Category: Dawn Editorial
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29 July 2022: Hepatitis awareness
UNWAVERING commitment to healthcare on the part of the highest government offices in the land is necessary to curb the spread of disease. Regrettably, for decades, the lack of such dedication has allowed even preventable diseases to fester. Among the illnesses devoid of government ownership are a variety of hepatitis cases. Take, for example, the…
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29 July 2022: Surging deficit
PAKISTAN’S current account deficit has surged to $17.4bn or 4.6pc the size of the economy during the last fiscal year on the rising trade deficit, in spite of multiple actions taken by the government and the central bank since the last quarter of 2021 to restrict imports. The growth in exports and remittances sent home…
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29 July 2022: False equivalence
CELEBRATING his party’s triumph in dislodging the PML-N government in Punjab, former prime minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday made what sounded unmistakably like a speech delivered on the hustings, by a man confident of the ultimate prize. He reiterated his demand for an early election as the only solution to the prevailing…
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