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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

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Sagrika Kissu -
Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

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Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Joys of Trumplomacy: India & the world are learning US President’s 99 moods and 1 goal

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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