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1 day ago | dawn.com | Niaz Murtaza

AN economic, security, and political polycrisis had ravaged us after 2021. Luckily, our most risky crisis — war with India — didn’t occur at that time. But just as some of its axes had eased, conflict erupted, which may worsen the crisis. The April 22 terrorist act in Pahalgam was shameful. But a series of errors undid India’s valid quest to find the killers. Some of these errors by India are noted below. Political: Failing to pacify the Kashmiris despite India’s global claims to the contrary.

2 days ago | dawn.com | Chaudhary Mohammad Ashraff |Khalid Wattoo

Pakistan’s agriculture sector, which consumes over 90 per cent of the country’s available water, is becoming increasingly dependent on groundwater due to multiple factors, including declining river flows, erratic rainfall, expansion of water-intensive rice and sugarcane crops, increased cropping intensity, and more recently, the widespread adoption of solar-powered tubewells that offer minimal operating costs, which encourages indiscriminate pumping of groundwater.

2 days ago | dawn.com | Fatima Attarwala

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute At the time of writing, the people of Pakistan are united in their pride of their armed forces, particularly the air force. The most hard-core critics of military spending have seen the wisdom of a high defence budget when we have a hostile nation as a neighbour. But in the end, who does war benefit? Not the civilians who fear for their lives and livelihoods while mourning those who are lost to conflict.

2 days ago | dawn.com | Huma Yusuf

WHILE Pakistan and India were caught in an ‘escalation dominance’ spiral last week, Islamabad received some good news. Despite Indian efforts to derail the IMF facility, the next drawdown was approved, along with an additional $1.4 billion disbursement to support climate resilience. The additional financing under the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Facility aims to build resilience against natural disasters and growing climate vulnerabilities.

2 days ago | dawn.com | Mohiuddin Aazim

The inevitable has happened. As Pakistan’s and India’s newest conflict escalated, the economy was left to wait and watch as military confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours slowly became a reality. Despite these challenges, Pakistan’s economic managers remain optimistic — a difficult feat — that the wheels of the economy will keep turning in the right direction. The International Monetary Fund projects an economic growth of 2.6 per cent for this fiscal year.