State Bank of Pakistan repaid deposit of US$ 1 billion to Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) UAE on 23April2026. Deposits of $2.45 billion were repaid last week. This completes the repayment of total deposits of $3.45 billion to UAE.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Containers are fine, but oil is definitely not. That's the real story of the Hormuz crisis, and markets haven't fully figured it out yet. iPhones can reach Dubai in 14 days right now, but a million barrels of crude can't get out at any price. Maersk has already published a whole new container map, with land bridges through Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Pakistan picking up the slack. 34,000 ships have diverted in 4 weeks and the container world is adapting in real time. But crude doesn't truck, and LNG doesn't reroute. 230 loaded oil tankers are sitting stranded inside the Persian Gulf right now. Paper oil is pricing a peace deal, but physical oil is pricing a blockade. Both can't be right, and one of them is going to move very fast when it figures that out.

Pakistani journalist: “You visited India 🇮🇳 last year, and today you’re in Islamabad. Which country did you like more?” J.D. Vance: “To be honest, you can’t compare #India # #Pakistan. India 🇮🇳 has a $4 trillion economy, while Pakistan doesn’t even reach $500 billion. We have strong ties with India in defense, IT, security, and many other areas. I’m here only to complete the talks, and then I’ll leave.”

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Israel should denuclearize Pakistan. Pakistan is a far bigger threat than Iran.

Pakistani army raped 300,000 Bangladeshi women in 1971. Pakistani grooming gangs raped 250,000 in the UK.