Opinion

Why do rulers of Pakistan take the suicidal ‘lion’ vow without thinking of the people?

Among the other things which impressed me were that the city of Istanbul is very well organised.

In eyes of the marketing departments, a good anchor is one who can shout a lot or make people fight on-air.

Most of the developments in urban planning around the world are apparently lost in Pakistan.

The IPL offers the fortunate middle-class Indian entry into a world he covets.

US, Nato officials made known frustration with Pakistan over Nato supply route, continued support for Haqqani network.

If we know and are proud of who we are, we need not be afraid of becoming someone else or Indian dominance.

Despite revisions, textbooks contain elements detrimental to promoting tolerance, distort understanding of world.

State apparatus, agencies, departments, will have to act in concert, implement strategy that goes beyond use of force.

There are so many questions that remain unanswered about the Lal Masjid and the 2007 operation.

Do we wish to ‘humiliate America’ in Afghanistan, or ‘save Pakistan’ from becoming the epicentre of an expanded war?

In today's Pakistan, criminals are given a hero’s welcome and laudable writers are forgotten.

From now till end of 2014, is a narrow window to work with Nato, US, develop strategy, protect our national interests.

When censorship of bygone decades attacks 20 million internet users, we shall resist and fight.

5 key institutional changes in recent years enable Pakistan to tread more firmly on the path to democracy.

The districts in the centre have gained while those in the south have lost.

Of Nato’s many concerns, three stand out: its future role and capabilities, Afghanistan, and relations with Russia.

Once again, Pakistan is showing its helplessness in the face of those who carry guns and bombs.

PPP has never campaigned for elections on the basis of performance, good governance, nor does it plan to do that now.

Do we want to have a system of capital punishment in a police and judicial system as flawed as ours?

Pakistan, Iran’s economies are lurching, because of America’s punitive measures and international isolation.

French intellectuals were quick to recognise the artistic potential of cinema.

Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of The Indian Express, wants Rs100 crore from his peer, Outlook’s Vinod Mehta.

Terrorists are not there because of drone attacks but precisely the opposite: they continue due to homicidal fanatics.

Prime minister convicted by highest court of his land for contempt should have done the honourable thing, resigned.

Pakistan can gain little strategic advantage through Siachen that it cannot gain more easily from other border points.

The first thing a person trying to answer of who they are, is supposed to come up with the name of his caste or tribe.

They mostly start with story of a king of days long gone, how he took care of people, linking it to issues of today.

we do not know our indigenous species of trees, we simply lack the acumen to see connection between trees & ecology.

Number of clauses are ambiguous, contradictory, restrict investigation into rights abuse by army make NCHR toothless.

Pakistan is no stranger to toxic colonialism. Customs must monitor hazardous materials entering Pakistan.

In the most precarious of times, the country is in the most fickle of hands.

Let me say Zardari, Nawaz: Please sirs, country is in extremely difficult situation. Do something before its too late.

Bloody revolution is romanticised as some purifying process ensuring rotten people are eliminated, leaving the pure.

Divide, fragmentation of Pakistan’s political landscape requires 2 major parties to build coalition in next...

I came away from the movie understanding my country much better than I had when I went in.

Salman sees our land pillaged, historic sites looted, public facilities trashed, validate growing sense of alienation.

The absence of trust and lack of understanding has become a festering wound that will continue to bleed.

The fact is that the Pakistani state is in really bad shape and only honesty can save us now.

Such are the binaries in this country that we can either be shamelessly ghairatmand or proudly bay-ghairat.

Be positively engaged with the world; estrangement doesn’t help. Ghairat will have to take a back seat for now.

What is 'right' in Islamic terms depends not on force but scholarly consensus to what is mandated by Quran, Sunnah.

'Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom'. This absence is evident in Pakistan.

There is a desperate need for a bit of acerbic criticism, a dose of pessimism to ignite the nationalist fuse.

There is danger that current stalemate could lead to Pakistan’s isolation and further damage its international image.

Much of what happens to the Pakistani economy in the future will be determined by what happens in its provinces.

In India, Hillary chose to add to her repertoire the act of criticising Pakistan at every available opportunity.

Ideologies are creatures which know various survival tactics. That’s how Maoism spread across one-third of India.

When writers consider modernity an elixir, it’s easy to blame notions like honour, religion for causing suffering.

Why won’t Pakistanis donate their eyes, kidneys, hearts, and livers after death?