Tag: Dawn News Column
Security projections for 2021- Muhammad Amir Rana
PROJECTING trends of insecurity and violence is not an easy task especially for countries like Pakistan where security challenges are complex and state...
Misplaced anger at poor show – Abbas Nasir
PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan must have been filled with envy watching the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United...
Cheating on online exams By Pervez Hoodbhoy
COVID-19 has made in-person exam proctoring impossible and so normal safeguards have disappeared. My inbox is full of anguished emails from university students across...
Language mess- Faisal Bari
SOME provinces use the provincial/regional language as the medium of instruction in the early years. Others use Urdu or English, or a mix...
A horned dilemma – F.S. Aijazuddin
THE unthinkable seizure of the US Capitol building on Jan 6, 2021, has an analogy in Leonard Wibberley’s book The Mouse That Roared (1955)....
Farewell Roosevelt Hotel By Khurram Husain
LET me start with an apology. If you’re still busy absorbing the full magnitude of the sheer stupidity that went into the making of...
The hazards of governance – I.A. Rehman
PAKISTAN received adverse references in dispatches last week. Of all the planes at their disposal PIA’s smart bosses chose to send to Malaysia the...
Broadsheetgate – Abbas Nasir
ON one of his trips to Karachi towards the middle of 2000, Pakistan’s ‘chief executive’ and army chief Gen Pervez Musharraf agreed to...
A forgotten son- F.S. Aijazuddin
TO Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the 12 gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal...
Is the economy recovering? By Khurram Husain
GOING by what we are hearing these days, it seems the country’s economy is in the middle of a rebound, or at least...