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Jan 17, 2025 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
Former prime minister Imran Khan has been convicted in the Al-Qadir Trust Case, with an accountability court handing him a 14-year jail sentence at the end of a trial that has lasted nearly two years. The sentence also convicted the former premier’s wife, Bushra Bibi, handing down a seven-year jail sentence to her. The Al-Qadir Trust case has been the largest and most pivotal legal challenge the former prime minister has had to face since being ousted from office in 2022.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
This is the story of two subsidies. The first is from two years ago, announced in a panic and in response to the most colossal agricultural crisis this country has seen in decades. The latter, only announced a few months ago and still underway, is tailored to a more specific purpose. Both were introduced by governments of the same political party, the PML-N, although one was a federal subsidy package and the other was from the provincial government in Punjab.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
On a hot April afternoon in 2019, Pakistan fired up its first ever power plant fueled by domestic coal. The shiny new plant, run by the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company, was the sort of project bureaucrats, politicians, and development sector flunkies dream about and doodle the name of in their secret diaries.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
Courage, the kind that is stern as steel, is smelted out of circumstances. At this moment in time, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) finds itself in such circumstances. Until last week, Pakistan was set to host an international cricket tournament for the first time since 1996. The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 being held entirely on Pakistani soil was a dream 15 years in the making.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
On the back of water shortages during the sowing season and heavy monsoon rains close to harvesting, Pakistan’s agricultural sector is bracing for a poor showing in the ongoing Kharif season. While the results will not be clear until well into next year, initial reports from farmers, the government, and foreign agencies indicate an atmosphere of concern in the days ahead.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
Nawaz Sharif has long been a believer in normalising diplomatic and trade ties with India. He is perhaps the only major political figure in Pakistan openly advocating for better relations with India. So it was not particularly surprising when his daughter Maryam Nawaz, also incidentally the chief minister of Punjab, expressed an interest in pursuing better India-Pakistan relations by reaching out to her Indian counterpart.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
Emblazoned across the jerseys of the Indian Cricket Team is “Dream 11” in bright purple. The richest and most powerful cricket team in the world, India has its pick of sponsors. They have been sponsored in the past by Indian Conglomerate Sahara, Nike, Unicorn startup Byjus, and many others. When Dream 11 made their bid to join this elite list, they paid a massive INR 358 crores ($42.5 million) to have their name placed front and centre on the Indian jersey for a three year period. Why?
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
Two years. That is how long the Punjab Government has to phase out the wheat support price it issues every year. It is a subsidy addiction that has afflicted the entire country since at least 1968, but Punjab has year in and year out been the biggest offender.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
Saudi Arabia’s Minister for Investment, Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Aziz Al Faleh, has confirmed that the Gulf State’s Manara Minerals will invest $1 billion into the Reko Diq Mining project in Balochistan. This comes at a time when the project, which is aiming to have production by 2028, is still facing serious logistical challenges. The announcement is already being spun by the federal government as a major success.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk | Abdullah Niazi
“Mushki Chawalaan dey bharrey aan kothey ,Soyan Pati tey Jhoneray chari dey neen,Basmati, Musafaree, Begumee soon Harchand de zardiay dhari de neen,Bareek safed Kashmir, Kabul khurush jeray hoor te pari dey neen …..”“…Fragrant rice fills the storerooms wide, Where golden-hued and common grains reside, Basmati, Musafaree, Begumee blend, Harchand and Yellowish, in rows they descend.
