Imports of petroleum, food rise to $7.5bn

Islamabad: Pakistan’s oil and eatables imports grew 9.06 per cent to $7.58 billion in the first quarter of the current fiscal year from $6.95bn a year ago, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Tuesday. In contras...

Economic growth

There are indeed signs that the economy is stabilising. The PSX share index has, for the first time, crossed 100,000 points. The rupee-dollar exchange rate has remained stable over the entire year despite speculation to the co...

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New normals

Namazis the time to take a break from worldly matters to stand before Allah and seek His mercy and guidance. But despite one’s best efforts, thoughts wander to mundane matters — as they do to the unintended consequences of t...

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Fear of the people

Some months ago, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) called a jirga in Gwadar. The aim was to highlight the many challenges of Balochistan such as underdevelopment and state excesses, including enforced disappearances. Then c...

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Are Gandhis equipped for the fight?

PRIYANKA Gandhi is the brand new Congress MP being watched with interest and hope. She won the by-election from Wayanad in Kerala with a massive majority and she has to hit the ground running. India is in ferment....

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Competing narratives

While the state may have succeeded in beating back PTI supporters from the capital’s red zone last week, the battle of narratives between both sides with regard to the deaths that reportedly occurred during the confrontati...

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