Faraz Ali Ansari, Author at Focus Pakistan

Faraz Ali Ansari

Pakistan Petrol Price Cut announced as Ali Pervaiz Malik says the government provided greater fuel relief than the decline in global oil prices justified.

Pakistan Petrol Price Cut Exceeded Global Oil Fall, Minister Claims

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-28

LAHORE: Federal Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik walked into a Lahore press briefing Sunday and said something Pakistani governments rarely say out loud: we gave the public more than the international market required us to give. The numbers back him up and the backstory behind those numbers runs through a US-Iran war, a diplomatic breakthrough ... Read more

Pakistan airspace closure continues to impact Indian airlines as renewed Indus Waters Treaty restoration talks draw regional attention.

Pakistan Airspace Closure Pushes India Toward Indus Water Treaty Talks

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-28

ISLAMABAD: India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty in April 2025 with the swagger of a country that believed it held all the cards. Fourteen months later, New Delhi quietly sends a message to Islamabad: it wants the rivers back on terms Pakistan sets, and in return it offers something that reveals exactly how much pain ... Read more

Pakistan crypto adoption ranking reaches global top three as Bilal Bin Saqib unveils Pakistan's new digital assets and crypto regulation roadmap.

Pakistan’s Crypto Revolution Shocks World, Climbs to Global Top Three Ranking

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-28

ZURICH: Bilal bin Saqib walked into one of the world’s most exclusive financial forums in Zurich on Friday and told over 2,000 bankers, regulators, and policymakers that Pakistan no longer sits on the sidelines of global digital finance it now demands a seat at the table where the rules get written. Addressing the Point Zero ... Read more

Pakistan GLOF Alert as melting glaciers increase the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Pakistan’s 3,000 Glaciers Are Melting Fast, Putting Seven Million at Risk

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-27

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Meteorological Department issued a glacial lake outburst flood alert for Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday, warning that soaring temperatures will persist through the first week of July and that the consequences for millions of mountain-dwelling Pakistanis could be catastrophic. The PMD alert landed just days after Suparco Pakistan’s national space agency ... Read more

Petroleum levy increase as the government keeps petrol and diesel prices unchanged despite raising the Petroleum Development Levy

Why Petrol Didn’t Get Cheaper Despite Higher Government Earnings

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-27

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has maintained the price of petrol and diesel unchanged for the present week, however; it has raised the Petroleum Development Levy (PDL) of both these petroleum products. The levy of HSD has been raised by Rs6.57 per liter, bringing the total levy up to Rs79.54 per liter. An increase of Rs0.39 ... Read more

King Charles tax disclosure as the British monarch reveals his £12.9 million tax payment for the first time

King Charles Breaks 1,000 Years of Royal Secrecy — Reveals How Much Tax He Paid

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-26

LONDON: It is the first time in a thousand years of the British monarchy when the sitting king has disclosed the amount of taxes he pays to the nation, a fact which holds enough political relevance to tilt the balance in the discussion on whether Britain’s royal family deserves its taxpayer-funded allowances. King Charles Tax ... Read more

Pakistan Fuel Price Cut sparks a major dispute between OGRA and Pakistan's oil industry over fuel pricing calculations and industry losses.

Oil Industry Challenges Government Over Massive Petrol and Diesel Price Cut

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-26

ISLAMABAD: The oil marketing companies and refineries of Pakistan have suffered a combined loss of Rs104 billion, which is approximately equivalent to $367 million, owing to a massive cut in the price of petrol, which was lowered by Rs74 per litre, and diesel, whose price was reduced by Rs67 per litre in one stroke on ... Read more

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba over an alleged campaign to extract Claude AI capabilities through AI distillation attacks.

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Running 29 Million-Interaction Campaign to Steal Claude AI Capabilities

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-26

SAN FRANCISCO: Anthropic has accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known effort to illicitly extract capabilities from a commercial AI system, alleging that operators linked to the Chinese technology giant ran nearly 29 million interactions with its Claude model through thousands of fraudulent accounts to copy its most advanced reasoning abilities. The San Francisco-based AI ... Read more

Diaspora Doctor Locum Programme brings overseas Pakistani and foreign specialist doctors to Punjab public hospitals for free advanced surgeries.

Foreign Specialists to Perform Free Surgeries in Punjab Public Hospitals

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-26

LAHORE: Punjab is recruiting surgeons from London, Toronto and the Gulf to operate on patients in public hospitals who cannot afford private care, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz confirmed Thursday, unveiling a programme that could fundamentally reshape how 110 million Pakistanis access specialist medicine. Diaspora Doctor Locum Programme The Diaspora Doctor Locum Programme (DDLP) will deploy ... Read more

Barclays upgrades Pakistan as the global bank raises Pakistan's sovereign dollar bonds to Overweight, signaling stronger investor confidence and economic outlook.

Barclays Turns Bullish, Tells Global Investors to Buy Pakistan Bonds

Faraz Ali Ansari2026-06-25

ISLAMABAD: Barclays upgraded Pakistan’s sovereign dollar bonds to Overweight from its previous stance in May, arguing that the country’s external position proved more resilient than previously anticipated. Finance Minister’s adviser Khurram Shehzad confirmed the development Wednesday, citing a Bloomberg report carrying the Barclays research note on his official X account. Barclays Upgrades Pakistan The bank ... Read more

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Faraz Ali Ansari

Pakistan Petrol Price Cut Exceeded Global Oil Fall, Minister Claims

Pakistan Airspace Closure Pushes India Toward Indus Water Treaty Talks

Pakistan’s Crypto Revolution Shocks World, Climbs to Global Top Three Ranking

Pakistan’s 3,000 Glaciers Are Melting Fast, Putting Seven Million at Risk

Why Petrol Didn’t Get Cheaper Despite Higher Government Earnings

King Charles Breaks 1,000 Years of Royal Secrecy — Reveals How Much Tax He Paid

Oil Industry Challenges Government Over Massive Petrol and Diesel Price Cut

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Running 29 Million-Interaction Campaign to Steal Claude AI Capabilities

Foreign Specialists to Perform Free Surgeries in Punjab Public Hospitals

Barclays Turns Bullish, Tells Global Investors to Buy Pakistan Bonds

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