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A moral victory

AS the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Friday in favour of granting Palestine greater rights at the multilateral body, and eventually...

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Dawn Editorial

A turbulent 2023

PAKISTAN faced a tumultuous year in 2023 marked by severe economic distress and a sharp erosion of civil liberties. As documented in the HRCP’s...

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Dawn Editorial

Insurgency and social change

THE recent killing of seven barbershop workers from Punjab in Gwadar is another indicator that the insurgency in Balochistan is evolving and...

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Muhammad Amir Rana

Hope after defeat

ON Saturday, having fallen behind Japan in the first quarter of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup final, Pakistan showed powers of recovery to take the...

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Who can rock the hybrid boat?

A NUMBER of developments over the past week suggest that the establishment is keen to enforce/ maintain the status quo and the only impediment in...

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Abbas Nasir

Indian elections

THE Islamophobic rhetoric being employed by Narendra Modi for this election campaign has become shrill. Pakistan has nearly always been an...

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Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry

Overflowing cups

ON my travels in the last two years I noticed a new accessory: large water bottles. You know the ones with the straw protruding from its top? The...

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Muna Khan

Terror against girls

ONCE again, the ogre of terrorism is seeking the sacrifice of schoolgirls. On Wednesday, just days after the announcement of a four-year education...

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Orwellian slide

IN recent years, Pakistan has made several attempts at introducing an overarching mechanism through which to check the strident criticism of the...

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Dawn Editorial

Taxing pensions

DESPITE the state of the economy, the IMF’s demand that the cash-strapped Shehbaz Sharif administration start taxing civil and military pensions...

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Dawn Editorial

Child marriages

THE recent judgement of the Lahore High Court in ‘Azka Wahid vs Province of Punjab’ has declared the arbitrary distinction in the legally...

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Sahar Bandial

Street safety

THE Sindh chief executive’s resolve to address street crime is encouraging. This commitment raises important questions: are these crimes organised...

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Mohammad Ali Babakhel

An inclusive judiciary

ACCORDING to media reports, a recent meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) was adjourned without finalising changes in its rules....

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Reema Omer

The lethal troika

MANY factors were responsible for the defeat of the erstwhile Soviet Union and then the US in Afghanistan. A common factor was the existence of a...

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Tariq Parvez

Gwadar outrage

JUST two days after the president, while on a visit to Balochistan, discussed the need for a political dialogue to address the province’s...

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Dawn Editorial

Save the witness

THE old affliction of failed enforcement has rendered another law lifeless. Enacted over a decade ago, the Sindh Witness Protection Act, 2013, was...

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Dawn Editorial

Enrolment drive

IN a promising albeit familiar declaration, the prime minister has announced a four-year “education emergency” to eradicate the blight of...

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Dawn Editorial

Education emergency

ON Wednesday, the prime minister announced an education emergency at a conference in Islamabad. Though post-18th Amendment, education has been a...

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Faisal Bari

Waiting to practise

ONCE upon a time, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association wrote a letter to Justice Qazi Faez Isa, before he became chief justice of...

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Basil Nabi Malik

Farmers’ march

IT has been 20 years since the iconic peasant movement on the Okara military farms reached its zenith. Having been intimately involved with the...

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Crisis of empathy

THERE are many concepts that are shared by all human beings across the globe. One of them is empathy. Through many of my previous articles in these...

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Jan-E-Alam Khaki

A fresh approach?

SUCCESSIVE governments have tried to address the problems of Balochistan — particularly the province’s precarious law and order situation — with...

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Dawn Editorial

The net metering dead end

LET’S start with putting a couple of undue misapprehensions to rest. I have had the opportunity of interacting with key decision-makers in the...

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Khurram Husain

May 9 fallout

A YEAR since the events of May 9, 2023, very little appears to have changed, at least from the political perspective. In fact, there seems to be...

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Dawn Editorial

Visa fraud

THE FIA has a new task at hand: cracking down on fraudulent work visas. This was prompted by the discovery of a Pakistani human smugglingnetwork in...

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Dawn Editorial

Unwelcome returns

WITH the prescience that philosophers share with out-of-office politicians, a hundred years ago, a leading Indian scholar analysed the combustible...

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F.s. Aijazuddin

Dubai, Baku and Belém

THE federal government has just initiated an important but overly cautious process of streamlining its institutional landscape dealing with climate...

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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Grapes of wrath

HOW I would like to live in the dream world of the neoliberal economist, in which markets are left to determine the exchange rate, where prices of...

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Rashid Amjad

Saudi delegation

PLANS to bring Saudi investment to Pakistan have clearly been put on the fast track. Over the past month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has visited...

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Dawn Editorial

Reserved seats

IT is usually best not to presume, but given recent developments, one may tentatively hope that the judiciary has finally woken up to the...

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Dawn Editorial

Narcotic darkness

WE have plenty of smoke with fire. Citizens, particularly parents, caught in Pakistan’s grave drug problem are on edge. Despite frequent reports...

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Dawn Editorial

Gaza’s fate

WAKING up yesterday to the news that Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal came as a pleasant surprise, but it did not last long. It was...

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Mahir Ali

Fly on Great Wall

AS our great neighbour becomes greater by the day, we are moving from being ‘another brick in the wall’ to nothing more than a fly on the wall —...

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Shahzad Sharjeel

Our sluggish disinflation

WHAT goes up must come down. This truth also applies to economic trends, which exhibit cycles of ups and downs. However, the pace of going up and...

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Riaz Riazuddin

Most hated country in the world

WHATEVER the Americans may have said on record, the past few weeks of the war in Gaza have proved to be quite trying for them. Central among their...

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Rafia Zakaria

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