Opinion

Realpolitik can do terrible things to people and in South Asia everything is politics

Many struggle to convert faster GDP growth into substantive and lasting well-being improvements for their citizens

The report provides serious food for thought in relation to public policy for improving sanitation services

Out of the 53 items, prices of 14 items increased over the previous week

Let us think about who the rural poor are

Despite its necessity, Kartarpur is a paradox

The question that arises is: why no lessons were learned the first time the state machinery was put at halt?

The long arm of the law keeps swooping in to crush the hopes of people who have little — or nothing

It is the incompetence of the Pakistani banks not to improve on their systems and make remittances seamless and speedy

This is quintessential America First versus Pakistan First

In Pakistan, use of Big Data analytics to gather information on potential issues can help us ‘see into the future’

What is less known that Chinese leadership has used its bureaucracy brilliantly

14 districts, mostly in Balochistan, are worse than the poorest countries such as Niger, South Sudan

It seems not only plastic but all kind of pollution has been a non-issue for forty years of ‘democratic’ rule

Costs that the people of Pakistan have borne because of the war on terror cannot be swept aside by a series of tweets

'Many of the countries seeking IMF help do not end up fixing their economies'

The problem for our prime minister, however, is that the underlying facts do not change

The two incidents are just a small fraction of what goes on every day

Cultural institutions, beliefs and practices undermine women’s autonomy and contribute to gender-based violence

The negotiations leading up to this year’s climate change conference have not been positive

Low-caste people and Muslims were not the only targets of the Hindu extremists who dominate the BJP

In Pakistan, successive governments, despite many promises, have failed to address this chronic problem

Speed now influences all aspects of human existence

Beneficiaries of the new model of governance may no more be the small groups of political elite but the general public

With all the negativity surrounding us today, we can choose to curse the darkness or light a candle

By cutting Khadim Rizvi and his band down to size, the State has taken a solid step towards the victory Pakistan needs

In the past few years, the major chunk of Pakistan’s trade deficit with China and the rest of the world has widened

In the end, it is up to the US administration to decide whether it cares about its image on Pakistani streets or not

How can Pakistan invest in its youth so they become socioeconomic change-makers similar to European countries?

One only hopes that Pakistan finally succeeds in preparing an economic policy blueprint

The midterm elections as an evident shift in Muslim representation and participation in the US

FBR is an organisation of the vested interests, by the vested interests and for the vested interests

Currently, Pakistan’s press is taunted with pejoratives like ‘treasonous’ or ‘corrupt’

The leaders must not let the people down while there is still time

The major lesson that can be learnt from the Asian Tigers is that a turnaround is possible in a short span of time

As the object is to seek clarity and not personalise the discussion one would refrain from naming individuals

We must redouble our efforts to provide universal access to toilets, leaving no one behind

Digital finance solutions inherently possess an opportunity to design tailor made programmes

Yes, you heard it right — a functioning toilet may actually help in keeping girls in school

Pakistan’s economic problems will never be resolved if we continue to latch on to the IMF and other lending agencies

Pakistan's role in the international arena is not commensurate with its relative size

If we were to re-write history without the so-called U-turns, Jinnah would have never left the Congress

The latest being a close encounter with Mars spelling disaster to the good Earth

Not a new world order

SC verdict exonerating Asia Bibi from blasphemy charges was the first litmus test

In all this, one question remains: where was the Sindh Food Authority all this time?

Numbering in thousands, public schools in Sindh wear a depressing look, marked by unavailability of teaching staff

US-Pakistan relations is akin to watching two bipolar, schizophrenics stumbling around in the dark

SP Tahir Khan Dawar is not the last but yet another addition to the list of brave soldiers

They are the politicians who swim with the current and not against it