Tag: Dawn News Column
Let women be, control the man – Abbas Nasir
THERE can’t be any ambiguity that there is one, yes only one, perpetrator of violent sex crimes and adding any caveat to this fact...
At the crossroads By Khurram Husain
THE government now finds itself at the crossroads and whatever path it chooses, it will likely create history. The crossroads has been reached by...
A golden rebirth – F.S. Aijazuddin
“I SHALL live, I shall flourish, I shall wake up in peace.” These words from their Book of the Dead made the ancient Egyptians...
Both sides unaware of their role – I.A. Rehman
THE common practice in Pakistan is to condemn the opposition groups as thieves and receive an identical response in return. This was not always...
PDM collapse no relief for PTI – Abbas Nasir
EVEN when the opposition PDM alliance, in the form we have known it, is collapsing, the question being asked is if the governing...
Third wave and the vaccine – Faisal Bari
HEALTH officials across the world, including Pakistan, keep saying that following the standard operating procedures of handwashing, wearing a mask, social distancing, and...
Muddling through By Khurram Husain
ONE almost feels bad for Hammad Azhar, the newly inducted finance minister, hailed as the younger new face of change that the PTI yearns...
Ministerial comings & goings – I.A. Rehman
MINISTERS rarely become popular in developing countries. Most of them lose the people’s sympathy for failing to meet the expectations of public service, even...
Fiery phoenixes – F.S. Aijazuddin
IN Indo-Pak relations, peace is less a bullet-ridden dove than a lacerated phoenix that rises periodically out of the ashes of experience.
Its latest emergence...
The rocky road to peace – Abbas Nasir
SOME 10 days after Pakistan’s Islamabad Security Dialogue saw Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa offering an...