Pakistan

India unveils retaliatory steps against Pakistan over Pahalgam terror attack

bno - Mumbai Office April 24, 2025

India’s Cabinet Committee on Security has rolled out a stringent five-point plan targeting Pakistan, in the wake of a deadly terror strike in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 26 civilians.

Pakistan's headline-making 22 GW of solar panel imports

bno - Taipei Bureau April 24, 2025

This development occurred with limited state intervention. The government, however, played a crucial role in facilitating adoption by removing import tariffs, approving net metering policies and allowing market dynamics to lead the transition.

Pakistan’s monthly remittances cross $4bn for the first time in March

bno - Mumbai Office April 15, 2025

In March 2025, workers’ remittance inflow to Pakistan was recorded at $4.1bn, reflecting a growth of 37.4% year-on-year, the State Bank of Pakistan said.

ASIA BLOG: Is China preparing to poke the paper tiger in the White House?

bno - Taipei Bureau April 14, 2025

The US intimidates certain countries. But America is just a paper tiger. Don’t believe its bluff. One poke and it’ll burst!

Asian giants thrive in Russia despite sanctions

bno Chennai bureau April 11, 2025

Maintaining a complex balance between profit, geopolitical alignment and risk management, the presence of Asian nations in Russia reveals a divergence between Western corporate exodus and Eastern mercantile strategy.

ASIA BLOG: China suddenly recognises need for community, in a region Beijing has long polarised

bno - Taipei Bureau April 11, 2025

President Xi made no mention of long-standing territorial issues with China’s closest neighbours including Japan, South Korea and the self-governing country long claimed as an integral part of China by Beijing: Taiwan.

Pakistan's KSE-100 index tumbles over 3% as US tariffs trigger global market rout

bno - Mumbai Office April 8, 2025

Trading was halted for an hour after the index suffered an intraday drop of over 8,000 points. By 11:58am, the KSE-100 had fallen 6,287.22 points, or 5.29%, triggering circuit breakers aimed at curbing panic and allowing investors to reassess

Taliban seek $100mn from World Bank to restart work on CASA-1000 electricity transmission project

bne IntelliNews April 2, 2025

Ambition to interconnect Central Asian and South Asian power grids held up by incomplete work in Afghanistan.

Pakistan sets up crisis management cell to assist nationals after Myanmar-Thailand earthquake

bno - Mumbai Office March 31, 2025

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a crisis management cell to facilitate and assist Pakistani nationals affected by the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand.

Indian defence reforms stymied by lack of funds

bno Chennai bureau March 28, 2025

India’s plans to modernise its military and strengthen domestic defence production are facing mounting challenges due to financial constraints, despite a net boost in the country’s defence budget.

Glaciers are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, says UN agency

bne IntelliNews March 25, 2025

Mass loss of ice from the world’s 19 glacier regions was 450bn tonnes in 2024, says a new report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation.

China sits on the Afghan-Pakistan fence as the Uyghurs watch and wait

bno - Taipei Bureau March 21, 2025

As the largest foreign investor in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, China has thus far remained silent on the escalating tensions between the two neighbouring countries.

India boosts energy, mobility infrastructure in western Himalayas

bno - Mumbai Office March 21, 2025

The union territory of Ladakh holds immense strategic and geopolitical importance for India as it borders China and Pakistan.

Why India’s adversaries force it to engage with authoritarian regimes

bno Chennai bureau March 19, 2025

These ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ dynamics, while fraught with challenges, offer New Delhi the opportunity to secure its regional influence, contain cross border threats, and protect its economic and strategic assets.

Train hostage crisis questions Pakistan’s internal security

bno Chennai bureau March 14, 2025

The Balochistan Liberation Army, a separatist militant group, attacked and held hostage the Jaffar Express, a passenger train traveling from Quetta to Peshawar in Pakistan between March 11 and 12.

India and Pakistan choose sides - in outer space

bno Chennai bureau March 6, 2025

China and Pakistan have formalised an agreement to send a Pakistani astronaut to China's Tiangong space station, marking the first time a foreign national will visit the orbiting laboratory.

New search for MH370 begins a decade after mysterious disappearance

bno - Surabaya bureau February 26, 2025

A renewed effort to locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is underway, more than ten years after the aircraft vanished in one of aviation’s most baffling mysteries.

US deportation of asylum seekers to Panama condemned by Iran

bnm Tehran bureau February 15, 2025

The United States has deported 119 asylum seekers of various nationalities to Panama, including Iranian nationals who claim they were transferred without notice or deportation documentation.

Trump Gaza plan backed by “murderer” Netanyahu “major threat to world peace”, says Erdogan

bne IntelliNews February 14, 2025

On visit to Pakistan, Turkish leader asserts: “The homeland for which the Palestinians have sacrificed tens of thousands of their children is not up for bargaining.”

PANNIER: Prince Karim Aga Khan IV obituary

Bruce Pannier February 7, 2025

Spiritual leader who mingled with heads of state and royalty leaves behind tremendous amount of grassroots work that will benefit Ismaili Muslim communities for generations to come.

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