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DELAYS in budget announcements are normal. After all, it is not easy to satisfy different lobbies competing for a bigger share of the shrinking fiscal pie. But the current impasse is of a different or...
MATTERS have worsened in the stand-off between the Azad Kashmir government and the Joint Awami Action Committee, which has recently been proscribed by the regional administration. The situation starte...
THE latest exchange of fire between the US and Iran raises the question: at what point does a ceasefire cease to be one? American forces say they intercepted Iranian drones near the Strait of Hormuz b...
THE Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly will be elected today by the people of that region.
Yet again, themes like the region’s provincial status, the rights of its people, and ownership of its indigenous res...
TENSION has once again gripped Azad Jammu and Kashmir, with the region’s administration proscribing the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee on Friday, ahead of a protest planned on June 9. Th...
OBSERVERS across the world have long questioned the utility of Donald Trump’s now three-month-old war on Iran. But a growing number of voices from within the US president’s Republican party are sa...
WORLD Environment Day arrives as the planet edges deeper into climatic uncertainty. New global temperature records are being set with unsettling frequency, and the World Meteorological Organisation ha...
THE government has postponed the announcement of the FY27 budget without offering any explanation for the decision. In the absence of an official announcement, speculation has been rife in the media a...
AS the government prepares the budget for FY27, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s meeting with the country’s leading businessmen on Monday offered a glimpse of the wide gap that exists between the t...
THE latest US strikes on Iranian targets have added another layer of uncertainty to an already tense situation in the Middle East. Washington says the attacks were in response to Iranian actions and w...
