|
Dawn |
THE federal decision to permit potato exports to Pakistan’s main markets — Afghanistan, Central Asia and beyond...
IT is a pragmatic response to the various immigration-related issues that had been accumulating. On Tuesday, ...
HATE speech against Muslims in India is no longer sporadic. It is organised and increasingly led by those in power. ...
Impact of DV laws becomes clear only when they are implemented.
A Great Dane is no match for a hungry Rottweiler.
A stagnant economy cannot afford high prices, high taxes and high debt burdens for long.
America’s withdrawal from the UN climate treaty must be treated as an opportunity.
WITH Iran standing at the very edge of a dangerous precipice, regional powers must step up and do what they can in a diplomatic capacity to defuse...
The unrest in Iran seems to have encouraged the US president to threaten military action.
THE planning minister’s proposal to declare an ‘export emergency’ reflects a growing realisation that there ...
ROUTINE predictions about the impending demise of Iran’s repressive theocracy over the past couple of decades tended to be little more than wishful...
WITH the constitution of the 11th National Finance Commission, the debate around revenue sharing takes centre-stage. For years, the federal...
IMBALANCED human development lies at the root of the polarisation and perennial conflict witnessed in Pakistan. A recent report District...
PUNJAB’S decision to strap body-worn cameras onto nurses, ward boys, security guards and pharmacy staff is the...
THE call by a panel, led by the planning and development minister, for “urgent ease of doing business reforms” to more than double export revenues...
This is the time for the left to be initiating and, where possible, spearheading mass movements against the rightward slide.
THE KP chief minister’s eventful visit to Sindh has thrown up the same questions that his recent, equally eventful...
THE tragic blast in Islamabad that killed a newly-wed couple and six others, and left many injured, has once again...
Authority is kept from women at the workplace.
Competition is constrained by design, not accident.
Islamabad’s greenery is being replaced by big roads, flyovers and underpasses.
NOTHING truly fundamental has changed in humanity. Sure, we traded skins for suits and spears for smart bombs but at our core we have remained...
“The stark reality for the vast majority of people in the non-Western world, transcending everything, is poverty. Currently one quarter of the...
THE Balochistan government’s decision to formally merge the over century-old levies force into the Balochistan Police and abolish the distinction...
IT is often said that every process has at least three versions. How the bosses think it works, how it actually works and how it ought to work. Let...
OVERTHROWING governments in Latin America has long been the US practice from a familiar playbook. The US has for decades intervened by military...
THE political leadership appears out of sync with the annual wrath of the elements. Scores of trees in Islamabad ...
WHEN Donald Trump says that his power is restrained only by “my own morality”, he is not just boasting, he is making a case for a philosophy that...
Bangkok became the stage for one of the biggest moments in esports this year. As the PUBG MOBILE Global Championship (2025 PMGC) Grand Finals lit...
DARKNESS has descended over next-door Iran, where widespread, violent protests refuse to abate, posing the most serious governance and security...
A NEW report by the UN strips away whatever little ambiguity remained around Israel’s conduct in occupied West Bank. For the first time, a UN...
MCCARTHYISM is a ghost that survives within political and institutional systems. It thrives on witch-hunts, rejects scrutiny, and shields itself...
FLYOVERS are being demolished all over the world because they are considered ugly and they break the openness of the city. The space they occupy is...
I’M surprised the lords ruling my algorithm did not alert me about Jan Komasa’s film Anniversary, or that it didn’t receive the media attention it...
SCHEDULE uncertainty persists at yet another multilateral cricket tournament to be held in South Asia. Once again, it involves India, which has...
SINCE the so-called rules-based order is crumbling in whatever flawed form it existed, those with power are asserting themselves in the most...