Opinion

It is the first time since the 2010 series that the Pakistan team is visiting England

This has been the bloodiest holy month in history

Black people have been on the wrong end of white hatred on the net almost since its inception

There is something terribly wrong when government schools are funded through private donations

To boldly go where no man has gone before

John Chilcot has literally exposed the fallacies that masked the illegal war in Iraq

Hijras, eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery

Muslims in Europe need to work hard to become part of their societies and not blaming outsiders for their problems

What needs to be assessed is whether dharna is the panacea to eliminate corruption

Powerful come back from fancy hospitals in London — and the poor? Well, most of them never come back from hospitals

With this law, we, the women, have entered the private sphere of men, where they feel safest to do as they please

The late Nisar Osmani was courageous enough to call Zia, to his face, a dictator who wore many hats!

Abdul Sattar Edhi started out enraged by bodies bobbing in the Karachi harbour

The charms of ‘freedom’ propagated by economic ideologies conceal the ugly reality of corporate freedom

In less than a century and a half Afghanistan has fought six wars. Each one of them changed the country

The US released casualty information regarding drone strike operations into the public arena for the first time ever

Edhi had little time for politicians. He saw them as self-serving and corrupt

The sooner Muslim states recognise that the key solutions to extremism and terrorism lie in their hands, the better

Balochistan govt has substantially decreased its provincial share for education this yea

Reaction of the govt in Panama scandal showed how secondary parliament was in the estimation of the PM

The highest ranked ministers in India are, strangely, junior and do not have cabinet rank

Unfortunately, the source of societal intolerance in Pakistan is the state itself

What the majority of media outlets fail to understand is that sports is a getaway for fans from their daily grind

This shifting of borders is symbolic to the shifting of battlefields, from international arena to the internal arena

Pakistan is likely to undergo transformation from an import-based economy to a lucrative trans-shipment economy

There was no plan to have Taliban shoot her so that she could become famous, win prizes, be honoured around the world

The use or meaning of a muffin’s life is to fill empty stomachs

Thousands of university graduates roam offices in search of job opportunities every year

Is it wise to just follow the law in cases that stand on an obsolete legal regime called the CrPC?

Now, dynamics of scandals like these have resonating effects on various parts of the globalised world

Closer to home in South Asia, there is little cheer and plenty of phantasmagoria

The Chinese would prefer greater involvement of the military in the CPEC, for expeditious completion of projects

With exception of feudals, mighty industrialists and children of politicians, no one aspires to become a politician

We all get drawn to physical beauty first, which then whets our appetite to explore the soul

The US no longer carries the same kind of clout as it did in 2008 to push through the waiver for India

It’s rare for gents to get to appointed Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court on merit alone

US feels a Northern Alliance regime, with the total exclusion of Taliban forces, suits its interests in the region

Brexit has raised the spectre of what one American political scientist called the ‘clash of civilisations’

Learning to recognise that your mind is about to veer into an unpleasant space is half the battle won

Extremism can only be rooted out if all these forces are on one side, not fighting each other

Scientists are unable to explain how the cell could have originated without having been created by a designer

One of the strangest things about Indian cities today is how expensive real estate is

There are worries about the political showers due post-Eid as the PM returns to the land of no dull moments

Brexit is without doubt the most significant event in Britain’s history after the Second World War

A nation of 200 million people will wait with bated breath for a handful of individuals to decide its fate

Brexit. And no one saw it coming. Two trillion dollars’ worth of assets wiped out

Pakistan’s economy has stabilised and is rebounding. That is a fact and to claim otherwise would be unwise

Muslim leaders must be more proactive in harnessing a peaceful vision of the Holy Quran

Women can bring different ideas to the table, which benefit economy and society

In budget for 2016-17, federal government proposed some fiscal measures that touched a raw nerve in the provinces