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* China’s economy demonstrated stable growth, with GDP expanding 5.2 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2025, as positive factors accumulated despite global headwinds.* During the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) period, China’s GDP rose from 103.5 trillion yuan in 2020 to 134.9 trillion yuan in 2024, with an average annual growth rate of 5.5 percent, significantly higher than the global average of 3.9 percent over the same period.* Throughout the 2021-2025 period, China contributed approximately 30 percent annually to global economic growth, making it a key driver of world economic development and fully demonstrating the resilience…
While some celebrate the encounters as justice served, critics argue lasting protection for women lies in strengthenin LAHORE: After every high-profile rape case, popular sentiment often incites the authorities to take extreme punitive measures against the culprits. While such extrajudicial encounters might temporarily placate public fury, they nevertheless jeopardize the rule of law. In Punjab, several incidents have been reported this year involving the extrajudicial killings of suspects accused of harassing or sexually assaulting women. Most of these incidents were declared “encounters” by the police, while in some cases it was claimed that the suspects’ own weapons went off. However,…
Top White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett on Monday predicted that the government shutdown is “likely to end sometime this week.”But if that does not happen, the Trump administration may impose “stronger measures” to force Democrats to cooperate, Hassett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”The comments came deep into the third week of the shutdown, which is dragging on with no clear end in sight amid a partisan fight in the Senate over federal funding priorities.Republicans want to pass a short-term resolution to resume funding at current levels. Democrats demand that any stopgap bill include additional spending on health care protections,…
Farmers being given a subsidy of Rs24,700 per acre for the purchase of urea and DAP fertiliser KARACHI: The Sindh government has called on the Centre to announce a national-level wheat support price to safeguard the interests of farmers facing mounting financial pressure. In a statement issued on Saturday, Sindh Agriculture Minister Sardar Muhammad Bakhsh Mahar said that under the conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), provincial governments are not permitted to fix support prices independently without a directive from the Centre. “The farmers are under severe stress because the wheat support price has not been fixed yet,”…
The Zions Bank headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, on Monday, July 10, 2023. Kim Raff | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. On the banksFollowing the discovery of a handful of bad loans from banks, Wall Street has been on the hunt for any other signs of risk in the sector. The regional bank selloff last week overshadowed earnings reports from many major financial institutions.Here’s what to know:Following the panic, investors have zeroed in on…
Customers shop at a market in Zaozhuang City, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 15, 2025. China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5.2 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2025, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday. (Photo by Sun Zhongzhe/Xinhua)BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) — China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5.2 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2025, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday.China’s GDP reached over 101.5 trillion yuan (about 14.3 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first three quarters, NBS data showed.In the third…
KARACHI: When people in an area are deprived of access to basic facilities like electricity and are in dire need of a stable livelihood, the government’s decision to invest in improving the infrastructural landscape appears little more than a surface solution. The ruling party in Sindh, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is set to launch the Lyari Transformation Projectthis year through the Sindh government. The project is aimed at developing the political stronghold in Lyari and will focus on key infrastructure works such as road construction and replacement of water and sewage lines. Residents of the area and civil society…
A worker at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant on April 30, 2025.Michael Wayland | CNBCDETROIT — “A lot of cost and a lot of chaos.” That’s how Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley described the state of the automotive industry earlier this year amid geopolitical tensions, tariffs, inflation and other disruptions.All those factors created massive uncertainty for the U.S. automotive industry that led to relatively bearish outlooks for the sector in 2025. Some of those concerns have come to fruition, but the industry has proven to be far more resilient than many had expected.”Six months into the onset of tariffs, we’ve been…
The endangered Longcomb Sawfish caught off the Jiwani coast lies on the jetty, a photo of the fish available on internet shows a pair in an aquarium. Photos: Express/file KARACHI: Like elsewhere across the globe, ‘World Sawfish Day’ was recently observed on October 17 to raise awareness about one of the most endangered marine species. Once found in abundance along the country’s coastline, the sawfish has now become locally extinct, with the last confirmed sighting reported at Khijar Creek in 2018. Marine experts and conservationists say that a combination of factors, including the use of harmful fishing nets, unregulated hunting,…
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 17, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump has signaled a shift in support toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin as he looks for a quick end to the war in Ukraine, likely striking fear into Ukrainian officials.Trump held a tense meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, with the potential supply of U.S. long-range cruise missiles, Tomahawks, on the agenda.Zelenskyy walked away from the meeting not only empty-handed, but apparently upbraided by Trump, who suggested Ukraine should…