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Out on a limb

One can seize the moment and look towards the future.

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Muna Khan

More than a number

MOVING into 2026, Pakistan stands as the world’s fifth most populous country, with more than 255m people. This ...

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Dawn Editorial

Terrorism data deficit

In the absence of authentic official data, research groups rely heavily on open sources.

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Muhammad Amir Rana

Smoking the peace pipe dream

Unless Rana Sanaullah knows something about a change of mind in either one or both quarters, a headway can be wished

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Abbas Nasir

Unwanted, unneeded

THE festive mood from the New Year’s celebrations had not even begun to wear off, when the world appeared ready to...

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Dawn Editorial

Extreme move

THE life sentences handed down by an anti-terrorism court to bloggers and journalists for their alleged role in the...

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Dawn Editorial

Looking ahead

How will Pakistan manage its foreign ties in 2026?

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Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry

Helpful suggestions

THE Prime Minister’s Adviser on Political Affairs, Rana Sanaullah, was not far off the mark during a TV interview on Thursday when he suggested...

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Dawn Editorial

Dangerous celebrations

EACH New Year’s Eve, as fireworks light the sky in much of the world, Pakistan witnesses a darker ritual. Bullets are fired into the air and return...

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Dawn Editorial

OICCI proposals

THE proposals of the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry, relating to Pakistan’s march towards a liberal electricity market, do not...

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Dawn Editorial

Climate reckoning

TEN years after the Paris Agreement, the global climate report card is brutally honest and painfully incomplete. The system we built — from the UN...

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Aisha Khan

Lessons from PIA’s privatisation

THE transfer of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to private ownership is, on balance, a welcome development. Yet much of the public discussion...

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Nadeem-Ul-Haque

Trapped in sham austerity

SINCE 2022, the installed government has imposed, under the watch of the IMF, a crushing burden on ordinary Pakistanis via austerity policy. A...

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Sakib Sherani

A Muslim mayor

IT was the first time that a copy of the Holy Quran was used at the Thursday midnight swearing-in ceremony of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York...

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Rafia Zakaria

Just a handshake

IT was a handshake that sent a ripple through the region. On Wednesday, National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq and India’s External Affairs Minister...

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Dawn Editorial

PM’s optimism

PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s declaration on New Year’s Eve that the government would exit crisis mode — “with macroeconomic indicators...

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Dawn Editorial

Words without actions

MOST conversations on educational issues in Pakistan, sooner than later, come to the topic of ‘values’ in our society — our young people in...

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Faisal Bari

Revolution today

IT is New Year’s Day, 2050. Pakistan’s 400 million people make it the world’s third most populous country. A four-decade-long youth bulge is as...

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Criminalising free speech

Peca is being used against lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders.

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Usama Khilji

Faith and reason

Faith, guided by intuition, is not blind.

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Sadiq Karim Soofi

NYC’s new mayor

ZOHRAN Mamdani’s swearing in as mayor of New York City places him at the helm of one of the world’s most complex...

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Dawn Editorial

Deadly drains

FROM Karachi, a familiar story: another child dead, swallowed by an uncovered manhole while playing. This Monday, eight-year-old Dilbar became the...

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Dawn Editorial

Correcting our consumption

Our consumption habits assault both human health and planetary systems.

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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

A deadly threat

Only a collaborative effort can control rabies.

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Naseem Salahuddin

RIP Shamshad Akhtar

SHE was the shortest giant I ever met. Yet she commanded stature and could dominate a room full of people simply by being in it. It was the quiet...

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Khurram Husain

Endless winters

Viewers are still trying to make sense of the PIA transaction.

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F.s. Aijazuddin

The year ahead

PAKISTAN enters 2026 with problems it is well aware of but has failed to resolve. Three alarm bells in particular are sounding off: resurgent...

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Dawn Editorial

Climate resilience

THE Asian Development Bank’s latest climate resilience financing for Pakistan should reinforce the country’s...

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Dawn Editorial

Florida meeting

EXPECTATIONS that peace will prevail in the Middle East in the new year remain slim, especially after US President...

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Dawn Editorial

Malicious intent

INDIA’S renewed push to fast-track several disputed hydropower projects on the Indus basin rivers controlled by Pakistan is not a coincidence. The...

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Dawn Editorial

Hoping against hope

IN Washington, a short walk can feel like an exercise in mapping the world’s anxieties. On one quiet stretch of Northwest DC, Pakistan’s embassy...

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Virginie Mangin

Touring CM

OUR leaders have developed a strange tendency to be everywhere other than where they need to be. The KP chief...

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Dawn Editorial

COP30 unpacked

COP30 in Brazil last month was a high mark of multilateralism in 2025. In the background of geopolitical tensions, it held its ground and...

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Jamil Ahmad

Misgovernance & low growth

ECONOMISTS agree that cities are the primary engines of economic growth. All our development partners have been telling us that, without addressing...

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Mohammad Younus Dagha

Scrappy new year?

“I WISH you … every happiness for the new year,” Karl Marx wrote to Friedrich Engels in December 1861, before adding: “If it’s anything like...

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Mahir Ali

Dun & Bradstreet Pakistan and Gallup Pakistan issue the 19th edition of Pakistan Consumer Confidence Index (CCI)

Dun & Bradstreet Pakistan and Gallup Pakistan have released the 19th edition of the Pakistan Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for the first quarter...

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