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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…
US President Donald Trump on Monday appeared eager to ease tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan following border skirmishes between the two countries over the weekend, saying he was “good at making peace”. Intense border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan started late on Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that 23 troops were martyred and 200 Taliban and affiliated terrorists were killed when Islamabad responded to aggression by Kabul. The US president, since returning to the White House for his second term in January, had repeatedly insisted in the run up to the Nobel…
ISLAMABAD — Foreign exchange market opened today with major currencies showing mild fluctuations against local unit, while US Dollar maintained firm stance. US Dollar (USD) traded at 282.7 (buying) and 282.8 (selling), reflecting relative stability amid global market uncertainty. Euro (EUR) gained slightly, quoted at 331.9 for buying and 335.4 for selling, as European Central Bank hinted at holding interest rates steady to curb inflation. UK Pound remained strong at 380.7 (buying) and 383.7 (selling), advancing its upward momentum driven by improving UK economic sentiment. UAE Dirham and Saudi Riyal stood firm at 76.95 / 77.95 and 75.35 / 76.00…
A WAR of words broke out last week between India and Pakistan triggered by New Delhi’s belligerent statements. Threats and bellicose statements by Indian officials have continued sporadically after the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in May. But the spate of recent utterances by India’s political and military leaders struck a more ominous note and has made the already fraught environment more tense. Last week, three provocative statements from Indian officials raised the temperature between the two countries. The most egregious remarks were by the Indian army chief Upendra Dwivedi, who said Pakistan will face erasure from the world…
While the issue of corporate farming is hit by unending controversy for various reasons, policymakers plan to offer innovative ways to develop cooperative farming for increasing productivity and earnings of small and medium sized farms. Federal Minister for Food Security and Research Rana Tanveer Hussain says small and medium farmers, who make up the majority of cultivators, face persistent challenges in accessing modern technology, affordable inputs, and profitable markets. Cooperative farming, he said, provides a collective solution to these problems. Informed estimates suggest that slightly over 90 per cent of the total farming community in Pakistan falls under the category…