Human smuggling tactics continue if successful: In 2024, 17 Pakistanis posing as soccer players entered Japan, and have since never returned to Pakistan. s.nikkei.com/4nhplUt

🚨My story for Nikkei Asia on human smugglers using a fake ⚽️football team to smuggle migrants to #Japan 🇯🇵 - with quotes from Tahir Naeem Malik, Syed Kausar Abbas & Majid Nizami. asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/immi…

How Pakistan's David stunned India's Goliath s.nikkei.com/3Iz5u4b

Read my comments in the story . Adnan Aamir

Pakistani human smugglers appear to be using fake football teams to smuggle migrants to Japan, a new method that was brought to light following the recent deportation of a "team" that had arrived in Osaka. Adnan Aamir asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/immi… via Nikkei Asia

Pakistan faces backlash at home over its support for Trump's Gaza plan Islamabad draws criticism for joining Arab nations to end war; considers sending peacekeeping force s.nikkei.com/42TmEAm

Pakistan faces backlash at home over its support for Trump's Gaza plan "If public pressure grows, the opposition could exploit it for its own political [goals], and Imran Khan could even take the lead on this issue" s.nikkei.com/4mJFlxv

"I welcome President Trump's 20-point plan to ensure an end to the war in Gaza," Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also said in a post on X. ⁦Adnan Aamir⁩ asia.nikkei.com/politics/middl…

🚨My story for Nikkei Asia on exodus of MNCs from Pakistan, with quotes from Dr. Ikramul Haq, Habibullah Khan & Mutaher Khan. asia.nikkei.com/business/consu…

Ikram Ul Haq, who runs a legal and tax consultancy in Lahore, said that taxation in Pakistan, under IMF pressure, has become "expropriatory, confiscatory and extortionate.” ⁦Adnan Aamir⁩ asia.nikkei.com/business/compa…

The premier Asian newspaper Nikkei Asia whose depth of coverage of my country still surprises me, was kind enough to take my comments on P&G's corporate management leaving Pakistan. Another solid piece by Adnan Aamir. Not sure I agree with his title though 😅 To me Pakistan is

My story for Nikkei Asia on the proposal of building a new port in Pasni, 140 Km east of #Gwadar, with quotes from StellaHongZhang, Muhammad Shoaib & Nasir Rahim Sohrabi. asia.nikkei.com/politics/inter…

My latest on Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions with quotes from Fakhar KaKaKhel, Imtiaz Gul, among others!

"The success of the new port project in Pasni will depend on how much risk the investor is willing to swallow upfront," Adam Weinstein told Adnan Aamir Nikkei Asia. "Half measures won't work." asia.nikkei.com/politics/inter…

Sanae Takaichi elected as Japan's first female prime minister asia.nikkei.com/politics/japan…

Import-payment mismatch casts doubt on Pakistan's economic recovery claims - My latest for Nikkei Asia. asia.nikkei.com/economy/multib…

Pakistan seeks China support to join BRICS bank amid likely India objection s.nikkei.com/47FuDni

📢My story for Nikkei Asia on Pakistan seeking China's help for securing membership of New Development Bank, with quotes from Dr. Ikramul Haq, Muhammad Shoaib, Jeremy A. Garlick, among others! asia.nikkei.com/politics/inter…

My story for Nikkei Asia on 🇯🇵 Japan's rising interest in Pakistan's mineral sector! asia.nikkei.com/business/mater…

We need to create value added exports and we’ll get there. But we need cash now and countries know this. ADB has been very good to us. We should have a chat with the Japanese on a win-win scenario