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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Jawed Naqvi |Maleeha Lodhi
IN Cecile B. DeMille’s magnum opuses as in Indian movies, there is a mandatory intermission during which audiences stretch their limbs and assess what they have watched and surmise the story ahead. Barring any hiccups, the wars in Gaza and Ukraine are on the cusp of such an intermission. Would the horror movie end with any degree of finality or does peace at least look likely to return even if a tad tenuously for now? That’s the question doing the rounds in the interval.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Iftikhar A. Khan |Maleeha Lodhi
• PPP senators demand moot to discuss proposed canals• Opposition, journalists walk out over PecaISLAMABAD: Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar has refused to commit to a date for convening the Council of Common Interests (CCI), to discuss the water-sharing dispute among provinces.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Aamir Khan |Maleeha Lodhi
KARACHI: Business leaders vehemently opposed the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) decision to reduce the interest rate by 100 basis points to 12 per cent on Monday, arguing that this meagre cut did not align with the significant downward trend in inflation. Industry representatives had called for a single-digit SBP policy rate before the Monetary Policy Meeting to revive economic activities.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Khaleeq Kiani |Maleeha Lodhi
ISLAMABAD: A Senate subcommittee on Monday ordered a complete audit of all solar panel imports since 2018 after showing dissatisfaction with a probe into Rs70 billion worth of under- and over-invoicing by two importers through the involvement of commercial banks.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Khaleeq Kiani |Maleeha Lodhi
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday conceded contraction in two of the three major real economic sectors — agriculture and industry — signalling slower than targeted economic growth but said Pakistan was “well-positioned for continued growth momentum in the current year on the back of IMF supported policy reforms, monetary easing and fiscal consolidation”.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Kalbe Ali |Maleeha Lodhi
ISLAMABAD: Journalist bodies have announced nationwide protests today (Tuesday) against the amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca). The decision to protest was made on Monday after the Senate Standing Committee on Interior hastily passed the amendments. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) as issued a statement denouncing the amendments, which were “against the spirit of the Constitution”.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Behram Baloch |Maleeha Lodhi
Karan Arjun star Mamta Kulkarni becomes a Hindu monk From ‘Burger-i-Karachi’ to Kattar Karachi — Talha Anjum’s journey in his own words Paris’s Louvre Museum adds haute couture to history Cartoon: 27 January, 2025 Cartoon: 25 January, 2025 Trumpian purge Six dead, 38 injured in Multan LPG bowser blast: police Another PIA crew member ‘caught smuggling phones’ Stark inequalities In seeking maternal health services, rural Pakistani women encounter sociocultural and geographical challenges....
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Abdullah Momand |Maleeha Lodhi
The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday rejected “baseless and unfounded” allegations targeting Pakistan’s commitment to China’s policies, stressing that Beijing continued to be Islamabad’s all-weather strategic partner.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Jamil Nagri |Maleeha Lodhi
GILGIT: Two winter sports festivals, one in Astore and another in the Hunza district of the Gilgit-Baltistan region concluded on a glitzy note on Sunday amid freezing temperatures. Both male and female teams from the Ghizer district secured victories in their respective final ice hockey matches. A total of 10 male and female teams from Gilgit, Ghizer, Hunza and Nagar districts took part in ice hockey competitions.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Jamal Shahid |Maleeha Lodhi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ongoing drought, which has hampered winter sowing, is part of a troubling trend of increasing climate variability and threatens to disrupt agriculture, exacerbate water shortages, and increase the risk of future droughts. Muhammad Saleem Shaikh, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, highlighted these challenges in a press statement on Sunday.
