From Rent-Seeking to Productive Demand: Rethinking Pakistan’s Economic Dilemma
Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP
Pakistan’s recurring economic crises are usually diagnosed the same way: too little national savings, too little exported.
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Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP
Pakistan’s recurring economic crises are usually diagnosed the same way: too little national savings, too little exported.
Tariq Lodhi
Kashif Bangash
OVERALL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT.
The security environment across Khyber KP remains highly fragile, fluid and unpredictable, with militant networks demonstrating an expanding geographical.

1–15 August 2026
Domestic
BALOCHISTAN
1. Security forces killed seven alleged BLA terrorists, including a suicide bomber, during an operation in Nushki, Balochistan, destroying their hideout, ammunition and explosives.
Tariq Lodhi
Asif Iqbal
“The state is not a neutral arbiter. It is the organised power of one class to suppress another – and when the class is a.

Naveed Elahi
On Friday, 7 August 2026, the leaders of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a trilateral mutual-defence agreement in Islam’s holiest city Makkah,.
The author is former Addl. Inspector General of Police.

DOMESTIC
AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR (AJK)
AJK Police spokesperson SSP Khawar Ali Shaukat alleged in Rawalakot that the proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) was attempting to destabilise the region, and accused.
Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP