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Unquiet Lebanon

News June 21, 2026

THE fate of Lebanon could determine whether the recently signed MoU between the US and Iran survives. True to form, Israel is doing all possible to ensure the nascent peace deal is destroyed before th...

Pakistan’s moment

News June 20, 2026

THOUGH uncertainty may surround the fate of the US-Iran MoU, throughout this episode β€” from the start of the war on Feb 28 to the electronic signing of the document this week β€” Pakistan has played...

Digital deal

News June 19, 2026

THINGS have moved rapidly where the Iran-US memorandum of understanding is concerned. While the physical document was supposed to be signed in Switzerland today, the main stakeholders β€” including th...

Words that wound

Technology June 18, 2026

LONG before a church is burned, a mosque vandalised or a mob assembled, the poison that enables such violence has been spreading quietly for months or years. Hate speech rarely begins with physical at...

Spoiler alert

News June 17, 2026

AFTER the temporary peace deal between the US and Iran is physically signed in Geneva on Friday, an arduous process of negotiations begins between both parties to flesh out the nitty-gritty of a long-...

A new deal

News June 16, 2026

AFTER three and a half months of war between US-Israel and Iran and an acrimonious temporary ceasefire, a genuine chance at peace seems to be at hand. Early on Monday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif an...

Climate choices

Health June 15, 2026

PAKISTAN is out of reasons to treat climate change as tomorrow’s problem. The Economic Survey 2025-26 reports that the country recorded its second-warmest year in 65 years in 2025, immediately after...

Budget presser

Business June 14, 2026

OFFICIAL post-budget media briefings in Pakistan are carefully choreographed affairs, full of reassuring phrases like β€˜moving in the right direction’, β€˜resilience’, and β€˜enabling business an...

Sustainable path?

Business June 13, 2026

THE FY27 budget is the first clear signal that the government is ready to transition from stabilisation to growth β€” without breaching the IMF’s macroeconomic targets. After three years of painful ...

A difficult story

News June 12, 2026

WHILE launching the Economic Survey 2026, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told a hopeful story of economic recovery. Indeed, the numbers support his words. Going from negative growth to 3.7pc is i...