Opinion

Lay of the land

It is time to take a hard and honest look at the lay of the land of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Zafar Mirza

GB’s looming challenges

The region’s key decisions rest with the centre and its powerful bureaucracy.

Sajjad Ahmad

Doggone morality

Even in jungles, culling is used to maintain natural biodiversity.

Shahzad Sharjeel

Era of nonpolarity

The world has experienced periods of nonpolarity in the past as well.

Malik Muhammad Danish

Editorial

Security situation

As per statistics, 2025 is said to be the bloodiest year as far as casualties in terrorist incidents are concerned since 2015.

A broader spectrum

REALITY appears to be finally sinking in for the state’s policymakers. The ECC decision on Tuesday to approve the...

Dhaka-Delhi rupture

Delhi should cooperate with Dhaka to trace Hadi’s killers, and should refrain from meddling in Bangladesh’s internal affairs and fanning communal fires.

Branded Content

K&N’s SmartCooking Recipes: Cheesy Tikka Wontons

A crunchy bite-sized treat packed with rich, cheesy tikka filling.

Karachi winter festivities magnify through the Dolmen Shopping Festival 2025-26

Dolmen Shopping Festival returns with an adventure theme across all Dolmen Mall locations.

PayFast marks eight years with launch of Raast QR Payments for doorstep deliveries

The licensed payment platform introduced Rah e Raast to enable real time QR payments at the point of delivery as it completes eight years in Pakistan’s digital payments landscape.

Analysis & Comment

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.

Cartoon

Letters

Healthcare system itself on ventilator

I USED to believe medicine was noble. That becoming a doctor meant something. That the profession was built on...

Combating meningitis

WE lost our child recently to meningitis that affects around 2.3 billion people worldwide every year, and mostly...

Emotional exploitation

A GROWING number of young women across colleges and universities are being emotionally manipulated by boys who ...

A manipulated system

THE biometric monitoring system intro-duced by the Sindh Education Department was envisioned as a critical reform to...

THALL-PARACHINAR ROAD

THALL-PARACHINAR ROAD: The road linking Thall and Parachinar often remains closed to all kinds of vehicular traffic....

The Quaid and his governance vision

QUAID-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s vision was instrumental in shaping Pakistan as a unified, democratic and...

50 Years Ago

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: BD foreign aid

There was no issue of the paper on Dec 26, 1975 due to the Quaid’s birthday. The excerpt below is taken from the...

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Forces of cynicism

LAHORE: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has exhorted the nation to combat the forces of cynicism and despair and...

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Students’ problems

LAHORE: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assured students that the government would continue to provide them all...