1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (347+ words) To achieve internal stability and order comparable to that in Saudi Arabia and Turkiye, Pakistan’s other regional partners, the power elite here appears prepared to take several political risks. These could include major administrative engineering, such as the creation of…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (479+ words) In 1995, it was an unusually cold winter in London with overcast days. One could cut the gloom in the air. There were no cell phones and the land line never rang. I heard a loud knock at the door of…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (835+ words) In Karachi, I stopped at red lights and Karachi found this unreasonable. The horns would begin within seconds — long, aggrieved blasts from motorcycles and cars that could see the signal as plainly as I could. Around me, vehicles slid past…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (242+ words) THE country’s top civil and military leaders are absolutely right when they say that dialogue and development are needed to address Balochistan’s crises. But perhaps one should recall that many earlier attempts by the state to bring peace to the…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (514+ words) Waisay, I’m tau very reliefed about the Makkah Pack. Oho, baba, that defence pack that we’ve gone and made with Saudi and Turkiye. Yes, it’s no longer Turkey but Turkiye. And Mecca is now Makkah. But respite our growing closeness…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (807+ words) Dawn Get the latest news and updates from Dawn IT’S always uplifting to be hopeful, more so when the young ones give us an elusive glimpse into their hope. But youth is not a worldview or an ideology. Young ones…...

12+ hour, 28+ min ago   (666+ words) Ratko Mladi, the face of Serbian nationalism in the 1990s and one of the primary architects of the Srebrenica genocide, died in a UN prison in The Hague on August 27, 2026. Evil would be an understatement to describe the military leader who…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (459+ words) Empty overtures Dawn Get the latest news and updates from Dawn EARLIER this week, the prime minister had extended yet another invitation to the opposition for negotiations, noting that “it takes two to tango”. “I once again invite the opposition…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) The term Thucydides’s Trap has caught on since Professor Graham Allison wrote his 2017 book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? The core concept comes from Greek soldier-historian Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War who identifies the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (222+ words) EARLIER this year, I wrote that Pakistan’s hostile geography denies it the luxury to choose between a well-funded military and economic growth. The only way through, therefore, is to make defence spending economically productive by opening the sector to private…...