Opinion

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.

Joachim Prinz might as well have been talking about Pakistan when he wrote about the Germans becoming silent onlookers

Jinnah’s Pakistan is an Islamic state, which defines who a Muslim is and is not very democratic.

Women of the world should realise the battle for gender equality can't be fought and won at the national level alone.

It is only when all of us South Asians speak up that the change will begin.

For cities to become the new engines of growth, public order and rule of law are necessary, not the fires of anarchy.

Politicians should focus on trying to ensuring state institutions are implementing constitutional right to education.

About a 0.3 percentage point increase in national income could be attributed to remittances from the United States.

Goodbye, Perween Rahman. Your only crime was that for three decades, you devoted yourself to the cause of the poor.

Anti-terror strategies would require consultations from gatekeepers to make them more representative nationally.

There are also CCTV cameras observing inmates. How did Ram Singh evade all this?

The minorities in Pakistan continue to live in constant dread of being attacked or molested.

The scenes of Joseph Colony are the real “image” of Pakistan. That image is Pakistan going to hell on a metro bus.

Nobody in the parliament has raised any eyebrow about the issues of obsolete textbooks and teacher absenteeism.

Government, army achieved new landmarks in five years, but their attitude was far from effective with daily murders.

It is only the amendment to the national mindset that can cure the evil.

Reporting cannot be without responsibility, particularly when journalists believe that advertisements come from wars.

Islamists in Pakistan celebrate terrible losses, as they perceive themselves to be locked up in crusade against West.

Movement of Projonmo Chottor presents opportunity for youth of Pakistanis to reach out to the youth of Bangladesh.

The media doesn’t consider anything to be news if it hurts the bottom line.

Pakistani government must increase tax revenue and tackle corruption to rebuild people’s faith in politics.

Shahbag may define Bangla secularism while we continue with ambiguity in determining place of religion in our politics

The numbers in the PML-N's economic policy manifesto don’t add up. They did not, even in their earlier tenures.

Credible local bodies system that manages resources and authority can tap the unharnessed potential of the province.

We can begin by treating women with respect, by considering them to be autonomous beings, and by speaking out for them

The significance of Karbala is great for all Muslims irrespective of whether they were Shia or Sunni.

Democracy has survived because we now have an effective means to police the boundaries of our constitutional order.

The fact that Singh committed suicide, underlines that India,is not serious about protecting its women.

The media’s ability to use its freedom with responsibility is expected to be put to test during election coverage.

Is there no one to tell the PM that there is no such thing as a private undertaking by any prime minister?

More needs to be done to ensure that teachers are making use of the opportunities that English language brings.

If there's a blasphemy law, what right do people have to take the law into their hands and banish an entire community?

The political parties have shown their readiness to talk to terrorists and all this is being done to win elections.

If the PTI emerges even as a third party, the politics of Pakistan will have changed forever, and for the better.

Till these animals can't defend themselves, I beg all foreign countries to not present us with any beautiful creatures

Pakistan was founded to be the preserve of a small minority of men and so it should be.

The Lahore skies are not full of kites — or at least not as full as they used to be.