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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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Topic: CPEC

Pakistani writer Tehmina Durrani is distressed by husband Shehbaz Sharif’s jail conditions

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan has no qualms about sharing loan details with IMF; leaders pay homage to human rights defender Asma Jahangir.

Imran Khan can sell buffaloes and choppers, but Pakistan’s economy is still crashing

Before coming to power, Imran Khan said Pakistan market will be flooded with money. It crashed this week.

Pakistan’s IMF bailout reveals China’s Belt and Road initiative is not going as planned

Pakistan's problem goes beyond macroeconomic issues. The cost of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has become more expensive than expected.

Pakistan court contemplates if Musharraf can record statement over Skype in treason case

Here’s what’s happening across the border: CPEC’s western & eastern routes to complete by next year; six years ago Malala was shot but her fight for girls’ education lives on.

Pakistan is facing $12 billion financing gap, says IMF

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Islamabad High Court order reveals charges against Sharif family never proven; Pakistan's scuba divers cleaning sea floors.

Pakistan backtracks on CPEC plan saying Saudi Arabia cannot be third partner

A senior official clarified that a third country cannot be a 'strategic partner' but only be an investor in business projects that arise out of CPEC projects.

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.

Malala Yousafzai is now taking chess lessons

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan analysts have a lot to say about India's move to cancel meeting ahead of UNGA; CPEC now finds its way to Cairo.

When Pak army chief met Xi Jinping in Beijing

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Saudi Arabia had no role in influencing Sharif family release, says Pak minister; Imran Khan opens up on his decision to choose politics as a career

Nawaz Sharif gets parole to bring back wife Kulsoom’s body home from London for last rites

Here's what's happening across the border: CPEC security top priority for Pakistan Army; I&B minister says US has no intent of blocking IMF aid.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.