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Pakistan

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Sparks fly in battle for Pakistan’s K-Electric as military presses for deal

    Clash threatens to jeopardise Saudi stake, as authorities try to attract more Gulf investment

    Six chimneys rise from the plant, against a blue sky
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Mining
    Pakistan copper mine could offer leverage in US tariff talks, says operator

    Barrick says strategic metal resource could help Islamabad as it faces 29% levy

    Tim Cribb sits in an interview setting with a map of Pakistan and a poster with the Reko Diq Mining Company logo behind him
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Behind the Money podcast20 min listen
    Why Islamic banking is taking off

    Pakistan’s Meezan Bank is the country’s most profitable bank. How?

  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Pakistan's politics
    Pakistan threatens to deport Afghan refugees after Trump funding cuts

    Suspension of foreign aid and resettlement programmes endanger 870,000 people, analysts warn

    An Afghan woman protests against the Trump administration’s immigration ban in Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    The Pakistan insurgency behind a train hijacking and hostage crisis

    Surge in Balochistan separatist attacks have imperilled big investments and economic development

    Injured train passenger carried on a stretcher
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    Early to bed: the best plants to prep now for the warmer months

    By sending off now for seeds – pelargoniums, marigolds, sweet peas and cosmos among them – and sowing them under cover, you’ll cut your costs, but double your fun

  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Pakistan rescues hostages seized from train by Balochistan separatists

    State-run radio says all militants involved in railway ambush killed, but fate of some passengers still unclear

    A paramilitary soldier at a railway station in the Sibi district of Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province
  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    New York migrant shelter targeted by Trump officials to shut in blow to Pakistan

    Scrapping of $220mn Roosevelt Hotel contract leaves storied venue’s future in doubt and adds to Islamabad’s fiscal woes

    People with bags wait outside the hotel entrance
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    Pakistan's economy
    World Bank unit lambasts Pakistan over army-backed energy talks

    IFC and development lenders urge authorities to rethink move to reopen negotiations to slash power costs

    Power lines in a commercial area in Lahore, Pakistan
  • Saturday, 15 February, 2025
    FT Magazine
    The girls playing football in remote Pakistan

    Anna Huix’s photographs capture a tournament that triumphed against the odds

    A girl in a blue jersey plays soccer near a frayed goal net, with towering mountains in the background
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    The Big Read
    How Pakistan’s military is taking over its economy

    The country’s armed forces have become intimately involved in everything from canal projects to energy contracts. Investors are increasingly nervous

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Pakistan to seek extradition of billionaire tycoon from UAE

    Developer Malik Riaz Hussain says fraud allegations by anti-corruption watchdog are attempt to ‘blackmail’ him

    Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Mining
    Saudi Arabia set to buy stake in Pakistan copper and gold mining project

    Kingdom plans to purchase up to 20% share in $9bn complex as it looks to accelerate its diversification away from oil

    Rods of compressed earth core samples are seen in a warehouse at the Reko Diq mine in Pakistan’s province of Balochistan
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    News in-depth
    Pakistan’s bet on Taliban backfires as violence surges

    Islamabad had deadliest year in almost a decade following rise in terror attacks

    Relatives and local residents attend the funeral of a police officer who was killed by suspected militants in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    Pakistan's economy
    World Bank approves 10-year $20bn Pakistan lending package

    Move aims to support cash-strapped government while protecting against political instability

    Labourers carry baskets of oranges at a wholesale fruit market in Lahore
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Pakistan's economy
    Pakistan scraps plan for tax on banks’ bumper profits

    Measure abandoned days before deadline after lenders launched legal challenges and imposed fees

    A man walks past a colourful, decorated bus and motorcycles in front of the State Bank of Pakistan building in Karachi.
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Pakistan's politics
    Pakistan’s military struggles to solve ‘Imran Khan problem’

    Jailed former prime minister remains hugely popular and capable of mobilising support, say analysts

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Pakistan's politics
    Imran Khan supporters pour into capital to challenge Pakistan’s government

    Thousands of demonstrators breach barricades to reach close to Islamabad’s Red Zone before being pushed back

    Protesters wearing masks and helmets walk through thick clouds of tear gas in Islamabad
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Pakistan's politics
    Pakistan capital under lockdown as protesters call for Khan’s release

    Supporters of jailed former prime minister march on Islamabad in latest threat to Shehbaz Sharif’s legitimacy

    Policemen during a protest by the supporters of the opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's politics
    Xi faces heat over failure to protect Chinese workers overseas

    Bomb attack by Pakistan separatists adds to pressure on Beijing to secure interests

    Chinese President Xi Jinping walks past uniformed military personnel holding rifles
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    OutlookHumza Jilani
    Shipping containers are turning Islamabad into ‘Containeristan’

    Steel containers used to stop political demonstrations are an eyesore in Pakistan’s verdant capital city

    Police in Islamabad stand by shipping crates used as blockades. The containers are a physical reminder of the crisis that is facing Pakistan’s government
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    News in-depthAgricultural commodities
    Pakistan loses its edge in supplying China with sesame seeds

    Companies squeezed by falling prices as other countries compete to cultivate crop prized in Chinese kitchens

    A close-up of a hand holding sesame seeds
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    News in-depthIslamic finance
    Meezan Bank’s soaring shares herald rise of Islamic finance in Pakistan

    Country seeks fully sharia-compliant banking system by end of 2027

    Irfan Siddiqui sits at his desk in an office with calligraphic artwork on the wall, green plants and several award plaques on a cabinet
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    News in-depthClimate change
    Pakistan’s floods recovery ‘test case’ leaves millions still in tents

    Debt-burdened country demonstrates how not to tackle the massive rebuild from extreme climate events

    Pakistani flood survivors rebuild a house
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    News in-depthBelt and Road Initiative
    Beijing calls for Pakistan to step up security after attacks on Chinese workers

    Two killed in latest bombing by ethnic separatists who have targeted Chinese investments

    Security officials inspect the scene of a blast outside the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan
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