Former chairman of the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission, Javed Hassan, said as an alumnus of Imperial College London, he was ‘bemused by the bold claim of a campus in Nawaz Sharif IT City’.
Pakistani journalists, digital rights advocates, and civil society have long been waging a war against the PECA law, which was originally passed in 2016 to combat cybercrime.
The Punjab Public Awareness and Dissemination of Information Bill, 2025 seeks to create a legal framework for ‘awareness’ around government initiatives, ostensibly to promote transparency and public engagement.
Maryam Nawaz has been labelled as authoritarian, arrogant and autocratic by Pakistanis. According to a former doctor at the Mayo Hospital, the facility's funds are short of Rs 3.5 billion.
UCBs accounted for 1.8% of total industry credit in September 2025—down from 2.2% five yrs ago—showing that they are losing ground to faster PSU banks.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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