Articles by Amin Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: The arrest and detention of Afghan nationals have increased by 18 per cent so far in January as compared to the previous week. The top three districts for arrest and detention between Jan 1...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways is facing a rising number of locomotive failures largely due to an aging fleet, with more than 63 per cent of its engines having surpassed two decades in service, official...
ISLAMABAD: The World Economic Forum (WEF) finds geo-economic confrontation as the top risk for 2026, followed by interstate conflict, extreme weather, societal polarisation, and misinformation and dis...
ISLAMABAD: The International Crisis Group (ICG) says Pakistan is the worst-affected country by the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Afghanistan, noting that even though a ceasefire holds for now, Isla...
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) will provide policy advisory and technical support to energy financing to assist Pakistan in the develo...
• Women make up 40pc of the global agrifood workforce, nearly equal to men• In Pakistan, 74pc of working women are engaged in farm sector
ISLAMABAD: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of ...
ISLAMABAD: Findings of UNHCR’s “Afghanistan post-return monitoring survey report” released on Tuesday highlighted different challenges for Afghan returnees from Iran versus Pakistan: those from ...
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says that as Pakistan enters 2026 as the world’s fifth most populous country, with a population exceeding 225 million, high population growth an...
ISLAMABAD: Though more than a million Afghans have returned to Afghanistan in 2025, there are about two million Afghans still living in Pakistan, according to the latest statistics released by the UN ...
ISLAMABAD: A successful bid of Rs135bn by Arif Habib won the auction for Pakistan International Airlines Corporation Ltd (PIAC) after the process moved to an open auction round, marking the country’...
