On Tuesday, President Asif Ali Zardari asked leading businessmen and industrialists to work with the government to find a permanent solution to nationwide power shortages. He asked private sector entrepreneurs to brainstorm ‘out-of-box’ solutions to the ongoing power crisis, admitting that...

On Sunday, the government announced that the sending of ‘indecent, provocative and ill-motivated’ text and e-mail messages was a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison – the maximum possible in Pakistan. The announcement prompted a strong reaction in the local media. An editorial...

DawnNews’ Wired and Active show brings you this question of the week: Are newspapers a thing of the past? Journalism as we know it is undergoing a transition. Prestigious newspapers in the United States are losing up to US$ 1 million a week. It is estimated that in the coming year, eight of the 50...

DawnNews’ Wired and Active show brings you this question of the week: Should the Pakistan Army – and other military outfits around the world – be more worried about cyber attacks? The Pentagon, for example, uses more than five million computers on 100,000 networks in 65 countries....

Dawn.com invites its readers to debate current affairs in this forum. The Pakistan government continues to maintain that security around its stockpile of nuclear weapons is ‘second to none.’ The top US military officer Mike Mullen has gone on record as saying that his country is ‘comfortable’...