Opinion

When you’re in your comfort zone, things don’t feel great, they just feel too good to be true. You have a job

Pakistan’s 90 million workers deserve an escape from poverty, disease, hunger and exploitation

Why Pakistan must have the Army it needs, and not the Army some of its people grow hoarse claiming they want

Fake news, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience have all darkened our memory throughout history

The unfortunate reality is that there are not many who care for rectifying shortcomings of our system

Problem of a broken system is that we don’t have facts to win an argument

Hundreds of billions of rupees of hard-earned money of taxpayers is spent by govt for this development programme

What should worry us is having a metaphorical graveyard as a neighbour

Most tangible parting American gift to Afghans is not development but the immense stock of weaponry left behind

The word success was picked up by the EU to fund Sindh Union Council Community Economic Strengthening Support

US was so sure of its victory in the war on terror waged it paid little heed to any guidance or reference from history

US-EIA ties should not be ‘interest based’ but ‘morality and responsibility-based’

Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of all energy, trade and transit corridors in an era of geo-economics

The west should fight against the urge for aggression not a war against terrorism

One can only speculate to what extent the Taliban will stay away from being vindictive

The recent scenes of barbarity have exposed devastating situation in Afghanistan

To have a valid majority government, the FPTP should be replaced by Proportional Representation

It was hard to break old habits and we continued the business of detaining ‘terrorists’ with our US partner

The epoch-making events of August 2021 would herald the advent of a new era

It is an outcome written on the wall though Americans took too much time to realise

Taxation of agricultural income is a provincial subject under the Constitution

A lot more people than a couple of hundred thousand who have been evacuated need help

Today, Afghanistan poses a global challenge requiring a global response

The Indian commentators conceded that Pakistan’s reading of the Afghan situation was correct

The fact of the matter is that we are gradually losing control of our news. This is the scary part

Pakistan’s past involvement with the group, Taliban-led administration in Kabul would be friendlier towards Islamabad

Pakistan’s judicial system is tainted with sham litigation contests seeking to disinherit female heirs

With an electric car people may wrongly think they are averting the disaster, which is a lethal ignorance

What happened after Aug 15 when Kabul airport, controlled by US forces, witnessed a worst type of chaos and disorder

Our focus should not be in how this biggest US project has ended but how quickly we can shift to a “what nextism” mode

The great hope of the 1990s and 2000s was that the internet would be a force for openness and freedom

A long way to go to make Afghanistan a stable and prosperous country

With enough points of similarity to make the comparison valid

The collapse of reality is an atrocious experience

IPCC released another major report on climate change, warning of a “code red for humanity”

With great fanfare the federal budget this year announced a bottom-up approach to social and economic well-being

If the mind knows only what it encounters in the worlds that surround it, or does it know more than that

There are four inflection points where what appears as an easy Taliban sweep over Afghanistan can stand reversed

Taliban advance with lightning speed surprising many with their audacity, shrewdness and their application of force

The pandemic has given humankind the opportunity to rethink and reform existing socio-political and economical orders

The end of a war on Afghan soil is viewed from an extremely narrow and self-centred perspective

The recently increasing incidents in a row expose the fault line on which women are standing in Pakistan

With climate now a frontline crisis, we must consider those most harshly affected by present and future disasters

Recent UNDP publication reveals that it is the best of times for privileged few and the worst for the underprivileged

The militant group's victory in Afghanistan has been well-received by many around the world

US interventions in different countries are well remembered more for their failures than successes

The scrabble industry in Pakistan has immense potential and the government must support the ventures of the PSA

The entire federal government runs on borrowed money

Afghanistan is much more than an intelligence failure or an error of policy judgment

There are reports that Washington has asked Islamabad to keep its border with Afghanistan open