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Pakistan

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Chinese solar panel boom threatens Pakistan’s debt-ridden grid

    Industry rushes to switch to clean energy as cost of state power network becomes crippling

    A worker carries a solar panel plate at a market in Lahore
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Pakistani businesses warn of internet disruptions amid fears of ‘firewall’ censorship

    Slow speeds and service disruptions hurt IT companies and rattle investors in one of country’s few standout sectors

    An IT technician works at a data centre in Karachi
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    At least 23 killed in terror attacks in Pakistan

    Militants target buses in Balochistan province that is home to copper mine and Chinese projects

    People look at burnt vehicles on a highway in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Monday
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Pakistan arrests former spy chief

    Faiz Hameed becomes first ex-director of intelligence agency to face court martial

    Lt Gen Faiz Hameed
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's economy
    Pakistan’s military backs Sharif in push for IMF reforms

    Country’s powerful armed forces support Islamabad’s painful restructuring under $7bn bailout

    Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along a road, ahead of the general elections in Karachi, Pakistan
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Miami: a rare bright spot in US office real estate

    Miami has defied the trend of struggling US office markets

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Pakistan’s banks enjoy soaring profits on interest from mounting government debt

    Analysts say downside is there is little left to lend to private sector

    Women walk past the State Bank of Pakistan in Karachi
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Global Economy
    Pakistan’s latest record-breaking, reality-denying IMF program

    Debt Will Tear Us Apart (Again)

  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Pakistan's economy
    Pakistan reaches $7bn loan deal with IMF

    PM Shehbaz Sharif has pushed tax reforms to secure debt-stricken country’s 24th funding programme

    A shopkeeper adjusts fabric at a shop in Lahore last week
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    InterviewPakistan's economy
    Pakistan finance minister warns taxes must rise to break bailout cycle

    Former JPMorgan banker says Islamabad must ‘get real’ as it seeks 24th IMF package

    Muhammad Aurangzeb, Pakistan’s finance minister
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Emerging market investing
    Frontier emerging markets stocks soar as investors cheer reforms

    Argentina’s Merval leads Latin America as heavily indebted nations chart path to growth

    Traders on floor of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2019
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Pakistan's economy
    Pakistan rice exports hit record following Indian sales ban

    Windfall is a boon to country hit by double-digit inflation and anaemic economic growth

    Farmers clean rice crops in a paddy field in Lahore
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Emerging market investing
    Frontier emerging markets lure investors back with high yields

    Foreign buyers attracted to the local currency debt of former pariahs such as Kenya and Pakistan

    Boys sell sweet pastries to pedestrians outside an 18th-century Ottoman landmark in Cairo
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Cricket
    India-Pakistan cricket rivalry comes to Long Island in World Cup clash

    Ticket prices for T20 match-up soar as tournament organisers hope to hook more fans in the US

    India supporters in the stands at the Nassau County stadium during a match against Ireland on June 5
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Music
    Eid in the Square offers a celebration of qawwali music

    The event, marking the end of Ramadan, will take place outdoors in central London with an audience of thousands

    A man dressed in white sits singing into a microphone while orange-robed musicians sit behind him
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    InterviewIndian economy
    India risks ‘squandering’ demographic dividend, says World Bank

    South Asia has world’s fastest economic growth but is failing to create jobs, says multilateral lender

    Indian villagers work on a cumin crop in Rajasthan
  • Sunday, 3 March, 2024
    Pakistan parliament backs Shehbaz Sharif for prime minister

    Vote of confidence comes amid angry protests by supporters of former premier Imran Khan

    Shehbaz Sharif
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's economy
    How Pakistan’s economy fell into crisis — in charts

    High debt, low growth and raging inflation will challenge a new government lacking a public mandate

    A montage of a stack of Pakistanti rupee notes and charts
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's politics
    Pakistan’s old guard confronts shock Imran Khan upset in Punjab

    Surge for jailed former PM’s candidates in base for army and dynastic parties could weaken incoming coalition

    Guards at a polling station during last Wednesday’s election
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A flawed vote in Pakistan

    The shocking election result is a repudiation of military control

    Supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which says it will contest the election results
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Imran Khan’s rivals nominate Shehbaz Sharif to lead new Pakistan government

    Jailed former PM says proposed alliance has ‘no moral ground’ after allegations of vote rigging

    Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Imran Khan rises again in Pakistan

    Pakistan’s shocking election results have left the country in turmoil

  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's politics
    Pakistan plunges into power vacuum after Khan defies election odds from jail

    Success for former PM’s supporters deals blow to military establishment and heralds more instability

    A man holds aloft a photograph of Imran Khan
  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    Pakistan's politics
    Imran Khan’s allies accuse Pakistan officials of vote rigging

    Rival parties begin coalition talks after poll marred by delays, mobile blackouts and vote-tampering allegations

    Supporters of the convicted former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf political party shout slogans in Peshawar on Friday
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Pakistan's politics
    Imran Khan loyalists win shock victory in Pakistan election

    Independents from former PM’s party will be largest group in parliament but will struggle to form government

    Supporters of Imran Khan’s PTI party protest
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