Published in Dawn on February 13, 2025 EVEN though workers’ remittances dipped, albeit negligibly, in January on a month-over-month basis, the earnings that overseas Pakistanis send home continue to help the country’s current account stay in the positive zone. That remittances are helping the current account run a surplus month after month amid a widening trade deficit […]
Published in Dawn on February 11, 2025 The bodies of 16 Pakistanis have been recovered with as many as 63 Pakistanis suspected on board a vessel that capsized off the coast of Libya, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Tuesday. The incident comes on the heels of a similar tragedy last month in which a boat carrying[…]
By RUmar Riaz Published in Dawn on February 04, 2025 Last month, around 50 Pakistanis died on a migrant boat, while trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean illegally to reach Europe in what has been called the Atlantic boat tragedy. The tragedy is not the first one. In June 2023, 300 hundred Pakistanis drowned in a migrant[…]
