Opinion

An all-out ban on Pakistanis by Kuwait based on the insecurity of their homeland is perplexing.

We must decolonise our bureaucracy from the colonial mindset, make it performance based and accountable.

ZAB was a people’s man and thrived amongst the milling crowds. He was everywhere when the chips were down.

March 31 will go down as a day when an unprecedented accountability of a military ruler was initiated.

What will be done to keep children in school & provide them an effective education still not getting enough attention.

A picture of small children being frisked by a soldier, another of a man completely out of his depth, looking scared.

Food security cannot be ensured only by increasing the availability of food.

Where conspiracy theories are 10 a penny it is not difficult to fool a lot of people for large proportion of time.

In facing giant challenges, enormous threats, nations need to overcome futile machinations, manipulative entanglings.

Barring a few ultra-right-wing television anchors, most of the country will heave sigh of relief to see Musharraf go.

We are a people given to the easy way up. As in cricket, so in our lives, a Six is just round the corner.

The Awami League, it seems is determined to keep using 1971 as the political staple for its followers.

During last few years, there has been an unprecedented increase in vehicular traffic along Murree Road.

Instead of hard cash, Pakistan could have bargained for something more long-term and sustainable.

A narrative based on self-denial can never be a prescription for dealing with the Taliban or other militant groups.

Objectivity in India & Pakistan is essentially subjective conditioned by political climate and by extremist tendencies

Making HEC focus solely on innovation, research, scholarship, we can take away the political baggage it carries.

I took a number, and lectured my son on possible impact of insentient control mechanisms on a tribal society.

No doubt Constitution protects Competition Commission, but it must decide whether it’s a regulator or a whistleblower.

hose who have influence with the Taliban must persuade them to allow the elections to proceed unhindered.

We need to stop blaming others and take responsibility for our own happiness, our successes and for our failures.

In the reshaped — and reshaping — world, bilateralism may lose significance to ‘multi-nationalism’.

Pakistan is not a failed state but its powerful and educated elite are failing it.

People who do research on code switching point out that people do it to emphasise certain aspects of identity.

Now whole of Pakistan can benefit from this new initiative, which brings discipline into classroom, ensures standards.

In every single election Modi has contested, he brought up in some or other manner, this instinctive dislike of his.

Governing principle of Pakistani State is that it negotiates (read surrender) to bullies, punishes weakest of the weak

I appeal to government to provide me security, not let me remain victim of an ideology asserted with bullets, bomb.

The trio that now controls the nation, are selling — not its soul, its future as an integral entity of this century.

Disbursing cash and wheat as a short-term plan is useless — what will the Tharis do once the aid runs out

Pakistan cannot afford to ally itself with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait, while flying in the face of Iran.

Beyond the familiar rhetoric, NSS process has been just another global junket in the global non-proliferation agenda

To build a better future, the challenge is to establish a new relationship between humans, commodities and nature.

There is much that the K-P government can claim credit for, but the economy is not one of them.

When societies go through political transformation, it is only to be expected political winds will also affect media.

Given Internet's potential, public apathy towards the need for greater internet freedom in our country is troubling.

For any lasting “peace”, TTP must give up those among them who actually attacked or executed our soldiers and others.

The country I visited and fell in love with was not the country I had chosen to live in.

Malaysian govt’s incompetence, callousness in dealing with crisis of MH370 has sparked widespread dissatisfaction.

Pakistani journalists should take a hint: you’re doing no one a favour by trying to report the truth.

Most effective policy tool that govt can employ right now is to offer a powerful counter-narrative to the Taliban.

There is little hope for the interest of common workers being represented, which is a job for trade unions.

Medieval full-page advertisement in Dhaka reflects official ignorance of need for credible, attractive govt narrative.

BJP’s leadership triumvirate agreed that Jaswant Singh is voice of dissent in a BJP that should speak with one...

What a contradiction it is, she thought; they call her a 'rape victim', yet law minister says the girl was not raped.

Successive governments have failed in helping media persons avert life threats while performing their duties.

The strategic community is divided on whether the Nuclear Security Summit should have also included global disarmament

Solutions to Pakistan’s health challenges need innovation that is both inclusive and frugal.

The new Afghan IDP policy gives some hope that more people will be given the protection they deserve.

It is important to keep in mind that politicians are not magicians who can wave their magic wands and fix everything.