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text-4 text-black font-georgia my-1'>MONTH after month, the figures of crimes against women in the country indicate that our society is close to... </div> </article>  </div> <div class="text-right"> <h2 id='read-more' dir='auto' class='badge inline-flex text-3 leading-tight text-red-custom align-middle'><a title="Read More" href='/newspaper/editorial' class=' '>Read More</a></h2> </div> </div> <div class='flex justify-center mb-4'>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1693559881661-0' class='ad__wrapper__slot ' data-rendered-classes="" data-name="Dawn-Responsive-Middle-Leaderboard" data-height="250px" data-width="970px" > <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1693559881661-0'); });</script> </div>  </div> <div class="flex flex-col border-t border-gray-400 mt-8"> <div class="flex flex-row border-b mb-4 py-2"> <h2 id='analysis-comment' dir='auto' class='badge inline-flex font-bold text-6 sm:text-9 leading-tight font-playfair-display align-middle'>Analysis & Comment</h2> </div> <article class='story relative overflow-hidden box mt-4 flex flex-col sm:flex-row border-b border-gray-300 sm:border-gray-200 pb-2 sm:pb-4 sm:mb-4' data-id='1902210' id='1902210' data-layout='story' data-tags=''>  <figure class='media media--right media--fill w-full md:w-7/12 sm:order-1 mb-0 ' > <div class='media__item '><a title="How judges’ quest for seniority chips away at judiciary’s very foundations" href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1902210/how-judges-quest-for-seniority-chips-away-at-judiciarys-very-foundations" target="_self"><picture><img src="https://i.dawn.com/large/2025/04/051140047fcce1b.png?r=114054" alt="How judges’ quest for seniority chips away at judiciary’s very foundations" title="How judges’ quest for seniority chips away at judiciary’s very foundations" /></picture></a></div> </figure> <div class="flex flex-col items-center justify-center text-center w-full md:w-5/12">  <h2 dir='auto' data-layout='story' data-id='1902210' class='story__title text-5 sm:text-9 leading-6 sm:leading-10 font-bold font-playfair-display py-2 sm:mb-4 sm:pb-4 '><a href='https://www.dawn.com/news/1902210/how-judges-quest-for-seniority-chips-away-at-judiciarys-very-foundations' class='story__link '>How judges’ quest for seniority chips away at judiciary’s very foundations </a></h2>  <div dir='auto' class='story__excerpt text-4 sm:text-5 font-georgia my-2'>The Constitutional Bench’s reluctance to take up the matter underscores complexity of the legal and constitutional issues at play. </div> <span dir='auto' class='story__byline text-grey tracking-wide font-arial text-3.5 sm:text-4 '><a class='story__byline__link' href='https://www.dawn.com/authors/380/nasir-iqbal'>Nasir Iqbal</a></span> </div> </article> </div> <div class="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-3 sm:gap-2 sm:mb-4 divide-y sm:divide-y-0 divide-gray-300 divide-x-0 sm:divide-x first:pl-0 text-center sm:text-left">  <article class='story relative overflow-hidden box sm:pl-4 py-4' data-id='1902243' id='1902243' data-layout='story' data-tags=''>  <figure class='media media--fill sm:w-full w-full mb-0 ' > <div class='media__item '><a title="How more imports from US can help weather tariff storm" href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1902148" target="_self"><picture><img src="https://i.dawn.com/medium/2025/04/0508140610d08c2.png?r=081451" alt="How more imports from US can help weather tariff storm" title="How more imports from US can help weather tariff storm" /></picture></a></div> </figure>  <h2 dir='auto' data-layout='story' data-id='1902243' class='story__title font-bold font-playfair-display text-5 leading-6 sm:text-5.5 sm:leading-7 py-2 '><a href='https://www.dawn.com/news/1902148' class='story__link '>How more imports from US can help weather tariff storm</a></h2>  <div dir='auto' class='story__excerpt leading-5 text-4 font-georgia my-2'>US is still Pakistan’s "number one export destination"; govt constitutes committee to formulate policy response. </div> <span dir='auto' class='story__byline tracking-wide font-arial '></span> </article>   <article class='story relative overflow-hidden box sm:pl-4 py-4' data-id='1896955' id='1896955' data-layout='story' data-tags=''>  <figure class='media media--fill sm:w-full w-full mb-0 ' > <div class='media__item '><a title="The cost of travelling on Balochistan’s highways" href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1896955/the-cost-of-travelling-on-balochistans-highways" target="_self"><picture><img src="https://i.dawn.com/medium/2025/03/67ce39cb404f9.gif" alt="The cost of travelling on Balochistan’s highways" title="The cost of travelling on Balochistan’s highways" /></picture></a></div> </figure>  <h2 dir='auto' data-layout='story' data-id='1896955' class='story__title font-bold font-playfair-display text-5 leading-6 sm:text-5.5 sm:leading-7 py-2 '><a href='https://www.dawn.com/news/1896955/the-cost-of-travelling-on-balochistans-highways' class='story__link '>The cost of travelling on Balochistan’s highways </a></h2>  <div dir='auto' class='story__excerpt leading-5 text-4 font-georgia my-2'>Protests, insurgent attacks and multitude of checkpoints make road journey longer, more risky. </div> <span dir='auto' class='story__byline tracking-wide font-arial '><a class='story__byline__link' href='https://www.dawn.com/authors/5202/muhammad-akbar-notezai'>Muhammad Akbar Notezai</a></span> </article>   <article class='story relative overflow-hidden box sm:pl-4 py-4' data-id='1894018' id='1894018' data-layout='story' data-tags=''>  <figure class='media media--fill sm:w-full w-full mb-0 ' > <div class='media__item '><a title="Trump’s aid cuts to hurt pro-democracy projects the most" href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1893894/situationer-trumps-aid-cuts-to-hurt-pro-democracy-projects-the-most" target="_self"><picture><img src="https://i.dawn.com/medium/2025/02/24103849cfcf832.jpg?r=103903" alt="Trump’s aid cuts to hurt pro-democracy projects the most" title="Trump’s aid cuts to hurt pro-democracy projects the most" /></picture></a></div> </figure>  <h2 dir='auto' data-layout='story' data-id='1894018' class='story__title font-bold font-playfair-display text-5 leading-6 sm:text-5.5 sm:leading-7 py-2 '><a href='https://www.dawn.com/news/1893894/situationer-trumps-aid-cuts-to-hurt-pro-democracy-projects-the-most' class='story__link '>Trump’s aid cuts to hurt pro-democracy projects the most</a></h2>  <div dir='auto' class='story__excerpt leading-5 text-4 font-georgia my-2'>Pakistani institutions, such as ECP, have benefitted from Washington’s support in the past. </div> <span dir='auto' class='story__byline tracking-wide font-arial '></span> </article>  </div> <div class="text-right"> <h2 id='read-more' dir='auto' class='badge inline-flex text-3 leading-tight text-red-custom align-middle'><a title="Read More" href='/newspaper/analysis-comment' class=' '>Read More</a></h2> </div> <div class="flex justify-center py-4">  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1683363673257-0' class='ad__wrapper__slot ' 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class='story__excerpt text-4 text-black font-georgia my-1'>WHILE the world at large observed the International Day of Zero Waste recently (March 30), hardly anyone took notice... </div> </article>   <article class='story relative overflow-hidden box sm:pl-4 py-4' data-id='1902588' id='1902588' data-layout='story' data-tags=''>  <h2 dir='auto' data-layout='story' data-id='1902588' class='story__title text-4.5 font-bold font-playfair-display '><a href='https://www.dawn.com/news/1902588/chitral-deforestation' class='story__link '>Chitral deforestation </a></h2>  <div dir='auto' class='story__excerpt text-4 text-black font-georgia my-1'>CHITRAL, located in the extreme northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), is divided into two districts: Lower... </div> </article>   <article class='story relative overflow-hidden box sm:pl-4 py-4' data-id='1902587' id='1902587' data-layout='story' data-tags=''>  <h2 dir='auto' data-layout='story' data-id='1902587' class='story__title text-4.5 font-bold font-playfair-display '><a href='https://www.dawn.com/news/1902587/misplaced-initiative' class='story__link '>Misplaced initiative </a></h2>  <div dir='auto' class='story__excerpt text-4 text-black font-georgia my-1'>BACK in January, the Punjab government launched a green-marked separate bike lane project on Ferozepur Road in... </div> </article>   <article class='story relative overflow-hidden box sm:pl-4 py-4' data-id='1902586' id='1902586' data-layout='story' data-tags=''>  <h2 dir='auto' data-layout='story' data-id='1902586' class='story__title text-4.5 font-bold font-playfair-display '><a href='https://www.dawn.com/news/1902586/abandoned-elderly' class='story__link '>Abandoned elderly </a></h2>  <div dir='auto' class='story__excerpt text-4 text-black font-georgia my-1'>RECENTLY, I visited an old-age home and was saddened to see the elderly parents living away from their families. 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