Opinion

Without clever stories you will never have the culture industry you yearn for

Italy seemed to be making progress in curbing spread of the virus notwithstanding political turbulence and infighting

Our opposition, like our govt, keeps their personal interests in view rather than imagining the whole picture

In a Just War the “cost benefit ratio” should also be “positive”

As far as the health expenditure is concerned, the pandemic never happened

The “racial time bomb” in the US will explode if Trump is re-elected in November

One hopes that the Democrats will be able to transcend the maximalist stance towards China

For any effective learning, India would have to make its regional foreign policy less belligerent and more consolatory

Turkey had shown the path to Muslims, it can lead now

Awareness campaigns are expensive, but the lives of the people of Pakistan are priceless

Cowards (enemies of peace) don’t hide behind a mask, they hide behind their Kurdoglu

The new sanctions will unquestionably delay, if not entirely prevent, the reconstruction of Syria

There is an urgent need for govt to realise severity of the situation and take policy measures to avert the crises

There is a glaring difference in the Indian response to China on LAC as opposed to theirs with Pakistan on the LoC

The underlying purpose of all these statutory laws and policies is to enhance the quality of higher education

Slave mindset is indeed toxic — especially when we are slaves of our own ego

Budgets for all four provinces are out and it seems that they have done a much better job than the federal government

Yes. You heard that right. The award for the most unfriendly neighbour on the planet goes to… India.

About 10 million people fell below the poverty level since 2018

The onus is on our authorities

The decision is harsh and inhumane, and it comes as a surprise that no one objected while it was being made

How would this building conflict get resolved?

Clearly, the Indian government has little option to hit back at China

The region is currently living the reality of the third option. It just may be time for the world to act.

The thief’s hat is always burning, so was the case here.

India today, the India of Modi is not the India of Nehru and Gandhi

Now the Erdogan administration is quickly pressing ahead to gain an overwhelming control on GNA government

Children from 16 to 18 may be allowed work only in non-hazardous occupations, and under defined code of conditions

Perhaps the Indian diaspora needs to start defending itself against the machinations of this Hindu ISIL

Pakistan is rewarding Covid-19 as a chance to get bailouts, abstain from undertaking changes under the IMF agreement

Some stories that inspire and move the most are written in blood and sweat — stories of those who dared death itself

In the post-budget presser, the person who appeared the most clueless was the Finance Secretary

This evident leakage is just the tip of the iceberg given other forms of kickbacks and corrupt practices

Difficult days are ahead and the growing economic predicament will not end by mere rhetoric and blame game

For South Asia, India has been a hostile neighbour and its current border disputes have exposed her hegemonic design

The world doesn’t need more knowledge as much as it needs the truth

To borrow from Tomas Pueyo’s popular Covid metaphor, if we hammer it hard now, we will soon be dancing

Corruption-tired common Afghans continue to flock towards the Taliban, viewed as “brutal but efficient and devout”

There was hardly any reason to assess the performance of the Sindh govt during lockdown in light of its past record

In the bid to acknowledge mental health, the ‘rescuers’ stigmatise mental healthcare

The coronavirus that has caught us unguarded also exposed several other national weaknesses

When all is said and done, meaningful peace in Afghanistan will flourish, if people have freedom of choice

The British Museum houses one of the world’s largest and oldest collections of historical artefacts

The virus is creating havoc and the misinformation is making it harder to separate fact from conspiracy theories

Pakistan has been on the trajectory of fiscal unsustainability for quite some time

When the story of Covid-19 in Pakistan is written, let it show how indecisiveness doomed a country

Developments on one side of the ocean impacts the other side

Pakistan is trying to convey that it has no favourites in Afghanistan and it is willing to work with all groups

The killing of three beings because of their colour, status and species reveals our true mentality

India continues to play a provocative game in its territorial disputes with Pakistan, China and Nepal