Bloomberg Pakistan’s natural gas shortage is hurting its crucial textile exports, according to an industry trade organisation, putting even more stress on nation’s struggling economy. About $250 million of textiles exports were lost last month after mills in Punjab were forced to shut for 15 days, said Shahid Sattar, executive director of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association. Factories in ...

  The north Indian town of Haridwar, where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas onto India’s vast plains, has been for centuries a destination for pilgrims. For three days in December, it also played host to what the Indian media has called a “hate-speech conclave,” in which multiple speakers — all dressed in saffron garb, the traditional signifier ...

Could London soon be known more for what arrives on its stock market than what gets taken off it? Private-equity firms feasted wantonly on UK stocks in 2021. Bid activity has softened lately and a tougher national-security regime from January threatens to slow takeovers further, with the result that fewer firms leave the London market. At the same time, there ...