Towards middle power status Achieving middle power status requires a robust economic foundation. Ishrat Husain
Faltering tax effort You cannot grow your economy while the state is busy bleeding it to fulfil its own expenditure requirements. Khurram Husain
Growing numbers FORWARD-looking nations do not just celebrate their advantages; they turn them into tangible gains. They also ...
No culling CRUELTY implies an administrative failure to adopt humane solutions. Despite the Lahore High Court’s orders to use...
K&N's SmartCooking Recipes: Creamy Tawa Wings with Boiled Rice Creamy spiced combo wings cooked with tomatoes and aromatic spices served hot with boiled rice.
Pakistan’s first premium plug-in hybrid E-SUV officially hits the roads as Chery Master begins Tiggo 9 PHEV deliveries This accelerated rollout is backed by the manufacturing strength, operational capability and over 60 years of industrial and automotive legacy of Master Group.
'Where Silence Falls and Survival Speaks': The last guardian of Gabral Valley In the remote Hindu Kush, Gabral Valley empties each year as winter approaches, leaving behind only one man who stays to guard its frozen silence.
A jolt that may trip K-Electric Nepra’s surprise tariff cut may ripple far beyond Karachi’s power grid as KE’s profits sink and investors threaten arbitration. Nasir Jamal
Taliban seek quid pro quo from US Unlike previous occasions, Kabul is now looking to secure concessions before complying with the Trump administration’s wishes.
Sindh and Punjab at odds over discrepancies in water flow data Sindh officials claim discrepancies in data shared by Punjab authorities; Punjab seeks proof, says auto and manual systems working accurately.
Why breaching is ‘not an option’ for Sindh Irrigation minister says Punjab’s strategy can’t be emulated downstream due to Sindh’s peculiar topography.
Our bureaucracy in the post-colonial era THE Great Britain had not entered the subcontinent to serve its people or to introduce democracy through persuasion,...
Sindh police A RECENT incident in South Africa, described by the BBC as a nerve-wracking operation, has drawn global admiration....
The post-doc puzzle A POST-DOCTORAL fellowship is globally understood as a funded research oppor-tunity, not a fee-based academic...
Menace of rabies WE were sent a picture in our neighbour-hood WhatsApp group — without a disclaimer — of a young boy whose mouth...
Edhi ambulance THE Edhi Foundation recently suspended its services in the federal capital after its ambulance control room in...
DISCOURAGING POLICY DISCOURAGING POLICY: At a time when the world is facing a shortage of healthcare workers, any policy that risks...
From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Normalisation welcomed GILGIT: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said today [May 13] he welcomed India’s offer to normalise relations...
From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Sardari Bill passed ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly today [May 12] passed three Bills, including the one relating to the abolition of...
From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Oligarchic system NAIROBI (Kenya): Mir Afzal Khan, Minister for Commerce and Tourism, today [May 11] evoked a big sympathetic response...
OTHER VOICES : Punjab Press : Peanuts for the people ...[T]HE government tends to have the federal budget approved hurriedly while playing up its ‘successes’ in...
OTHER VOICES: Pashto Press: Afghan polls: second phase AFGHANISTAN has announced that the second phase of its presidential election [will take place on] June 14. ... Dr...
OTHER VOICES: Far East Press: Top security official DEFENCE Minister Kim Kwan-jin’s hawkish stance against North Korea has made him No. 1 target of Pyongyang’s...
