The sun set on solar’s first act the moment the panels stopped producing. Now lithium batteries are writing the sequel — and it’s a far bigger...
On 28 February 2026, the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to normal shipping. Within six weeks, Brent crude had recorded...
The KSE-100 hit 191,032 points in January 2026 — a record. By late May it’s trading around 163,000, bruised by an unexpected rate hike, Middle East...
The bills are coming due — and many developing nations are discovering they have almost no tools to pay them. In March 2026, the United Nations...
On the morning of March 6, 2026, Sohail Ahmed pulled his motorcycle into a petrol station in Karachi and watched the meter tick past 3,200 rupees....
Pakistan’s salaried public servant is doing the same arithmetic every June. How much will the number on the payslip change — and will it actually matter?...
Pakistan is preparing its most consequential federal budget in years — one that must simultaneously satisfy the International Monetary Fund, relieve a battered middle class, and...
Pakistan has now signed 25 arrangements with the International Monetary Fund. Twenty-five. The first was in 1958, when Eisenhower was in the White House and Pakistan...
Pakistan’s stock market doesn’t do anything quietly. In January 2026, the KSE-100 Index scaled an all-time high of 189,556 points — a figure that would have...
Islamabad has concluded another round of grueling fiscal negotiations, securing an explicit nod from the International Monetary Fund for a sweeping suite of revenue-mobilization measures slated...