said. On Dec 26 last year, Israel […]

Geopolitical cauldron

If anyone was thinking that global matters were improving in terms of peace or prosperity, it’s time to take the shocker — humanity is creeping down moral decrepitude and extreme political instability, by the minute! The geopolitical cauldron is bubbling with wars, and international laws are been broken every day! The kidnapping of democratically elected, popular […]