Dawn's journalist have been peddling fake news since ages.. Since they are seemingly educated , people usually gobble up their propaganda. They also are good spin masters and derive weird conclusions from data , e.g the quoted post.
Unfortunately , there has not been a concentrated effort by educated people to debunk their lies on grand scale. Also , most Pak journalist are of low caliber who became journalist because they failed in other careers. The only exception among all of them is moeed pirzada.