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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicAusterity

Topic: Austerity

Pakistan Army orders 2,550 fancy staff cars as govt seeks an IMF bailout

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Warrant dropped against journalist Cyril Almeida, and in Asia Bibi blasphemy case, Pakistan top court reserves judgment. 

Former Pakistan President Musharraf’s health deteriorating rapidly, claims his party

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Journalist lashes out at Imran Khan govt over ‘nepotism’; a whopping Rs 2.25 billion found in falooda vendor’s bank account.

Plane austerity: PM Imran takes the chopper, Punjab CM travels with family

Here's what's happening across the border: Pakistan's stand-up comedian leaves social media after backlash for video on Sindhis; Pakistani 1965 prisoner of war dies

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.