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January 11, 2026

News Desk

Modern seafood processing zone planned at Korangi port

Islamabad: Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry has announced plans to establish a 100-acre, $80 million seafood processing and export zone at Korangi Fisheries Harbor Authority (KoFHA), aimed at boosting the blue economy and global seafood trade. In a statement on Saturday, the minister said the proposed project aims to develop, finance and operate a modern seafood processing and value addition complex under KoFHA, positioning the port as a regional hub for sustainable, technology-based seafood processing and linking to high-value international markets. He said the initiative would be a bridge between mid-scale seafood processors and value-added factories,

October 18, 2025

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More than 2,600 ‘No Kings’ rallies planned across the country to protest Trump’s policies

Republicans say Democratic, ‘No Kings’ marches fuel political violence after activist’s slaying A protester waves a flag during a rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, US, October 17, 2025. PHOTO: AFP More than 2,600 “No Kings” protests are planned for Saturday in all 50 US states, a mass mobilization against President Donald Trump’s immigration, education and security policies that organizers say are pushing the country toward authoritarianism. The protests — small and large, in cities, suburbs and small towns across the U.S. — follow similar demonstrations in June and will gauge the level of frustration among opponents of

August 26, 2025

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China’s Tibet’s Planned Dam

India is afraid that a scheduled Chinese Mega-Dam in Tibet will reduce water flows to a large river up to 85% during the dry period, according to four sources familiar with the issue and a government analysis observed by Reuters, urging Delhi. The Indian government has been considering projects since the early 2000s to control the flow of water from Tibet’s Angsi glacier, which maintains more than 100 million people downstream in China, India and Bangladesh. But the plans have been hindered by wild and occasionally violent resistance by the inhabitants of the border status of Aunacal Pradesh, who fear

August 14, 2025

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Industrial Zone in PSM Land Planned

Islamabad: The government decided on Wednesday to create a new industrial estate on the land of closed Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and was also ratified by the diversion of RS2.9 billion in publicity funds to upgrade an English news channel operated by Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV). The decisions were made by the Council of Finance Committee (ECC) of the Council of Ministers, which met under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb. The ECC approved the establishment of industrial property to 3,200 acres of PSM land, changing its specified use of steel mills in industrial. The decision was followed by

August 7, 2025

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Germany to increase mothers’ pensions earlier than was planned

The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister of the Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Bavaria, who has persuaded a big brother to implement one of her own pets: the increase in pension subsidy for older parents- plan, Dw said. The increase in pension mothers who had children before 1992 comes with a price of about 5 billion euros a year and is now being implemented on January 1, 2027, despite large cuts elsewhere to Germany’s federal budget. According to German media reports, the government still has a gap of about 172 billion euros ($ 198 billion) for its

June 28, 2024

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Iran Installs Half of New Centrifuges Planned at Fordow: IAEA

Iran has installed half of the advanced uranium enrichment machines it said earlier this month it would quickly add at its Fordow site, dug into a mountain, but has yet to bring them online, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report seen Reuters. Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency two weeks ago that it would rapidly expand its enrichment capacity at Fordow by adding eight cascades, or clusters, of IR-6 centrifuges at Fordow within three to four weeks. Within two days the IAEA had verified that two of the waterfalls had been installed. In a confidential report to

June 17, 2024

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Putin had planned to visit Kim in North Korea on June 18-19

SEOUL/MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Kremlin said, a rare trip that underscores Moscow’s growing partnership with the isolated nuclear-armed state. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un extended an invitation to Putin during a visit to Russia’s Far East last September. Putin last visited Pyongyang in July 2000. “At the invitation of DPRK State Affairs Chairman Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin will pay a friendly state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on June 18-19,” the Kremlin said. Putin will then visit Vietnam on June 19-20, the Kremlin said. Both

June 13, 2024

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Planned foreign borrowing of $23 billion

Islamabad: Pakistan has planned to borrow at least $23 billion in the next fiscal year, including the rollover of a $12 billion bilateral debt, to finance its development plan and meet the country’s external financing requirements. The budget documents for the fiscal year 2024-25 showed that Pakistan would borrow at least $23.2 billion or Rs5.9 trillion, which did not include any loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF loan will be to support the balance of payments. Of the $23 billion in borrowing, the government has included $20 billion in budget documents. It has not made the $3

June 4, 2024

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New evidence reveals India planned to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun at Sikh wedding in Canada

Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwad Singh Panun. — Journalist LONDON: Sikh Justice (SFJ) leader and India’s most wanted man Gurpatwad Singh Panun was also the target of a failed Indian assassination plot in Canada at a Sikh wedding, new evidence has revealed. The US government disclosed a few months ago that it had thwarted a high-profile Indian government assassination plot against Pannun in New York last year — around the time Pannun’s friend and SFJ Canada leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed — but it was not known until now that the Indian government had also planned to assassinate Pannun

April 24, 2024

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A protest is planned over the fall in the price of wheat

LAHORE: Pakistan’s wheat harvest this year looks set to become a nightmare for farmers as the market has collapsed and growers are forced to sell the staple crop well below the support price set by the government. Since Punjab contributes more than 75% of the total wheat harvest, farmers in the province are frustrated and have announced a nationwide protest on April 25. “We will not harvest wheat crops next year if the exploitation of farmers, both by middlemen and the government, continues,” Pakistan Central Board Chairman Sardar Zafar Hussain Khan remarked on Tuesday. The wheat harvest season has begun,

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