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Year of the Quaid

THE year 2026 is, by some accounts, to be officially declared the ‘Year of the Quaid-i-Azam’, in celebration of...

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Dawn Editorial

No loopholes

THE recent Lahore High Court ruling on workplace harassment deserves to be welcomed for its clarity and common ...

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Dawn Editorial

PIA: ready for take-off

There was no sense in carrying this enterprise forward any longer. It should have been dumped over a decade ago.

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Khurram Husain

PIA’s ping-pong

What will the state do with the Rs135bn realised from the sale?

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F.s. Aijazuddin

Education roundup 2025

Never has a country righted its ship of public education on the back of charity.

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Ayesha Razzaque

PIA’s privatisation

PIA’S sale — the first major privatisation in nearly two decades — is being hailed as a historic achievement....

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Dawn Editorial

K&N’s SmartCooking Recipes: Cheesy Tikka Wontons

A crunchy bite-sized treat packed with rich, cheesy tikka filling.

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Dawn Editorial

Mesopotamian rivers

Iraq has warned that the Euphrates could run dry by 2040.

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Naseer Memon

Karachi winter festivities magnify through the Dolmen Shopping Festival 2025-26

Dolmen Mall, Pakistan’s first international standard mall, commences its highly anticipated Dolmen Shopping Festival 2025-26 today, bringing...

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Stalled tax effort

PAKISTAN’S tax effort appears to have plateaued. Or so the latest IMF projections stress. After a jump of 1.4 percentage points in the tax-to-GDP...

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Dawn Editorial

A way out

AFTER the weekend deliberations in the federal capital concluded with both the opposition and government camps calling for dialogue, some political...

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Dawn Editorial

Climate liberalism dilemma

Climate liberalism dilemma

DEMOCRACY’S greatest virtue is its humanity. It trusts people to think, argue, dissent, and decide. It believes political legitimacy comes from...

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Aisha Khan

Psychology of poverty

Psychology of poverty

“Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one”. — John Wall, World Bank, 2006 IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the...

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Murad Moosa Khan

PayFast marks eight years with launch of Raast QR Payments for doorstep deliveries

PayFast, Pakistan’s leading licensed payment platform and the first Merchant Service Provider to launch Raast, has marked eight years of growth and...

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Going, going, gone

FOR the first time in 35 years, Chilean voters this month decisively voted into power an admirer of their despicable former dictator, Augusto...

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Mahir Ali

Quick fixes

EVERY economic slowdown in Pakistan revives the expectation within the business community that some incentives will quickly restore growth. This...

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Ehsan Malik

Historical footprints

PAKISTAN’s list of derelict heritage sites and monuments is exhaustive and depressing. The Municipal Public Library in Bannu is the latest victim...

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Dawn Editorial

Mutating cancer cells of hatred

TWO Muslim men, apparently a father-son duo of Indian origin, went on a shooting spree at Australia’s legendary Bondi Beach last week where they...

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Jawed Naqvi

A new nuisance

A new nuisance

THE advent of WhatsApp has transformed the way people use mobile phones. The increasing use of the app is drastically reducing reliance on emails,...

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Khurram Zia Khan

Resurgent extortion

IN a city that generates much of the nation’s wealth, extortion rackets are never far from the surface, as criminal gangs in Karachi seek to target...

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Dawn Editorial

Thar’s children travel to China chasing bigger dreams

For generations, the horizon of opportunity in Tharparkar has been shaped by its desert landscape, vast and striking yet often isolating. Access to...

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Publishing Partner

Uraan hyperbole

Uraan hyperbole

OUR autocratic setup recently launched with much glee an economic vision evocatively named Uraan. Its name invokes the ‘take-off’ stage in the now-...

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Dr Niaz Murtaza

Juniors’ achievement

WHAT the seniors couldn’t achieve, the juniors have done with aplomb — and provided a shot in the arm for Pakistan cricket. The Pakistan Under-19...

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Dawn Editorial

Breaking the ice

IT seems the political temperature in the federal capital fell by quite a few degrees this weekend. After weeks of fire and fury, which seems to...

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Dawn Editorial

The missing variable

PAKISTAN’S history goes around in circles, it is said repeatedly, these days. It has easily become the most popular analysis presented on the talk...

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Arifa Noor

Honouring promises

GERMANY’S decision to admit more than 500 Afghans stranded in Pakistan is a welcome, albeit belated step towards honouring commitments that should...

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Dawn Editorial

Recovering history

OVER the past two decades, the study of Pakistan’s post-independence history has grown considerably richer. As previously hidden or uncovered...

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Umair Javed

IWT violation

THE recent disruptions in the Chenab river flow show a clear pattern in which India has repeatedly manipulated its upstream position to exert...

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Dawn Editorial

Labour abuse

EUROPEAN patients sleeping on clean hospital sheets likely pay no attention to the hands that stitched them and the terrible cost paid by those...

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Dawn Editorial

Attention spans

Attention spans

YOUNG people focus attention for hours during a football game that they are passionate about, or while watching a nail-biting cricket match, or...

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Neda Mulji

What to expect

What to expect

WHAT a difference a year makes. 2025 has not merely been eventful, it has been transformative. Many of us will be ending the year with firm beliefs...

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Huma Yusuf

An ‘America First’ strategy

An ‘America First’ strategy

THE National Security Strategy (NSS) recently released by the Trump administration leaves little doubt that it is an effort to redirect US foreign...

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Maleeha Lodhi

Reflections on 2025

Reflections on 2025

IN many ways, the year 2025 was an epochal moment for Pakistan. The country stood up to an aggressor much larger in size and resources, instilling...

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Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry

Regional disparities

IN his address at the University of Haripur recently, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made important albeit familiar remarks of how national progress...

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Dawn Editorial

Fatwas & narrative war

Fatwas & narrative war

IT was troubling to witness India and Pakistan descend into a futile blame game after the tragic Bondi Beach incident in Sydney, with both sides...

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Muhammad Amir Rana

New internal security order

New internal security order

IT was troubling to witness India and Pakistan descend into a futile blame game after the tragic Bondi Beach incident in Sydney, with both sides...

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Muhammad Amir Rana

Dressing the part

Dressing the part

EVERY time I go see M, a local fashion designer I discovered earlier this year after deciding to only buy local brands, she asks me how that piece...

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Muna Khan

Ending the war within

Ending the war within

SERIOUS global challenges and their likely impact on Pakistan’s fragile economy make it incumbent on this country to initiate a process of national...

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Abbas Nasir

Curious cases

THE reason why it is so important for justice to be seen to be done is so that there are no questions left in the minds of the public regarding the...

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Dawn Editorial

Bangladesh upheaval

BANGLADESH has been rocked by spasms of violence after a student leader, who was shot in Dhaka recently, succumbed to his injuries while receiving...

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