Opinion

Pakistan is now behaving like a big brother telling the tantrum-throwing brat to calm down

So India, our nemesis, cannot handle Kashmir

What is happening in the Indian Held Kashmir today is a classic case of the failure of India’s so-called democracy

PM not only won diplomatically on global front against India, but for his own good won domestically on political front

Despite shoddy infrastructure of schools, the annual development programme budget is not being utilised in full

The India-Pakistan tensions keep the intra-SAARC trade in the low range of four to six per cent of GDP

It will be interesting to see how Europe will respond to the world’s biggest GMO seller becoming a European company

In order to meet public expectations, investment in law enforcement and police reforms is inevitable

For Khizr Khan, the Prophet has left behind a blueprint for individuals to face every kind of challenge in life

The PTI has an asset, urban youth and the newly politicised, whose energy is depleting

Child labour is as big an issue now as it was a quarter century ago

Imagine a man’s best four-legged friend being hugged, kissed, cuddled and pampered by passengers

People at the helm need to capitalise on the wide consensus on democracy

A just society is one where the rule of law is the cornerstone of its very foundation

If India's belligerence continues, normalisation of relations will remain elusive

Public support and public pressure will be essential for transforming the SDGs from aspiration into reality

The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is the largest social safety net system in the South Asian region

Pakistan has taken the right step of strengthening border management

The university, or any educational institution, cannot be reduced to a single number on a list

Voluntary local partnerships could enable the provision of basic services and provide the basis for reform

We are now missing good humorous content as well when it comes to finesse and finer sensibilities

It wasn’t revenge: Iraq did not attack America. Afghanistan did not attack America

Pakistan has not managed well its well-endowed sector of agriculture

Freshwater is diminishing the world over and Pakistan is amongst the top water-stressed countries

Afghan refugees in Pakistan constitute the largest and most prolonged refugee population under UNHCR’s directive

The manner in which public money is spent by the Sharif government is shameful

Seven-point criteria can be used to judge the quality of democracy anywhere

What will be the use of all these underpasses & motorways if there are massive water riots?

Gilgit is what it has always been — a way-station

Bollywood seems destined to be showing promise that it cannot match through delivery

Orientalism is a political vision of reality which promotes difference b/w the familiar (West) & the strange (East)

It took only a stumble of Hillary Clinton to expose the hidden sexism in the media

China’s sustained economic growth has increased its economic, political and strategic profile in Asia

Theatre, performing arts are from within our soil and most certainly part of the cultural fabric of the land

If we were to judge by scale of economy, then US, China and Japan should be the happiest countries on earth

Sorry, Hamlet, but there is not much rotten in the state of Denmark right now

The latest Multidimensional Poverty Index has found stark disparities between rural and urban Pakistan

I went on a preliminary research trip to Sindh to study the phenomenon of feudalistic persistence

In between the death of young Aylan and wounding of Omran lay one year of immense human suffering on a global scale

Eid is a time to celebrate and connect, but also to strengthen and cherish the bonds of family

It is Pakistan’s moral responsibility to support any Muslim Kashmiri uprising against India’s oppression

CROs have been established in all 36 districts of Punjab and are connected to a central criminal databas

Our leaders need to take steps for the elimination of both governance and nature-induced risks

The geographic state from which the Islamic State would spread out to the rest of the world is in Iraq and Syria

It appears that the Pakistani elite have already made the decision. They want to have a fiefdom

Translating the slogan of ‘Education First’ into reality requires a lot of work

Much of our charity goes to beggars on the streets, which in turn helps fund mafias to continue kidnapping children

In 1947, my country’s leadership saw the same potential in Pakistan as I see today

When the Berlin Wall finally came down, right-thinking people all over the world heaved a collective sigh of relief

The Supreme Court has sought to restore balance to the constitutionally ordained system of governance in Pakistan