Opinion

Improving macroeconomic indicators doesn’t mean everyday life will get better overnight or growth returns...

Where are the adults when you need them?

President Trump has his work cut out

In India too, a bitter, petty and vindictive impulse brought Narendra Modi into power

The stigma associated with mental health has to go

In the first six months of 2019, American and Afghan airstrikes killed and injured 519 people

It is now almost 50 days since IOK was pushed under a complete lockdown with some huge number of Indian soldiers

Amid public uproar against Punjab police’s dismal performance in recent weeks

As most existing labour laws do not address the plight of poor farmers

As the government does not seem to have any substantive and long-term plan of action

As the financial hub has become a failed metropolis

The JUI-F has always used its social influence in these regions for political power

China has an edge in influencing these states to its benefits as they are culturally and spatially closer

Kremlin also believes that the US “is unduly coming back” to its prior confrontational policy with the Taliban

With no education, job, and a promising future these Kashmiri men would be driven into the arms of ISIS and al Qaeda

The subsequent rounds of talks logically should have also been in the direction of a comprehensive peace

And it is with them that it has to negotiate to exit safely

Karachi can and should be made a model city

Pakistan needs to do much more on adaptation

A peace deal culminating the longest military conflict in US history is too big a trophy for a Republican president

Higher education and research have to be thought through the lens of a system, not a mere number

Is Pakistan under a long spell of darkness because of the wrong policies of those sitting in Islamabad?

Local governments in this country have only flourished under military rule

The US and the Taliban have been in touch to resume the faltering peace process

Changing the mindset of the people is more important than tree plantation

Not only did Trump move scuttled negotiations; he also invited Islamabad to play the game

Life being the serious business it is, a small dose of escapism to relieve tension may be just what the doctor ordered

Many people are taking loans or converting their fertile lands into hotels, guesthouses, motels and restaurants

Civil law must protect the rights of people concerning freedom from violence and exploitation

Foreseeable hostile environment in Afghanistan does not match the responsible political end to the war Trump seeks

Modi read this reality and decided the time was ripe for his re-occupation of occupied Kashmir

As the largest democracy in the world has given a mandate to these racist, fascist and extremist clique

Women the focus of 10% of news and comprised 20% of experts interviewed in 2018 according to Unesco

As Trump cancels meetings with Ghani and the Taliban

As measuring global happiness proves difficult due to the subjectivity of the term

“Poverty, what poverty? People have to wait to be seated at restaurants?”

India also knows the fact that it will be Pakistan’s last intention to allow Pakistani Kashmiris to cross the LOC

There must be a system to expel people from the service for poor performance or administrative delinquency

Corruption by low-ranking officials who are underpaid and overwhelmed by responsibilities, is understandable

Hindu chauvinist, racist and fascist policies of the Modi government have now compelled a reality check

Online training platforms should be set up for skills training, targetting underprivileged females of the society

Researcher reports from 9th to 13th August report women complaining of “molestation” by Indian security forces

US-Afghan peace talks have suffered a setback because of Trump’s penchant for showmanship

We need leaders who are knowledgeable, thoughtful, visionary and mature.

The cancellation or postponement of the talks can be attributed to the lack of a unified approach from the beginning.

Ironically, the FBR is not to be blamed here. The problem instead lies in the unrealistic target.

Would members of Pakistan’s legislature be able to ever put aside their own desires for the greater good of democracy

For almost half a century, Moscow had offered to the world an alternative way of governing

The mad cow disease keeps on rearing its ugly head in the unlikeliest of places

The provincial police force is allegedly damaged beyond repair