Opinion

"If there had been no story, these hill people would have eaten off these fish. This would have been a dead stream.”

Wind and solar power, will both be cheaper, or on par with, coal by 2025 and 2030 respectively.

Central government needs to take up responsibility of addressing governance imbalances within the country.

This divide has been at the centre of social conflict ever since the country emerged as an independent state.

His victory will ensure continuity in domestic economy, politics and give a new impetus to Turkey’s foreign policy.

If rank evaluation is carried out, it should be based on research and its impact alone and not on any other criteria.

The Army must, somehow, be at the centre of any bilateral dialogue if anything substantive has to come out of it.

Saleem Shehzad could have been killed by army and intelligence officials who have crossed over to the militants.

Women complaining too loudly after being raped and murdered affects Pakistan badly, damaging its international image?

The military has always kept itself above any questioning. Such lack of accountability is harmful institutionally.

Turkey turned around its fortunes by recognising influential roles of civil and military leadership.

The army has been at the forefront of national affairs since the very beginning, no thanks to the political classes.

When the in-house sessions failed to raise the necessary alarm, army deployed its PR brigade to win public support.

Colleges transfer existing knowledge to students. Universities extend the frontiers of knowledge to new horizons.

Instead of creating more points of conflict, let us start the process, if not reverse the damage, at least arrest it.

Demands of striking public employees and of urban poor are not different from those of workers during the 1972 strike.

A committee composed of reputable scholars interviews PhDs to recommend a panel for the chancellor to pick the winner.

I have met individuals who openly use ‘rape’ for succeeding in a test and, much to my horror, as a joke.

The ISI has unleashed on the ones they purportedly serve a rein of fear and terror that has been unmatched.

The Pakistani press is in the act of covering a rare and precious, yet fragile, moment in its nation’s history.

It is important that support to democracy be restated and this support not be to the exclusion of any political party.

The government’s vision is to bring the poor and vulnerable of the population into the mainstream of development.

People are disorganised and a village of 2,000 people can become helpless in the presence of 15 well-equipped Taliban.

Karachi press club still remains a place where protests on innumerable causes are staged, giving democracy a berth.

Pakistan never treated Kalat as a non-Indian state and insisted on unconditional accession.

SC of Pakistan has been empowered by the Constitution to take suo motu action for enforcement of Fundamental Rights.

Gwadar is one port with potential to facilitate regional trade for Iran and China. Its where the rub for America lies.

South Asia as a whole, is in the front line of countries expected to face famine conditions.

Until Pakistan expands its tax base and growth is sustainable, provinces would need external help for projects.

Until such time that people are educated into some semblance of reality, we will be forced to live in their unreality.

Every year almost eight million children with entirely preventable diseases never make that special 5th birthday.

Syria's case is different though, the sectarian factor may be contributing to gratuitous violence.

It seems the electronic media has declared ‘open season’ on those in uniform and particularly the armed forces.

I feel ashamed as an Indian that a proud, eminent son of my country, Maqbool Fida Husain, could not come home to die.

No other countr­y has the kind of experi­ence with large water projec­ts that China has accumu­lated over decade­s.

At the first social media summit, I did not know that Pakistan has such a lively and active blogging community.

A binary has been created: The civilians distrust the military; the military distrusts the civilians. Who is to blame?

Maryam wrote many books extolling Islam as a faith and condemning the West as a way of life.

Sarfaraz Shah’s brutal slaying by the Sindh Rangers was disgusting, gruesome and unspeakably shocking.

So what attracts the best and the brightest to Ivy League universities, Oxbridge or top European universities?

Saleem Shehzad's last interview to media lends further credence to theories that ISI is behind his and other murders.

The Yavanas were despised people. For the Pundits of the east, these people were the Mlechha — unclean ones.

The navy has for long been subverted to the army and the air force in terms of funds and Pakistani security paradigm.

During the budget debate, parliamentarians should focus on expenditure efficiency, tax reforms, and reduce wastes.

We need to deny adversaries diplomatic leverage against our nuclear capability and rebuild the military's credibility.

With each terror attack, mainstream Britain looks at Islam and Muslims as a problem, while more Muslims become devout.

Criticise, demand, protest — do all that is required and is right to ensure that state apparatus functions for all.

Pakistan is not a signatory to UN Protocol to Prevent and Punish Trafficking, preventing prosecution of traffickers.

The Baloch question is treated with condescension, conscientious responsible citizens feel compelled to intercede.

It appears that the PML-N has selective courage, selective convictions and selective criteria for party membership.