There is little doubt that the size of Pakistan’s economy is understated. Many economic indictors such as per capita income and debt levels depict bleaker picture than the situation on the ground reflects. When size of the economy is understated, it makes debt to GDP ratio appear unsustainable...
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This article will focus on Pakistan’s approach towards the Iranian-Saudi rivalry and why a continued balancing act is imperative for the nation’s internal and economic stability and even more importantly for the success of the CPEC project. The article is driven out of fear that as...
KARACHI:
The Afghan Taliban and the United States will sign the much-awaited peace agreement in the presence of international observers on February 29, the group announced on Friday ending a media guessing game about the outcome of protracted negotiations between the two sides.
“Following...
Bougainville referendum: PNG region votes overwhelmingly for independence
The people of Bougainville, an island group in Papua New Guinea, have voted overwhelmingly for independence.
Voters had two options - more autonomy, or full independence. Of the 181,000 ballots, almost 98% were in...
So I am casually reading Cricinfos article today on the Pakistan-Afghanistan game, and am shocked by the blatant anti-Pakistan propaganda being thrown out on that website.
"Afghans want an identity of their own. They learnt their cricket in Pakistan, but they didn't go there out of free will...
I like this youtuber. He has a large following and has been to many countries globally and in the region and now he's in Pakistan. Some Indian nationalists tried to derail the comments section of his video initially but their efforts seem to have gone to waste as other nationalities started...
A CENTURY and a half ago linguists invented a new map of the world. Their research showed that a single family tree stretches its branches almost unbroken across most of Eurasia: from Iceland to Bangladesh, most people speak languages descended from “Proto-Indo-European”. The philologists had a...
Exxon Mobil Corp. is working with a group of Pakistan’s large businesses on a proposal to build and supply the country’s third import terminal for liquefied natural gas, according to the nation’s minister for maritime affairs.
Exxon has partnered with Pakistani consortium Energas to develop the...
This summer, Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced that the country would hold its long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections on July 7, 2018, almost three years past the expiry of the sitting parliament’s five-year mandate.
But the 2018 poll date looks to...
CHANDIGARH: India’s hostile neighbour Pakistan is scoring tons across the border off the field. Batting for cricket-crazy India, Pakistan is exporting bats to this country from Sialkot, especially to Jalandhar in Punjab, where local traders put Indian stickers and ‘made in India’ tags on them...
Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi hosts more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims
Kemal Hussein, 40, who owns a small business in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi is worried about his relatives living in Myanmar.
“We have lost all contact with them. We don’t know if they are dead or alive,”...
Persian Gulf Rivals Competed to Host Taliban, Leaked Emails Show
LONDON — In their long-running rivalry, the United Arab Emirates has often accused its neighbor Qatar of abetting Islamist militants, citing as one prime example the 2013 opening of a Taliban embassy in the Qatari capital, Doha...
Locals lament the lack of development in a stronghold of the PPP party of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
A drive to the centre of this city in southern Pakistan's Sindh province is an arduous task - its crowded streets, dug up roads, overflowing sewers and traffic jams offer a picture...
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Three soldiers dead after avalanche hits Kashmir's Batalik sector
Two other soldiers had been rescued on Thursday.
All three soldiers who went missing in the Batalik sector of Kargil...
With 117 dope cheats, the WADA's report placed India third in global list of offenders for third year in a row
India accounted for nearly one-fourth of the positive doping cases worldwide in weightlifting in 2015. According to the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), 238 weightlifters flunked their...
Most fund managers get their research in the comfort of a conference room. For Ami Kemppainen, investment decisions can entail long-haul flights followed by river boat rides.
The investor, who manages $88 million at Terra Nova Capital Advisors’ Evli Emerging Frontier, recently traveled from...