Opinion

It seems Imran is taking the too familiar and convenient route of populism than making hard and rational choices.

Drones are the only defence, and all those other issues — dead sovereignty and dead civilians — are the price we pay.

Pakistan, a country that has seen so many crises in the past should have learnt to deal with them.

Our words, our sayings, our songs, our jokes, our stories and poetry — all carry the values which construct gender.

Pakistan is rich in the plurality of faiths that live within its borders, in a way the Arab world will never know.

One out of every three adults suffer from insomnia in Pakistan and one-third of those take a sleeping pill.

The biggest threat to journalists now comes from reporting the truth.

Tehelka is too closely associated with its proprietor-editor to come out of scandal without loss of credibility.

This govt, like predecessors, fears truth about drones: Pakistan can't stop US from unleashing hellfire from...

One vague reason often cited by officials is that websites that “hurt public sentiment” are liable to be blocked.

The importance of local bodies as the third tier of governance cannot be over-emphasised.

The majority of people reeling under spiraling inflation couldn’t care less what the govt does with the commando.

In states where there is a third party, both BJP and Congress are finding it difficult to enthuse the electorate.

Consequences have been the development of political and social capital in support of military-dominated development.

Political parties use the most foul-mouthed members to make their case on television.

Pakistan, over 66 years, has consistently fluffed up on what should be its national interest.

The Iranian nuclear crisis is not a sudden eruption. It is now in its 11th year.

Sleazy male editors lead a male-dominated profession where sexual harassment, assault of women is an act of power.

The existing level of our public debt is unarguably unsustainable.

The old narrative is unsustainable; a new one, along nationalist lines, will unite the anxious and probing Pakistanis.

What is required is an institutional framework for training the farmers in scientific feeding and breeding.

47 countries have troops in Afghanistan. Still want to block Nato, gentleman? AND invite even MORE sanctions?

Some govts have in been ‘kidnapped’ by international capital — lending agencies — due to their need to refinance debt.

Pakistan’s love is also charmingly abusive, it takes everything out of you and still makes you beg for more.

Twitter has revolutionised the profession of journalism, assuring the public easy access to different points of view.

Malala has shown the way forward towards education for all, not just in Pakistan, but everywhere.

The Free and Fair Election Network believes the phased method is the only way forward to overcome problems.

It is peace on the TTP terms or bloody chaos let loose and we all know, or should know, which of these it will be.

Blocking NATO supples will only delay the departure of foreign troops, tempting the Haqqani network to keep attacking.

In Pakistan, bomb blasts usually make it to the front while stories on climate change are confined to the back pages.

Make no mistake, our state is under very real threat and no individual or institution involved is safe.

If the CTD personnel are repatriated to their parent wings/departments, their expertise will be lost.

Real issue between Pakistan, Afghanistan is not border management but sourcing out borders to militants, warlords.

Imbalance between population and natural resources generates conflicts in more than one ways.

The basic contradiction between outlook of Jamaat and Pakistan is one between universal Islamic Ummah & nation state.

The question that the world asks today is not who is terrorising us but why we are allowing ourselves to be terrorised

When enemy fights along ethnic & sectarian lines, one begs our defenders forget the same differences among themselves.

It has become very difficult for Pakistan’s new prime minister to seek a closer working relationship with the US.

Most of Pakistan’s problems are the doings of the security establishment.

The only dialogue which needs to take place is a recital of the Constitution to these brutes.

The British didn’t have much of a human rights record when they ruled the colonies.

Official circles fear the Taliban might target Punjab for violence as it is the mainstay of PML-N's political power.

To listen to Rahul is to be told that we are sunk as a nation. That may be true.

If SIC & TTP are 2 mainstream ideological extremes on political spectrum, then surrender flag proudly flutters already

Too many politicians and religious zealots get worked up for the wrong reasons and dribble over their kitsch taste.

Imran Khan is leading the charge against sanity, armed with ignorance and a hunger to gain a foothold in Punjab.

Planning is as minimal as it gets and the term ‘temporary arrangement’ is always our ‘rational’ response.

The IMF mission chief stated that despite the challenges facing Pakistan, the ‘sky is falling mentality’ is excessive.

A world full of conflict needs to learn from Nepal on sorting out changing nature of society via constitution-making.

Separatists need to keep up with New Delhi’s devices and notch up their responses.