Hard Choices: Saudi Arabia or IMF By Kamran Yousaf
Prime Minister Imran Khan will undertake a second visit to Saudi Arabia in five weeks on Tuesday. He will attend …Read More
Digital Payment Policy Review | Editorial
Electronic commerce has reached new heights this year with tech giants reaching a market capitalisation of $1 billion, marking a …Read More
Overhauling Higher Education | Editorial
The meeting of an 18-member commission of Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Friday after a gap of 32 months shows …Read More
Population Crisis | Editorial
THE perils of a runaway population are well known. Pakistan, with 208m people at last count, is often described as …Read More
Educating Pakistan By Sophiya Rafi
Real education is not tangible and results from investment and work done now can only be accurately measured twenty years …Read More
Asia-Pacific: The Precursors of a Coming War By Muhammad Ali Baig
What were the intervening variables which drove the United States to transfer a large chunk of its military forces from …Read More
DAWN Editorials – 17th Oct 2018
IMF and China’s support THE public endorsement is likely a result of a great deal of behind-the-scenes lobbying. It is …Read More
How to Save Globalization By Kenneth F. Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter
We live in a time of protectionist backlash. U.S. President Donald Trump has started a trade war with China, upended …Read More
Nuclear Weapons Don’t Matter By John Mueller
The unleashed power of the atom,” Albert Einstein wrote in 1946, “has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and …Read More
The Crisis of Higher Education | Editorial
It has been four decades now since the ban on students unions, and we’re in the second decade of the …Read More
Pakistan’s Membership in the IAEA Board of Governors, A Major Diplomatic Achievement? By Sonia Naz
Pakistan was once again elected as a member of the IAEA Board of Governors (BoG) for the next two years …Read More
The China Connection Between Pakistan and Afghanistan By Moneeb Ahmad Barlas
Last year China hosted the first China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue. “As a good friend of Afghanistan and Pakistan, China is …Read More
IMF & Policy Options By Dr Kamal Monnoo
The uncertainty and the self-destruct mode of the present policymakers are basically the two main factors taking Pakistan’s economy down. …Read More
Privatisation | Editorial
The plea of the stakeholders of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) to Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan to hold off …Read More
Importance of SCO for Pakistan By Malik Ashraf
FOREIGN Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi who represented the Prime Minister at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in …Read More
Reforming Our Civil Justice By Mohsin Raza Malik
Addressing a seminar organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association in Lahore last week, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib …Read More
US-Iran Confrontation & Regional Stability By Tariq Niaz Bhatti
FRESH US sanctions against Iran are due on Nov 04 as part of its withdrawal package from JCPOA or Iran …Read More
US-China Relations: A Dilemma For Islamabad By Shahid Javed Burki
Navigating the rough waters created by the growing American hostility towards China is a challenge for the regime headed by …Read More


