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FROM THE PAST PAGES OF DAWN: 1944: Seventy-five years ago: 5,000 killed in quake
MONTEVIDO: Travellers arriving here today [Jan 17] declare that the death toll in the San Juan earthquake has ...
FROM THE PAST PAGES OF DAWN: 1969: Fifty years ago: Demands Day observed
KARACHI: Processions were taken out and meetings held yesterday [Jan 17] throughout the country to observe the...
CJP Nisar’s legacy
The SC has a new chief justice today and there is a fresh opportunity to turn the page on hyper judicial activism.
Basant revival
HAD there been a genuine attempt at reviving the kite-flying festival, by this time, in the run-up to Basant, Lahore...
Paternity leave
CONSIDERING Pakistan’s deeply entrenched patriarchal traditions, it was encouraging to note that the cabinet...
Motorcyclists’ sense
A FEW weeks ago, yellow lines were drawn on Sharea Faisal exclusively for motorcyclists to improve the flow of...
A whitewash
THIS is apropos Zahoor’s cartoon (Jan.16) which highlights Pakistan’s batting woes. The team’s batting ...
Ethics
THIS is apropos the letter ‘TV and sex crimes’ (Jan 4). The writer suggested including sex awareness in the...
Excise tax
THIS refers to the motor vehicle tax which is paid in the excise department, where one can see long queues of...
More provinces
THE Federally Administered Tribal Areas have merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The people of Hazara division have been...
SC & democracy
APROPOS the article ‘Supreme Court & democracy’ (Jan 16). The writer has aptly touched upon the ...
Society’s morals
APROPOS the letter ‘Society’s morals (Jan 10).The writer asserted that the backwardness of our society and...
Joint azan
APROPOS the letter on this subject (Jan 16). I am afraid I do not agree with the suggestion. The main purpose behind...
Pemra advice
APROPOS the news report, ‘Pemra asks TV channels to observe decency in non-news content’. For once the Pakistan...
Female literacy
LITERACY plays a major role in contributing to a thriving economy. However, in Pakistan we are still caught up in an...
Civil-military relations
The longer-term costs of deviations and dilutions of democratic governance are massive.
The search for an idiom
PM Khan had never made an effort to hide just how eager he was to have Nadeem Chann or Qamar Kaira by his side.
A dubious solution
The PMDC has had a controversial history from the start.
Burning billions
There are obstacles in the path of structural change.
Departments at odds over auction of forest areas for mining
Forestry dept insists mines dept’s move threatens forest protection in province
PPP to mobilise workers for possible early polls
PESHAWAR: The provincial leadership of Pakistan People’s Party has asked the district and divisional ...
Growers seek increase in sugarcane price
PESHAWAR: Sugarcane growers held a protest rally outside a sugar mill on Charsadda Road here on Thursday and ...
Firing during jirga claims two lives
LANDI KOTAL: Two persons were killed when rival groups exchanged fire during a jirga in Jamrud on Thursday....
Young doctors boycott duties
PESHAWAR: The young doctors on Thursday boycotted duties, held a protest demonstration outside the provincial...
2017 population census in erstwhile Fata challenged in PHC
Petitioner seeks PA seats for region on the basis of Nadra data
Mini-budget to add to people’s misery: QWP
Sikandar Sherpao says hike in power, gas and oil prices made people’s life miserable
Guards warn of protest against removal
KHAR: Scores of sacked guards demanded of the local administration to restore their services in different bazaars of...
Hundreds of Kurram families awaiting compensation
Locals say survey of 12,000 damaged houses has not been conducted.
18 women teachers appointed in Karak
KARAK: The elementary and secondary education department has issued appointment letters of 18 women Certificate...
Peoples Party supports PML-N in Mansehra by-election
Says both parties will jointly carry out poll campaign
Swabi councillors want Christians appointed on sweeper posts
Accuse previous local govt of recruiting Muslims as sweepers
Urdu termed symbol of national unity
Annual Urdu day observed at Islamia College University
31 illegal service stations sealed in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) and district administration in a joint crackdown sealed 31...
PHC asks departments about steps against child labour
Also seeks details of funds allocated for addressing issue.
Protesting transporters seek closure of illegal stand
TIMERGARA: The local transporters held a protest rally here on Thursday against what they called the illegal stand ...