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Saudi delegation

PLANS to bring Saudi investment to Pakistan have clearly been put on the fast track. Over the past month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has visited...

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Most hated country in the world

WHATEVER the Americans may have said on record, the past few weeks of the war in Gaza have proved to be quite trying for them. Central among their...

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Rafia Zakaria

Gaza’s fate

WAKING up yesterday to the news that Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal came as a pleasant surprise, but it did not last long. It was...

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Mahir Ali

Reserved seats

IT is usually best not to presume, but given recent developments, one may tentatively hope that the judiciary has finally woken up to the...

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Dawn Editorial

Narcotic darkness

WE have plenty of smoke with fire. Citizens, particularly parents, caught in Pakistan’s grave drug problem are on edge. Despite frequent reports...

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Dawn Editorial

Fly on Great Wall

AS our great neighbour becomes greater by the day, we are moving from being ‘another brick in the wall’ to nothing more than a fly on the wall —...

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Shahzad Sharjeel

Our sluggish disinflation

WHAT goes up must come down. This truth also applies to economic trends, which exhibit cycles of ups and downs. However, the pace of going up and...

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Riaz Riazuddin

Wheat investigation

THE Shehbaz Sharif government is in a sort of Catch-22 situation regarding the alleged wheat import scandal. It is conducting an official inquiry...

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Naila’s feat

IN an inspirational message from the base camp of Nepal’s Mount Makalu, Pakistani mountaineer Naila Kiani stressed on the need to educate every...

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Dawn Editorial

Modi and MPs from Pakistan

REVANTH Reddy, the waggish Congress chief minister of Telangana, was fielding questions from a BJP-hugging TV anchor about Prime Minister Narendra...

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Jawed Naqvi

Something’s gotta give

IT has been almost a year since May 9. In the coming days, much will be said and written about this unfortunate day, its significance and tragedy....

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Arifa Noor

Extra baggage

UNDISPUTEDLY, the most important, most versatile and most indispensable person in a government office is the naib qasid, often the only moving...

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Naeem Sadiq

Impending slaughter

RAFAH, the last shelter for Gaza’s hapless people, is about to face the wrath of the Israeli war machine. There had long been talk of Tel Aviv...

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The Iranian story

A FEW days after the triumphant arrival of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran in February 1979, four Pakistani students were having a meal in a suburban...

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Tasneem Noorani

Plugging the gap

IN Pakistan, bias begins at birth for the girl child as discriminatory norms, orthodox attitudes and poverty impede progress. However, Unicef...

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Dawn Editorial

Appointment rules

IT appears that, despite years of wrangling over the issue, the country’s top legal minds remain unable to decide by themselves what criteria must...

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Dawn Editorial

Terrains of dread

KARACHI, with its long history of crime, is well-acquainted with the menace. For some time now, it has witnessed unbridled street crime, robberies,...

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Dawn Editorial

Improving skills

MANY teachers complain about the lack of continuous professional development opportunities or resources to update their teaching and learning...

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Neda Mulji

Leaky buckets

IT’S IMF time. Which means it’s time to trot out the clichés and platitudes that we have grown old listening to: reforms must be undertaken:...

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Zarrar Khuhro

Dialogue and de-escalation

INCREASED diplomatic engagement between the US and China has helped to bring down the temperature in their fraught relationship. But it has not...

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Maleeha Lodhi

India’s new birth

INDIAN elections are no less than a nightmare for psephologists: election experts. To begin with, the scale of the exercise is mind-boggling. Every...

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Tahir Mehdi

Not out of the woods

PAKISTAN’S economic vitals might be showing some signs of improvement, but the country is not yet out of danger. For instance, for the last four...

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Dawn Editorial

One small step…

THERE is some good news for the nation from the heavens above. On Friday, Pakistan managed to dispatch a lunar mission in the form of the...

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Dawn Editorial

Nawaz Sharif active again

NAWAZ Sharif seems to be recovering from the shock of the February election result and asserting himself, perhaps, realising that just as his party...

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Abbas Nasir

Inconsistent ties

AFTER withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, the US appears to have downsized its relations with Pakistan. President Joe Biden did...

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Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry

Hasty transition

OUT of nowhere, the government has launched a new cybercrime authority: the National Cyber Crimes Investigation Agency. This move to replace the...

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Policymaking — to what end?

ONE critical challenge plaguing Pakistan is the tendency of its power elites to give priority to simplistic solutions to complex problems....

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Muhammad Amir Rana

Monkey business

THE only movie I wanted to watch on my trip to the US last month was Dev Patel’s Monkey Man. I was blown away by the trailer and was curious how...

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Muna Khan

Rigging claims

THE PTI claims to have “all the evidence” against what it asserts was a rigged election this February. The party has released a “white paper”...

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Dawn Editorial

Housing scams

THE story of illegal housing schemes in Punjab is the story of greed, corruption and plunder. Major players in these frequent scams are...

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Dawn Editorial

Mining dynamics

PAKISTAN and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stand at a pivotal crossroads, with both countries aiming to build their respective mineral economies. One...

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Umer Farooq

No need for NCCIA

THE Establishment Division had earlier endorsed the setting up of a national agency to tackle cybercrime. The creation of the National Cyber Crime...

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Khawaja Khalid Farooq

History’s lessons

“It is a very common device that when anyone has attained the summit of greatness, he kicks away the ladder by which he has climbed up.”...

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Abrahim Shah

Perspectives on NFC Award

EVER since the seventh NFC Award was finalised in 2010, it has been vilified in many quarters for ‘bankrupting’ the centre. Of recent, demands...

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Sakib Sherani

Gaza’s wasteland

SINCE the start of hostilities on Oct 7, Israel has put in ceaseless efforts to depopulate Gaza, and make the Strip uninhabitable. While the death...

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