Democracy Summit
TOWARDS the end of March, the US hosted the second Democracy Summit. The stated objective was to put democracy and human rights at the heart of the Biden administration’s foreign…
Nato summit
PAKISTAN’S Foreign Office last week offered to mediate between Russia and Ukraine in an effort to end the war. The offer has some credibility on the back of the Ukrainian foreign minister’s…
The summit and expectations
THE Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit is being held this week in Samarkand against the backdrop of a geopolitical upheaval challenging the world order. It will be the first in-person…
Climate change funding talks stuck ahead of COP29 summit
With just five months to go before this year’s UN climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate…
Ukraine peace summit pushes neutral Swiss toward Western embrace
An upcoming Ukraine peace summit, ostensibly the most ambitious bid in years by neutral Switzerland to mediate a major conflict, is instead showing how Swiss economic and security interests increasingly…
PSX IPO Summit 2024
The following is the full text of federal minister for finance, revenue and economic affairs Dr Shamshad Akhtar’s speech that she delivered at PSX IPO Summit through a video link…
G20 summit a big moment for India?
Riding on the success of the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on moon, India hosted a BRICS meeting and soon thereafter a G20 meeting. The timings for both the events could not have…
G20 summit agrees on words but struggles on action
The Group of 20 major economies reached a hard-fought compromise over the war in Ukraine and papered over other key differences in a summit declaration at the weekend, presenting few…
Escalating economic divide with India
The following is the first part of a two-part series of articles highlighting the differences between the economies of India and Pakistan. India’s emergence on the world stage, hosting the…
Climate summit touts Africa’s role as clean energy ‘superpower’
At Africa’s first-ever climate summit in Nairobi this week, government and UN leaders sought to promote the continent as a source of solutions to the world’s global warming challenge, rooted…
