Opinion

What separates the winners from the losers is how they respond to adversity.

The mere fact that they had bestowed an honour upon me for merely following my conscience went beyond hospitality.

History repeated itself because men repeated mistakes.

From the very moment Stefan Rahn and Usman Anees hit the keys of the Steinway, I knew the evening would be special.

The record shows that it is not wise to see the BJP and the Congress as being alike.

Toppling the Syrian regime is the key to undermining Iranian ability to project power into the Arab world.

Malala like Shaheed BB is a true world leader.

There are a few critical lessons for us all.

Pakistan is clearly still struggling to establish civilian control over its defence forces.

I am an economic liberal who believes that the government should not be in the business of running companies.

The victims are Muslims, but this does not make it a ‘religious’ crime or a crime against Islam.

Unfortunately, a change of approach towards undocumented migrants does not seem to be anywhere in sight.

The present phase of privatisation entails large utilities enjoying monopoly power.

World Bank claims it'll take more risk, support project with potential to transform fragile, conflict-affected states.

Pakistan is undergoing a major demographic shift, which adds a new dimension to the issue of basic services.

Malala Yousufzai is a child wonder, more life re-affirming than any folk tale you have heard recently.

Indians should consider themselves lucky India is huge, otherwise they may have gone same way as we did with Ayub.

When the axe does occasionally fall, it is more likely to create self-inflicted wound than split the nut it's aimed at

Justice has to be provided through a ‘system’, which takes into account judiciary, police & entire body of laws.

In recent decades Qatar has used its unimaginable wealth to forge an independent sovereign identity.

Despite the stereotypical perception of Pashtun culture, there has always been a desire for peace and education.

The government can’t pass laws to make us better human beings and treat each other better.

The biggest challenge yet is for Pakistan to come up with funds for the construction of the pipeline.

With the apparent end of the Kayani era, this is now Mr Sharif’s war.

Most of Sindh stops breathing after every such strike call as the air fills with gunfire at the right time and places.

Today, while Malala is a global icon, in Pakistan, her struggle is seen as a conspiracy.

The need is to look into the causes of conflicts, the resentment that forces peoples to fight despite the suffering.

People of Awaran, who were already living in vulnerable conditions, are now homeless as well.

The jaahil awam cliche won’t work when jaahil dynasties and mini-dynasties are all that’s left to choose from.

With the sectarian fuel more than the wells of fossil fuels, the fires of religious war may blow in our direction.

We must accept that some Muslims are terrorists, just like some Christians and Hindus are terrorist and so on.

I plead with you to bury Zia’s Pakistan once and for all.

Both India and Pakistan are leaning towards achieving economic stability but possibly at the expense of growth.

Some of the finest cities of the world — London, Chicago, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Beirut — were once unlivable.

There has been no mass appeal to help the Baloch in their time of need. Can we write it off as donor fatigue?

It is surprising that the war on terror, is still dividing Pakistan’s intelligentsia down the middle.

If the prime minister level meeting was not to produce any positive results, why did the two prime minister meet?

Amalia Rodrigues was to Portugal what Umm-e-Kulsum was to Egypt, the greatest ambassador her country ever had.

All 5 of these leaders will be prominent in the campaign and in none of their cases will their being single come up.

TTP is coming your way. It’s snarling, it’s growling, and man, it is pumped up to blow up.

Those who seek to communicate will still find ways, while the federal and Sindh governments revel in their idiocy.

Was it fear of economic shunning? Fear of TTP, who clearly threatened the government against executing its members?

The army is a well-disciplined force which banks on fresh blood to inspire generations of leaders.

Every non-Muslim member of the assembly had opposed the Objective Resolution, giving due warning of things to come.

Once all communication in Pakistan is blocked or monitored, we can then turn our attention to transport networks.

One can just not comprehend why elected governments are unable to muster the courage to defy extremists with peace.

A prime minister on the defensive and sullen and uninspiring; hardly convincing.

Please, Mian Sahib, have a heart. Let us preserve the sanctity of the national park as you once directed.

Trying to predict climate change's impact on glaciers in as large and inaccessible an area as Himalayas is not easy.

Great historical figures can become just their images. What they wrote, thought, stood for, can become immaterial.