Asif Ali Zardari’s grin has accompanied every big headline in the recent past. Despite the sorry state of affairs that have bestowed our country, that ear-to-ear beam coupled with the trademark V-sign has been splashed across televisions, newspapers and websites. We here at dawn.com have a lot...

As an old adage says: ‘Good fences make for good neighbors.’ Relationships work best when the boundaries are known and understood by all sides. Trouble often arises when the limits of acceptable conduct are unclear or have changed in such a way as to leave people uncertain of just what is within...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has nullified the election last year of Punjab province’s chief minister, effectively dismissing Shahbaz Sharif. The court has also declined to rule on a challenge to an electoral ban on Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif’s brother, former Prime Minister Nawaz...

The Pakistani government has submitted an official reply to the Indian dossier on the alleged involvement of Pakistani citizens in the Mumbai terror attacks. The reply includes ‘30 plus 2 questions’ which Pakistan claims it needs to complete its investigation.   The questions include a request...

Dawn.com officially launched the new Dawn.com web portal on Febrary 16, 2009. Tell us what you think of the new news site and blog and suggest changes you’d like to see.

In his article ‘Calling on the middle classes,’ Rehan Ansari makes the argument that increased people-to-people contact between Indians and Pakistanis are necessary if the countries want to escape the current cycle of violence and rivalry. He also urges Pakistan to make positive unilateral gestures...

Pakistan’s future is uncertain. Even more unclear is the identity of the leaders who will steer the nation in the coming decade. Will dynastic politics continue to define electoral trends? Do businessmen make the best politicians? Is another female prime minister in the offing? You voted in Dawn.com’s...

What quips, quirks, snafus and scandals does Pakistan’s future hold? Tazeen Javed time travels to 2021 and blogs about what makes the Land of the Pure tick – or is it explode? – in the coming decade. April 1, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The newly-elected government of Mr Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has completed...

Statistics compiled by a leading women’s rights NGO show that as many as 7,733 cases of violence against women were reported by the print media in Pakistan in 2008. Murders (19.60%) and honour killings (6.10%) combined made up over a quarter of the reported cases, i.e. a total of 1,988 Pakistani...

The Pakistan Cricket Board management has inducted a new captain in the shape of Younus Khan after the dismal performance of the national team against Sri Lanka. Younus’s aggressive style of leadership in stark contrast with that of former skipper Shoaib Malik, who was more laid back in his approach....