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Potato exports

THE federal decision to permit potato exports to Pakistan’s main markets — Afghanistan, Central Asia and beyond...

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

End of stability

A stagnant economy cannot afford high prices, high taxes and high debt burdens for long.

80

Dawn

Khurram Husain

The Don-roe doctrine

A Great Dane is no match for a hungry Rottweiler.

70

Dawn

F.s. Aijazuddin

Afghnaistan’s War Economy and the Mineral

40

The Patriot

The Patriot Newsdesk

Pakistan at important stage in shaping its digital asset ecosystem: Aurangzeb

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Tuesday that Pakistan was at an early but important stage in shaping its digital asset ecosystem. He...

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Dawn Business

News Desk

Bye oil, hello rare earths!

Unrivalled advancements in technology have transformed rare earth elements (REEs) into a strategic tool not only to produce high-tech defence...

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The Express Tribune

Dr Muhammad Babar Chohan

A Familiar Nightmare: How Afghanistan is Becoming a Hub for Terrorists Once Again

40

Paradigm Shift

Junaid Ashraf

Why The World Can No Longer Ignore The Drug Economy!

20

Pakistan Observer

News Desk

Booming Defense

10

The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

US disputed power surge

10

Pakistan Observer

Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi

How Punjab is rewiring governance

30

Pakistan Observer

Qudrat Ullah

What is going to happen in Iran?

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Pakistan Observer

Dr Farooq Adil

When ballots face bullets

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Pakistan Observer

M A Hossain

Crises Fatigue in Police

10

The Nation

Aamir Zulfiqar Khan

The Fight for Language

10

The Nation

Ubaid Sahil

Four Peace Committee Members Killed In Bannu Attack

10

Naya Daur

Naya Daur News Desk

General Asim Munir’s Leadership Boosts Pakistan’s Military, Diplomacy, And Defence Exports

10

Naya Daur

Naya Daur News Desk

Iran on the edges

The situation in Iran is getting worse by the day. The economic crunch that led to the ongoing uprising after the tumultuous fall of the Iranian...

50

The Express Tribune

Editorial

AI skills to learn in 2026

Artificial Intelligence has taken center stage in today's world. It is now deeply embedded across the modern workforce, powering virtual...

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The Express Tribune

Dr Imran Batada

Road to safety

Impact of DV laws becomes clear only when they are implemented.

30

Dawn

Rida Tahir

Economic renaissance

20

Pakistan Observer

News Desk

Crypto Diplomacy

20

The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

Subsidised consumers eat up power tariff cut

ISLAMABAD: Challenges in the power sector continue to grow as the number of poor and subsidised consumers more than doubled to 21 million in three...

20

Dawn Business

Khaleeq Kiani

Greenland’s Colonial History

20

The Nation

Atle Hetland

Pakistan Strengthens Pacific Ties: Climate, Agriculture, And Trade At The Forefront

20

Naya Daur

Naya Daur News Desk

Politics of hate

HATE speech against Muslims in India is no longer sporadic. It is organised and increasingly led by those in power. ...

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Sporting Spiral

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The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

Visa checks

IT is a pragmatic response to the various immigration-related issues that had been accumulating. On Tuesday, ...

40

Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Pakistan’s climate moment

America’s withdrawal from the UN climate treaty must be treated as an opportunity.

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Dawn

Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Winter as a Weapon

20

The Patriot

The Patriot Newsdesk

Teachers or brutes?

The Aziz Brohi Goth area in Karachi's Manghopir witnessed insurmountable cruelty in the past days when a madrassa teacher reportedly assaulted a...

20

The Express Tribune

Editorial

Hostile remarks

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister wants evidence of something that is visible to the whole world. Sohail Afridi wants the state of Pakistan to...

20

The Express Tribune

Editorial

Policies being evolved to support SMEs

KARACHI: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Industries and Production Haroon Akhtar Khan has said that supporting small and medium...

40

Dawn Business

The Newspapers Staff Reporter

Govt planning to impose ‘export emergency’, create special cell at PM Office to address hurdles

ISLAMABAD: The government has planned to announce an ‘export emergency’ in the country and create a special cell at PM Office to address problems...

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Dawn Business

Khaleeq Kiani

A locked region and its trapped voices

Recalling John Locke's thought experiment of 'Locked Room', imagine a person is sitting in a room with a friend. Unknown to him is that the room is...

20

The Express Tribune

Maryam Tamoor

A revolution worth fighting for!

What truly holds a society back? Is it poverty, illiteracy, corruption or bad governance? While these are serious issues, they are often symptoms,...

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The Express Tribune

M Zeb Khan

The Geopolitics of Climate Change

Unequal influence among states, competing national interests, and strategic calculations often limit collective ambition, leaving vulnerable...

10

The Spine Times

Aqsa Fazilat

Cartoon

10

The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

K&N’s SmartCooking Recipes: Peri Peri Wings

Crispy K&N’s Combo Wings tossed in homemade peri peri sauce and served with golden garlic bread for a bold winter bite.

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Spiralling crisis

WITH Iran standing at the very edge of a dangerous precipice, regional powers must step up and do what they can in a diplomatic capacity to defuse...

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Gunboat diplomacy

The unrest in Iran seems to have encouraged the US president to threaten military action.

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Dawn

Zahid Hussain

Enhancing exports

THE planning minister’s proposal to declare an ‘export emergency’ reflects a growing realisation that there ...

100

Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Iranian nights

ROUTINE predictions about the impending demise of Iran’s repressive theocracy over the past couple of decades tended to be little more than wishful...

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Dawn

Mahir Ali

Not the NFC’s fault

WITH the constitution of the 11th National Finance Commission, the debate around revenue sharing takes centre-stage. For years, the federal...

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Dawn

Waqar Wadho

BRI, Global South and New World Disorder: A Way Forward

Many international organizations and leading security experts have expressed grave concerns about the emergence of a new world disorder that poses...

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Pakistan Observer

Dr Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan

CPEC: Pakistan Before the Corridor, Under It, and Without It

Before the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was conceived, Pakistan’s economy was constrained by structural weaknesses that had persisted...

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Pakistan Observer

Zahid Maqsood Sheikh

From Crisis to Cautious Optimism

The presentation of the Monthly Development Report for January 2026 by Ahsan Iqbal, the Federal Minister for Planning, provides a cautiously...

40

The Patriot

The Patriot Newsdesk

The water weapon!

FOR over six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) served as a rare cornerstone of stability in South Asia. Brokered by the World Bank, it...

40

Pakistan Observer

Faisal Ahmad

A Green Capital

The federal government, the Islamabad Capital Territory administration, and Pakistan’s environmental community, including WWF Pakistan, are...

40

The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

A world without rules: Gathering storm

THERE are moments in history when the world changes quietly, almost imperceptibly and then there are moments when the change is so brutal, so...

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Pakistan Observer

Lt Gen Omar Mahmood Hayat Retd