People walk on the rubble of buildings damaged in an early morning Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on March 3, 2026. —AFP
Fires erupt from buildings damaged in an early morning Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on March 3, 2026. —AFP
People walk on the rubble of buildings damaged in an early morning Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on March 3, 2026. —AFP
This frame grab from AFPTV video footage taken on March 3, 2026 shows smoke rising into the air after Israeli strikes hit the outskirts of Beirut. —AFP
The government no longer has the budgetary space to continue carrying hundreds of billions of rupees in untargeted subsidies while the power sector itself remains trapped in circular debt, inefficiencies, theft and under-recovery.