Opinion

Didn't the Americans create these terror­ists in the first place? It’s only fair that they pay for it.

A single movement cannot undo the wrongdoings of decades. Sacrifices are required by country's leaders and people.

If market forces are running the show, then clearly difference between costs & revenues is what the game is all about.

Pakistan's decisi­on to boycot­t the Bonn confer­ence provid­es Americ­a with a timeta­ble for their invest­igatio­n.

Hurriedly summoned meeting of DCC announced decisions, if carried out, could impact our relations with US.

Abidi says Pakistan prefers immediate comfort over our future, while India opts for austerity for a better future!

If Pakistan does not block supplies, clear Shamsi base, it will have to escalate confrontation further the next time.

I want to focus on a slightly different angle since there was, after all, nothing really surprising about all this.

Haqqani didn’t think well of the army. Let us see what his book, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, contains.

Available evidence over last hundred years shows that when two countries engage in free trade, both gain.

A prudent policy response is not warranted merely because of public outrage, is a state and security imperative.

Kashmir dispute erupted into a major conflict only when India, reneged on UN brokered agreements.

Ultimate aim of the South Asia Social forum was to enable a national of a country to get information from another.

Pakistan is neither in crisis nor bankrupt. Unless immediate, forceful change in policy is brought about, we will be.

It is a fact that there is a historic relevance to the perception of a civil-military divide.

Researchers have discovered that children who are taught in their own language understand concepts better.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Pakistan’s political situation is in a state of flux.

Haqqani has met his comeuppance at the conclusion of a dreary, sordid affair by taking the rap for somebody else.

The demonisation of the military is not likely to serve the cause of democracy.

With Greece about to suffer its biggest crisis, it contemplates abandoning the Euro for its former currency drachma.

Imran Khan’s success mirrors PPP's under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, enjoying similar highs, & now similar pit falls.

Banking sector has failed to mobilise financial savings, improving efficiency in services, providing credit on merit.

Pakistani youth, & urbanisation of Pakistani village have caused the political wheel of Pakistan’s history to turn.

As a general rule, one should be very skeptical of anything done for protecting the ‘moral fabric’ of society.

Zardari and Altaf Hussain are surrounded by courtesans and courtiers, corrupt and servile, thus easy to dominate.

CAA's plans to allow building of towers around the Benazir Bhutto Airport is bound to have impact on the environment.

The media has taken on face value Mansoor Ijaz's claim, failing to critically analyse the claims.

The process of political ijtehad has sharpened the sectarian political conflict, of Shias being pushed out by Sunnis.

Bactrian Greeks ruled Peshawar, Taxila for 200 years. Some Greek cultural peculiarities became part of Pakhtun mores.

Memogate indicates that while civilians have to prove their patriotism, the military remains unquestioned.

Defence ministry formed inquiry court into corrupt ex-generals after months & will be investigated by their own.

Perhaps Mr Mehmood’s denunciation of MFN for India is a response to Urdu press' war cry of India as ‘pasandeeda mulk’.

Draft of this bill should have been shared with broader range of relevant stakeholders including lower court lawyers.

The Deep State was/is an aggrieved party in the Murky Memo; so how come DG ISI took it up to be Chief Investigator?

We should distinguish between the two types of militants who are known as Taliban: Afghan Taliban, Pakistani Taliban.

In comparing PTI manifesto with that of the PPP, the PML-N, one does not find his to be decisively more compelling.

Most Japanese believe Pakistan has to think ways of improving ties with India, place greater responsibility on India.

Having seen such affairs in the past, the first question in the ‘memogate’ business is this: who has the story?

One wonders what an intelligent man like Haqqani was doing talking to Mansoor Ijaz, lifetime achievement flip-flopper.

US is worried that China could begin to impinge on US interests, especially in the Pacific.

Imran Khan offers only a myopic vision of reforms that do not offer solutions to multiple crises country faces today.

Jugni is a presiding genius of sorts. But what explains its peripatetic or wandering nature?

Haqqani is much too controversial to handle anymore Pakistan’s most difficult international relationship.

In Pakistan, we have cult-based politics even though we are in a constituency-based political system.

I think revolutions are dodgy business with entirely unpredictable consequences. They are, in any event, unnecessary.

The jirga delivered its expected verdict, according to which US military presence in Afghanistan was legitimised.

It seems that the primary reason for frisking Abdul Kalam at JFK airport is that he is a Muslim.

Everything about this sordid affair (memogate) beggars disbelief, yet it seems to become truer by the day.

Pakistan has never been a friendly place for minorities, particularly the Hindus.

The country is isolated as never before in its more than six decades of history.