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Days after Pakistan witnessed a deadly attack on its security forces inside a Peshawar mosque, the country`s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has admitted inside the National Assembly that it was a collective mistake to prepare the mujahideen to go to war with a global force. "We did not need to make Mujahideen. We created Mujahideen and then they became terrorists," Sanaullah said while addressing the country`s upper house of Parliament on Tuesday.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif also speaking in the National Assembly said that the country`s National Security Committee will decide on the operation against terrorists. The Interior Minister also claimed that former Prime Minister Imran Khan`s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had released members of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Pakistani Taliban who were serving death sentences.

On Sunday, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, renamed the Al Minhad area and its surroundings as 'Hind City'.

The Hind city is connected through crucial roadways such as Emirates Road, Dubai-Al Ain Road, and Jebel Ali-Lehbab Road, and the city is divided into four zones, namely Hind 1, Hind 2, Hind 3, and Hind 4, spread over an area of 83.9km.

The renaming of Al Minhad and its neighbouring territories came after the ruler of Dubai issued directions.

As dwindling forex reserves, nationwide power outages, stampedes at state-run food distribution centres and a Pakistani rupee, which plunged nearly 50 per cent in a year to 260 to the US dollar on Monday, propels the neighbouring country towards being an international "basket case", Indian analysts believe there could be serious consequences for the region. Amid this economic crisis, the Shahbaz Sharif government will begin crucial negotiations with the Washington-based IMF (International Monetary Fund) for a bail-out package on Tuesday which may come with "tough and possibly politically risky" pre-conditions of austerity, feeding into a bigger political crisis, they said.

The risk for India would not only be instability in Pakistan with its fall-out of rising extremism in the region but also unpredictable actions which could include bids to divert domestic public attention by focussing on an external enemy.

In the wake of an unprecedented economic crisis, coupled with the drastic aftermath of deadly floods in 2022, the Pakistan government has lifted the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 35 per litre. The move came days after the Pakistani rupee plummeted this week as the currency lost nearly 12 per cent of its value after the price caps were removed by the government.

Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said the increase in the rates was carried out on the basis of recommendations by oil and gas authorities. This may have been implemented due to the higher cost of purchasing energy from the global market.

The unrest in Gilgit-Baltistan has become a matter of concern for Pakistan as the protestors demand Independence from Pakistan. 

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