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Published in The Express Tribune on June 23, 2023 Hameed Iqbal Bhatti had prospered over two decades working in Saudi Arabia, but after returning to Pakistan three years ago, he was getting desperate. The economy had suffered in the pandemic and his restaurant business closed. With work avenues drying up and sky-high inflation blowing a hole in […]

By Kazim Alam Published in Dawn on June 21, 2023 KARACHI: Novelist Mohsin Hamid was taken aback by the fact that his co-passengers on a recent connecting flight from Istanbul to Bologna, a city in northern Italy, included about 30 people from Lahore, predominantly young men going to Europe apparently as labourers. The author of acclaimed novels[…]

Published in The News on June 20, 2023 Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said Monday that Pakistan plans to raise the matter of Greek coast guard conduct with their government in the wake of the boat capsizing incident that drowned hundreds of passengers, including Pakistanis. The minister’s comments came after Pakistani survivors of the ill-fated boat blamed Greek[…]