The Peshawar suicide attack this week which resulted in the death of 96 plus people and injuring more than 250 seriously is the second most horrifying terror attack in the country after the December 2014 APS school attack in which the Taliban terrorists had massacred 150 people including 134 students […]
OPINION
JAMES M. DORSEY When Mohammed al-Jadaan told a gathering of the global political and business elite that Saudi Arabia would, in the future, attach conditions to its foreign aid, the finance minister was announcing the expansion of existing conditionality rather than a wholly new approach. Coined ‘Saudi First,’ the new […]
The dropping of foreign reserve from 11 billion dollars to $3.68 billion and the rupee losing ten percent of its value vis a vis the US dollar in this week-breaking the two decades record indicates something terrible is rotting and happening in the state of Pakistan. The rupee is continuously […]
JAMES M. DORSEY Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the best of times, particularly when they come together to reshape Hindu-Muslim relations in troubled India. Yet, that is what Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seek to achieve. Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably the world’s […]
Saudi Arabia has once again decided to bailout Pakistan from defaulting and hitting a very mega embarrassing international crises. The SaudiCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has directed his authorities to consider increasing the cash deposit with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) as well as investment in the country. The […]
S M Rizwan Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from January 12 to 13 at the invitation of the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. This will be the third visit of Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to […]
JAMES M. DORSEY For the United Arab Emirates, it’s business as usual as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s newly formed government wastes no time in implementing hardline policies aimed at forcing Palestinians to give up on the notion of an independent state and accept Israeli rule. The UAE made that […]
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has always been generous to the people of Pakistan. The relations no matter what the political scenario was always benefited the Pakistani nation. Even when the Pakistani parliament passed a resolution not to send troops to participate in the Yemen war, the Saudi government was […]
WT Special Report Pakistan’s current healthcare spending is 3% of GDP, well below the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommendation that a country should spend at least 6% of its GDP on healthcare. With the dollar reserve touching 4 billion dollars after the payment of a billion dollars on Friday the […]
JAMES M. DORSEY Saudi Arabia isn’t wasting time to milk for what it’s worth soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to the kingdom. Neither are others in the Gulf eager to join the bandwagon. Playing for nine-time Saudi league champion Al Nassr FC for US$211 million over 2.5 years, Mr. Ronaldo […]
