SCO: New Standards And New Horizons By Farhat Asif
As autumn is setting across the world, a new spring has been observed during the recent meeting of the second …Read More
Arms Race in South Asia By Mohammad Jamil
PAKISTAN said on Friday that India’s decision to buy S-400 missile defence system from Russia will further destabilise the region …Read More
Power Crisis | Editorial
Another impending crisis that the government has adopted is that of the energy sector, and it is one which also …Read More
Pakistan’s Water Strategy By Raashid Wali Janjua
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner” a tale of accursed seamen is narrated, who have been jinxed due to an …Read More
Pakistan: The Impact of Urbanisation on Society By M Zafar Khan Safdar
Pakistan is one of the fastest urbanising countries in South Asia and the share of urban population has risen from …Read More
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


