Opinion

Instead of having grand ideas about bullet trains, why can’t something be done to help the old-age persons.

If the Syrian war continues to expand, as it looks it will, Pakistan may not escape its fallout.

Fitness, which seems to be missing in Pakistan's team, is an attitude that needs to be instilled in one’s...

After our young people have learned skills, gained employment, we must empower them to prosper in new, digital world.

Most fairness creams lead to serious problems like skin cancer, muscle weakness and osteoporosis.

Few write about our history. Even fewer read it. And what’s written, little stems from men, women who made history.

Love him or hate him, one can never underestimate President Zardari.

The person elected to lead the system should have the respect of both the ruling party and the opposition.

Let us give democracy a chance but this can only happen if we point out the faults of the sarkars.

He helped us build the Lowari pass when no other leader cared. This man cared for Pakistan.

Pakistani women are under increasing pressure to look like Parisian ramp girls.

In my opinion, Zardari's only enduring achievement was ensuring PPP govt successfully completed its five-year term.

In justifying Partition and Pakistan’s creation, must we keep things so biased and simplistic? Must we breed hatred?

In Indian cities and towns, Muslims are at the bottom of the ladder in the ‘regular wage/salaried’ category.

What we lack in the fight against the Taliban is made up by increasing the intensity in the war on technology.

With every defeat, coaching staff is changed. How can players learn if new strategies are introduced every few months?

Pakistan needs to be cautious. It cannot cleave to its insecurities and expect a solution.

The middle class is reeling under the impact and the poor are silent and desperate.

Fixated as we are in our colonial mentality, we always look enviously at foreign passport-holders as our ‘assets’.

Why suspend poor police personnel? Why not equip them before berating them?

Farrukh only uses one hand, the rest of his body is paralysed; that didn't stop him from becoming a photojournalist.

The reality is that India, unlike Pakistan, is under no compulsion to speed up the dialogue process.

If the free-market wallahs want economic growth, they should stop giving intellectual cover to crony capitalism.

The problem facing the finance minister is that there was a net outflow of resources abroad in 2012-13.

The police-led Lyari operation of April 2012 is another bad patch in the history of the Sindh police.

Whilst Monier Aslam may disagree with my punishment for terrorists, he is wrong to say it’s like “in the...

Perception of populist support is a fickle indicator; confidantes have uncanny knack of transforming into ‘approvers’.

Intervention fatigue is understandable, but policymakers should not let it be decisive.

Don’t forget to repeatedly remind your reader that truth is often stranger than fiction in this eccentric country.

What China with innumerable resources and finances has not been able to achieve, Pakistan thinks it can.

Their training includes digging trenches without an sleep, 70 km hikes and immense intellectual capacity.

The chairman controls virtually everything with the consent of the BoG, which approves every move of the boss.

Both the nations should determine what the Kashmiris want and end this dispute once and for all.

The use of force in the civilian context is erected on the key norm of minimum human injuries and casualties.

While media can't be barred from airing content, each case must be treated as sui generis, decisions on that basis.

Leghari came up with the idea of CDNS to ensure the president, PM and the COAS kept from transgressing their powers.

The country’s actions have solely been reactionary rather than following a principled national security policy.

It's simple really, Aitchison College produces the most intelligent minds in the country; Imran Khan was one of them.

Forward thrust by India in heat of passion along LoC would have commensurate blowback in presence of hostile backyard.

The defeat is significant for the PTI as it is the first public verdict on its performance in the province.

Election after time tabled election is improving the quality of debate. The way forward is civilian and organic.

An elected government, in laying out a plan for the future, must cater to the needs of its constituencies.

While the tax is in name a tax on ‘luxury’, this is not a significant tax on the rich.

Migrants in Dubai live in deplorable conditions; they are deprived of basic rights like sanitation and even fair pay.

We need to invest in locomotives as well as freight and passenger trains.

The top civilian leaders and the military high command need to develop a shared view on terrorism.

BJP and its allies must win 240 seats. If the allies deliver 78 of these, that leaves the BJP 162 to win.

I have personally never heard anybody in Pakistan express other than admiration for what India has achieved.

It is time to recognise what differentiates people, state from extremists, who wantonly disregard value of human life.

Running brothel-houses and secret bars for men does not become a matter of honour but a woman casting a vote does?