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Pakistan’s shrinking tech landscape: global companies exit amidst capital crunch
Business Recorder
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July 3, 2025
Pakistan’s once-promising tech startup ecosystem is in crisis. Once poised to be the next emerging-market for digital innovation, the country is now facing high-profile exits, as well as an 88% drop in startup funding. July will witness the...
Wafi Energy Pakistan
Business Recorder
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July 4, 2025
Wafi Energy Pakistan Limited (formerly Shell Pakistan Limited) has released its first annual report under new ownership, marking a transition point for the company following its acquisition by Abu Dhabi-based Wafi Energy Holding Limited. The...
Illegal immigration and a licence to breed violence
The Conservative Woman
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July 4, 2025
NEW data released quietly by the Office for National Statistics confirms the trends that the British government has spent decades condemning as racist hysteria. More than 40 per cent of babies born in England in 2024 had at least one foreign-born...
Pakistan's UNSC Presidency a murder of global justice: JSMM Chief Shafi Burfat
Awaz The Voice
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July 3, 2025
Berlin Shafi Burfat, Chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), has issued a statement condemning the United Nations' decision to grant Pakistan the presidency of the Security Council, calling it a "murder of global justice" and a "direct...
Afghan Refugees Stranded In Pakistan As Germany Halts Entry Programme
StratNews Global
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July 3, 2025
In a cramped guesthouse in Pakistan’s capital, 25-year-old Kimia, an Afghan artist and women’s rights advocate, sketches women dancing, playing and resisting in a notebook that holds what remains of her hopes, as she remains stranded in limbo a...
Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif begins visit to Azerbaijan
AzerNews
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July 3, 2025
Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, arrived in Azerbaijan on July 3 to attend the 17th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Azernews reports. A guard of honor was lined up at Fuzuli...
No education
Dawn
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July 4, 2025
WE just saw the release of the Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25 and the presentation of the budget for 2025-26. There is a lot that can be said about the economy and the budget, but in this article I want to focus on education and what the Survey...
Sami Wahid joins Coca-Cola Pakistan & Afghanistan Region as new GM
Business Recorder
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July 4, 2025
KARACHI: Sami Wahid has assumed the role of General Manager for the Pakistan and Afghanistan Region of Eurasia & Middle East Operation Unit of The Coca-Cola Company. With nearly two decades of expertise in marketing, sales, strategy, and general...
Pakistan: PML-N denies planning no-confidence vote against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Govt
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 3, 2025
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has rejected speculations that it is planning to overthrow the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government through a no-confidence vote, Geo News reported. A meeting held between...
Police, intelligence agencies: Govt to allocate plots of land in Islamabad to families of martyrs
Business Recorder
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July 4, 2025
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is set to allocate plots for the families of martyrs of police and intelligence agencies in different schemes of Islamabad. Federal Minister for Housing and Works Riaz Hussain Pirzada announced the decision,...
Pakistan’s death squads continue killing spree in Balochistan: Student shot in Hoshap, elderly man tortured to death in Mashkay
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 3, 2025
Balochistan [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has reported the brutal killings of two Baloch civilians in separate incidents in Kech and Awaran districts, as Pakistan's state-backed death squads continue to carry out...
Pakistan’s hypocrisy at the UN threatens world stability, says Baloch pro-independence leader Hyrbyair Marri
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 3, 2025
London [UK], July 3 (ANI): Baloch pro-independence leader Hyrbyair Marri, in a post on X, has condemned Pakistan's assumption of the United Nations Security Council presidency for July, describing it as "a profound affront to global human rights"...
Pakistan’s UNSC Presidency a ‘murder of global justice,’ says JSMM Chief Shafi Burfat
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 3, 2025
Berlin [Germany], July 3 (ANI): Shafi Burfat, Chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), has issued a statement condemning the United Nations' decision to grant Pakistan the presidency of the Security Council, calling it a "murder of global...
Pakistani celebrities' social media accounts remain blocked in India
Awaz The Voice
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July 3, 2025
Pakistani actors Mahira Khan (Left) and Hania Aamir (Right); cricketer Shahid Afridi (middle) New Delhi The social media accounts of several Pakistani actors and cricketers remain blocked after it was reported that certain celeb accounts were now...
RSS to discuss illegal immigration, internal security & US trade deal in three-day meeting
The Economic Times
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July 3, 2025
Internal security issues related to Pakistan, illegal immigration from Bangladesh and the India-US trade tariff deal are likely to be discussed at the crucial meeting of the RSS regional office-bearers here. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general...
Microsoft ‘exits’ Pakistan after 25 years
Daily Times
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July 3, 2025
Tech software giant Microsoft has shut down all operations in Pakistan, according to media reports on Thursday. The report comes just a day after Seattle Times reported that Microsoft had announced it was laying off as much as 4%, or roughly...
Pakistan shared terror evidence with Kabul: Defense Minister
Ariana News
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July 3, 2025
About 80,000 Afghan children crossed back into Afghanistan from Iran during June, as overall returnee numbers more than doubled compared to the previous month, according to Save the Children. The organization warned that the surge is putting...
Islamabad makes double helmet rule compulsory for all motorcycle riders
Daily Times
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July 3, 2025
The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) has made it mandatory for both riders on a motorcycle to wear helmets, regardless of gender. The new rule applies equally to male and female passengers, aiming to improve road safety and reduce accident-related...
The only reason Britain has female genital mutilation or a forced marriage problem is because of immigration, says Patrick Christys
GB News
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July 3, 2025
Female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cousin marriage and honour-based violence are now rife in Britain. But it's not the Brits doing it, is it? We've imported these problems. Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Somalians, Afghans, Indians and the...
25th death anniversary of folk singer Allan Faqir observed
The Nation
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July 5, 2025
ISLAMABAD - The 25th death anniversary of renowned folk singer Allan Faqir was being observed on Friday. Allan Faqir was born in 1932 in the village of Aamri, near Jamshoro in Sindh. He belonged to a family of traditional mystic singers and was...