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Climate casualties

ACROSS Pakistan — from the floodplains of Punjab to the heat-stricken cities of Sindh — the climate crisis is...

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Education and emergencies

Emergencies in Pakistan are becoming more frequent and raising uncertainties for everyone.

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Faisal Bari

Anti-war left?

The CPI and CPI-M are threatening their very own political creed.

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Military trials

THE October 2023 judgement had been widely hailed as ‘historic’. The one issued by five judges this Tuesday will...

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Time for restraint

Jingoism is evident in both countries, but elements in India’s media, cultural and political sphere have been egging on their country in...

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Inclusive or exclusive growth?

Over the past two decades, we have seen growing stagnation in social development.

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Zeba Sathar

Sufi ‘ishq’

Iqbal proposes symbiosis of ‘aql’ and ‘ishq’.

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Ghulam Shabbir

Unwarranted aggression

IT is a time of great peril in the subcontinent. India’s provocative attack targeting several locations in Azad Kashmir and Punjab early on...

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Modi, Kashmir and Pakistan

INDIA and Pakistan are being driven, inexorably, towards a confrontation that neither side wants but neither side can avert. The drivers of...

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Khurram Husain

Water security to 2047

INDIA’S unilateral decision to place the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance threatens Pakistan’s water security after six decades of cooperative...

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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Water war

PLANES and bombs are not the end of it. New Delhi is also up to mischief on another front. This weekend, without prior intimation, which officials...

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An obituary

KARACHI is a strange city — divided by public-private partnerships and developed in isolation. Its caretakers no longer incorporate context,...

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Marvi Mazhar

The phoney peace

INDIA’S true enemy is not Pakistan: it is hubris, the arrogance of a born-again bully. India emerged as a unified nation-state in 1947, the...

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F.s. Aijazuddin

Nuclear neighbours in high wire act

Following India’s May7 ‘Oper­ationSindoor,’ the two arch rival South Asian neighbours find themselves precariously balanced on a razor’s edge — one...

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Israel unleashed

ISRAEL’S rogue behaviour — attacking the Arab population in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as its neighbours and other states —...

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Dawn Editorial

Cleaning up

THE World Bank’s red alert — that global waste may rise by 73pc by 2050 — spells trouble for countries like Pakistan. Low-income countries bear the...

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Dawn Editorial

Weaponisation of media

MEDIA jingoism is not new. But the spectacle of news and talk show anchors frothing at the mouth as they call for a war against Pakistan, following...

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Zahid Hussain

The changing winds

SINDH recently experienced upheaval in the form of weeks-long agitation and dharnas against the proposal to construct new canals on the already...

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Shahab Usto

Unexpected move

THE market did not anticipate it. And only a handful of analysts thought the State Bank would slash borrowing costs — that too by 50bps at the...

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Dawn Editorial

Put peace first

EIGHTY years after Germany’s Third Reich formally accepted defeat, the enduring reluctance on all sides to draw lessons from the causes and...

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Mahir Ali

Pakistan’s children

THE National Commission on the Rights of the Child recently published its first-ever report of data, challenges and recommendations on the State of...

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Zehra Kamal Alam

Blocked online

CITIZENS of India are welcome to join the VPN club. With New Delhi left looking rather sheepish after jumping the gun and blaming Pakistan squarely...

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Dawn Editorial

Coercive tax powers

THE amendments to the tax laws giving vast coercive powers to the FBR, and allowing it to circumvent existing laws and court judgements for...

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Dawn Editorial

United front

AT a time when hardliners in India are beating the drums of war, internal unity is essential to face the challenges confronting Pakistan. In this...

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After the stand-off

A WEEK later, the uncertainty continues, even as there are observations galore that temperatures have come down a bit. There have been calls and...

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Arifa Noor

No relief

PAKISTAN’S tax collection system needs a complete overhaul. The system squeezes individuals and segments that are already paying their taxes, and...

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Khurram Zia Khan

Jatayu, the witness in ‘Ramayana’

THE din on Indian TV channels toggles between spewing hate and conjuring an enemy that can be cut into four. It’s what religion and nationalism on...

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Jawed Naqvi

CTBCM reform

FOR decades, Pakistan’s power sector has operated as a rigid, state-run monopoly — like a railway network where the state owns the trains and...

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Ramsha Panhwar

Destination unknown

PAKISTANI politicians love to punch above their weight. With the return of the PML-N to power, it was but natural to expect the comeback of large...

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Dawn Editorial

Interview rites

A JOB interview is among the more significant moments in one’s life, particularly for the family breadwinner. But the massive scale of aspirants for...

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Parvez Rahim

Doing business

IT need not have come to this. A week ago, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi had to issue a formal guarantee to foreign investors that their...

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After USAID

WHEN I started writing my book, The Shady Economics of International Aid, in 2023, I never anticipated that some of the issues I explored would...

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Saeed Ahmed

Wounded childhood

PAKISTAN is unkind to its children. The NCRC’s State of Children in Pakistan Report 2024 scans the grim circumstances our young are forced to...

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Filth and fury

INDIAN social media — or at least the parts of it that are most visible in the current crisis — is a curious mixture of hate and threats of sexual...

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Zarrar Khuhro

Perilous hour

THE latest crisis in India-Pakistan relations is the fifth in the past 25 years. Each crisis has been more complex and involved dangerous...

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Maleeha Lodhi