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Raqami and Haball launch Shariah-compliant embedded finance solution for Pakistan’s SME sector

The two firms have introduced a Shariah-compliant embedded finance solution that enables SMEs to access collateral-free working capital directly...

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Abandoned Karachi

THE explosive mix of decay, institutional apathy and corruption has, once again, placed Karachi among the bottom ...

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Dawn Editorial

Pension bill

IT is, indeed, a worrying conundrum. The federal government’s annual pension burden now exceeds its fiscal space...

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Dawn Editorial

Brewing catastrophe

If Mr Trump makes the mistake of plunging into the fight on Israel’s behalf, the world will enter very dangerous territory.

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Dawn Editorial

TB after Global Fund

Are we prepared for the challenge?

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Naseem Salahuddin

Next in line?

The world is too dangerously close to World War III.

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F.s. Aijazuddin

Taxman’s powers of arrest

The legislators are right to look at how regressive the new tax measures are.

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Khurram Husain

Climate economy survey

Climate integration can eliminate the separation between environmental and economic analyses.

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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Spread of hate

HATE speech is not confined to words; in fact, there is a causal link between hateful rhetoric and real-world violence. That is why today, as we...

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Dawn Editorial

Rampant disinformation

WITH the arrival and proliferation of digital media, the creation of information is now a decentralised function, with anyone with an internet-...

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Dawn Editorial

America’s new war

IT is a war that Israel had been planning for years. After a nod from the Trump administration, the Zionist state last Friday unleashed multiple...

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Zahid Hussain

Tehran under fire

Aghaaz sey waqif ho, anjaam bhi dekho gey? — Faiz YES, Faiz sahib, we are indeed familiar with the outset and can’t avoid the outcome, whatever it...

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Mahir Ali

Big challenges

BALOCHISTAN’S Rs1.028tr budget, featuring a public development investment of Rs245bn and provincial surplus of Rs36.5bn, ostensibly aims to address...

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Dawn Editorial

Land reforms in GB

GILGIT-Baltistan’s unclear political status remains the primary obstacle to its progress and development. Historically, the region has viewed...

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Afzal Ali Shigri

Labour matters

PAKISTAN has ratified 36 conventions of the International Labour Organisation, with two of them relating to the formation of unions and collective...

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Parvez Rahim

No revenue effort

WITH the ruling PML-N’s next budget unfolding large infrastructure schemes, and expenditure focusing on service delivery, social protection, relief...

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Dawn Editorial

Dumb gets dumber

TWO issues we lament very frequently are the dumbing down of public discourse and institutions overstepping their mandate. Interestingly, most of...

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Shahzad Sharjeel

From jail to jail

SEVENTY-year-old Safiya Bibi, shaking and sobbing behind a thick mesh grill, pleads incoherently to be sent back home. She suffers from severe...

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Ayesha Gardezi

Window dressing

PAKISTAN is on the front lines of the global climate crisis, yet continues to approach the challenge with a troubling mix of policy confusion,...

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Dawn Editorial

Pomp and circumstance

THE sight of columns of tanks rolling down a boulevard, accompanied by troops goose-stepping in lockstep, was a staple in former Eastern bloc...

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Dawn Editorial

America’s last throw of dice

ISRAEL has been called America’s unsinkable ship in the Middle East. Terrifyingly accurate Iranian missiles have been piercing its acclaimed Iron...

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Jawed Naqvi

Unimportant matters

IT was a happening week, with the PML-N government’s second budget, a war in the neighbourhood and a diplomatic delegation in Europe following a...

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Arifa Noor

Close the gap

THE Global Gender Report 2025 is dark enough to recast the way Pakistan is viewed by the world. The country’s descent to the bottom 148th rank, with...

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Dawn Editorial

Fiscal malfeasance

IT is galling that, even in these times of economic distress, when hardship has pushed millions of ordinary Pakistanis close to or below the...

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Dawn Editorial

Diplomatic setback

THERE are at least five aspects of the stance adopted by the international community in the recent India-Pakistan conflict and its aftermath which...

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Maleeha Lodhi

No surplus water

IN a knee-jerk reaction to the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, the campaign for new dams has been resuscitated. The prime minister, too, has...

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Naseer Memon

Scant relief, mounting burdens

AFTER being questioned on pre-budget claims, the finance minister clarified in a press conference that the proposed budget principally provides a ‘...

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Umair Javed

Rochdale conviction

THE recent conviction of seven men in the Rochdale grooming gang case is a hard-won moment of justice. The men, found guilty of over four dozen...

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Dawn Editorial

Downfall

THE crash of Air India’s 787-8 Boeing Dreamliner on Thursday will go down as one of the deadliest disasters in the history of aviation, and...

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Zarrar Khuhro

Deepening conflict

Deepening conflict

AS hostilities between Iran and Israel continued for the second day on Saturday, following Tel Aviv’s provocative strikes against the Islamic...

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Dawn Editorial

Air India tragedy

THE black box of the ill-fated Air India flight AI171 has been recovered, and that should reveal in the coming days what actually caused the...

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Dawn Editorial

Dashed hopes

Dashed hopes

WITH the real economy in a deep slump and macroeconomic indicators stable, how should we describe the current state of the economy and the...

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Rashid Amjad

Some strides

THE PTI government in KP is not known for sound public service delivery in a province whose economy has been battered by decades of terrorism....

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Dawn Editorial

A catastrophe called Israel

A catastrophe called Israel

ANY military campaign must have clearly defined objectives, and Israel said its main aim of starting a war with Iran, through its ongoing massive...

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Abbas Nasir

Crisis management balance

Crisis management balance

ISRAEL’S strikes within Iran have triggered a regional and global crisis. For Pakistan, the attack has implications for both internal stability and...

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Muhammad Amir Rana

A woman’s worth

A woman’s worth

I WAS editing The Review in the early 2000s when Tahir Mirza moved to Dawn, Karachi, to take up the position of news editor and our magazine’s...

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Muna Khan