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The Israel-Iran ceasefire appears to be holding. What’s next for the Middle East?

The recent Iran-Israel direct military confrontation, and the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities have sparked a geopolitical rebalancing...

yesterday 30

Dawn Prism

Muhammad Faisal

You are welcome to the land of the free … only if you are willing to give up your freedom of speech

Kamran Arif, a name instantly recognisable to anyone in Pakistan’s human rights circles, was more than a colleague; he was a friend, a mentor, and...

tuesday 50

Dawn Prism

Asad Baig

How the SC Constitutional Bench handed two-thirds majority to an unelected ‘unity’ regime

This past week, the Supreme Court’s ‘Constitutional Bench’ — itself still under constitutional challenge — decided to strip the Pakistan Tehreek-i-...

30.06.2025 50

Dawn Prism

Asad Rahim Khan

The N-word: Iran, enrichment and the bomb

The N-word: Iran, enrichment and the bomb

In the early 2010s, Iran believed that a war waged against it by Israel, which would pull in the United States, was an inevitability. At the time,...

27.06.2025 5

Dawn Prism

Ayesha Malik

Malformation, pests and water shortage: The mango meltdown in Sindh

Malformation, pests and water shortage: The mango meltdown in Sindh

It was a sultry summer morning. Mir Shah Mohammad Talpur was visiting his sprawling mango orchards, located on the outskirts of Hyderabad, to...

25.06.2025 10

Dawn Prism

Mohammad Hussain Khan