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THE Prime Minister’s Adviser on Political Affairs, Rana Sanaullah, was not far off the mark during a TV interview...

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Dawn Editorial

Dangerous celebrations

EACH New Year’s Eve, as fireworks light the sky in much of the world, Pakistan witnesses a darker ritual. Bullets...

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Dawn Editorial

OICCI proposals

THE proposals of the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry, relating to Pakistan’s march towards a...

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Dawn Editorial

A Muslim mayor

Mamdani’s vision will require a fight to translate into reality.

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Rafia Zakaria

Climate reckoning

A decade on, the Paris compact is fraying.

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Aisha Khan

Trapped in sham austerity

Pakistanis have been crushed by fiscal austerity while the ruling elite has never had it better.

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Sakib Sherani

Lessons from PIA’s privatisation

The central lesson from PIA is that the real reform is not the sale itself but fixing the governance structure.

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Nadeem-Ul-Haque

Just a handshake

IT was a handshake that sent a ripple through the region. On Wednesday, National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq and India’s External Affairs Minister...

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Dawn Editorial

PM’s optimism

PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s declaration on New Year’s Eve that the government would exit crisis mode — “with macroeconomic indicators...

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Dawn Editorial

Words without actions

MOST conversations on educational issues in Pakistan, sooner than later, come to the topic of ‘values’ in our society — our young people in...

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Faisal Bari

Revolution today

IT is New Year’s Day, 2050. Pakistan’s 400 million people make it the world’s third most populous country. A four-decade-long youth bulge is as...

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Criminalising free speech

Peca is being used against lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders.

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Usama Khilji

Faith and reason

Faith, guided by intuition, is not blind.

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Sadiq Karim Soofi

NYC’s new mayor

ZOHRAN Mamdani’s swearing in as mayor of New York City places him at the helm of one of the world’s most complex...

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Dawn Editorial

Deadly drains

FROM Karachi, a familiar story: another child dead, swallowed by an uncovered manhole while playing. This Monday, eight-year-old Dilbar became the...

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Dawn Editorial

Correcting our consumption

Our consumption habits assault both human health and planetary systems.

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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

A deadly threat

Only a collaborative effort can control rabies.

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Naseem Salahuddin

RIP Shamshad Akhtar

SHE was the shortest giant I ever met. Yet she commanded stature and could dominate a room full of people simply by being in it. It was the quiet...

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Khurram Husain

Endless winters

Viewers are still trying to make sense of the PIA transaction.

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F.s. Aijazuddin

The year ahead

PAKISTAN enters 2026 with problems it is well aware of but has failed to resolve. Three alarm bells in particular are sounding off: resurgent...

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Dawn Editorial

Climate resilience

THE Asian Development Bank’s latest climate resilience financing for Pakistan should reinforce the country’s...

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Dawn Editorial

Florida meeting

EXPECTATIONS that peace will prevail in the Middle East in the new year remain slim, especially after US President...

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Dawn Editorial

Malicious intent

INDIA’S renewed push to fast-track several disputed hydropower projects on the Indus basin rivers controlled by Pakistan is not a coincidence. The...

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Dawn Editorial

Hoping against hope

IN Washington, a short walk can feel like an exercise in mapping the world’s anxieties. On one quiet stretch of Northwest DC, Pakistan’s embassy...

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Virginie Mangin

Touring CM

OUR leaders have developed a strange tendency to be everywhere other than where they need to be. The KP chief...

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Dawn Editorial

COP30 unpacked

COP30 in Brazil last month was a high mark of multilateralism in 2025. In the background of geopolitical tensions, it held its ground and...

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Jamil Ahmad

Misgovernance & low growth

ECONOMISTS agree that cities are the primary engines of economic growth. All our development partners have been telling us that, without addressing...

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Mohammad Younus Dagha

Scrappy new year?

“I WISH you … every happiness for the new year,” Karl Marx wrote to Friedrich Engels in December 1861, before adding: “If it’s anything like...

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Mahir Ali

Dun & Bradstreet Pakistan and Gallup Pakistan issue the 19th edition of Pakistan Consumer Confidence Index (CCI)

Dun & Bradstreet Pakistan and Gallup Pakistan have released the 19th edition of the Pakistan Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for the first quarter...

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A lethal year

DATA released by an Islamabad-based think tank confirms that 2025 was a lethal year where terrorism-related...

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Dawn Editorial

What will 2026 bring?

AWAY from the noise and bluster that dominated the news in the last few weeks of 2025, not enough attention was paid to a statement. Last month, at...

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Arifa Noor

Path to resilience

Preparedness must function as a system.

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Shoko Noda

Seed sector reform

THE Ministry of National Food Security & Research claims significant progress in reforms and initiatives aimed at strengthening Pakistan’s seed...

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Dawn Editorial

Pipe dreams?

WHILE industries across Pakistan complain of adverse market conditions, the country’s fledgling cannabis industry is getting a break. The...

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Dawn Editorial

Christmas in a strife-torn world

Practised cynicism was in evidence on Christmas Day at the highest level of government in India.

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Jawed Naqvi

Free to soar

A grounded aircraft costs thousands of dollars per hour.

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Moazzam Husain