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Potato exports

THE federal decision to permit potato exports to Pakistan’s main markets — Afghanistan, Central Asia and beyond...

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Dawn Editorial

Visa checks

IT is a pragmatic response to the various immigration-related issues that had been accumulating. On Tuesday, ...

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Dawn Editorial

Politics of hate

HATE speech against Muslims in India is no longer sporadic. It is organised and increasingly led by those in power. ...

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Dawn Editorial

Road to safety

Impact of DV laws becomes clear only when they are implemented.

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Rida Tahir

The Don-roe doctrine

A Great Dane is no match for a hungry Rottweiler.

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F.s. Aijazuddin

End of stability

A stagnant economy cannot afford high prices, high taxes and high debt burdens for long.

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Khurram Husain

Pakistan’s climate moment

America’s withdrawal from the UN climate treaty must be treated as an opportunity.

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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Spiralling crisis

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...

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Gunboat diplomacy

The unrest in Iran seems to have encouraged the US president to threaten military action.

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Zahid Hussain

Enhancing exports

THE planning minister’s proposal to declare an ‘export emergency’ reflects a growing realisation that there ...

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Dawn Editorial

Iranian nights

ROUTINE predictions about the impending demise of Iran’s repressive theocracy over the past couple of decades tended to be little more than wishful...

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Mahir Ali

Not the NFC’s fault

WITH the constitution of the 11th National Finance Commission, the debate around revenue sharing takes centre-stage. For years, the federal...

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Waqar Wadho

Development divide

IMBALANCED human development lies at the root of the polarisation and perennial conflict witnessed in Pakistan. A recent report District...

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Naseer Memon

Bodycam order

PUNJAB’S decision to strap body-worn cameras onto nurses, ward boys, security guards and pharmacy staff is the...

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Dawn Editorial

Blaming the IMF

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...

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Dawn Editorial

With the sleeves rolled up

This is the time for the left to be initiating and, where possible, spearheading mass movements against the rightward slide.

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Jawed Naqvi

Solo flight

THE KP chief minister’s eventful visit to Sindh has thrown up the same questions that his recent, equally eventful...

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Dawn Editorial

Unchecked LPG use

THE tragic blast in Islamabad that killed a newly-wed couple and six others, and left many injured, has once again...

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Dawn Editorial

Misogyny’s polite face

Authority is kept from women at the workplace.

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Khadija Bari

Biggest conglomerate

Competition is constrained by design, not accident.

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Ehsan Malik

Cities in our memories

Islamabad’s greenery is being replaced by big roads, flyovers and underpasses.

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Arifa Noor

Melos to Maduros

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...

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Zarrar Khuhro

Mental health in a broken world

“The stark reality for the vast majority of people in the non-Western world, transcending everything, is poverty. Currently one quarter of the...

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Murad Moosa Khan

Police-levies merger

THE Balochistan government’s decision to formally merge the over century-old levies force into the Balochistan Police and abolish the distinction...

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Dawn Editorial

Deathly processes

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...

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Naeem Sadiq

‘Donroe doctrine’ in action

OVERTHROWING governments in Latin America has long been the US practice from a familiar playbook. The US has for decades intervened by military...

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Maleeha Lodhi

Denuded future

THE political leadership appears out of sync with the annual wrath of the elements. Scores of trees in Islamabad ...

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Dawn Editorial

The morality trap

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...

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2025 PMGC captures the pulsating energy driving global esports

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...

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Troubling events

DARKNESS has descended over next-door Iran, where widespread, violent protests refuse to abate, posing the most serious governance and security...

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Dawn Editorial

Suffocating existence

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...

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Dawn Editorial

‘Good night and good luck’

MCCARTHYISM is a ghost that survives within political and institutional systems. It thrives on witch-hunts, rejects scrutiny, and shields itself...

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Muhammad Amir Rana

Karachi flyovers

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...

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Arif Hasan

It’s too political

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...

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Muna Khan

Cricket concerns

SCHEDULE uncertainty persists at yet another multilateral cricket tournament to be held in South Asia. Once again, it involves India, which has...

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Living in interesting times

SINCE the so-called rules-based order is crumbling in whatever flawed form it existed, those with power are asserting themselves in the most...

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Abbas Nasir