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Pakistan to increase defence budget by 18% while its economic debt rises to 76,000 Billion Rupees: How Pakistan’s obsession with India has crippled the...

Shraddha Pandey - 10 June, 2025

Notably, the 2024-25 defence budget of Pakistan was Rs 2,122 billion, already up nearly 15 per cent from the previous year.

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Pakistan: Education for kids in Rawalpindi comes to a grinding halt as state runs out of money to pay the teachers

ANI - 28 September, 2024

Education in schools in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has come to a halt, as the Grand Teachers Alliance has called upon a citywide strike over the concerns faced by teaching professionals.

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Pakistan: Power tariff sees a massive increase of up to PKR 7.50 as the bankrupt country scrambles to meet IMF demands

ANI - 22 July, 2023

Sources privy to the development told ARY News that the Pakistan government has increased the basic power tariff by Rs 3 for some customers and by Rs 7.5 per unit for some other consumers.

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As the economic crisis deepens, Pakistan’s public assets are up for sale

ANI - 1 July, 2023

Its plan to lease out other two international airports in Karachi and Lahore faced difficulties, mainly due to nonpayment of dues by Pakistan International Airlines and other pending dues.

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Pakistan’s economic growth rate plummets to 0.3 percent under the Shehbaz Sharif government

ANI - 25 May, 2023

The government has inflicted heavy losses on the economy by devaluing the rupee and increasing the utility prices in the hope of getting a deal from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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8,000 flour bags stolen during Ramzan amid severe economic crisis in Pakistan, four government officials booked

OpIndia Staff - 9 April, 2023

Pakistan has been facing severe economic crisis and various places in Pakistan are having wheat flour shortage such that government is providing subsidised flour to poor.

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Pakistan: Stampede during free flour distribution leaves 11 people dead in Punjab

OpIndia Staff - 30 March, 2023

Police have been accused of spreading mayhem at the centres by manhandling and baton-charging people who were waiting in long queues, according to reports in Pakistani media.

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Pakistanis attack their PM for being busy watching cricket while the country spirals into political chaos and economic crisis

OpIndia Staff - 19 March, 2023

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif hailed Shaheen Afridi for his play in the PSL match amid the political and economic turmoil.

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Imran Khan whines that Indian TV channels are ridiculing Pakistan for its current crisis, invokes 2-nation theory

OpIndia Staff - 12 March, 2023

Imran Khan said how Pakistan was created to carry forward the 'Riyasat-e-Medina', thereby invoking Jinnah's two-nation theory that Hindus and Muslims could not coexist.

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