Faraz Ali Ansari, Author at Focus Pakistan

Faraz Ali Ansari

BYD overtake Toyota strategy focuses on global expansion without US market

BYD Says It Can Overtake Toyota Without Selling a Single Car in America

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-16

Stella Li isn’t waiting for Washington’s approval. The executive running BYD’s international operations told the Financial Times her company can knock Toyota off its perch as the world’s top-selling carmaker without ever touching the American market. Her comments come weeks after BYD founder Wang Chuanfu rattled the industry with a five-year timeline for overtaking Toyota, ... Read more

Pakistan livestock reforms: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses the national seminar while unveiling PAITS to boost dairy and meat exports.

Shehbaz Unveils Livestock Overhaul, Eyes $19.5 Billion Export Boom

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-16

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan owns one of the world’s largest cattle herds and one of its lowest export scores to show for it. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wants that gap closed within a year, and on Wednesday he laid out exactly how. At a national seminar titled “Harnessing Pakistan’s Livestock Potential,” Sharif inaugurated the Pakistan Animal Identification ... Read more

Shehbaz Sharif mango gift received by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, featuring premium Pakistani mangoes presented as a diplomatic gift.

Ninety Mangoes, Sixty Minutes: Hungary’s Prime Minister Wants More

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-16

BUDAPEST: Péter Magyar found ninety mangoes on his desk Tuesday evening. Within the hour, most were gone. He posted about it himself a photo, a thank-you to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, praise for the taste. Nothing else needed from thereon. This is what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had gone through weeks before as well ... Read more

Argentina World Cup petition surpasses six million signatures ahead of the England World Cup semi-final.

Ten Million Sign Petition To Expel Argentina from The World Cup

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-15

Two days out from the biggest match of their lives, Argentina’s players aren’t just training for England. They’re doing it under the shadow of a petition with more signatures than the population of Denmark. The number, as of Tuesday evening, stood past ten million. The site behind it, argentinaout.com, carries no FIFA badge, no federation ... Read more

Sun Above Kaaba during the rare solar zenith creates a shadowless moment in Makkah.

Sun to Erase Kaaba’s Shadow Today in Rare Celestial Event

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-15

MAKKAH: For a few seconds this afternoon, all objects standing upright in Makkah will cease casting shadows, and the Kaaba itself will appear to eat up its shadow into the ground. The Jeddah Astronomical Society has determined that the sun will be exactly overhead the Kaaba at 12:26:44 Makkah Time or 2:26:44 Pakistan Standard Time, ... Read more

Pakistan car sales FY26 surged 39% to 206,445 units as strong demand, new model launches and pre-budget buying boosted the auto market.

Pakistanis Bought a Car Every Three Minutes in FY26

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-14

KARACHI: Pakistan’s car market closed its strongest fiscal year in recent memory, and buyers raced showrooms before the government could tax them out of the deal. According to the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturer Association-PAMA, sales reached 206,445 units in the FY26 and increased by 39 percent compared to the previous year, whereas 22,741 units were sold ... Read more

Jazz acquires TPL Insurance as the telecom giant secures a 76.33% stake in the digital-first insurer to expand its financial services ecosystem in Pakistan.

Jazz Officially Owns TPL Insurance After Blockbuster Rs4.55 Billion Deal

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-14

KARACHI: Jazz International Holding Limited has closed its takeover of TPL Insurance Limited, handing Pakistan’s largest telecom operator direct control of one of the country’s most closely watched insurers. TPL Corp Limited confirmed the transaction on July 13, 2026, in a disclosure filed with the Pakistan Stock Exchange under Section 96 of the Securities Act, ... Read more

State Life Insurance privatisation begins as Pakistan invites global financial advisers to manage the planned sale of State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC).

Pakistan Invites Global Banks to Sell State Life Insurance Corporation

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-12

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has set off the starting gun for one of its biggest privatization initiatives, whereby international investment banking firms will be invited to tender for the task of disposing State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC), the largest life insurance firm in Pakistan. The Privatization Commission has issued advertisement in major national and international newspapers this ... Read more

Imran Khan Jemima house Ormeley Lodge in Richmond listed for £25 million in London

Imran Khan’s Former London Home Hits Market for £25 Million

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-11

A £25 million price tag now sits on one of London’s most politically significant addresses for Pakistan. Ormeley Lodge. The name will not mean much outside Pakistani politics, but the address certainly will. This week Knight Frank and Sotheby’s International Realty put the Georgian mansion on the market. It sits in Richmond. Imran Khan lived ... Read more

Pakistan police cyberattack linked to China and India hackers

China, India-Linked Hackers Secretly Target Pakistan Police in Two-Year Spy Campaign

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-07-10

ISLAMABAD(Reuters): Two intelligence rivals picked the same target and neither knew the other was already inside. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne says hacking groups tied separately to China and India spent more than two years quietly probing Pakistan’s police networks, running parallel espionage campaigns that converged on the same institutions without any apparent coordination between Beijing and ... Read more

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BYD Says It Can Overtake Toyota Without Selling a Single Car in America

Shehbaz Unveils Livestock Overhaul, Eyes $19.5 Billion Export Boom

Ninety Mangoes, Sixty Minutes: Hungary’s Prime Minister Wants More

Ten Million Sign Petition To Expel Argentina from The World Cup

Sun to Erase Kaaba’s Shadow Today in Rare Celestial Event

Pakistanis Bought a Car Every Three Minutes in FY26

Jazz Officially Owns TPL Insurance After Blockbuster Rs4.55 Billion Deal

Pakistan Invites Global Banks to Sell State Life Insurance Corporation

Imran Khan’s Former London Home Hits Market for £25 Million

China, India-Linked Hackers Secretly Target Pakistan Police in Two-Year Spy Campaign

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BYD Says It Can Overtake Toyota Without Selling a Single Car in America

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