Opinion

Bosnia Genocide: Lt-Gen(retd)Javed Nasir is accused of breaking the arms embargo and supplying arms to Bosnian Muslims

Watch prime time hours of major news channels — they’re evolving back to their roots as hybrid of news, entertainment.

Police don't stop four-wheelers since authorities, the rich and powerful use them, a loophole terrorists exploit.

If westerners can go to Pakistan, amidst volatile conditions, then why can’t I go back and work for my own people?

Pindi prospered and thrived during the Raj: the British built wide avenues and bridges and planted trees and orchards.

I felt I simply had to say something about some of the censures expressed over my last article.

It is a sad fact, but the fact is that Muslims have been killing Muslims from the early days of Islam.

Modern state has failed many of those burning with anger which leaves them susceptible to hate preachers.

Is the state the supreme public power in the soverign entity called Pakistan?

Nothing should terrify us more than an intelligence flunky scrolling through that email we took hours composing.

Managing disasters requires establishing institutional mechanisms for coordination between govt, civil organisations.

Democracy, the only solution, comes in stages and through struggles, and never offered on a platter or as a gift.

I foresee water as a substantial threat in future, larger than terrorism, considerably more than political problems.

The reason why non-Muslims insist on being called Pakistani first is because they want equal treatment.

Amir had promised honesty, integrity, plans to get hitched early to avoid controversies, and a bright career.

It is erroneous that Jihadi outfits will calm down, and become part of the society after the Afghan endgame is won.

Proper sanitation, advance planning to manage excess monsoon rain, would have perhaps prevented dengue’s advance.

Past and present provincial governments should be lined up and charged with criminal incompetence in Karachi.

Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, a professional maulvi, can be studied as a product of modern, colonial times.

Children are found working in sectors with hazardous working conditions, especially harmful for children.

I am surprised how investigators missed the tablet with a long-barrelled jazail from the late 16th century to date it.

Those leading Pakistan did their deceitful best to suggest they follow will of people, their story is least credible.

Afghan Pashtuns hated us (official Pakistanis) almost as much as the non-Pashtun Afghans did.

The expenditure on education in nine months of 2010-11 was Rs219.76 and in 12 months, it came down to Rs161.2 billion!

The net effect of collapsed local administration is that we can neither manage disasters nor fight epidemics.

Policies regarding energy generation are more than adequate, however, problem lies in its implementation.

India's FO and the NSA are often seen at loggerheads with the prime minister’s office on relations with Pakistan.

In Bangladesh, history is not something you read in books, but a living thing that constantly whispers in your ear.

We do not mourn our dead. They receive no memorials and no tributes. To us they are dead and gone.

Ceding political initiative to opponents, Obama has been pushed into compromises that upset his core constituency.

The USIP-JI report participants agreed that debate in Pakistan was contradictory and inconclusive.

Only glitch is that Ali’s sword was not double-edged — the Arab sword was single-edged and curved, it had two heads.

We have been trying to clad Jinnah in an identity we wish to assume for ourselves — an overt religious identity.

The urge for equitable, representative polity dates to ancient times in areas and people which constitute Pakistan.

The Pakistani community in UK has always been at the forefront whenever Pakistan has faced any calamity.

Naushervani rulers of Kharan state claim the tombs as their family burial, but gazetteer puts it as Mazar-e-Nikodar.

You are requested to please order ‘across the board’ and total deweaponisation of all weapons licensed or otherwise.

Failed policies of Pakistani leaders pitted the country against neighbours, friends, financiers, even each other.

Umair Haque, a Pakistani heading the Havas Media Lab, in London, has tackled the subject in a new way in his book.

‘Modern maulvi’ display repugnance towards people aspiring education, improve lives and called them ‘upstarts’.

The Objectives Resolution denied all Jinnah had stood for, plunging Pakistan into a morass of religious ideology.

One of the motives for establishing the court was to deter political violence in Karachi but,it seems to have failed.

Deindustrialisation in Pakistan may be arriving earlier than it makes economic sense.

The debate about the increasing use of ‘Ramadan’ instead of ‘Ramazan’ took an inevitable turn in the holy...

The local government, however, is a live issue with an ever increasing possibility that this too may slip.

Two Nation Theory is like the scaffolding, which is dismantled once the building has gone up.

In many low-lying parts of the world where flooding is routine, people build homes on stilts, houseboats, or rafts.

In my experience, Pakistan is a unique society where most people get offended if you don’t agree with their opinion.

If Zardari is in control, then Mirza makes sense, if not, then we are witnessing a free-for-all in cuckoo land.

Then, as now, events in Peshawar seemed to be held hostage by the tribal belt, which were masters unto their own.