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Pakistan, Kazakhstan elevate ties

Pakistan and Kazakhstan elevate ties with a strategic partnership, signing 37 agreements and setting an ambitious target to quadruple bilateral trade to USD 1 billion within a year Pakistan and Kazakhstan have

February 5, 2026

-Top News·Pakistan

Hype, Headlines, and the JF‑17 Question

Pakistan’s JF-17 fighter jet grabs headlines as a global export hit, but production limits, absent contracts and geopolitical realities raise questions over how much of the hype is real. Pakistan has launched

January 22, 2026

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Pakistan’s Nuclear Prolificacy amid Iran’s Growing Stockpile

From 1987 centrifuges to 2025 stockpiles, Islamabad’s hand lingers, prioritising short-term gains over systemic restraint, writes Dr Sakariya Kareem Pakistan’s clandestine nuclear transfers to Iran in the late 1980s and 1990s laid

January 8, 2026

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Rawalakot’s Power Protests Lay Pakistan’s Governance Failure in PoJK

When populations that contribute to power generation remain without electricity for most of the day, while other provinces potentially benefit from that very supply, it reflects not mere inefficiency but a hierarchy

January 6, 2026

Asia News·Pakistan

How Pakistan Survives Without Fixing Its Economy

Pakistan’s policymakers continue to artificially prop up the rupee to keep imports cheap, borrowing foreign exchange rather than earning it through competitive exports. This policy creates an unproductive economy trapped in a

December 26, 2025

Asia News·Pakistan·World

PIA’s troubled run of incidents continues

PIA flight PK-860 diverted to Dammam after a mid-air technical alert triggered oxygen masks and panic among passengers; 381 on board, investigations under way. A Pakistan International Airlines flight from Jeddah to

December 20, 2025

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25th loan – Pakistan perennially stuck in an IMF program?

The choice is stark. Either Pakistan continues its love-hate affair with the IMF, returning every few years for another bailout, or it breaks the cycle by addressing corruption, broadening the tax base,

December 20, 2025

-Top News·Economy·Pakistan

The revolving door of IMF lending and Pakistan’s governance trap

Behind the headlines of relief lies a paradox: the IMF itself has just released a 186-page “Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment” that paints a grim portrait of Pakistan’s institutional decay, writes Dr

December 17, 2025

-Top News·COLUMNS·Pakistan

British MP exposes Pakistan’s deepening rights crisis in Balochistan

The situation McDonnell has highlighted is neither sudden nor isolated. For years, Baloch activists, journalists, and human rights organisations have tried to draw attention to what they describe as a campaign of

December 11, 2025

Asia News·Pakistan·UK News

Big weapon, small market: Why SMASH is unlikely to become an export missile

Most navies that shop on the global arms market look for weapons that can be easily integrated into their existing ships and infrastructure. A bulky, unproven anti-ship ballistic missile does not fit

December 9, 2025

COLUMNS·Defence·Pakistan

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