German envoy meets CM Bizenjo

Quetta: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has said a safe and favourable environment for investment in the province has been created and the recent historic Reko Diq deal for foreign investment is a testament t...

Lamenting a glorious city

It is a city that houses major financial, capital, and industrial services and labour markets, and provides livelihoods to millions of people. It generates more than half the total federal taxes, and serves as the p...

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Hard Iran-US nuclear talks

The ongoing indirect nuclear talks between America and Iran are inching forward with the two sides agreeing to meet for the next round this week. Both countries described the meeting in Oman as “constructive”. It was th...

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Chinese burn

Almost 70 years ago, the Chinese leader Mao Zedong dismissed the US as a “paper tiger”. He clarified that the reference was strategic. “Regarding [American imperialism] as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each pa...

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Justice within reach

Last week in Islamabad, something rare happened. Judges, police officers, prosecutors, lawyers, policymakers, and rights experts gathered: not in the usual posture of mutual suspicion or institutional self-preservation, but in a...

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Improved outlook

Remittances hit an all-time high of nearly $4.1bn last month, breaking the streak of $3bn per month during the July-February period, to everyone’s surprise. The March remittances rose by 37pc from a year ago and were up by 3...

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