Opinion

The members of the PPP-Z are now surely laughing their way to their respective offshore banks.

It has become a Herculean task to rein in the malevolent religiosity nurtured during protracted dictatorships.

Those who take office now will have to make a number of public policy choices to pull country back from edge of abyss.

Translation of literary works into international languages may be a way to project a softer image of the country.

A specialty of my father was designing book covers. He had designed the covers of almost all novels by Nasim Hejazi.

If the BQFF had been staged 34 years ago, I know exactly the film that would have blown my mind then, Aurat Raj.

The only reason to vote is purely symbolic, wave my ink-stained finger around and act as if I have done my civic duty.

Our LEAs are not equipped with the most important thing needed to fight cybercrime, i.e., properly developed laws.

It is time for the hawks in our security establishment to come forward and for the military elite to put on war paint.

It appears that for individuals like me, decision to vote is a lot easier than decision of knowing who to vote for.

It is said a country where optimism best flourishes is truly a lunatic asylum.

My humble request to all politicians and leaders of this country is to please not turn Pakistan into a graveyard.

Our politicians have been no paragons of virtue, but they can't be accused of disastrous policies pursued by...

Vast majority of population, food insecure or not, has absolutely no understanding of basic nutritional value of food.

How much more can we mine the Indus for our uses without considering how we have destroyed its ecology.

Most effective firewall would be if media owners, practitioners file by March 29 forms similar to nomination papers.

Constituency politics is why it is difficult to get a median voter in Pakistan; nor does voting depend on issues.

The more we practice democracy, the better the system will become.

It seems to be a foregone conclusion that everything that happens in Pakistan is somehow planned in Washington.

ADB's recent report deserves attention to understand policy prescriptions being emphasised to tackle water insecurity.

Despite repeated elections in both Pakistan & India, corruption increased & governance became poorer over the years.

We must work on building a Pakistan, which is not of someone long dead, but of the 180 million living citizens.

Financial flows originating in the diaspora communities will become increasingly important.

The most important challenge is to develop and systematically implement a strategy to confront violent extremism.

How important will young people actually be in deciding the election result?

The good news for Hamid Karzai is that Uncle Sam will keep military and civilian advisers in Afghanistan.

The appointment of Justice Mir Hazar Khan Khoso as caretaker PM is being hailed as a victory for democracy.

Since terrorism is not predictable in any scenario, responses cannot be programmed into a national security strategy.

JDU brings most of the middle castes & many Muslims, BJP brings all the upper castes & the two split the lower castes.

Brutal 30-year legacy of Saddam, inseparably wed to cruelty of American policy in the region, broke the Iraqi people.

Quaid arrived in Lahore on March 21 and the resolution's draft was finalised in a session of the AIML on March 22.

The Metro Bus is run by a sophisticated set of IT systems, each carefully tweaked, according to our requirements.

Indian Muslims are not, and never have been interested in becoming Pakistani citizens.

Tolerance is need of the hour, especially when hatred is everywhere and violence & intolerance is becoming the norm.

Political parties should, through their manifestos, make it clear that police will not be used to thrash opponents.

Had a procedure for choosing successor to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) been prescribed, history would have been different.

Killed, wounded and displaced civilians cannot be treated as merely “collateral effects”.

The PML-N will be tested by the Mush-factor more than any other party.

The army's Canteen Stores Department is now just another retail store catering to all comers.

Sitting in Bratislava, I kept wondering why the divorce in our case had to be so violent.

Ideologically, politicians use the concept of the devil to characterise their opponents as being ungodly.

What we need instead of one-man rule is a country where decision-making is pushed down to the lowest possible level.

It breaks our courage to see terrorists being arrested and then set free on one pretext or the other.

There were three basic claims that Mr Bangash put up, which need to be reviewed in detail.

The need now is to get rid of the invasive paper mulberry plant without any further excuse or delay.

Badami Bagh should serve as test case for criminal administration departments, to avoid recurrence of such happenings.

Prime Minister Netanyahu envisages a Bantustan, with municipal powers, not a sovereign state, as mandated by the UN.

One must congratulate Hina Rabbani Khar and her team for playing a good innings at a very difficult time.

New leader Xi Jinping will don four caps of leadership in the Chinese political spectrum.

While the Shia populations of south Lebanon may be accommodated, the Shia populations in Pakistan face difficulty.