IFC launches $225m platform to back startups

Islamabad: The International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group has launched a new $225 million platform to help build the digital economy in Pakistan and countries of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. ...

CJCSC Gen Mirza seeks reciprocal steps from India for nuclear risk reduction

ISLAMABAD: Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, on Tuesday called upon India to take reciprocal nuclear risk reduction measures and emphasised the need for maintaining geostrategic equilibri...

24-Apr-2025 Read More

Federation under strain

Sindh has risen against the federal government’s decision to build multiple canals on the Indus River for corporate farming. The street protests have practically turned into a mass uprising. The controversial project ha...

23-Apr-2025 Read More

US-China trade game

The current US-China tariff tit-for-tat is a high-stakes game, not a war. While the phrase ‘trade war’ has long been used to describe the process of imposition of import tariffs on a country that, in turn, levies counte...

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A progressive pope?

Before going in for heart surgery, a “rather vain Jesuit” asks God whether this is the end, and is informed that he would live for another 40 years. Delighted, he subsequently goes in for “a hair transplant, a facelift, li...

23-Apr-2025 Read More

Eternal optimists

I am trying to understand the breed of eternal optimists who I am running into ever more frequently as conditions deteriorate. Not that I haven’t encountered the type before — the one who paints a dark picture of everything ...

23-Apr-2025 Read More