It also shows that FSP is a specialised service which should be filled by people with required credentials rather than a generic test. The likes of Agha Shahi, SYK, Marker and others were passionate about the field. Pak is producing multiple IR graduates and they should be given

Veiled police officers detain a Pakistani artist and human rights activist Sheema Kirmani, an organiser of the "Aurat March" or "Women's March", outside Karachi Press Club, where she was scheduled to address a press conference, in Karachi, May 5, 2026. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Ladies and gentlemen!! This is how OSINTs sometimes do wonders beyond expectations! During the Marqa-e-Haq briefing, ACM Zaheer Babar Sidhu said on the night of 7 May: “The move was picked up by Pakistan’s Cyber Warriors much before it was detected by the traditional

If Operation Sindoor Produced a Winner, it Wasn't India India entered the conflict with every advantage. It left without a single written commitment from Pakistan. One year on, that gap is the story. Alok Asthana✍️ thewire.in/security/if-op…

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Breakfast meetings and working teas should be abolished from corporate or any industry for that matter.

After successfully denying Indian objectives on the night of May 7, Pakistan's leadership faced a tough choice: settle for modest punishment inflicted on the Indian Air Force or implement its policy of Quid Pro Quo Plus to comprehensively dominate both defensive and offensive

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IMF board clears $1.2b amid Pakistan’s reform commitments The IMF approved $1.2 billion worth of loan tranches after Pak accepted a dozen new conditions and assured it would stick to the pre-war programme targets to stay on the course of stabilization tribune.com.pk/story/2607045/…

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Unable to understand why the govt preferred jacking up petroleum levy when consumers are facing fleecing price hike. Pls look at SPi data last week. Finance team proved themselves as a post office conveying and executing IMF dictates nothing else.

Petrol and diesel prices have been increased by the Noon government by Rs 15 per litre each to Rs 415 per litre. The entire increase in both has been due to increase in levy and taxes. Not due to any increase in prices. For petrol now we pay levy of Rs 120 per litre and for

The Shehbaz Sharif led coalition government doesn’t even intend to deal with the blowback in terms of price hikes or inflation. Clearly, this shall remain in people’s memory whenever the next time they go to polls (you can’t avoid that). Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Maryam Nawaz Sharif

Straightforward… taxing the poor is easier than taxing the rich…

We do not have an equitable tax system. What we have is a system of state extortion designed to sustain a parasitic structure that punishes documented wealth, productive enterprise, investment, and capital formation while rewarding inefficiency, informality, and rent-seeking.

The tax burden should shift to retailers and traders. The IMF doesn’t warrant an increase in petroleum levy, but broadening of tax base which is our own internal requirement too. Citizens shouldn’t be made scapegoats for failures of policies and FBR.

.Shehbaz Sharif تمہیں یاد ہو کہ نہ یاد ہو

Pakistan needs to have a mature conversation about what transpired on 9th of May. Not just the arrest, but also the attempt later. It changed the rules of the game of our politics. Every actor needs to learn lessons from it and what transpired, but we are not yet ready for it.

Ministers mentioning "relief" even as they batter the public with backbreaking petro price hike is, to say the least, shameful. No less shameful is that they sit in front of the cameras and praise each other's performance before an audience whose majority lives in dire economic