LPG Prices Rise Sharply Across Pakistan — And the Official Rate Is Barely Worth the Paper It’s Printed On
Walk into an LPG retailer in most Pakistani cities this week and ask for the official rate. You’ll likely get a shrug, or a price that has nothing to do with what OGRA has notified. The gap has become the story. As of this week, consumers report paying anywhere from Rs370 to Rs410 per kilogram […]
Here’s Pakistan’s Domestic Cricket Calendar for 2026-27
Ten months. Two List A tournaments before the first ball of first-class cricket is even bowled. That’s not how Pakistan’s domestic season usually opens, and that’s exactly the point. The PCB unveiled its Men’s Domestic Cricket Calendar for 2026-27 on July 23, and the sequencing tells its own story. One-day cricket comes first this year […]
More Monsoon Rain Predicted Across Pakistan — And the Death Toll Is Already at 53
Landi Kotal’s roads turned into rivers this week. Trucks waded through floodwater instead of driving over it. That image, from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on July 20, is what “monsoon alert” actually looks like on the ground — not a forecast graphic, but a truck half-submerged on a highway. By Tuesday, the numbers had caught up with […]
Lord’s Loses the WTC Final — Why The Oval Gets the 2027 Showpiece and What It Means for Cricket’s Biggest Occasion
The ICC confirmed on Thursday that The Oval in London will host the 2027 World Test Championship Final from June 9 to 13. Lord’s expected the return fixture. A demerit point for an unsatisfactory pitch changed those plans — and opened a conversation about what England’s most famous cricket ground needs to fix before 2029. […]
Oil Crosses $100 for the First Time Since May — and the Houthis Just Opened a Second Front in the Global Energy War
Brent crude hit $100.10 a barrel on Thursday after Houthi forces struck two Saudi tankers near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The conflict that has already paralysed the Strait of Hormuz has now extended into the Red Sea. Together, these two chokepoints carry one-third of the world’s seaborne crude. Both are now active war zones. The […]
Pakistan to Play Five-Match ODI Series in England in May 2027 — The Full Schedule, and Why This Series Matters
Pakistan will tour England next May for a five-match One-Day International series, the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed on Thursday, July 23, 2026. The dates place the series directly in the build-up to the 2027 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, and that timing is deliberate — this is preparation cricket, not routine bilateral scheduling. The series […]
Pakistan Launches Its First Comprehensive Labour Migration Policy in Years — Here’s What It Actually Covers
Twelve million Pakistanis are living and working abroad. Until today, the legal and institutional framework governing how they got there, how they’re protected once they arrive, and what happens when they come home was fragmented across different ministries, agencies, and pieces of legislation that didn’t speak to each other in any coherent way. That changes […]
Aaqib Javed Says Pakistan Can’t Win the 2027 World Cup — And He’s Right to Say It
“We are lying to ourselves if we think we can win the World Cup while being ranked seventh and eighth in the world.” That’s Aaqib Javed, Pakistan Cricket Board’s Director of High Performance, speaking on Tuesday, July 22, 2026. He’s the man responsible for building Pakistan’s white-ball pipeline for the next two years. And he […]
Petrol Pump Owners Suspend Nationwide Strike After Government Promises Two-Week Trial and Margin Review
The pumps stayed open. The fuel kept flowing. And Pakistan avoided what could have been a serious nationwide supply disruption — at least for the next two weeks. The All Pakistan Petrol Pumps Owners Association suspended its planned nationwide shutdown on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, following a fresh round of negotiations with Petroleum Minister Ali […]
Pakistan Raises Fuel Prices for Third Time Running — And Petrol Pumps May Shut Down at Midnight
If you needed to fill your tank on Tuesday, you had a narrow window. By midnight, it got more expensive. And by tomorrow morning, it might not be available at all. OGRA announced the third consecutive fuel price increase in as many working days on Tuesday night, July 21, 2026, with the revised rates taking […]