Beyond Today, Into Tomorrow
Washington: An American journal has strongly supported Pakistan’s position regarding India’s actions against the Indus Waters Treaty, warning that these steps could pose a serious humanitarian threat in South Asia. According to Betond the Time News, the US publication, The National Interest, in its report said India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty has introduced…
MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Friday it considered calls by some European states to resume dialogue with Russia as “positive”, after French and Italian leaders called for re-engagement with Moscow on Ukraine. Dialogue between the EU and Russia has been virtually frozen since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive on Ukraine in 2022. The bloc has imposed huge…
Hate speech against minorities, including Muslims and Christians, in India rose by 13 per cent in 2025, with most incidents occurring in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Washington-based research group said on Tuesday. India Hate Lab documented 1,318 instances of what it called hate speech in…
GENEVA: Sri Lankan forces used sexual violence against minority Tamils during the island’s decades-long separatist war, and victims still await justice 17 years after the fighting ended, a UN report said on Tuesday. Troops crushed the separatists following a no-holds-barred offensive and declared an end to the war by May 2009. The spectacular military success…
WASHINGTON: US Central Intelligence Agency head John Ratcliffe travelled to Venezuela on Thursday and met leader Delcy Rodriguez, a US administration official said, in the highest-level American visit since the fall of Nicolas Maduro. President Donald Trump sent the spy chief to Caracas for a meeting that lasted approximately two hours, US sources said, less…
ALEPPO: A US-led coalition intervened on Friday to reduce tensions between Syria’s government and Kurdish forces, with Damascus determined to expel them from an area in the country’s north. After driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo last week, the Syrian army deployed reinforcements near the Kurdish-controlled Deir Hafer, some 50 kilometres east of the city, ordering…
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) staged a robust recovery on Friday, buoyed by strong year-on-year growth in large-scale manufacturing and easing geopolitical concerns, as investors indulged in aggressive value-hunting after days of caution. Market sentiment improved after US President Donald Trump signalled that the crackdown on protesters in Iran was easing, reducing fears of a broader regional…
ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), increased 3.87 per cent year-on-year in the week ending Jan 15 due to an increase in the retail price of tomatoes and LPG cylinders. The SPI-based inflation recorded an upward trend over the past 24 consecutive weeks, mainly driven by surges in the prices of perishable products,…
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Friday notified up to five per cent reduction in the price of regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) at the distribution stage for the current month, mainly due to lower international oil prices. This is the second consecutive monthly reduction, following around a 6pc decline in December,…
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday began implementing the Women Entrepreneurship Finance (WE-FI) Code, adopted on July 7, 2025, to dismantle the financial barriers faced by women-led businesses. To kick off the implementation of the code, the central bank held a two-day workshop in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in…
