Despite growing local manufacturing, Pakistan’s mobile phone market continues to face headwinds, as locally manufactured and assembled handset sales declined by 8% year-on-year during both the first five months of 2025 and the broader 11-month period of FY25, according to data released by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Despite a 4% year-on-year rise in production […]
Convener of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Regional Committee on Food, Shahid Imran, said Pakistan stands to gain substantial environmental and economic benefits from a nationwide shift to solar energy. Speaking to a delegation of industrialists led by Zia Ur Rehman, he emphasised that with over 300 sunny days a […]
An incomprehensible tragedy struck the Vehari district of Punjab earlier this week when an 8-year-old boy was attacked by a pack of stray dogs and mauled to death. The child was walking home from his madrassa with 2 other children when the dogs attacked. While the other children managed to escape in time, Muhammad Arsalan […]
At the dawn of their existence on Earth, humans – driven by the need for food and other essential resources — began to collaborate, a process that initially manifested in the simplest yet most sustainable socio-political structures known to history: bands. The egalitarian and decentralised polity, along with subsistence- and barter-based economies, made each member’s efforts […]
This week a news item was flashed on font pages of almost all the newspapers in Pakistan. The news was about the possibility of creation of an alternate organisation to replace the dysfunctional regional organisation SAARC. The idea of creating this alternative organisation is probably built on the premise that over the years India-Pakistan tensions […]
Attaining proactivity in regional cooperation is becoming a sine qua non as distractions continue to haunt geopolitics. The 17th ECO Summit in Azerbaijan’s city of Khankendi took a leap forward as it called for buoying understanding among the member states to overcome bilateral frictions and ensure that geo-economics takes roots. Pakistan flagged the Iran-Israel war, […]
The collapse of a five-storey residential building in Karachi’s Lyari neighbourhood, claiming at least 16 lives and trapping families under rubble, is yet another example of the disregard in which the state holds its citizens. The catastrophe exposes a vicious cycle of institutional failure, corruption and criminal apathy that has turned Karachi into one of […]
Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar categorically denied reports of a meeting between PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif and PTI founder Imran Khan, calling them baseless and part of a “sponsored narrative” aimed at creating political confusion. “These are baseless speculations—it could be someone’s wish list. We don’t need to approach anyone,” Dar said. Speaking to reporters […]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s attempt to draw a line under a corruption scandal, was overshadowed on Saturday by the resignation over sexual harassment allegations of an official he had just promoted as part of a shake-up of his Socialist party. Francisco Salazar offered to step down as a deputy in the organization’s secretariat and […]
Turkish authorities detained three more mayors from the main opposition party on Saturday, according to a prosecutor’s statement and media reports, expanding a months-long legal crackdown that has expanded beyond its origins in Istanbul. The mayors of the big southern cities of Adana and Adiyaman were detained on allegations of extortion, the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s […]