Country’s powerful armed forces support Islamabad’s painful restructuring under $7bn bailout July 31 2024 FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen Miami: a rare bright spot in US office real estate Miami has defied the trend of struggling US office markets ...
it passed to the British as part of India and became a separate Muslim state in 1947. The country originally included the Bengalese territory of East Pakistan, which achieved its separate independence in 1971 as Bangladesh. Pakistan became a republic in 1956. Islamabad is the capital and Karachi...
the community of Muslim scholars is known as theʿulamāʾ(“scholars”), but among the practitioners of a more popular sect of Islam (generally associated with Sufism) there are powerful hereditary networks of holy men calledpīrs, who receive great reverence (as well as gifts in cash or...
Country’s powerful armed forces support Islamabad’s painful restructuring under $7bn bailout July 13 2024 Pakistan reaches $7bn loan deal with IMF PM Shehbaz Sharif has pushed tax reforms to secure debt-stricken country’s 24th funding programme ...
"I think it is because of dedication, visionary leadership of the Communist Party of China. Its leaders, its vision and sacrifice," he said. The 20th CPC National Congress conveyed a very powerful message across the world that China stands by continuity and stability and peaceful co-existence,...
The four American helicopters which went for the final kill in the long hunt forOsama bin Ladenachieved their primary purpose. The world is now busy sifting through the ruins of their second hit. For in the process they also crippled the credibility of Pakistan’s most powerful institution, it...
When in office, Khan initially emphasized that his government worked in coordination with the country's powerful military, arguably Pakistan's strongest institution. The military admits to interfering in politics in the past but now says it is neutral. ...
. He rose to fame as acricketplayer who led Pakistan’s national team to aCricket World Cupvictory in 1992. He later entered politics as a critic of government corruption in Pakistan, although he faced corruption charges of his own in 2022 after falling out with the politically powerful ...
Kashmiri Indians elsewhere in the country became targets of angry mobs after the suicide attack. Khan, who has the backing of Pakistan’s powerful military, tried to play peacemaker. He said he tried to call Modi three times since Wednesday, but that the Indian leader was not picking up. ...
Federal Ombudsman Fauzia Viqar in the session of land reforms stressed one of the problems of property rights lies with the person’s socioeconomic factors, so, it is not the gender but it is more about how powerful you are. She said women have unfortunately inherited disadvantages still which...