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Trump’s Name Is Disappearing From More Than Just the Kennedy Center
Lawyers are ordering staff to remove “Trump” from email signatures, letterhead, webpages, brochures, promotional materials, press releases, signs, and more.
"DISAPPEARING" · 총 25건
필터 보기현재 지수
50.3
0 = 부정 우세
50 = 중립
100 = 긍정 우세
최근 7일 기준 88,811건을 분석한 결과, 뉴스 심리지수는 50.2(균형)입니다. 긍정 4,408건(5.0%)·중립 82,234건(92.6%)·부정 2,169건(2.4%)이며, 중립 비중이 뚜렷하게 높습니다. 성향 지수는 종합 14.7(중도 균형)입니다.
Lawyers are ordering staff to remove “Trump” from email signatures, letterhead, webpages, brochures, promotional materials, press releases, signs, and more.
Signs are disappearing in Malviya Nagar as properties linked to arrested hotel owner Lavkesh Bajaj face scrutiny after a fire killed 21. Residents allege unchecked expansion and ignored safety concerns, with one hotel reportedly growing from two-and-a-half to five floors without approval. Bajaj allegedly admitted to illegal expansion, stating 'Delhi mein sab chalta hai'.
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• Economists see little room for growth under IMF programme • Economy stuck in low-growth equilibrium as consumers’ purchasing power erodes • Exports, energy costs, policy inconsistency remain major hurdles WITH the government preparing to roll out its third budget, the economy appears trapped between two competing imperatives: preserving fragile macroeconomic stability to avoid another balance-of-payments crisis and reviving growth to create jobs and alleviate poverty. While the government continues to flaunt stabilisation as an achievement in itself, a sense of “stabilisation fatigue” appears to have settled in among businesses and households. The fatigue stems from a simple reality: Pakistan has spent much of the last three years managing crises rather than building sustainable growth drivers. No wonder the economy remains stuck in repeated cycles of adjustment and a low-growth equilibrium — stable enough to avoid collapse, but too weak to generate prosperity. The IMF-mandated adjustment policies — tight monetary policy, fiscal contraction, demand compression, import controls, and energy price hikes — have helped restore external stability, narrow the twin deficits, moderate inflation, and bring back some semblance of macroeconomic order. But the social and economic costs of prolonged stabilisation are now more visible than its benefits. Industries continue to operate below capacity, businesses remain hesitant to invest and consumers continue to struggle with eroded purchasing power. For most Pakistanis, the lived economy remains far harsher than the official narrative of recovery suggests. Several deep-rooted weaknesses continue to obstruct any transition towards sustainable growth. Exports remain weak, energy costs and inefficiencies continue to undermine industrial competitiveness, policy inconsistency deters investment and high interest rates have compressed private-sector activity. A large portion of government revenues is absorbed by debt servicing, defence spending and subsidies, leaving limited fiscal space for development, relief and industrial support. The upcoming budget is unlikely to break the economy away from this path of austerity. Growth prospects offer little comfort. Some analysts believe GDP growth in FY27 could remain closer to 3-3.5pc if crude oil prices stay elevated amid prolonged Middle East tensions, well below the government’s target of 4.1pc. Average growth over the last three years has remained below 2pc. The budget will almost certainly be framed within the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility, analysts at Topline and JS Global, two Karachi-based brokerage firms, wrote in their pre-budget analyses. They said the government would target a fourth consecutive primary surplus, push for stronger revenue mobilisation and pursue fiscal restraint. Little room for growth Development economist Naved Hamid sees little room for growth under the IMF programme. “We don’t really have any room. This budget will be an austerity budget like before,” he said. Economist Waqar Wadho is also not hopeful about the economy moving out of its low-growth mode. “The biggest issue remains structural problems. They are exactly where they were before. Even targeting 3-5pc growth would be a marginal change, not a major shift,” he said. He said growth would remain elusive because it was not the IMF’s mandate. “The IMF’s mandate is stabilising external balance. Under an IMF programme, growth-oriented policy is simply not possible,” he said. The constraints facing growth are serious. The revenue target for next year, for example, has been upgraded by the IMF to quantitative performance criteria, a binding commitment rather than a soft benchmark. This further tightens the screws around the government after repeated failures to meet targets. Pakistan Banks Association Chairman Zafar Masud said the problem lay deeper than collection shortfalls. “The centre of gravity of our economic problems is unsustainable government finance,” he said. “The issue is not the scale of government spending per se. The issue is the weakness of revenue generation, cross-subsidy and its leakages and fiscal efficiency. The FY27 budget is an opportunity to break Pakistan’s recurring low-growth, high-debt equilibrium.” This raises the uncomfortable question: stabilisation for what? Mr Masud believes growth is possible even under the IMF programme. “The IMF programme buys stability, not growth. Stability is necessary, but growth is what ultimately reduces poverty and improves living standards. It’s the micro-economic interventions which can bring the necessary growth. With limited fiscal space, leveraging private-sector funding becomes a game-changer for achieving the economic multiplier,” he said. Mr Hamid agreed that some room existed for improvement, but he sounded less optimistic. “Yes, there is some room to improve even under the IMF programme. But whether you look at private-sector investment, early indicators or any visible government strategy, I do not see anything big or substantial happening,” he said. The recently released Shadow Economic Survey 2026-27, published by an Islamabad-based think tank financed by a business lobby, acknowledged that stabilisation was necessary. However, it warned that stabilisation was defensive economics; it may prevent collapse, but it does not automatically generate growth, jobs, investment or prosperity. Many business leaders say it is unfortunate that economic success is now measured through reserve accumulation, current account balances and IMF review completions. Managing immediate crises appears to have taken precedence over pursuing a growth agenda. This may reassure lenders and financial markets, but it cannot satisfy a population facing declining real incomes and disappearing jobs. Mr Masud described the current economic predicament as a failure of policy design. “Pakistan’s recurring balance-of-payments crises are downstream symptoms of unresolved structural fiscal distortions — distortions that have been patched in the past rather than fixed,” he said. Beyond stabilisation Pakistan’s growth predicament stems from an economic model dependent on imports and external financing. Historically, whenever growth accelerates beyond a modest threshold, imports surge because the domestic industry relies heavily on imported machinery and inputs, while exports fail to keep pace. The current account deficit widens, foreign exchange reserves come under pressure and the country eventually returns to the IMF for another bailout. The deeper structural weaknesses remain unresolved. Aware of public pressure, the government is reportedly considering limited relief measures for salaried classes and compliant businesses despite fiscal constraints. These concessions, however modest, could create an additional revenue gap. Mr Wadho is sceptical that any meaningful relief will materialise. “They are unable to broaden the tax base, so there will be pressure. For public optics, they may trim a few headline items here and there. But then they will squeeze people indirectly, say, in the form of an even higher petroleum levy, and everyone will feel that,” he said. Mr Masud argued that Pakistan should widen the tax base rather than continue raising tax rates. “Tax-base expansion without punitive rates should be one of the defining objectives of the coming budget. Sustainable deficit reduction requires stronger revenue generation and lower leakages, not higher tax rates,” he said. Business leaders argue that the IMF programme can provide temporary stability and policy discipline, but it cannot substitute for a long-term national growth strategy based on reforms. “Confidence cannot be restored through macroeconomic management alone,” a textile exporter said, adding that public belief had weakened that economic sacrifices today would eventually lead to tangible improvements in living standards. Economists say Pakistan does not need another stabilisation budget dressed in the language of reform. It needs a redesign of its growth model: from consumption-driven, import-financed expansion to export-oriented, productivity-led growth. Such a transformation requires reforms that successive governments have continued to delay because they are politically costly and slow to yield visible rewards. The new budget will be judged not by whether it satisfies the IMF’s performance criteria, but by whether it offers any credible signal that Pakistan is finally charting a course beyond mere survival. As Wadho put it: “The choice before the budget makers is clear: reform, delay or another lost cycle.” Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2026
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KARACHI: Saima works as a maid in a posh locality in Karachi. She lives in Hijrat Colony. “I used to buy a 1kg gas cylinder for Rs280, now it costs Rs450,” she laments. All her essential expenses have surged. The gallon of salty water she uses for cleaning has gone from Rs20 to Rs70, while a gallon of drinking water now costs Rs120 instead of Rs50. “They tell me it’s because of higher petrol prices increasing transport costs, but petrol prices have not increased by the same proportion as daily essentials,” she says, puzzled. Even small treats are now unaffordable. “I used to buy two Rs20 chip packets for each child, but now one packet is Rs50. I can only afford one, so each child gets fewer chips,” she says. For Pakistan’s lowest-income households, record fuel prices have translated into an inflationary shock. Yet while the poorest households are under immense strain, Pakistan’s deep culture of philanthropy and informal support still offers some cushion in urban centres. Earning too much to qualify for assistance, but too little to survive surging prices, white-collar families are slipping through the cracks of a historic cost-of-living crisis Roughly 73 per cent of Pakistanis donated money for various social causes in 2024, according to the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy’s (PCP) Giving in Pakistan report 2025. The greater blind spot may instead be the country’s increasingly squeezed Safed Posh, the salaried middle-class. A philanthropy cushion Pakistan receives roughly $40 billion in remittances annually. Accounting for zakat alone, nearly $1bn may circulate informally among lower-income households, said Syed Hasan Ali, country director of the i-Care Foundation. Faisal Edhi, chairman of the Edhi Foundation, noted the lowest-income group sits idle for 15 to 18 hours without water, gas or electricity. Yet despite Ramazan donations dropping 20pc, the organisation’s services continue without serious strain. The Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust, which treats around three million patients annually through 63 clinics, reports similar donor resilience. However, only one in three patients is willing to travel to the trust’s hospitals for procedures. “The main reason is that they cannot afford the fare,” said Najmus Saquib Hameed, the trust’s honorary chairman. When transport support is provided, nearly 80pc are willing to travel. While well-organised charities remain resilient through diaspora support, smaller charities have been hit harder by rising operational costs, explains Dr Nosheen Mahmood, PCP’s manager research. The invisible Safed Posh Philanthropy cushions some of the macroeconomic blow for the poorest households. However, the lower-middle and salaried families often fall into a support vacuum as they earn too much to qualify for sadqa or zakat but too little to absorb sustained inflation. Aquil Halai, a trustee of the Ahsaas Trust, worries most about this demographic. His organisation supports families of single women with children under 18. “Usually, people in metro cities help out household staff,” Halai said. “But families with a single breadwinner earning Rs150,000 to Rs200,000 are struggling the most. When you account for school fees, utility bills, rent and transport, they reach a point where they have to choose between groceries or school fees.” As a textile entrepreneur, Halai noted retail customers who previously bought an average of four apparel pieces per invoice are now buying just 2.7. Furthermore, seven to eight employees at his factory recently borrowed money for household expenses for the first time. Majyd Aziz, president of the Employers Federation of Pakistan, pointed to a similar trend, saying requests for salary advances among white-collar employees have risen sharply, particularly among those ineligible for charitable support. Meanwhile, annual pre-budget surveys, conducted since 2020 to gauge the financial condition of its urban, salaried readership, indicate wage protections have not kept pace with inflation. Survey results A recent Dawn survey of 300 respondents found 55.6pc could not raise pay concerns without fear of losing their jobs. Only one in ten respondents said salary increments were explicitly linked to inflation and 15.5pc received no annual increment whatsoever. At the same time, household costs have fundamentally shifted. In 2020, about 15pc of respondents spent more than Rs30,000 monthly on electricity, gas and water. By 2025, that figure rose past 40pc. For middle-income households, utilities consume a quarter to a third of take-home pay. Food expenditure shows a similar pattern. In 2020, typical respondents spent Rs20,000 to Rs30,000 monthly on groceries. By 2025, more than half reported spending above Rs50,000. Even transport-related employment benefits appear increasingly rare. Just two out of 284 Dawn survey respondents reported receiving fuel or car allowances. Mobility company BusCaro estimates app-based rickshaw, car and bike ride fares have risen by roughly 40pc since late February. Fuel inflation is affecting socioeconomic groups across the spectrum. For the poorest, philanthropy still provides relief, but for Pakistan’s salaried middle class, the margins are rapidly disappearing. Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2026
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Floppy disks are several decades old—many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom, a technical analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives, led a roughly year-long project preserving floppy disks called “Future Nostalgia,” which concluded in January. Leontien Talboom Leontien Talboom is a technical analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives, where she transfers material from a wide range of storage media to make them accessible to archivists. IEEE Spectrum spoke to Talboom about her work preserving data from Cambridge’s collection of floppy disks and collecting knowledge about the disks themselves. Why is it important to preserve floppy disks now? Leontien Talboom: Two reasons. First, the physical media is starting to degrade. Floppy disks are made from plastic, but they’ve got a magnetic layer of iron oxide, and that’s deteriorating. A lot of floppy disks are found in attics or garages, which means they also suffer from mold. Second, a lot of people who developed floppy disks and systems that use floppy disks are starting to retire or pass away, which means that a lot of tacit knowledge is disappearing. Whom did you go to for that tacit knowledge? Talboom: I went to the retro computing community. Their work is more around preserving these machines to keep them running [than] the data that lives on the floppy disk. But they know their stuff about floppy disks. For example, they know that in a lot of the older disks, the inside of the disk—the doughnut—gets stuck to the top. So if you flex the casing, the doughnut falls down again. If I hadn’t known that, I would have assumed that those disks in our collection were broken or corrupt. What is the most difficult part of working with floppy disks? Talboom: Accessing the files can be quite challenging if we don’t understand the file system. Within libraries and archives, we get a lot of material from machines that are not as well loved. Many of the personal computers that you had at home, such as the Amstrad or ZX Spectrum or BBC Micro, are very well documented. But a bunch of our material comes from business or research systems. They’re not as nostalgic for people, so there’s not as big a community preserving this type of material. Do you have a favorite type of floppy disk? Talboom: Five and a quarter. The weirder the system, the more frustrating and fun it is. I quite like doing that detective work. The Amstrad disk has also really stolen my heart. The popularity of floppy disks is very geographically dependent. Our library, for example, has these Amstrad 3-inch disks. But if you go to the U.S., they’re really uncommon. They weren’t able to manufacture enough of these drives, and [3.5-inch disks] took over at a certain point. But they’re really cute. What’s the best method for sustainably storing data? Talboom: The main thing is actively looking after it. A lot of the floppy disks we get in the library haven’t been accessed for 20 or 30 years, which means that you need certain special hardware to actually read them, and then work with emulators or other tools to make these file formats accessible. Now that we’ve done that work and transferred it, we can monitor it and make sure it’s not suffering from anything like bit rot. We can also make decisions around migrating it to other file formats or working on specific file systems or unknown file formats in more detail.