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K&N's SmartCooking Recipes: Shami Kabab Patties

K&N's SmartCooking Recipes: Shami Kabab Patties

Flaky, golden pastry filled with creamy vegetables and a crispy K&N’s Shami Kabab for a delicious twist on a classic patty.

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Dawn Editorial

Sarsabz announces winners of ‘Dil Se Dekho Sarsabz Pakistan’ campaign

Sarsabz announces winners of ‘Dil Se Dekho Sarsabz Pakistan’ campaign

The result was a vibrant collection of perspectives that celebrated the many ways Pakistan is experienced and cherished.

yesterday 30

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Dawn Editorial

Chery Q bookings open with Rs1.5 million — your Q to beat the fuel bill

Chery Q bookings open with Rs1.5 million — your Q to beat the fuel bill

Chery Q redefines the everyday car with exceptional space, intelligent technology, uncompromised safety and electric value.

yesterday 30

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Dawn Editorial

Housing finance

THE property survey ordered by the prime minister to identify plots eligible for mortgage under the Apna Ghar Scheme...

yesterday 80

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Dawn Editorial

Towards dystopia

FIRST, AI became capable. It began demonstrating surprising capabilities in generating text, images, code and...

yesterday 150

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Dawn Editorial

After Sept 11

A QUARTER of a century since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, the world continues to feel the effects of that epochal...

yesterday 150

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Dawn Editorial

Terror forever

Terror forever

The policing of dissent is paralleled by Big Tech’s power.

yesterday 90

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Political order

Political order

In Islam politics is through and through a moral endeavour.

yesterday 100

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Ghulam Shabbir

Bank domination

Bank domination

Commercial banks have become the easiest channel through which government finances its fiscal deficit.

yesterday 30

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Shahid Kardar

Flu: a public health crisis

Flu: a public health crisis

There is no public effort to promote flu vaccination.

yesterday 80

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Faisal Bari

Better learning

Better learning

Newer methods imply letting go of old habits.

08.09.2026 200

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Neda Mulji

The perpetual weak link

The perpetual weak link

A nagging frustration stalks Narendra Modi’s battle to project himself to the world as a visionary from India.

08.09.2026 80

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Jawed Naqvi

Clichés we use

Clichés we use

Clichés are used not just to describe but also to define how the country’s politics is run.

08.09.2026 100

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Arifa Noor

Anti-drone division

THE ongoing wave of terrorism in the country has resulted in an unacceptably high number of casualties amongst...

08.09.2026 200

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Dawn Editorial

Sugar trap

ONCE again, the government is preparing to repeat an experiment that has cost consumers dearly. The sugar industry...

08.09.2026 250

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Dawn Editorial

Redrawing the map

IT has been quite something to watch a whisper become, in a matter of weeks, the state’s new “number one...

08.09.2026 400

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Dawn Editorial

Resource curse

Resource curse

Infighting prevents Afghanistan from realising its mineral potential.

08.09.2026 100

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Dr Raashid Wali Janjua

Online danger

THE digital age contains death traps for children. A new Unicef report reveals a global child exploitation ...

07.09.2026 250

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Dawn Editorial

Export reality

THE FPCCI is rightly concerned over the burgeoning trade deficit that has widened by 18.1pc to $7.1bn in the first...

07.09.2026 100

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Dawn Editorial

Unending war

WITH the world’s focus regarding the US-Iran war largely on the conflict’s geopolitical dimensions and its ...

07.09.2026 250

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Dawn Editorial

The fertility option

The fertility option

The value of keeping an option open depends on what time allows.

07.09.2026 70

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Kulsoom Hisam

Dystopia now?

Dystopia now?

Why search page after page when summaries are available?

07.09.2026 100

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Zarrar Khuhro

International law prevails

International law prevails

The Permanent Court of Arbitration’s award in favour of Pakistan vindicates this country’s position.

07.09.2026 200

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Ahmer Bilal Soofi

A new dark age?

A new dark age?

Communication technology offers immense opportunities but has serious unintended consequences.

07.09.2026 700

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Maleeha Lodhi

YANA signals a new chapter In MoltyFoam's digital transformation

YANA signals a new chapter In MoltyFoam's digital transformation

Whether customers are just starting to explore the best mattress collection in Pakistan or narrowing down a specific product, YANA helps guide them to...

06.09.2026 40

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Dawn Editorial

Citadel of history

LAHORE’S cultural credence carries the weight of over 1,000 years of civilisational legacy. Studded with Mughal...

06.09.2026 100

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Dawn Editorial

Climate test

Adaptation cannot remain confined to emergency response after floods, heatwaves or droughts.

06.09.2026 250

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Dawn Editorial

Nourishing Pakistan

PAKISTAN’S nutrition crisis is not short of diagnosis. What it lacks is the machinery and political discipline to...

06.09.2026 150

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Dawn Editorial

Nobody’s job

Nobody’s job

The airport crisis is a failure of decisions.

06.09.2026 80

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Muna Khan

How many more?

How many more?

For many, women asserting their autonomy must be punished.

06.09.2026 100

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Rida Hosain

Meltdown in PCB

Meltdown in PCB

As actions of the PCB administration go, this is unprecedented. As human behaviour goes, this is lunacy.

06.09.2026 50

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Saad Shafqat

Searching for past glory

Searching for past glory

Pakistan is deepening its West Asian ties to bolster its defence power and strategic weight.

06.09.2026 250

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Muhammad Amir Rana

‘Cleansing’ Gaza

Palestinians must not be made to face another catastrophe executed by the Zionist state and underwritten by its staunch supporters in Washington.

05.09.2026 200

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Dawn Editorial

Data theft

Data theft

AT least the government is not trying to cover it up. That, perhaps, is the only silver lining in the alarming...

05.09.2026 200

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Dawn Editorial

Bond revival

Bond revival

PAKISTAN has raised a record $3bn in its single largest international capital market transaction through a...

05.09.2026 150

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Dawn Editorial

A horse and a man

A horse and a man

The assumption animals are unfeeling creatures is wrong.

05.09.2026 200

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Rafia Zakaria

‘Kindly adjust’

‘Kindly adjust’

Resilience has become an excuse for poor governance.

05.09.2026 100

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Ehsan Malik

Shame and shamelessness

There are a few who carry the burden of our collective shame and expiate it.

05.09.2026 100

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Salahuddin Ahmed

New AJK government’s task

A negotiated solution must be found for all contentious issues.

05.09.2026 90

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Ahmed Bilal Mehboob

Meydan Homes reimagines community living for Karachi's Baldia Town Belt

Meydan Homes reimagines community living for Karachi's Baldia Town Belt

Meydan Homes brings planned, gated community living to a corridor already surrounded by a substantial residential population, employment and...

04.09.2026 40

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Dawn Editorial

K&N's SmartCooking Recipes: Bologna Breakfast Egg Cups

K&N's SmartCooking Recipes: Bologna Breakfast Egg Cups

These savoury breakfast egg cups combine K&N’s Bologna with fluffy eggs, spring onions and melted cheddar for an easy, flavourful start to the day.

04.09.2026 40

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Dawn Editorial

Beyond listings

Pakistan’s strongest case for adding new treasures to the World Heritage List is to show that those already recognised by the world are being cared...

04.09.2026 100

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Dawn Editorial

GM maize concerns

THE Committee on Genetically Modified Corn has approved GM maize cultivation alongside hybrid and organic varieties....

04.09.2026 100

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Dawn Editorial

Ties with Kabul

WHILE diplomatic efforts are underway to restore dialogue with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, as the Foreign Office has...

04.09.2026 300

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Dawn Editorial

Erdogan’s tilt

Erdogan’s tilt

Turkiye’s military pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is astonishing.

04.09.2026 100

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Muhammad Ali Siddiqi

Chiniot dam plan

Chiniot dam plan

Sindh has expressed serious concerns about the dam.

04.09.2026 70

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Naseer Memon

Jumping the gun

Jumping the gun

The greatest risk is not that AI makes mistakes but that humans stop questioning its conclusions.

04.09.2026 70

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Nazir A. Jogezai

Fires, symptoms & the disease

Fires, symptoms & the disease

The system will change. It has to change. There is no other option.

04.09.2026 90

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Zafar Mirza

Four in ten children, one unfinished argument

Four in ten children, one unfinished argument

Pakistan's nutrition emergency comes to the conference table this week, but the numbers have been on the record for years

03.09.2026 50

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Dawn Editorial

Investing in people: nutrition moves to the centre

Investing in people: nutrition moves to the centre

The Prime Minister opens this week's nutrition conference at a moment when the government's own economic doctrine has already put children at the...

03.09.2026 60

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Dawn Editorial