Pakistan-Afghanistan War: Karachi 100 Index falls over 2% as US asks non-emergency consulate staff to leave Pakistan

Pakistan’s stock market traded sharply lower on Friday amid heightened volatility as tensions escalated due to ongoing cross-border clashes with Afghanistan. The benchmark Karachi 100 Index on the Karachi Stock Exchange declined more than 2%, tracking the broader sell-off across Asian markets amid the continuing US-Iran war in the Middle East. The Karachi 100 Index…

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‘Afghans will defend their beloved homeland’: Hamid Karzai slams Pakistan strikes on Kabul, amid ‘open’ war tensions

Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Friday strongly condemned what he described as renewed Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan cities, asserting that the Afghan people would respond to any aggression with unity and courage. Karzai’s comments came after Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared an ‘open war’ on the Taliban government in Afghanistan on Friday, hours…

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