By Farzana Chaudhry | Lahore, PakistanLAHORE: The crackdown against profiteering continued across Punjab as authorities intensified enforcement to curb overpricing of essential commodities, Secretary Food Safety and Consumer Protection Dr Kiran Khurshid said on Tuesday.According to Dr Kiran Khurshid, price control magistrates carried out raids at more than 72,800 locations across the province in a…
The difficulties of acting “as one” , as we now see again over the Middle East, are giving rise to smaller ad-hoc coalitions of countries forming for mutual convenience around different issues: joint defence procurement projects such as the recent UK-Norway Defence Pact to track Russian submarines in the north Atlantic, or the Coalition of…
On Monday, the US State Department said Americans should “depart now via commercial means” from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
WASHINGTON / KUWAIT — March 3, 2026The U.S. military has confirmed the deaths of six American service members — the first killed in action in the military operation against Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, which began in the early hours of Saturday. (AL-Monitor)The first casualties occurred when a direct Iranian strike hit a makeshift operations…
WASHINGTON / RIYADH / DOHA — March 3, 2026American political commentator and journalist Tucker Carlson has claimed that authorities in Saudi Arabia and Qatar have arrested Israeli Mossad agents who were allegedly planning bomb attacks inside those countries — a bombshell allegation that has sent shockwaves across the already volatile Middle East.During a recent broadcast…
WASHINGTON / KARACHI — March 3, 2026U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend — a rare use of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply escalate tensions in the country amid widespread protests over the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader. This marks the first confirmation…
