Opinion

The tragic loss of life due to counterfeit, substandard medicines needs to be highlighted and immediately addressed.

A recent episode of a morning show makes one wonder about how Talibanisation has invaded our mindset.

India’s people are aware of the courage on display in the ongoing confrontation between the Pakistan govt and army.

Pakistan has given scant attention to providing good governance not only in recent times but throughout its history.

So what happens if Iran goes nuclear, and Saudi Arabia wants to follow?

Three features of Pakistan’s governance underlie the current institutional instability.

Finding a remedy to combat increasing radicalisation cannot happen in isolation.

Both, Pakistan and the US, must work harder to ensure that civilian aid actually reaches those it is intended for.

Indian army chief General VK Singh wants the Supreme Court to change his official year of birth from 1950 to 1951.

Pakistan’s national consensus is dangerous because it allows the Army to pursue an inflexible course in policy.

It would be a travesty if words of honour like ‘freedom’ & ‘independence’ are to lose their bite, become dead words.

Powerful people have it the easiest: they become ‘givers’ of the fruits of power, the weaker ones remain ‘seekers’.

Why does it happen that the military, civil must forever be at daggers drawn?

The residents of Sarai Chhimba have taken to destroying the edifice.

Shouldn’t law be respected and allowed to take its course irrespective of the political situation on the ground?

If the SC considers it within its domain to defend national security, it must also take cognisance of actual threats.

Mansoor Ijaz has been declared the most envied man in Pakistan according to a poll conducted among married urban men.

While attacks by militants adversely affect business climate, natural disasters have taken a big toll.

Plainly put, Imran has got some facts on the war on terror wrong.

It would be fair to say that Pakistan is slowly, but surely, moving towards constitutional rule.

Mansoor Ijaz plans to be in Pakistan only from before dawn to early afternoon, will that be enough to question him?

Seeing the man, who shook the foundation of our govt, in a video featuring semi-nude female warriors was bizarre.

Thanks to the military’s misguided stewardship, Jinnah’s Pakistan has already been cut into two.

Introducing new sewage treatment practices and providing sewage treatment can transform the lives of residents.

Education reform must be emphasised, as it is today’s youth that will determine the state of tomorrow’s Pakistan.

When it comes to removing the sitting Government, us Pakistanis want a veritable menu of choices.

I hope Their Lordships are duly noting the irony in much that is going on in the country vis-a-vis themselves.

We should give opport­unity to those who want to study both mathem­atics & biolog­y in grade 11.

“Their ideology is completely different from ours. Such ideology is alien to all that is Afghan."

The Supreme Court may be the only constitutional check on the voracious appetite of those voted into power.

US remains unconvinced of Pakistan sincerity in war against militants, nor trusting of our nuclear non-proliferation.

It took Prime Minister Gilani some time to find his voice. But now that he has, I stand by him.

US defence strategy focusing on China, is bound to complicate the situation, add another element to Pakistan-US ties.

Populist & pecuniary gains seem to be the driving force behind so-called development plans launched by governments.

We must stop the supply of gas to industries which have alternative fuel systems.

In 1948 Karachi was a wholly remote town and to the modern denizen would have appeared a totally unrecognisable place.

It’s an exciting time to be a Pakistani. Our resilience, determination — it pulsates untouched through the streets.

In a country that is more anti-American than Iran, one would expect overwhelming public, government support for Iran.

As legal cases against the PPP reach closure, the Party, its leading lights have adorned a Tariq bin Ziad reflex.

Pakistan’s core crisis is not the scarcity of material resources but a deficit of capable leadership.

Chaotic political situation even with confrontation among political forces, is better than the calm of martial rule.

In April 2011, a presidential reference was filed to re-open ZAB's case, thereby vindicate his position.

In my view, Sindhi cult of honour, mixed with pragmatism, is superior, & was embodied by Shah Mardan Shah Pir Pagaro.

In the absence of laid down rules of the game, each power player is jostling to get the best deal for himself.

Change cannot come to Pakistan without reorienting its state, its army and its culture. This is its only real problem.

Saleem Shahzad filed a story by way of this report. There is no justice for those killed by a powerful murderer.

A positive in this fiasco, will probably be that most media, major political parties refused to welcome the khakis.

The military, government are paralytic when it comes to TTP — but fully supple when it comes to the mighty US.

Those who sing praises of a free media should pause and ponder if the media is really doing what it is supposed to do.

Large part of the population was sitting on the ideological fence when powerful elements decided for the ethnic divide