Tag: dawn editorial articles
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25 August 2022: Rain disaster
TO say that the 2022 monsoon season has been exceptionally challenging for Pakistan would be an understatement. The relentless wet weather has pummelled the country, wreaking havoc on infrastructure in rural areas as well as the cities. A statement from the minister for climate change a few weeks ago said that the 30-year average for…
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25 August 2022: High electricity prices
ALREADY frustrated with the rapidly rising cost of living that is the result of runaway inflation, residential electricity consumers are outraged at their puffed-up power bills. The latter are the outcome of the country’s largest-ever fuel price adjustment charges and the size of the various taxes being collected by the government on them. Thus, it…
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25 August 2022: Misplaced priorities
AS a natural calamity engulfs Pakistan, many members of the political class remain preoccupied with their power struggles. Almost the entire nation has been affected by record-breaking monsoon rainfall, flooding and the attendant human misery, with Balochistan, Sindh and southern Punjab the worst-hit. But the focus of the government, the opposition and parts of the…
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25 August 2022: Mexican stand-off
A STRANGE madness appears to be afflicting our political leaders. Knives out, they are chasing after each other in the hopes of landing a killing blow, not realising the damage they are doing to their own future prospects with the harmful precedents they are setting that ‘others’ can easily exploit. Consider the developments over the…
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19 August 2022: Deadly rains
THERE seems to be no end to our monsoon misery. Deadly rains continue to lash several parts of the country, destroying transportation networks and homes as they wreak havoc on human and animal life. The situation in Balochistan, the region worst-hit by floods, destruction and disease, is dire, with a damaged rail and road network…
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19 August 2022: Frozen conflict
THE recent discovery of the body of an Indian soldier lost in an ice storm on the Siachen glacier 38 years ago yet again illustrates the fruitless nature of this high-altitude conflict. The fact is that more soldiers from both sides die of causes other than fighting on what has become known as the world’s…
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19 August 2022: Pawn sacrifice
IT must be lonely being Shahbaz Gill these days. With his own party now back-pedalling from its ‘moral support’ for the controversial statements he made during a TV show last week, Mr Gill must be feeling abandoned and forlorn. The unequivocal condemnations now being directed at him by other PTI leaders threaten to blow away…
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