Opinion

The Election Commission of Pakistan, despite its weaknesses, is all geared up to hold elections.

Large corporations are far too powerful for any single country to regulate.

Why did it take over a day and a half to get helicopters up to Nanga Parbat?

Initially, Article 62(1) didn't contain Islamised injunctions requiring elected parliamentarians to be sadiq and ameen

Every child has the right to have free access to quality education according to the Constitution

I’ll just wander off into an analogue sunset and see if the paper-shop is still open

Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the value and importance of urban wetlands

The counter-terrorism phenomenon as observed in the contemporary world today is getting complicated

Not to mention, with the degradation of the educational standard at the FC College, sports suffered too

There are social and political consequences that an unprofessional and unmanaged media can produce in society

Pakistan needs to prioritise its participation in different export control regimes

It is the state’s constitutional responsibility to facilitate expectant and recent mothers

Errors and lapses do happen and acknowledging them makes us human

The government should introduce a distance-based toll structure, where shorter distances would require lesser tolls

There are reports that India is planning to induct an ICBM missile which can hit the targets up to 6,000 km

There are still not enough people to provide the manpower with the necessary skills to breathe life into the city

Like beauty, obesity too lies in the eye of the beholder

In the mid-80s, Israel and India had secretly planned to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear facility in Kahuta

The bulk of the funds that are coming in are committed to solving Pakistan’s energy problem

We need to look at the demands that the market imposes on them to better understand the problem

Morality, values, character and truth have fallen so low since Trump became the president

Host nation's responsibility to provide safeguards for practitioners of the extreme sport remain undecided

Development has a complex relationship with democratic and authoritarian regimes

Dr. Shahid Masood's latest spectacle unravels the greater menace of fake news lining the media industry

Opportunities for females to get access to good quality education remain few and far between

From a person of his qualities, one had expected Imran to lead

It is vital to consider their role in countering violent extremism and threat posed by the group

The future of Britain remains unclear

They violate the spirit of the Constitution and the general understanding

Massive poverty at the awam level is directly the result of corruption

Ahed has become a symbol of resistance against Israel

The condition of the national sport is in tatters at the moment

That Pakistan can appreciably raise the level of exports to China is hardly much of a surprise

Freedom is something of an illusion in Pakistan

Globally and within most countries, inequality is on the rise

When a case of child abuse surfaces, we conveniently alienate the abuser from ourselves

These are serious issues that demand a major change in our strategic trajectory

Evidence relating to the rape and murder of Zainab may also be tainted and ruled inadmissible

A dolphin population assessment has been carried out every five years since 2001

The Afghans who come to Pakistan find Pakistan economically affordable as compared to other countries in the region

Agriculture is still a leading employer with 42 per cent of the labour force directly or indirectly working the land

Pakistan’s Israel policy is not driven by any grandiose ideas of human rights or Muslim solidarity

legally and by any principle of justice custodial killing by police and security institutions is an indefensible act

No sensible person in the chief executive’s post of the world’s sole superpower would have talked such garbage

The Panama Leaks have led to a widespread public debate on the responsibility of accounting and legal professionals

There is little comprehensive non-military aspect of the strategy to win the war against the Taliban

If democracy suffers in this country so does the irregular war that the nation fights

The lesson from the camps is straight forward — to innovate with humility and humanity

In Zainab’s case, the CCTV footage aired on media came from a private unauthenticated source

Successive governments have made the decision not to expand educational access in Sindh