Stocks drift lower ahead of FATF announcement

Karachi: The benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange moved in both directions on Thursday ahead of the expected announcement from the Financial Action Task Force, which is likely to reclassify Pakistan into its white list...

Bangladesh: Any similarities with Pakistan?

It has almost become a fashion statement these days to draw similarities between what recently transpired in Bangladesh and what could perhaps be waiting to happen in Pakistan. The real question however is whether are there trul...

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Electoral meddling

“The American people,” the US attorney general Merrick Garland declared recently, “are entitled to know when a foreign power engages in political activities or seeks to influence public discourse.” He was pontificating i...

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Prolonged stand-off

HISTORICALLY, India-Pakistan relations have moved within a narrow bandwidth, mostly between a looming conflict and an ominous peace. A sense of tension and expectancy was always in the air, but dialogue was never taken off t...

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Silencing Afghanistan’s women

There is no doubt that many have had a role in Afghanistan’s destruction, but the question of who exactly is to blame for the country’s current condition is a thorny and vexing one. This week, the Republican Party came up...

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Deplorable remarks

Pakistan’s political sphere, vitiated by ever-increasing sexism, is a space where decency is in short supply. Although every political party has its band of repeat offenders, KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s hideous rem...

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