Opinion

In an odd way, BB was never a ‘female’ prime minister or leader, she was just a leader.

Zardari’s going nowhere, unless, as he himself said quite some time ago, he is carried out, feet first.

Mocking North Korea is most fascinating because Pakistan, perhaps, is more like it than most other countries.

Will the political parties forever be hostage to the Deep State and to the conspiracies spun by it?

A dozen kilometres north of Lala Musa, near the well & sarai of Khwaspur, Khwas Khan was buried by his followers.

For any observer of civil-military relations in Pakistan, lack of coup is a development both fascinating & positive.

Mendacity and fecklessness have become part of our national character, dear readers.

It is evident that factors that led SBP to project lower growth rates in 2010, not only persist but have worsened.

This Christmas; let us reinvent Pakistan and create it on the basis of love and tolerance.

When it comes to dealing with nuclear armed enemies threatening its shores, US shows how solicitous, patient it is.

The danger to the country is that the PPP government may not survive 2012, & that US may go to war with Pakistan.

Sardar Mengal warns that atroci­ties agains­t the Baloch have pushed the situat­ion to a “point of no return”.

The ‘Asian Brown Cloud’ is estimated to be responsible for over two million deaths annually in India alone.

Throughout the SBP report, governance is the key theme, whether fiscal affairs or management of public sector.

The world needs the kind of crazy these dictators offered since they gave us a template to compare our own sanity to.

The relevance of these political events for Pakistan lies in ‘Occupation’ and ‘Wall Street’, i.e Afghanistan and aid.

In my view, democracy is the only way Pakistan can stabilise itself, progress, achieve peace within & in the region.

The military option in Iran appears not only risk-fraught, but dangerous for all parties, as well as for the region.

'Lahore: Topophilia of Space and Place' gives you a taste of how deep Suvorova goes into the origins of Lahore.

Even if Husain Haqqani dictated it, even if Zardari knew of it, it has the real interests of Pakistan at its heart.

How does Islamabad explain contradictory stand of apology, one on Bangladesh & the other on the attack by Nato forces?

The lesson of 1971 is that the military must neither govern nor should it be used against its own people.

I’ve looked up to Imran Khan in many ways, but never as a politician. I’ve seen him tout change more than solutions.

For every single failure, nationally and internationally, we cling on to conspiracy theories to salvage self-respect.

I voted for PPP, but not for Bilawal, and I most certainly did not vote for the multiple offsprings of Gilani.

With the amount of uncertainty that currently exists, Pakistan’s economic future is hard to predict.

Let’s hope Gilani succeeds in turning the utility around. Too many people stand to lose their jobs.

The usual recourse when nations fall into disarray is to seek a fresh mandate from the electorate.

Pakistan has to break out of the constraints imposed unilaterally on it by the United States.

Pakistan Army is the victim of a well-planned psychological warfare operation, launched by the US administration.

Ex prime minister Jamali had claimed that land reforms were a dead issue, though recent bills prove otherwise.

UK’s Department for International Development is doing all it can to support Pakistan in empowering women, girls.

At the time of the partition, State opposed the CPI inspired progressives. Liberals too rebelled against them.

Memo mayhem and manipulating mercenaries are mercilessly mauling a meek government and now missing president.

The argument for talking with terrorists was that it was essentially America’s war & now impossible for us to...

Despite his promise, has Gilani looked into the BBC ban? We have no follow-up news and we have no BBC.

In publishing the list of words, the PTA exposed how an awful lot of energy is spent talking about & thinking of sex.

Bilwani describes how Gujarati business clans from West Pakistan lost their investments East Pakistan following 1971.

Every year on October 8, believers congregate in the ruins of the palace of Gondophares near the south end of Sirkap.

Early on economists articulated economic planning could not proceed on the assumption that Pakistan was one economy.

Pakistan needs stability in Afghanistan to be able to gain economic dividends of its geostrategic location.

'Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi' endeavours to preserve, promote dying languages and cultures of north Pakistan.

If Mansoor Ijaz is considered to have told the truth, surely he has spoken truth about ISI & its ‘S’ Section...

Our foreign office, its envoys, ministers, secretaries are limited to the role of public relations damage control.

Most officials duck under the ruse of mosques, madrassas being a sensitive issue to enforce laws, such as Lal Masjid.

Pakistan’s civilian and its military leaders will have to act in unison to prioritise socio-economic progress at...

Rather than playing to the galley, Pakistani authorities must stop lying to the world and their people.

The policy, so far, has been driven by security concerns which have pushed peace negotiations in to the background.

23 miles from Agra lay Fatehpur Sikri. In the 16th century the entire road was lined with shops selling silk, jewels.

SC’s jurisdiction is not answered with reference to the Constitution or precedent, instead exist in a ‘grey area’.