Opinion

The respect that India had gained by following an inclusive system of governance is being lost

Saudi financial assistance must have played a part in Pakistan’s decision of not attending the KL summit

Let us hope both countries open more such places in the coming days

Not initiating a timely, appropriate and diverse weaning diet can lead to severe anaemia in children

When democracy decays it goes backwards and when it does that it takes the country with it

Much like installing barbed wires, India has set in motion discriminatory laws

Declaration of Emergency was a perfectly legal measure provisioned under the Constitution and the law

Pernicious statements against CPEC by US deliberately aim at stocking Pakistani concerns about CPEC in particular

Govt's legal team needs to work overtime to extricate govt from the tight legal corner it is finding itself currently

With architecture of extremes in place, we are to still find our way through political, social, economic instabilities

If anything undermined the OIC it was the participation of the then Indian foreign minister in one of its key events

The refrain literally resonates the past

Micro-credit is also blamed for eroding social capital within poor communities due to the group lending mechanism

Will the pro-Indian regime in Dhaka look the other way over New Delhi’s policy of Muslim bashing?

War is as old as human civilization

Due to various factors outlays have remained below the required level to ensure a sustained upward growth trajectory

There are people, institutions that are leveraging their unique competencies to address societal problems

Musharraf verdict has broken a long tradition of ignoring the high treason cases of the other three military rulers

Attending thenKL Summit would have proved Pakistan’s foreign policy was indeed independent

The sword of FATF is hanging over the government’s head as Pakistan is struggling to come out of the grey list

At a time when the Muslim world is divided and in need of dire support, the OIC should be standing as a beacon of hope

Unruly activities by professional groups only reinforce the chaos in the society

Simply bringing countries together does not, of course, guarantee any results but it creates opportunities

The poor’s suffering is the result of people not doing their job but know their privilege protects their incompetence

After an initial honeymoon period, reality has started to set in as the govt juggles with multiple challenges

US painted rosy scenarios about a war that cost taxpayers trillions and a colossal loss in human life

Our society is not one governed by the rule of law instead it is governed by power

One does not need an Aesop to educe a moral out of this tale!

This will not be the first time the Americans would have left the country they invaded in a mess

Student unions are the first step towards participation in national politics and the grooming of future leaders

Flip side of the Afghanistan Papers is how in the US it is difficult to hide the truth

For centuries, we have been instilled with the idea that the people collectively represent a nation

There is an old maxim that the first casualty of war is the truth

Only possibility of Trump leaving the scene is a heart attack

Reform of a society is not a business in which you have to break even and then make profits

Doctors should at least be facilitated, paid and promoted like other graduates in government services

The minute IK stops being angry, you’ll know he’s become part of the status quo

The silence with which India offered Modi a walkover is one extreme. The other extreme is the messy reality of US

The recent government reform agenda seeks to do the routine job again

Those thinking out loud generated new hopes for change in quality of life of citizens but nothing tangible came out

It’s the mindset that has made our educated youth so short on temper and egotistical

London is termed the hub of political intrigues and conspiracies that cause political instability in Pakistan

RCT experiments aim to assess the impact of specific interventions using “experimental” and “control” groups

A look around the world shows that the least corrupt countries are mostly democracies, not autocracies or oligarchies

While children face new threats to their rights, they also have new opportunities to realise their rights

Pakistanis have been denied democracy by the relentless military interventions

EU is China’s largest trading partner and China is EU’s second-largest

In short, a new social contract is in the calling to put Pakistan on the road to progress

Blaming a victim robs the victim of their dignity

It is estimated that Pakistan is now home to over 500 private armies