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Protest continues as PTI demands consulted medical transfer for Khan.
Amna Zara
February 15, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
Good afternoon,
Roses are pretty 🌹
Violets as well 💐
LATAM got its own GPT 🤩
We just got Basant and PSL 🤐
Imran Khan, solar net-metering, and AI are the highlights of this week. Plus, other updates from around the globe.
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🌍 What in the World
🇵🇸 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Israel this week to reverse its unlawful decision to deepen control over the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, the UNRWA issued an urgent appeal for $1.26bn in funding “to respond to one of the gravest, protracted humanitarian crises in recent history” in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory. More updates here.
In another harrowing development, Civil Defence teams in Gaza have documented 2,842 Palestinians who have “evaporated” since the war began in October 2023, leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh.
Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]. More on this story, here.
🇮🇩 Indonesia is preparing up to 8,000 soldiers for deployment to Gaza, the first country to do so as part of phase two of the ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States late last year. Indonesia has also joined President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, which was announced last month.
🇧🇩 The centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured a landslide majority in parliament, 18 months after mass protests ousted the country's longest-serving prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. BNP leader Tarique Rahman is set to be the next prime minister and faces huge challenges in getting the economy back on its feet and restoring democracy after 15 years of authoritarian rule under Hasina.
🇺🇦 A deadly exchange of drone strikes killed one person in Ukraine and one in Russia and cast doubts on the prospects of a ceasefire before another round of negotiations to end the war next week, as the conflict is about to enter its fifth year.
🤝 The 62nd Munich Security Conference is taking place this week, convening more than 60 heads of state and government, 50 leaders of international organizations, and participants from at least 115 countries.
The first day of the gathering on Friday saw French President Macron call for a strong Europe, while German Chancellor Merz acknowledged a “rift” between Europe and the US. He said that the international order based on rights and rules“no longer exists and that US leadership is being challenged or is perhaps already lost. Live updates here.
On the second day, Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen said that Trump is still very serious about acquiring Greenland, but national sovereignty must be respected. UK PM Keir Starmer said the UK will send a fleet of warships and fighter jets to the Arctic in 2026. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio patched up the fraught US-EU relations by telling the summit that "the US and Europe belong together”.
🌎 The LATAM region just got its very own LatAm-GPT, founded by Chile and supported by other regional countries. It’s the first open-source artificial intelligence language model that’s specifically trained on Latin American data. Sovereign AI is now the new space race, with many nations racing to create their own before rivals.
🚨A bunch of AI experts resigned from their posts or spoke up about the existential threat posed by AI this week. Anthropic’s head of Safeguards Research announced his resignation in a letter that mentioned a world in peril. OAI researcher Zoë Hitzig resigned after the launch of ChatGPT ads, warning that OAI’s archive of human thought creates unprecedented potential for manipulation. Meanwhile, half of xAI’s founders have exited as of this week, though the recent departures didn’t specifically cite AI concerns.
🇵🇰 Home ground
🏏 PTI and the opposition alliance Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Aiyeen Pakistan (TTAP) continue their sit-in at Parliament House for a third consecutive day, saying the protest will not end until the PTI founder is shifted to Al-Shifa Hospital. Although the government has announced its decision to move him to a hospital and constitute a medical board, the party has rejected any transfer without prior consultation with his family and legal team.
Khan, diagnosed with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), has reportedly lost 85% vision in his right eye and remains in Adiala Jail pending further medical assessment.
Khan and his wife have also approached the Islamabad High Court seeking suspension of their sentences in the Toshakhana-2 (Bulgari jewellery) case, citing grave medical concerns and legal infirmities in the trial court verdict.
⚡ The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Monday drastically changed the terms of contracts for all existing and future net-metered solar consumers — known as prosumers — to contain rising solar energy penetration and protect an expensive and inefficient state-owned power network. The notification effectively terminated the existing net-metering regime and replaced it with net-billing for all.
The announcement led to an outcry in the upper house of Parliament on Tuesday, with the government defending the move. Get the full scoop here.
🤑 According to the official fiscal operations data released by the Ministry of Finance for July-December 2025, the four provinces returned Rs1.18 trillion in cash to the Centre, just Rs285 billion short of the Rs1.464 trillion target set for the whole under the IMF’s $7bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Punjab led the charge with Rs609bn cash surplus, followed by Sindh’s Rs354bn, KP’s Rs175bn, and Balochistan’s Rs41bn. Meanwhile, the Revenue-to-GDP ratio fell to 8.2pc.
🤖 Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday announced that Pakistan would invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, marking a major step toward modernizing the South Asian nation’s digital economy. Sharif detailed several flagship initiatives to support this transformation, including a sweeping educational reform.
🛰️ Pakistan has successfully launched its second indigenous Earth Observation satellite, EO-2, from China’s Yangjiang Seashore Launch Center, the national space agency SUPARCO said on Thursday.
The launch marks a significant step in Pakistan’s efforts to strengthen its domestic space and remote sensing capabilities, with the satellite expected to improve imaging continuity, disaster monitoring, agricultural planning, and strategic resource management.