Opinion

Parliament wasn't able to acquire the focal place for lawmaking in 2015

India's censor board determines how many seconds James Bond may kiss someone before the act becomes immoral

Retirement of General Raheel and appointment of his successor will be one of the most important developments of 2016

It is highly unlikely that Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will be able to abolish the tradition of protecting VIPs

After the horror of APS attack, Pakistan could’ve changed course, focusing on rights protections and ending extremism

It is somehow a woman’s body that is owned by society and she herself has no say in the matter

This Christmas, let everyone reading this ring up any nun they ever came across say, “Merry Christmas sister...”

Regime of the financialisation of the economy has been presided over by a munshi-turned-financial wizard aka Ishaq Dar

PM appears to be completing 2015 unscathed politically and more confident, despite the economy remaining in doldrums

In Pakistan, public safety is rigidly interpreted in the context of public complaints

The literal meaning of Islam is ‘religion of peace and security’

Extremism is the new normal, the default position for many millions, because it has become so ordinary

I’m no prude but I don’t get why women need to be paraded in bikinis on stage

A number of bills related to child rights have been pending in the National Assembly for years now

If Pakistan showed reluctance over joining the coalition, it was because it may be weighing its options

Many terrorists have been found to be graduates of modern institutions, have had careers; come from the middle class

The UK Government Car Service currently has 85 vehicles. In contrast, our government operates with over 100,000 cars

The air in Kabul is filled with fearful uncertainty and a bit of optimism

Pope has tried to heal wounds and build bridges but there is no similar voice emanating from the Muslim world

Pakistan can’t afford to ignore the presence of a large population in the country that has a strong affinity with Iran

In our universities, faculty find themselves inundated with a back-breaking teaching load

Pakistan has 25 million children out of school and malnutrition claims the lives of 280,000 every year

What could possibly roil a large crowd of adult men to such fury that they would take to streets shouting expletives?

No one from the civilian or military spheres was sent home after the APS attacks

You are not allowed to appeal against your detention in any civil court

The success of the Paris summit will depend on what the individual signatories are willing to do in the future

The likes of Mumtaz Qadri seem to have been given the licence to kill by this country’s seminaries

While pundits are predicting Trump will finally bow out of the US elections, for Muslims that is not the real issue

Human beings are best the means of development, superior to all alternatives

Trump displayed a bit of pantomime evilness by reminding Bush that he had received 43% of the votes to Bush’s three

One reason for injustice in mass violence cases in India is ruling party is uninterested in prosecuting its own people

PPP has told people of Karachi to take a hike. How smart is that for a party that claims to be a ‘people’s...

The country’s liberals had hitched their wagons to the star of the show — General (retd) Musharraf

Guerrilla operations are complemented by urban terrorism and these are countered by counter-urban terrorist operations

What is happening at Hafeez Centre demonstrates continuation of sporadic agitation against Ahmadis since independence

GIK's understanding of economy is perhaps the single-most important reason why we are in such socioeconomic mess today

For 35-year-old Rab Dino, heartache has been a lifetime companion. He can’t imagine life without it

Pakistan urgently needs better laws on occupational safety and health

Grand plans of the government to add 10,000 megawatts to the national grid by 2018, according to him, are “not enough”

Politicians spare no opportunity in talking of risque concept but often, they themselves are worst offenders

The 147 martyrs of APS will only really rest in peace if we do the following: look within. And act. Now

A Chinese official said Pakistani leaders express little interest in building consensus amongst their people on CPEC

This barbaric incident was one of the thousands that Pakistanis have endured

The Age of Letters is past. There will be no more collections of the musings of literary lions or us less exalted

For a minute, I was aghast on reading about Kevin Pietersen being denied entry into a Qantas lounge for wearing thongs

Like most boys his age, Aakif Azeem’s Facebook page has a lot of sports updates, funny videos and memes

Driving around you soon begin to wonder if this was the only way to rebuild the war-torn city and morale of the people

The APS Peshawar attack has very few parallels in history for mass murder of innocent children

The talks appear more to be stunts that help the establishments in both India and Pakistan domestically and abroad

PM and his kitchen cabinet unintentionally manufactured a miracle by appointing General Raheel Sharif the army chief