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HEC focuses on digitising higher education in Pakistan

HEC focuses on digitising higher education in Pakistan

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has launched a major digital transformation initiative to improve public universities across the...

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Why Trump hates Harvard

Why Trump hates Harvard

AMERICA’S universities are the envy of the world, the epitome of academic excellence. Their groundbreaking research, independent thinking, open...

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Pervez Hoodbhoy

TTP footholds

TTP footholds

SINCE the Musharraf era — that is, for over two decades now — KP, particularly the ex-Fata region, has been a war zone, suffering from terrorist...

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Dawn Editorial

Going nowhere

THE Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway seems to be paved with broken promises and not much else. No matter how many times the authorities promise it is near...

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Dawn Editorial

Common playbook

Common playbook

IF one wants to understand how extreme and religiously fuelled nationalism can lead to damage and devastation, we need only look at the example of...

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Rafia Zakaria

USC’s closure

TO many, the closure of the state-owned utility stores highlights the failure of successive governments to reform what they believe could have been...

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Dawn Editorial

Alaska introduces Advanced Graphite Battery Series built for high temperatures

Alaska introduces Advanced Graphite Battery Series built for high temperatures

In an industry saturated with generic claims of innovation and dependability, Alaska Batteries is making a decisive leap forward by introducing a...

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Pepsi partners with PCB to make cricket accessible to girls

Pepsi partners with PCB to make cricket accessible to girls

In Lahore, a city where cricket is deeply rooted in culture, Pepsi launched more than just a campaign. At the historic LCCA Ground, in partnership...

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Pandemonium in assembly

Pandemonium in assembly

HARDLY a week had passed since the Punjab Assembly Speaker withdrew the suspension orders against 26 PTI-supported MPAs embroiled in rowdyism when...

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Ahmed Bilal Mehboob

Justice in decay

FOR many litigants and junior lawyers, City Courts is their first experience with Pakistan’s judicial system. It is the court of first instance:...

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Talha Akhlaq

Meritocracy

Meritocracy

THE Holy Prophet (PBUH) is believed to have said that ‘paradise lies under the feet of mothers’; therefore, one must be good to their mother. The...

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Amin Valliani

Community and governance

Community and governance

CAN we have a law-enforcement officer or a video camera on every street corner, in every public space, physical and online? Clearly not. How do...

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Faisal Bari

Poverty by design

ACCORDING to the World Bank’s new poverty estimates, 44.7 per cent of Pakistan’s population (around 110 million) now lives in poverty. The...

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Saeed Ahmed

New Pak-US era?

New Pak-US era?

THE new deal reached between Pakistan and the US marks a breakthrough in their oft-strained relations. Both sides claimed on Thursday that they...

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Dawn Editorial

Selfless act

EVEN in death, some courageously choose to offer others a second chance at life. The recent example of 23-year-old Sultan Zafar, whose kidneys were...

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Dawn Editorial

Hasty disqualifications

THERE were no surprises here. Earlier this week, four lawmakers associated with the PTI, including the leader of the opposition in the Punjab...

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Dawn Editorial

Oily deal

Oily deal

IN typically sensational fashion, Donald Trump pronounced on social media earlier this week that the US and Pakistan had concluded a deal to...

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

A hybrid wasteland

A hybrid wasteland

NO reform agenda is likely to emerge while the country runs under a so-called hybrid regime. Almost by its definition, such a set-up rests...

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Khurram Husain

Betrayed citizens

THE measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members — and by that measure, Pakistan is failing its sanitation workers. A new...

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Dawn Editorial

Götterdämmerung

Götterdämmerung

WILL there ever be peace on earth? Not in my lifetime. And not on this earth. World War II detonated in sequence: the Anschluss or annexation of...

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F.s. Aijazuddin

Trapped in the past

Trapped in the past

IN the 21st century, a university’s role goes far beyond lectures and exams. Glo­bally, campuses drive tech revolutions, seed start-ups and shape...

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Hassan A. Shah

Sugar politics

Sugar politics

THE revelation by the auditor general of Pakistan that the sugar mill owners have stashed away a staggering Rs300bn in additional profits by...

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Dawn Editorial

Arbaeen travel ban

THE government’s decision to ban travel to Iraq via Iran by the land route for Arbaeen seems both abrupt and arbitrary, coming just two weeks...

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Dawn Editorial

Pakistan’s changing climate

Pakistan’s changing climate

THE ongoing floods paint a stark picture: the traditional monsoon system that has sustained the region for millennia is undergoing dramatic...

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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Selling people

MODERN bondage, or human trafficking, is among the gravest violations of human rights. In socioeconomically distressed or conflict-ridden...

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Dawn Editorial

Faulty narrative

MORE than three months after the deadly Pahalgam episode in held Kashmir, the BJP-led Indian government is still struggling to construct a...

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Dawn Editorial

Tirah disturbances

A SERIES of events has shaken residents in the already restive Tirah Valley in recent days. On Saturday, a minor girl was reportedly killed in the...

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Dawn Editorial

Back in the US embrace

Back in the US embrace

THE recent visit of Pakistan’s foreign minister to Washington and his meeting with the US secretary of state is being seen as yet another sign of...

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Zahid Hussain

Explaining Trump 2.0

Explaining Trump 2.0

THE American empire is committing suicide. Americans re-elected Donald Trump, knowing his fascist proclivities, to accomplish precisely this aim....

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Anis Shivani

Where did the gas go?

IN most middle-income countries, particularly across the Global South, it’s rare for households to receive piped natural gas directly into their...

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Srraa Tahir

Enabling genocide

A BRIEF pause in small portions of the targeted territory before the death knell sounds again. That’s what Israeli concessions of a temporary...

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Mahir Ali

A land far, far away

LESS than two years later, the Baloch women are back protesting in Islamabad. They don’t seem to have received much attention this time, but that...

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Arifa Noor

Heritage as woman

Heritage as woman

ALL over the world, heritage is usually considered to be a building. In Karachi, it is normally a 19th- or early 20th-century structure. Its age is...

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Arif Hasan

Farmers’ distress

THE Pakistan Kissan Ittehad has painted an alarming picture of Pakistan’s agricultural sector, highlighting neglect, rising production costs and...

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Dawn Editorial

Time for Palestine

Time for Palestine

INTERNATIONAL momentum behind Palestinian statehood is growing. France’s announcement that it will formally recognise the State of Palestine at the...

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Dawn Editorial

Stem the tide

THE statistics are sobering. Despite frantic efforts to contain its spread, the tally of polio cases this year has already risen to 17. What is...

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Dawn Editorial

About electing a new people

BIHAR is India’s rare Hindi-speaking state where the BJP has not won a majority on its own. The land is where Buddha attained Enlightenment and...

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Jawed Naqvi

LSBE and youth

LSBE and youth

RECENTLY, a 19-year-old newlywed was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Karachi in a comatose state. She had experienced brutal...

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Kishwar Enam