Opinion

After the 18th Constitutional Amendment, it is clear that local government is a provincial subject

The urban electorate in Pakistan seems to be divided on the elections issue

True or not, the story is haunting: even back then, a man’s honour was directly related to a woman’s body

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the main reason for India’s impressive moves in the area

Pakistan says that the Kashmir issue should be resolved according to UN resolutions

It seems Boeing is doing a special favour to PIA. Or is it?

Modi must realise that the dialogue has to be unconditional as his predecessors PM Vajpayee and PM Manmohan Singh had

The myth that wealth is acquired by merit is essential to providing a moral justification for extreme inequality

PBC must reconsider the wisdom behind its age-restriction policy

Indian govts cannot even deliver on the primary condition of state effectiveness, & that is the monopoly over violence

Let the Indians fall into the hole they are digging for themselves in Occupied Kashmir

What is common nowadays between America, Israel, India, Pakistan and Britain?

Marx had said ‘history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce’

Headlines in Pakistan have been dominated by the PM's UN speech focusing on Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir

Both provinces have made large development allocations to education and health in their respective budgets for 2016-17

The IMF’s rhetorical admission of flaws in its lending policies is nothing new

Let us review what a surgical strike is and its implications

Pakistan’s categorical response has been that India cannot unilaterally withdraw from IWT

Escalating tension between Pakistan, India has brought worst out of our artists and they’ve picked guns over guitars

The scale may be smaller but the savagery is no less in Pakistan

Not one local newspaper bothered to fawn over Kim Kardashian being robbed at gunpoint at her luxury apartment in Paris

No surprise that the two countries have found containing violent religio-political groups difficult

The Kargil war (1999) was the first occasion that showed the restraining role of the nuclear weapons

How do leaders detoxify the narrative once they have brainwashed their people into hating the other country?

When everything is in a flux, some semblance of constancy is required to anchor our being

One needs to peel off some basic layers of thought processes that have popped up in both the countries

The situation is highly complex but it is essentially the ruthless iron grip of Assad

I am not arguing here against higher education or scientific research or the pillars of the scientific method

Both the Senate and the House overwhelmingly voted in favour of the bill

Any move by India to unilaterally tamper with IWT is only going to highlight the enormity of the Kashmir dispute

Decisions taken by India on September 26, especially its renewed adherence to the IWT are inconsequential

Neither country deserves, nor should they have, nuclear arsenals

The “end of history” celebration by Francis Fukuyama in his best-selling book of that title turned out to be premature

Chief minister of Sindh, Murad Ali Shah, has taken some decisions that have been welcomed by many

‘Modi is a life-long member of the RSS, a para-military Hindu organisation inspired by fascist movements of...

The poll conducted by CNN showed Clinton beating Trump by 62 to 27

As the world integrates, cooperates and opens up to its regional needs, India and Pakistan look inwards

Will this surgical strike put an end to terror? And if not, what will India do when the next terror strike happens?

The new Indian ‘aggressive defence’ is testing the limits of what is clearly an outdated Pakistani narrative

As the mantras go: ‘history repeats itself,’ and ‘we must learn from history’

Future of Farooq Sattar, Mustafa Kamal or any other Altaf rebel harbouring leadership ambitions appears rather murky

There are various actors and institutions which have to relinquish powers for FATA mainstreaming

Any military confrontation, even when not threatening to spiral out of control, has serious consequences

Pakistan must stay alert against the current cementing of Indo-US ties

I continue to press all those with influence to get talks started towards a long overdue political transition

Vietnam and Bangladesh have begun looking at designing and implementing disaster-resilient infrastructure systems

Years ago on a visit to India, I came face to face with this ugly side

Fata is administered through the ministry of SAFRON, Governor K-P, Fata Secretariat and office of chief secretary K-P

Modi’s words weren’t the first thing to make a reference to Gilgit nor were the last

Geopolitical resolution is yet far away for the people of G-B