Abdullah Esquire

The author is a student of common law and politics in the EU.

Paying Scandinavian taxes for a British reality

Reeves delivers a Budget which expands the state and cuts child poverty, relying on record tax and threshold freezes, but offers little comfort to those worried about stagnant wages, no investment, and threadbare services.

The Roy Cohn Test

How a radical Queens mayor, a ghost from Manhattan’s past, and a sulking tech billionaire explain the kind of charisma Donald Trump cannot resist.

The Britain left unheard now roars back

How changing streets, new languages and unanswered letters turned quiet voters into the loudest voice in British politics.

Is this the death of Cosmopolitan Labour?

A Muslim Home Secretary is doing what Labour’s professional class never dared to do, and England is listening.

A republic strong enough to face its truth

By writing real power into the Constitution, the Twenty Seventh Amendment does not create domination, it drags it out of the shadows and subjects it to text, structure and scrutiny. What unsettles its critics is not authoritarianism, but honesty: this amendment ends the comfortable lie that Pakistan’s true centres of command live outside the law.

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Pakistan’s word is now worth a treaty

Countries do not enter mutual defence commitments with partners whose reliability they doubt, because the cost of misjudging that is measured in soldiers. Riyadh and Ankara have decided Pakistan is a state whose word will hold when it is expensive to hold it.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign Makkah Joint Defence Agreement

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement at Al-Safa Palace, a trilateral pact under which an armed attack against any one of the three states will be regarded as an attack against them all.

سعودی عرب، پاکستان اور ترکیہ نے مکہ مکرمہ میں تاریخی ”مکہ مشترکہ دفاعی معاہدہ“ پر دستخط کر دیئے

سعودی عرب، پاکستان اور ترکیہ نے مکہ مکرمہ میں تاریخی مشترکہ دفاعی معاہدے پر دستخط کر دیئے ہیں۔ معاہدے کے تحت کسی ایک رکن ملک پر مسلح حملہ تینوں ممالک پر حملہ تصور ہوگا، جبکہ دفاعی، عسکری اور تزویراتی تعاون کو مزید مضبوط بنایا جائے گا۔

پاکستان کی ٹیکسٹائل برآمدات ریکارڈ سطح پر پہنچ گئیں

پاکستان کی ٹیکسٹائل برآمدات جولائی 2026 میں پہلی مرتبہ 1.833 ارب ڈالر تک پہنچ گئیں، جو ملکی تاریخ کی بلند ترین ماہانہ سطح ہے۔ صرف ایک ماہ میں 43 فیصد اضافے کے ساتھ ٹیکسٹائل شعبہ نئے مالی سال کے آغاز میں بھی پاکستان کی برآمدی معیشت کا سب سے بڑا ستون بن کر سامنے آیا۔

Pakistan’s textile exports hit record $1.83 billion in a single month

Pakistan's textile exports reached $1.833 billion in July, the highest monthly figure on record, up 43 percent from June and 9.11 percent on the same month last year. Total exports rose 10 percent to $2.96 billion, with textiles the clear driver.

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