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TopicPakistan defence budget

Topic: Pakistan defence budget

Pakistan’s strong biceps, weak budgets routine & apology cards in Elon’s cart

ThePrint Team -
Pakistan's strong biceps, weak budgets routine & apology cards in Elon’s cart

Pakistan raises defence spending by 20% but slashes overall federal budget 

Javaria Rana -
Islamabad allocates PKR 2.55 trillion (approx Rs 76,500 crore) to defence in FY26 amid IMF pressures, declining growth and rising debt.

Pakistan’s audacious defence budget needs to stay on paper. It’s good for everyone

Tara Kartha -
IMF is balking at Pakistan’s unrealistic budget, but Islamabad feels it can push the lending agency to give it what it wants. US can call the bluff.

Ayesha Siddiqa on Pakistan’s defence budget cut, Y.V. Reddy on RBI’s independence

Achyut Mishra -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Pakistan’s defence budget unchanged due to Imran govt’s austerity drive

Sajjad Hussain -
Pakistan's budget for the next fiscal year is set at Rs 7,022 billion, with a growth target of 4 per cent.

How Pakistan is expected to ‘fudge’ its high defence spending tomorrow

Taha Siddiqui -
With agreement to secure a $6 bn IMF bailout, experts say Pakistan defence budget cut only to create a ‘narrative’ & number fudging to take care of rest.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

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Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

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

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

Defence

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

Vaibhav Pant -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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