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Budget 2025-26

Budget 2025-26 May Spark Resentment: A budget of the Elites, for the Elite, by the Elite

Despite the government’s repeated assurances of providing meaningful tax relief and protecting salaried individuals from overburdening, the federal budget 2025-26 offers only modest and largely symbolic reductions in tax rates for the salaried class.  Although the Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in his budget speech in the National Assembly, announced cuts—such as lowering the tax rate […]

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Pakistan's Economic Survey 2024–25

Pakistan’s Economic Survey 2024-25: Recovery, But at What Cost? 

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s presented Pakistan’s Economic Survey 2024-25 on June 9, 2025. The survey reveals a clear reality despite government assertions of economic stability; most important benchmarks, particularly in agriculture, were failed by a great margin. While agriculture, a sector employing almost a third of the workforce, managed a dismal 0.56% increase against a

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India-Pakistan

India-Pakistan Peace Breakthrough 2025: Inside the US-Brokered Ceasefire and Trump’s Powerful Impact

Announcing a full and immediate truce between India-Pakistan, effective from 4:30 pm Pakistan time, a tweet by US President Donald Trump has unexpectedly helped nearly 1500 million people all throughout the Indian subcontinent to celebrate peace. Following protracted nighttime negotiations facilitated by the United States involving high-level officials from both countries, including Prime Ministers Narendra

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India-Pakistan Tension

India-Pakistan Tension Intensifies: Recalling Peace Activist Karamat Ali

India-Pakistan tension escalates. Many of the subcontinent’s residents are left wondering what seasoned peace activist Karamat Ali would have done in reaction to the current crisis in view of growing military tensions between Pakistan and India. Military Tensions Approach Sensational Levels Dawn broke today with disturbing reports of Indian airstrikes targeting both Azad Kashmir and

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CCI Halts 6 Canals Plan on Indus

10-Day Protest Ends in Historic Victory: CCI Halts 6 Canals Plan on Indus After Wide Backlash

It was a good news that CCI Halts 6 canals plan on Indus. Following 10 fierce days of marches, rallies, and mobilisation by the lawyers and civil society organisations of Sindh called off their protest against the dubious building of six new canals on the Indus River system by the Punjab government with the federal

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Indus Basin Treaty

India’s Ruthless Move: Insights on 1960 Indus Waters Treaty Suspension—Who Gains, Who Loses?

How much the Indus Waters Treaty is important for the people of India and Pakistan. 2010, New Delhi. At the People’s SAARC conference, a gathering of civil society members from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Pakistan’s delegation was quite strong. People’s SAARC usually took place on the same days as or close

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New 6 Canals – Sindh Assembly passes resolution expressing Sindhi people’s apprehensions regarding construction in Punjab

Finally, on Thursday, the Sindh Assembly approved a motion vehemently denouncing the building of new 6 canals, including the Cholistan Canal and Greater Thul Canal, on the Indus River system. Supported by all members, the Sindh Chief Minister and Leader of the House, Syed Murad Ali Shah, offered a resolution calling for an immediate stop

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fact finding hindu girls

2025 Fact-Finding Hindu Girls: Alarming Network Involved in Conversion Exposed

Fact-Finding Hindu Girls of Mithi: Two Hindu girls, Rumela and Kajul, from Mithi, Tharparkar, claimed forced conversion; a fact-finding expedition by the Sindh Human Rights Defenders Network (SHRDN) has illuminated a more complex scenario than first reported. Although the SHRDN came to the conclusion that the girls’ Islamic conversions were not coerced, their research pointed

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