Opinion

Pakistani universities have failed to enable students to understand the complex problems of our time

Large multinationals, i.e. Singapore Telecom, British Petroleum, Chevron, Royal Bank of Scotland & HSBC have all left

Country struck by at least 40 earthquakes since 1970 hasn't been able to strengthen resilience to reduce disaster risk

PML-N has been forced to contemplate that replacing Dr Abdul Malik Baloch might prove to be counter-productive

All at once, clouds parted: Donald H Rumsfeld, president’s chief of staff, had been boosted to Secretary of Defense

Samuel Huntington believed two world cultures were bound to clash. One was democratic and secular. The other was Islam

Around 30% of the Karachi police force is reserved exclusively to massage the egos of the rulers

The objective of COP21 is to unite all the world’s nations in a single agreement on curbing climate change

Sindh and Balochistan continue to be neglected while Khyber-Pakhtunistan is still finding its feet with PTI government

From being the protege of military during 1980s and the leader of IJI in 1990s, Nawaz Sharif today has found his orbit

India is a far cry from becoming a Great Power, let alone a superpower

I don’t recall any European expressing grief over the number of Iraqis who are being regularly killed by extremists

Moderate Muslims need to come out and challenge the radical interpretations of scriptures advanced by extremists

Inside the walls of Aitchison College, there were Shakespeare and Hali, outside there was intolerance and bigotry

In the last five years, Pakistan has sustained over $14.5 billion losses due to floods and other natural disasters

During the Bush era it seemed that the schisms in the world order would unravel civilisation itself

There are an estimated 70 million people in Pakistan who aren't connected to the electricity grid

Terrorists might be on the run, but environment that enabled them to carry out deadly attacks continues to exist

Why does the PPP remain successful in elections in rural Sindh? The most common view is that ‘there's no other choice’

Polio is now cornered in only three sanctuaries — the Khyber-Peshawar corridor, Karachi and Quetta

Civilian presidents in Pakistan are usually figureheads. This is what they should be, neither more nor less

The rhetoric of hate can only be annihilated when the Muslim world starts focusing on domestic issues

There is still denial regarding the perpetration of child sexual abuse despite scandals like Kasur surfacing

The attackers took control of the concert hall, held the audience hostage & started firing

Zulfiqar went on to become vice-president of student body and flourished in his academics; extra-curricular activities

The conflict against IS may not be existential, but it does have the sense of being the defining conflict of our age

France has experienced what the Syrians, Lebanese and Iraqis have been experiencing

The hostile climate in Pakistan after the APS attack had left Afghan refugees feeling fearful of Pakistani police

Muslims aren't the only ones who kill. There's been violence in Myanmar by Buddhists, brutality by Shiv Sena in...

A radicalised section of the youth of Muslim countries have brought the world closer to the next world war

The Chahbahar port is central to India’s efforts to bypass Pakistan and open up a route to landlocked Afghanistan

Whenever Afghans, Indians and Pakistanis meet, most of them usually trade stereotypes about one another

When India violates the LoC, it’s unconcerned about who is killed, soldiers or civilians

Iraq war led by US let loose forces of anarchy that nurtured terrorist outfits, which are now coming to haunt the West

The elements that pursue violence and extremism have their own vested interests

Last week, students at Harvard University did something unusual and remarkable. They opened a shelter for the homeless

While PML-N workers went door-to-door facilitating voters in LG polls, PTI workers were conspicuously absent

The worst attack on Paris since Hitler. Is this the new normal — the age of the perma-war?

I was mesmerised by the exploits of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematical genius who died at 32

Moscow seems prepared to move in geographic space where Washington, under President Obama, is too afraid to tread

It’s surprising that the US today isn’t raising concerns about nuclear weapons being in the hands of such a person

Our aviation regulator is unable to establish a system to catch those pilots indulging in drug or alcohol abuse

The military’s recent frustrations are mainly due to the non-availability of the required civilian support

As the business deals were worth nine billion pounds, Cameron rolled out the red carpet for Modi

It is depressing to me that Tipu's military and nationalistic achievements are overlooked so easily today

Karachi desperately needs a strategy for urban resilience too

Can we bring ourselves to genuinely proclaim that there must be no ‘but’ when condemning the slaughter of...

We can't pretend that the four-month long attempted ambush by Messrs Khan and Qadri didn't happen

That the green passport is so embarrassing speaks volumes for the standing of our democratic republic worldwide

Communities on Twitter enable teachers from across the globe to collaborate on best practices in their classrooms