Author: molexn
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump, who continues to take credit for ending multiple wars, on Sunday announced that he would intervene to stop ongoing conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan, calling himself an “expert at resolving wars.” Speaking to reporters before departing for Middle East to attend Gaza Peace Summit in Egypt, Trump said: “I will look into it once I return. I’ll make another attempt because I know how to stop wars.” POTUS took credit for previously defusing tensions between Islamabad and Kabul using trade measures. He hailed Qatar’s role in Middle East peace efforts and confirmed that the war…
KARACHI – Investor panic gripped Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday as deadly cross-border clashes with Afghanistan dented confidence, pushing KSE-100 Index down nearly 3,000 points in opening session. During inital trading, benchmark index stayed around 160,126, down 1.82pc, with heavy selling across banking, oil and gas, cement, power, and automobile sectors. Those familiar with trend pointed fingers at Pak-Afghan tensions which are driving this sell-off while global markets are also under pressure. The turmoil comes after 23 Pakistani soldiers were martyred and over 200 militants killed in overnight clashes along the Pak-Afghan border. The ISPR said the fighting erupted following…
Pakistan’s energy landscape remains burdened by circular debt, stranded capacity, and excessive reliance on imported fuel. These structural flaws deepen economic fragility and expose the limits of stopgap solutions. The answer may lie not in the next megaproject or short-term tariff adjustment, but in the next generation of nuclear technology — micro and small modular reactors (SMRs) capable of delivering reliable, clean, and decentralised power. For once, diplomacy and energy may align. The recent warming in relations with the Trump administration provides Pakistan with an opportunity to reset its energy diplomacy. Instead of seeking aid or debt relief, Islamabad could…
ISLAMABAD: The opposition alliance Tehreek-i-Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) on Sunday backed Saudi Arabia’s call for dialogue with Afghanistan and urged the government to convene a joint session of parliament to deliberate on internal and external issues. The coalition of several opposition parties, which rejects the alleged rigging in 2024 elections, also accused the government of creating hurdles in the transfer of power to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) nominated chief minister in KP. The TTAP meeting, held at the residence of Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar in Islamabad, was attended by alliance head Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Salman Akram Raja, Asad Qaiser, Muhammad Zubair, Allama Ahmed…
ISLAMABAD – Executive editor of Daily Pakistan, and political analyst Usman Shami, questioned the Afghan government’s growing closeness with India, saying Kabul needs to reconsider ties amid India’s continued supression of Muslims at home. As Tensions between Islamabad and Kabul intensified and peaked at cross-border attacks and diplomatic friction, Shami said Afghan Taliban’s growing engagement with India could further complicate fragile relationship between the two neighbors. Speaking on program Think Tank, he said Afghanistan must “reconsider its alignment” and ponder whether it is serving India’s strategic interests. “Does the Afghan government not see how the Indian government treats Muslims in…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission that visited Pakistan from Sept 24 to Oct 8, under the 37-month Extended Fund Facility and the 28-month Resilience and Sustainability Facility, acknowledged “significant progress” toward a staff-level agreement but stopped short of concluding one. This delay matters. Without a final agreement, disbursements remain stalled, holding back around $1.25 billion in critical inflows. Pakistan’s balance of payments remains precariously dependent on timely IMF tranches, donor releases, and friendly-country deposits. The World Bank’s recent analysis paints a starker picture: poverty reduction has not just stalled — it has reversed. In its September 2025 report, the…
KARACHI: A female chimpanzee named Bibi, who had been living in solitary confinement at the zoo for a long time, died on Saturday. Sources said the chimp had been under treatment for months. Speaking to Dawn, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) official Daniyal Sial confirmed her death, saying that “senility” had been declared the cause of death in her post-mortem report. “Bibi has been under treatment for a long time for multiple health complications, mainly resulting from old age,” he said, adding that she was around 40 years old. According to the KMC sources, Bibi was handed over to the zoo…
PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s political crisis deepened as Governor Faisal Karim Kundi turned down accepting resignation of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur in light of suspicious discrepancies in his signatures, hours before the province’s assembly convenes to elect a new leader. In an unexpected twist, Governor revealed that two resignation letters from Gandapur dated October 8 and October 11 had been received by the Governor House, each bearing “disparate and unalike signatures.” He now summoned CM Gandapur to appear personally at Governor House on October 15 at 3 pm to verify authenticity of both letters, “This resignation has been returned with…
TENSIONS that had been brewing for some time between Pakistan and Afghanistan exploded into open conflict when the Afghan Taliban regime launched attacks against this country late on Saturday, and Pakistan responded by repulsing the aggression. The number of attacks carried out by TTP terrorists inside Pakistan had been growing in frequency and lethality, with a high number of security men martyred over the last few weeks. On Thursday, there had been reports of attacks inside Afghanistan, including the apparent targeting of the TTP chief in Kabul. The Afghan regime issued a vague statement about the attack, making no mention…
A DEMOCRACY activist wins the Nobel Peace Prize and the president of one of the world’s most powerful democracies begrudges her the honour. The best author would struggle to coin such a neat ending for the story of the demise of democracy. The prize, after all, implies how exceptional the fight for democratic norms has become in this century. Such a bleak reading of María Corina Machado’s victory may seem counter-intuitive given the flurry in recent months of protest activity around the world. According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Global Protest Tracker, there have been more than 142…