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Fictitious assets

The resources the government will put at risk if it ventures into the world of crypto are public resources.

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Khurram Husain

Four-day war

To implement its philosophy the RSS believes in kinetic action.

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Tasneem Noorani

Pax in terris

China’s adhesion to Pakistan is now well tested.

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F.s. Aijazuddin

Patriarchal views

THE CII’s commitment to stalling pro-women legislation with conservative interpretations of religion and tradition...

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Dawn Editorial

Going cashless

Govt needs to create an ecosystem for digital transactions before we can actually hope to become a cashless economy.

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Dawn Editorial

Bread & bullets

AS if the anti-Pakistan venom being spewed by hyper-nationalist sections of the Indian media was not enough, sadly,...

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Dawn Editorial

A tale of two tracks

Sloth and inertia have made the civil services unresponsive and inefficient.

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Ishrat Husain

27 years after Chagai: nuclear shadows & doctrinal dilemma

Twenty-seven years after Pakistan’s nuclear tests, a pressing doctrinal dilemma has come into focus: while the nuclear ars­enal has succeeded in...

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Dawn Editorial

Lies & politics

FOR journalists, it is something many dream about. The job of reporting crime and corruption could be made much easier if all they needed to do to...

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Dawn Editorial

Budget strategy

WHAT’S the budget if not ‘strategic’? A mere accounting exercise; an attempt at balancing income and expenditure of the government? Well, the...

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Dawn Editorial

A war without end

SUCCESSFUL defence against India’s unwarranted aggression is certainly a great accomplishment and a matter of pride for the nation and the security...

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Zahid Hussain

Killing journalists

AMID constant sociopolitical turmoil, Pakistan’s journalists have been under siege for long. As attempts to intimidate them into silence grow more...

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Dawn Editorial

Who is winning the war?

WE are celebrating our victory. And with good reason. Our mature and befitting response to the unprovoked aggression on non-military targets by...

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Seema Ilahi Baloch

Deadly distractions

AMONG the innumerable miracles Donald Trump claims to have performed in the past four months, has he also sidelined the Netanyahu regime? That was...

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Mahir Ali

Coast capture

A NEWS item in Dawn of May 21 informs us that federal and provincial ministers and members of the Board of Investment have proposed the development...

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Arif Hasan

Power move

THE plans are, no doubt, quite ambitious. Whether or not they are realistic is a different question altogether. For now, there seems to be no...

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Dawn Editorial

Hard answers

IN the subcontinent, these days, the smell of victory is in the air, which is usually just choked with pollution. And while Pakistan is confident...

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Arifa Noor

The AI moment

AI isn’t disruptive because it will “outsmart” us. It’s disruptive because it dissolves a distinction we thought was solid — the line between human...

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Fatima Waqi Sajjad

Banu Mushtaq’s polyglot India

GOOGLE Translate has become among the handiest apps for a good reason. It discards the cliché about the meaning getting lost in translation and...

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Jawed Naqvi

War and peace

After ending in a draw on the battlefield, the epic Indo-Pak tussle has moved to the battlefield of peaceful diplomacy, where it belonged from day...

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Dr Niaz Murtaza

Qalandars triumph

A PAKISTAN Super League season that had to be halted and then restarted, losing some star power in the process, delivered the most gripping climax....

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Dawn Editorial

Diplomatic blitzkrieg

AFTER facing off on the battlefield, Pakistan and India are now fighting a battle of narratives, with each side sending high-level delegations to...

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Dawn Editorial

Budget delay

THE government has delayed the announcement of the budget for the next fiscal year by a little over a week to June 10, presumably due to lingering...

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Dawn Editorial

China’s soft power

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have made the crucial calls that helped de-escalate recent hostilities between Pakistan and India, but China...

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Huma Yusuf

Security and insecurity

WARS, even short ones, carry plenty of consequences. The India-Pakistan one from earlier this month was no different. Its aftermath leaves behind a...

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Umair Javed

Last mile?

WITH the national tally of polio cases rising to 10 following two new confirmations in KP, Pakistan’s ambition to eliminate the virus by year’s end...

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Dawn Editorial

Straight to the top

NO summit seems beyond reach for Naila Kiani. She is now a mere two peaks away from making history. In so many ways, she already has. In terms of...

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Dawn Editorial

Conscience is dead

GERMAN satirist Kurt Tucholsky wrote, “The death of one man: this is a catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of deaths: that is a statistic!” As...

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Syed Sheheryar Raza Zaidi

The forever war

DURING President Donald Trump’s recent three-nation visit to the Middle East reports in the international media suggested he had sidelined Israel...

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Maleeha Lodhi

Troubled waters

THOUGH the guns may have fallen silent on both sides, the Indian state continues to dangle the threat of stopping Pakistan’s rightful access to...

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Dawn Editorial

Principled stand

THE war unleashed on American academia now has global attention. With Harvard University pushing back against the Trump administration’s attempts...

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Dawn Editorial

Faith, fear, fragility

FEAR and anxiety have deeply penetrated Pakistani society, undermined social cohesion and eroded the social fabric. One of the major factors...

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Muhammad Amir Rana

About face

SINCE returning to Pakistan in 2017, with each passing year, I have noted how folks are beginning to look the same. Nowhere is this more visible...

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Muna Khan

Captive women

PAKISTAN’S stormy history of political and rights protests shows that even the use of excessive state brutality has never been able to fracture the...

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Dawn Editorial

Judicial surrender

IN October 2023, when the Supreme Court struck down the military trials of civilians, the detailed judgement began with the following quote: “even...

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Rida Hosain

Balance needed to win long war

WHO won and who lost in a war or a conflict between two or more nations is a question that is not often easily answered, especially in a limited...

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Abbas Nasir