Army chief visits Peshawar corps headquarters
PESHAWAR: General Qamar Javed Bajwa, chief of army staff (COAS), visited Corps Headquarters Peshawar on ...
From the Newspaper
‘The long wait’
The short essay, ‘The long wait’ by Sammi Baloch (June 28) was extremely moving, powerful and deeply disturbing....
Govt’s performance
THE government has been showing great signs of incompetence since it came to power. Be it handling of the locust...
Transparent testing
THIS refers to the memo on May 6 issued by the Establishment Division regarding issues related to the testing...
Energy conservation
ACCORDING to Nepra’s State of Industry Report 2019, the domestic or household sector is the largest consumer of...
PUBG: permanent ban
ONLINE video game PUBG has become a killer game as it is a source of suicidal thoughts, violence, murder, ...
Online learning risks
TILL recently, youngsters, especially the younger schoolchildren, were prohibited from using mobile phones and...
Balochistan HSSC
THE students of Balochistan Higher Secondary School Certificate could not appear in the F.Sc Pre-Engineering exam...
Sindh CM’s no
WE are small traders engaged in the business of providing medical equipment and medical supplies. The Sindh...
Judge’s decisions
THE discredited and now dismissed judge gave two decisions about Nawaz Sharif. In one case, the judge declared ...
Kudos to police
MILITANTS attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi on June 29. They had come prepared to spread...
Acton’s quote
LORD Acton is often quoted to have said power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And so he has been...
‘Fake’ power outages
I FEEL bad for the people of Karachi. They are continuously facing the same problems which the rest of Pakistan ...
Two sets of rules?
THE Supreme Court has charged a cleric who recently in a video message allegedly hurled threats at many people, with...
Harassment by teachers
THE recent case of harassment at Lahore Grammar School in Lahore show how our children remain vulnerable and unsafe...
The path towards self-reliance
APROPOS the article ‘Tyranny of power asymmetry’ (June 29). The writer — very rightly — concludes that...
Jinnah’s Pakistan
I INADVERTENTLY made a factual error in reference to Jinnah’s Aug 11, 1947 speech in which the actual words used...
Poisonous vehicles
POOR quality fuel — Euro I and II — and rickety old jalopies belching poisonous fumes from their tailpipes are...
From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1970: Fifty Years Ago: Arms embargo may go
WASHINGTON: The question of lifting the five-year-old US embargo on arms sales to Pakistan is under active...
Corrigendum
DUE to a technical error, some lines towards the end of the op-ed article ‘Anger is no strategy’ by Arifa Noor,...