‘Friends’ unveil initiative to avert collapse: Over $15bn needed: media By Anwar Iqbal and Masood Haider NEW YORK, Sept 26: A permanent forum was launched in New York on Friday to help raise billions of dollars to avert a possible economic collapse in Pakistan. The forum, which will be called the Friends of Pakistan, will hold its first meeting in Abu Dhabi next month. The decision to form such a body was made at a meeting of some of the world’s richest nations that also have close ties to Pakistan and want to help. “I don’t want them to give...