Asia’s migrant workers debate if Gulf jobs are worth deadly risk of Iran war
Azadeh Moshiri Published in bbc.com on April 01, 2025 All Norma Tactacon can do is pray as the sirens blare. The 49-year-old, who works in the Middle East as a domestic worker, is thousands of miles away from her home in the Philippines, where her husband and three children live. […]
PM says expanding scope of Roshan Digital Account to strengthen Pakistan as ‘attractive investment destination’
Published in Dawn on March, 27, 2026 Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said that expanding the scope of the Roshan Digital Account (RDA) scheme to foreign investors would further strengthen Pakistan as “an attractive investment destination” and would expand financial markets, according to a handout from the Prime Minister’s[…]
At least 53 dead after migrant boat capsizes off Libya
Published in The News on February 10, 2026 At least 53 people, including two infants, have died after a rubber boat carrying 55 passengers capsized off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency has said. The only survivors, two Nigerian women, were rescued by Libyan authorities on Friday, the[…]
The IMF’s culpability
By Sakib Sherani Published in Dawn on March, 05, 2026 THE mismanagement of Pakistan as a polity by its ruling elite has landed the country in periodic crises. These crises have been as much political as economic. The resulting economic turmoil has necessitated 25 IMF programmes. While Pakistan’s elites are[…]









