A BROAD outline of the next budget has emerged after recent talks between the government and the IMF. And there is little that suggests a departure from the stabilisation-heavy approach that defines e...
THE negotiations aimed at ending the US-Israel war on Iran underscore how far apart Washington and Tehran still seem to remain. In particular, confusion surrounding Iran’s position on its enriched u...
PAKISTAN’S external sector has once again exposed the economy’s structural weaknesses that bilateral debt rollovers and short-term stabilisation measures had helped conceal. The sharp 31pc decline...
THE fragile ceasefire between Iran and the US may have slowed the fighting, but the conflict driving it remains unresolved. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s meetings in Tehran over the weekend show ...
THE Permanent Court of Arbitration’s supplemental award on Islamabad’s decade-old petition challenging the design specifications of two Indian hydropower projects on rivers allocated to Pakistan u...
AFTER consecutive months of decline in terrorist violence in March and April, a wave of fatal incidents in recent days has raised fresh doubts over Afghanistan’s commitment to preventing the misuse ...
THE Beijing summit between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was never likely to produce a grand result. Too much mistrust has accumulated, and the disputes dividing Was...
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif is right to note that the US-Iran conflict has adversely affected Pakistan and other regional economies. It is no surprise that wars, energy disruptions and geopolitical ...
PAKISTAN’S latest GDP figures offer a picture of modest recovery. A projected growth rate of 3.7pc for the current fiscal falls short of the government’s original 4pc target. This is slightly less...
DONALD Trump’s arrival in Beijing marks the first China visit by a sitting US president in almost a decade. That alone makes the summit significant. But the timing has given it even greater weight. ...