Opinion

Economic Freedom Index is not a sacrosanct scorecard neither is it a predictor of investors’ confidence

Our latest PDSP also offers little to the poorest of the poor, expect temporary relief

Extremism could be effectively prevented and countered through viable educational infrastructure

Abba had the most wicked sense of humour

Zinc deficits span the globe

Dialogue and communication is the key to ensure regional stability between both nuclear-armed adversaries

Laws are important to set legal norms and obligations for a state to honour and fulfill

Pakistan should forcefully defend its position at all international forums, including the ICJ

Suppression or perceived injustices to a group causes them to form their own unit, essentially gangs

Pakistan has matured as a nuclear power and realises the huge responsibility that rests on it

UN peacekeepers are one of the ways in which we deliver on that universal aspiration and make the world safer

My own interactions with Dr Nishtar have always been intellectually rich and stimulating

To ensure a future for our nations and to resolve our differences we will first have to try and put them aside

Campaigns on menstrual hygiene erase specificities to create the homogenous ‘Third World Girl’ in need of saving

Zbigniew Brzezinski worked for his country but in many ways what he did then now haunts the US today

Trump's approach towards the Muslim world will have consequences for years to come

Learning should not be restricted to a particular age, gender, class or marital status

Our failure has been that we have not been able to overcome that fear and distrust and build relationships

House of Saud and the White House have always cosied up in the past to pursue mutual enemies

PML-N’s fifth is not what it states to have achieved, but what it has not been able to achieve

Jared Kushner is perhaps the most powerful man in the White House today

At the age of seventy, we have grown into a nation of certifiable cribbers

The idea was to delegitimise Pakistan at the global forum and push it to the edge.

Budget-makers while preparing the annual balance-sheet did not take into consideration UN report

Discussions of political leadership in Pakistan are exercises in finger-pointing.

Forty-two died, in perhaps the single largest custodial killing in the history of independent India.

What we need to do is to study in depth the thought over the past centuries of leading thinkers of humanity

United States never explicitly made any commitment to defend Pakistan against Indian aggression

Brick kilns dot the landscape everywhere

Our leaders must pay more attention to the plight of the common man and woman

Basic premise of safe city projects is early detection and response

Nawaz’s failure to appoint an actual foreign minister and empower a foreign ministry is coming back to bite him

Lofty humanist ideals may be expressed at other forums but they must not influence decision of judges

2/3 of the workforce for current CPEC projects is Pakistani,only a critical mass of labour force comes from China

Malala, the idea, tells a particular story about people in Pakistan

The US being the dominant power of the region has a crucial role to play

As people we need to push for a system that is not just based on profit maximisation

The government of Pakistan should be encouraged to increase budgetary allocation to the education sector

PrepCom only exposed deep fissures among the Arab league states

It will be important for the K-P police to learn from the failures of the Police Order 2002

Who could have imagined that Russia would be the host of a Hilal Expo?

Less than four per cent of all articles in the Urdu paper were written by female contributors

It is urgent for Pakistan to upgrade its existing railway system to improve the quality and quantity of transportation

Lahore is reported to have three per cent green cover in contrast to a global requirement of 20 per cent

People-flows became important for the economies of the US and the UK

Sindh has been at the opposite end - with the province being treated like an outcast

Can Trump, too, survive the Memogate?

Every effort should be made to make an example of those who demolished the school

There are thought to be at least 30 Pakistani inmates in the central prison

Mr Rowhani navigated his country past the economic crisis, reducing inflation and stabilising currency exchange rate