Pakistan IT industry ‘loses $1m’ due to one hour of net outage
The IT industry has claimed that one hour of internet outage or disruption results in a loss of more than one million dollars for the whole sector, including export businesses.
Pakistan
Lahore’s smog: the sun may be out but a sustainable solution remains out of sight
As Punjab eases restrictions, the lingering health crisis and calls for real environmental action expose a battle far from over.
Religious nationalism and its discontents
In part, nationalism was the product of brutal wars between Christian sects in Europe. This triggered the need to organise what were clubbed as ‘nations’ in a more rational…
The state should support a transparent probe into protesters’ reported deaths: Dawn
While the state may have succeeded in beating back PTI supporters from the capital’s red zone last week, the battle of narratives between both sides with regard to the deaths…
Talk about banning PTI shows nothing but impoverishment of democratic thought
Following the forcible eviction of the PTI’s latest protest from the federal capital, some entities have once again taken to describing the party as a ‘terrorist outfit’ and…
After the showdown
Last week’s showdown between the government and opposition may have ended sooner than anyone expected but it left serious unresolved problems in its wake.
Dawn Investigations: Building sandcastles in Karachi’s waters
A backwater fed by natural waterways used to be the sole domain of a protected mangrove forest, but a real estate developer with a chequered past has erected a boundary wall…
Four terrorists killed as police thwart attack in Mianwali: Punjab Police
Terrorists attacked Chapri Police Station in the Isa Khel circle, located on the border between Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, per the statement.
The roots of Kurram’s cycles of bloodshed
Rather than simply sectarian divides, the reasons for the discord are far more complex.
A hasty retreat: Dawn
Much harm has already been caused to national unity by the authorities’ mishandling of the PTI protest march and the violence that surrounded it.