Opinion

It seems the region is fast approaching a period of change with potential upheaval.

The BJP told us the Congress only fools Muslims. As a Hindu, I think that is how I feel about the BJP today.

Healthcare professionals continue to be the victims of violence in Pakistan.

The General Manager of the Orchestra, Nikolaus Bachler, was the most sensitive to the quite valid criticism.

First the interior minister and now it is the finance minister, one sees a pattern of intolerance towards dissent.

We like to blame our leaders for everything but in reality they have the same flaws as us.

The misuse of the qisas and diyat laws will sadly produce more Shahrukh Jatois. It’s a tide that must be stemmed.

How many of those users pay attention to their privacy settings — or even understand how they work?

As a son, and a Pakistani citizen, I could not be more proud of President Zardari.

Taking umbrage at Shahzeb’s family is scapegoating to avoid the difficult topic.

Are the civilians, once again, relinquishing charge? The coming months will tell.

They want the courts to stop him from leaving the country and escaping with his billions and trillions.

Talks, no doubt, are the best option but that should not and must not mean surrender or compromise.

Atrocities in Syria cannot be denied, but throwing bombs from a safe distance into a civil war is not the solution.

Among contemporary batsmen, only Alastair Cook has a better average than Younus.

Resolutions can afford to be vague; action cannot.

It's as if ‘India’ & ‘enemy’ are synonymous. This is symptomatic of our India obsession & our great fallacy, I believe

Foundation of peace in Afghanistan must rest on Afghan reconciliation, negotiations, accommodation among Afghan group.

The vast majority of world leaders and the US public oppose a strike on Syria by a factor of percent.

Bashar became a problem only when he started winning, breaking the rebels with guns from Russia.

Dialogue as the consensual representative will must be given its due share of time to play itself out.

Pakistan should invest heavily in training young people for modern sectors of the economy.

For now, the people of Malakand have to live with their primitive ways to satisfy even their most primary needs.

Any unilateral decision by Islamabad concerning the fate of Gwadar will be opposed by the Baloch at all levels.

Not much will change. After an operation of sorts, the situation will go back to square one.

The post-2014 civil strife in Afghanistan can be stopped from spilling into Pakistan if the right measures are taken.

Zardari was the only president who was all-powerful yet used his office, political capital to strengthen democracy.

Powerful civil liberties groups like the American Civil Liberties Union have vociferously criticised NYPD’s tactics.

It was a bold attempt to shatter political stereotypes that the nation has been lumbered with for 66 years.

As long as you have access to web, an idea of what & where to look, you can educate yourself very well in these times.

We do not apologise. We lie, justify and fabricate instead.

Muslims were thus condemned to be peasants, and this would not have changed even if India had remained undivided.

For Syria, first priority must be to slow the tailspin triggered by its rulers. Not take action that spawns horrors.

Policies play little role in Pakistan’s politics. It is all about individuals.

Syrian situation is just a symptom. The real problem lies with three states - Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The clock is ticking and September 29 is not so far away.

Uneven land ownership patterns across rural areas in Sindh, other provinces are a major reason for growing hunger.

I love how we pretend we are puppets and America makes our hands move in whatever direction it likes.

Any culture, subculture or social structure that objectifies women cannot be too far away from crimes against women.

DIG operation lamenting short posting of 2, 3 months is telling comment on seriousness of Sindh govt in fighting crime

Hearing the clarity with which PM spoke about Karachi, how govt wants to bring it under control, I am optimistic.

It is time to close Bagram and it is time for Pakistan to do its part.

The needs of an aging population feature nowhere that I can find in any planning or policy document.

It will be difficult for the majority of Muslims the world over to support possible military action in Syria.

That the PM could not revive the Cabinet Committee for Defence and created the NSC speaks volumes of where power lies.

Shackled by predatory actors thriving on conflict, Prime Minister cannot impose a political solution in Karachi.

The rebel and the government stand-off was further aggravated by the poisonous element of sectarianism.

All Ammanullah really knows is a life surrounded by men, whose only employable trait is that of a gun.

Availability of water is said to be falling at an unacceptably high rate.

Not only fighting landscape within Syria fragmented, external state actors with fingers in the situation are varied.