Opinion

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.

If the regular paramilitary forces cannot prevent the homicides, government have no option but to turn to the military

Without sufficient taxation powers, provinces will never have the funds to effectively run subjects being devolved.

Religion is not culture. Yes, the two get mixed, but argument that there is one way of following religion is false.

Enmasse culture of incalculable hatred is whipped up and promoted to benefit from the frenzy thus generated.

Mirza may have helped the Zardari/Malik duo to achieve the end they sought.

The South Asian populations will remain young for several more decades while those in the West will age rapidly.

We cannot rule out the role of others in the run for the AG position becoming a ‘source’ for the media to malign Rana.

Resisting violence is a battle for the human mind, involves defeating the appeal on which the violent group relies.

Dr Mirza was successful in creating one of the most compelling spectacles of our already colourful political history.

For the first time, next week, Delhi will dismantle Indian textile sector’s protectionist walls towards Bangladesh.

In my view, most of the time, Eid in KP used to be an expression of Pakhtun ethnic identity or sub-nationalism.

Can foreign policy of a mid-level economically weak state developed without “Political and Intellectual Leadership”?

Pakistani travel writers lack the background knowledge to write about their travels, end up destroying history.

Supremacy of Sunni theology over Shia or other sects within Islam was and still is,considered as much a settled affair

In this inflationary environment, development expenditure in 14 out of the 17 poorly defined pro-poor sectors declined

Pakistan's safeguard in an Afghan reconciliation is our assistance and assurance to not permit foreign interference.

I don’t agree that questions like whether women are competent to lead men in prayer require expert analysis.

The lack of contact within even small localities is adding to the deterioration of the social fabric of the country.

Urdu is definitely not a jihadi language although the word Urdu evokes many embarrassing associations.

Public policy choices should be made in context of the 3 large countries of mainland Asia-China, India and Pakistan.

It would be in Pakistan’s interest to canvass vigorously for the maintenance of foreign assistance to Afghanistan.

Fact is, just because I’m literate didn’t make me less corrupt.

Inviting the military is in principle an appeal identical to the familiar ‘doctrine of necessary’.

Economic growth must be redefined in terms of quantitative environmental costs of producing and consuming commodities.

Truth is Muslim refusal to integrate, in closed ethnic communities makes it difficult for citizens to embrace this.

One must not allow any group to run Karachi as an exclusive domain or allow it to be carved into mini ethnic-states.

Gilani wrote a 750-page tome about the conventional system of religious education to counter growing Wahabi influence.

Politicians, would be funny were they not so goddamned dangerous and disruptive.

Army habitually abbreviates words, titles, etc and found the Baloch name Gwalisthap too long for their liking.

The more countries start to think about gold as an index, the more the authorities will try to keep price from rising.

Today, police torture is taken as a given.

Americans are unnecessarily maligned in Pakistan, yet so are Pakistanis in America.