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With the sleeves rolled up

This is the time for the left to be initiating and, where possible, spearheading mass movements against the rightward slide.

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Jawed Naqvi

Cities in our memories

Islamabad’s greenery is being replaced by big roads, flyovers and underpasses.

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Arifa Noor

Blaming the IMF

THE call by a panel, led by the planning and development minister, for ‘urgent ease of doing business reforms’ ...

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Dawn Editorial

Solo flight

THE KP chief minister’s eventful visit to Sindh has thrown up the same questions that his recent, equally eventful...

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Dawn Editorial

Unchecked LPG use

THE tragic blast in Islamabad that killed a newly-wed couple and six others, and left many injured, has once again...

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Misogyny’s polite face

Authority is kept from women at the workplace.

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Khadija Bari

Biggest conglomerate

Competition is constrained by design, not accident.

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Ehsan Malik

Melos to Maduros

NOTHING truly fundamental has changed in humanity. Sure, we traded skins for suits and spears for smart bombs but at our core we have remained...

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Zarrar Khuhro

Mental health in a broken world

“The stark reality for the vast majority of people in the non-Western world, transcending everything, is poverty. Currently one quarter of the...

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Murad Moosa Khan

Police-levies merger

THE Balochistan government’s decision to formally merge the over century-old levies force into the Balochistan Police and abolish the distinction...

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Dawn Editorial

Deathly processes

IT is often said that every process has at least three versions. How the bosses think it works, how it actually works and how it ought to work. Let...

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Naeem Sadiq

‘Donroe doctrine’ in action

OVERTHROWING governments in Latin America has long been the US practice from a familiar playbook. The US has for decades intervened by military...

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Maleeha Lodhi

Denuded future

THE political leadership appears out of sync with the annual wrath of the elements. Scores of trees in Islamabad ...

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Dawn Editorial

The morality trap

WHEN Donald Trump says that his power is restrained only by “my own morality”, he is not just boasting, he is making a case for a philosophy that...

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Dawn Editorial

2025 PMGC captures the pulsating energy driving global esports

Bangkok became the stage for one of the biggest moments in esports this year. As the PUBG MOBILE Global Championship (2025 PMGC) Grand Finals lit...

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Troubling events

DARKNESS has descended over next-door Iran, where widespread, violent protests refuse to abate, posing the most serious governance and security...

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Dawn Editorial

Suffocating existence

A NEW report by the UN strips away whatever little ambiguity remained around Israel’s conduct in occupied West Bank. For the first time, a UN...

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Dawn Editorial

‘Good night and good luck’

MCCARTHYISM is a ghost that survives within political and institutional systems. It thrives on witch-hunts, rejects scrutiny, and shields itself...

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Muhammad Amir Rana

Karachi flyovers

FLYOVERS are being demolished all over the world because they are considered ugly and they break the openness of the city. The space they occupy is...

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Arif Hasan

It’s too political

I’M surprised the lords ruling my algorithm did not alert me about Jan Komasa’s film Anniversary, or that it didn’t receive the media attention it...

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Muna Khan

Cricket concerns

SCHEDULE uncertainty persists at yet another multilateral cricket tournament to be held in South Asia. Once again, it involves India, which has...

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Dawn Editorial

Living in interesting times

SINCE the so-called rules-based order is crumbling in whatever flawed form it existed, those with power are asserting themselves in the most...

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Abbas Nasir

New mobile services

PAKISTAN is no stranger to the sharing economy, yet a recent news item about big changes in the country’s...

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Dawn Editorial

Flight of harmony

AFTER 14 years, direct flights between Bangladesh and Pakistan are ready for take-off. Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ first Dhaka to Karachi flight...

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Colonial romance

An effective criminal justice system evolves.

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Mohammad Ali Babakhel

When might becomes right

THE US invasion of Venezuela — however it is ultimately justified in Washington — marks more than a regional rupture. It signals a deeper shift in...

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Aisha Khan

IWT: the legal response

Pakistan must protest at every step India takes towards building works on the western rivers.

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Ahmer Bilal Soofi

Pound of flesh

ONE would think that everyone in the world knows that nothing is free. Every favour granted, every kindness bestowed has its cost — sometimes the...

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Rafia Zakaria

Anti-terrorism fight

PAKISTAN’S troubled relationship with Afghanistan now forms the centre of its security crisis. The International Crisis Group notes the irony that...

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Dawn Editorial

Riverine criminals

THE Sindh government’s decision to launch what its home minister described as a “massive operation” to eliminate bandits in the katcha areas...

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Dawn Editorial

More than words

IT appears that ‘dialogue’ is fast becoming a buzzword in the federal capital. After both the treasury and...

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Forgotten women

Women’s daily decisions shape the fertility of our soils.

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Nasira Habib

Pre-monsoon audit

THE NDMA’s decision to launch a nationwide Infrastructure Audit Programme before the monsoon is a welcome step. It...

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Afterlife of disaster

FIFTEEN years after the Airblue ED 202 plane crash that killed all 152 people on board, an appellate court in Islamabad has awarded Rs5.4 billion...

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Maria Ahmad

People are eating less

Macroeconomic repairs are being carried out by impoverishing the people.

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Zafar Mirza

Excluded from healthcare

WOMEN’S access to healthcare in Pakistan is shaped not only by poverty, but also by the intersection of documentation, marginalisation and gender....

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Tahera Hasan