The United States has permanently adopted a refundable visa bond scheme requiring selected applicants from 50 countries to deposit between $10,000 and $20,000 before receiving tourist or business visas. Pakistan is not among the affected countries.
Bangladesh’s reported interest in Chinese J-10CE jets could mark a new phase in South Asia’s airpower competition, placing fresh strategic pressure on India.
While the BLA's violence seeks to manufacture inevitability in Balochistan, the answers it receives from Pakistan collapse distance and deny it spectacle it craves so dearly—time and time again.
Bangladesh has cleared a 50,000-tonne rice import from Pakistan under a government-to-government arrangement, pricing the deal at $395 per tonne and setting up new shipments to reinforce food reserves.
A Dhaka tribunal has sentenced ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death after finding her guilty of crimes against humanity over the deadly crackdown on student protesters in 2024. The verdict, delivered in absentia, cites extensive evidence of lethal force used under her command.
In a landmark proposal during renewed talks in Dhaka, Pakistan invited Bangladesh to use Karachi Port for exports, seeking to revive dormant economic links and open alternative routes to China and the Gulf as regional alliances shift.
Pakistan’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee met Bangladesh’s chief adviser in Dhaka to discuss stronger economic and defence cooperation while highlighting regional security concerns. The visit is being viewed as a significant diplomatic step after more than five decades without a high-level military delegation.
Anchored by the Hafiz effect, Pakistan has shown that deterrence with restraint, tighter borders, cleaner markets, and a geo-economic push via the SIFC have recast the state as reliable, ensuring that routines, not miracles, move the country forward.
Bangladesh's interim government has announced a major redesign of their Bangladeshi Taka (BDT) currency notes, starting with Tk20, Tk100, Tk500, and Tk1,000, removing the image of 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Minister for IT Nahid Islam stressed that while the Awami League viewed Bangladesh's 1971 independence as its "final chapter of history," the interim government saw it as an ongoing part of history.
