Opinion

Every time the PTA announces a ban on a website, it publicises its existence to people who never knew about it

Multinationals headquartered in rich countries earn huge profits by exploiting workers in poor countries

PIA’s managers & pilots had contributed crucially to the establishment of most of the Middle Eastern national airlines

There is a constant refrain that ensuring security is the job of the state, not individuals

“I have loved Pakistan the way no other human being does…two people loved Pakistan as much as I do: Jinnah & Bhutto.."

When a nun talks of purchasing guns to guard the school, it is a fair indication there is something wrong

What Imran Khan needs to take into account is the kind of material being taught in K-P’s textbooks

Ahsan Iqbal's analysis raises some serious misgivings, divulging somewhat ambiguous and faulty priorities of the govt

With the attack in Charsadda, once again people are saying that this is a failure of intelligence and security forces

The kind of prolonged shackling that Kaavan has been put through has both psychological and physiological impacts

Can the Sharif's reform Pakistan? The answer in a single word is 'no'

Why is it that we treat one set of students – the elite ‘O’ levels students – as intelligent?

Sahabzada Yaqub’s grasp of world affairs was internationally recognised, with men like President Nixon, among others

Expecting teachers to do what state should do, but is unwilling or unable to do, is a sign of miserable failure

Women on Wheels campaign amounts to women challenging en masse the public-private divide

In 2015, Pakistan was the only Saarc country to have improved its position on the Corruption Perceptions Index

Give the general his due. He opted for a route fraught with peril. His stock since then has risen phenomenally.

As we left his house, Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said to me, we will meet again inshallah

First, the attack proves that we have learnt nothing from the past

Income inequality can result from risks taken by people with good ideas who make a lot of money for themselves

I've seen scores of female students stating that a good Master’s degree puts them in spot for a good marriage proposal

In the aftermath of the Charsadda attack, the government is asking for schools to “beef-up” their security

Zafarullah Khan was Pakistan's first foreign minister. We now can't even imagine a Ahmadi being in a position of power

There has always been enthusiasts who turned up at every event of Western classical music held in Karachi

My feeling is that 2016 will be a good year for Amit Shah and the BJP electorally

Digitisation of Criminal Record Office is part of a larger effort to develop an integrated criminal profiling system

Erecting barriers, checking ID cards at check posts, and having police mobiles parked at major chowks is not policy

When Nawaz Sharif announced that Pakistan had licked the terrorism bug, he was way off the mark

General Raheel had countless opportunities to stage a coup but he never even thought about it

Here we are, after 15 years of waging a ‘war on terror’, thousands have lost their lives, the enemy is at our gates

It’s scary to think there are over one million ‘idle’ young males in Pakistan, who are vulnerable to crime & militancy

In years to come, he will be revered, like the Frontier Gandhi, for his outstanding courage

Ahsan Iqbal has likened Pakistan to an aircraft and insists that it is ready for a ‘take-off’

Is the so-called Kissan Package working only in Sindh? Is the Khadim-e-Ala building any rural roads in Punjab?

The likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have spent millions in philanthropic efforts

Political temperatures are set to rise in Sindh when a powerless mayor of Karachi takes charge

Out of $21bn worth of “priority energy projects” of CPEC, only one project is meant for K-P and two for Balochistan

It’s important to celebrate people like TCF Chairman Mushtaq Chhapra when educational institutes are under attack

There was an overwhelming diversity of grub at the Karachi Eats festival

I’ve travelled on both Air India and PIA, and I have found Air India infinitely superior to PIA in about every...

Sahibzada Yaqub resigned his commission & governorship rather than opening fire on civilians in East Pakistan

We blame the politicians and the army, but we don’t blame ourselves for not demanding accountability and hard change

Arab-Iran rivalry has found battlegrounds at societal levels in many Muslim-majority states, including in Pakistan

Given the poisonous bile taught in our textbooks, it’s not surprising Safoora Goth terrorists were highly educated

Idea that Women on Wheels scheme is effort to ‘follow the West’ and breaks the family value system is preposterous

President Obama's foresight regarding the continued instability in Pakistan must not be taken lightly

That is my regret that my friend, Ashfaq Kayani, ignored his siblings’ deeds. He should and could have done better

The pressure to become a doctor or an engineer is often just based on social pressures

Poisonous ideologies do not emerge from thin air. Oppression, corruption and injustice are greenhouses for resentment

Today groups like Jaish-e-Mohammad may be targeting our adversary, but tomorrow they will come after us