Opinion

We are first Anglophiles, then Americanised, later Arabised, and now Turko-fied — when will we become Pakistanised.

Lunatics are at the gate, but nuns are in parliament, making ungodly noises about anything except cancer staring at it

Whatever the government’s compulsions, the onslaught on the Golden Temple was not justified.

The dialogue is an important opportunity to advance a comprehensive agenda of mutually beneficial initiatives.

After 3 years of bloodshed and 130,000 dead, no one is holding up much hope for these negotiations to be productive.

For most parts, the government has shrugged off its responsibility of monitoring the media.

In unfolding its boldest economic, social reforms, current leadership is confident it will fulfil responsibilities.

Average annual number of applicants for CS exams for 4 Muslim-dominated institutions is under 25.

If someone knocked on a door and shouted ‘Emergency!’ the person on the other side would say, ‘Emergency who?’

Has no Pakistan player in the contemporary age of cricket deserved a proper farewell?

Unfortunately, our elected rulers either don’t believe that they are in charge or don’t really give a damn.

There are times when, perhaps, the most cliched book names speak to you.

Vishwas is bringing new aggression to a parliamentary seat that was never seriously contested by any opposition party.

ICC's plans should awaken the PCB patron PM Nawaz Sharif and others at the board from their deep slumber.

Young people do not merely need capital, but also knowledge of how to turn raw ideas into sound, profitable businesses

Musharraf was bad for Pakistan on many counts; the economy wasn’t one of them.

When will children’s rights be recognised and protected as a fundamental constitutional obligation?

Does the AAP not deserve credit for thinking about Neha Yadav, and showing up Delhi police’s apathy to citizens?

Does anyone even know if an environment ministry exists or not?

One of Pakistan’s top priorities has to be to educate its large and growing population.

Should China be allowed to take control of our power projects without engaging in a competitive bidding process?

What has not changed is our capacity to inflict suffering, one upon the other on scale that transcends comprehension.

The party’s leadership hardly interacts with the provincial leadership and workers in other provinces.

In Pakistan, rehabilitation centres and proper diagnosis, cure and treatments are not available.

Trial of General (retd) Musharraf is a trial of us as a people & is also political & it is about self-accountability.

Dealing with increasing numbers of marginalised, small farmers needs to start with rethink of rural development.

The country’s agricultural sector has been criminally ignored by successive governments over the last few years.

Performance was so unlike Pakistan of recent years, a team criticised for its slow, negative, boring approach to Test.

Education alone will not reverse our continued decline into chaos and stupor, but surely, it will play a major role.

Our leaders have to be able to deal with heads of state at UN meetings just as comfortably as with a large landowners.

It seems that inspiration of the ICC proposal is drawn from the lopsided UNSC, where big powers retain veto powers.

Recurrent droughts, associated famines in Thar has led to the realisation that this will be a continuing phenomenon.

With only minor changes in its vehicle verification system, Sindh E&T dept can provide useful, powerful data to users.

While Southeast Asia strikes positive note on so many fronts, there is disturbing streak in form of majoritarianism.

The risk-opportunity nexus has to be borne in mind when states plan for the future.

The greatest damage to Pakistan happened as a result of the ill-conceived educational policies of the 1970s.

I can’t claim to have found harmony, but I do realise now that I need to stop and smell the roses more often.

Pakistan is one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to work in.

Muslim countries fail to realise that by destabilising one another, they are further aggravating their insecurities.

Even the privileged are beginning to question the future of our country, though they’ve never had it so good.

There may be need to rethink idea of Rahul as party’s future, but it can't be done on the basis of an imagined result.

Evidence suggests that economic gains out of GSP plus would be lower than trumpeted.

In reality, development and economic progress eventually eliminate corruption, not the other way around.

Why may the rule of law be established only through one man alone? Is it not a pervasive need across the spectrum?

There is no one, or no group, to whom or to which one can, right now, look for salvation to come.

In our admirable haste to find scapegoats, we often forget that every segment of the elite has done equal harm here.

Pluralism and democracy are the best way forward towards progress and development.

The new government has clearly no interest in security and gender justice.

Any plan precipitating intra-Afghan conflict as part of anti-Taliban strategy will jeopardise reconciliation process.

Legacy, in terms of SBP’s report, is not as dismal as it appears in official pontifications. nor prospects any better.