Opinion

America-bashing has taken the shape of a master craft, which is well-rehearsed and constantly repeated.

This is the story of a travel agent who came to be known as ‘general’ Usmani due to his close ties with Musharraf.

Irrespective of his identity or legal status, the question is whether he should be allowed to get away with murder?

This society is losing respect for law and order itself.

US heightens its pitch for economic assistance to Pakistan, policymakers should seize moment for meaningful gains.

Anti-government demonstrations broke out all across Egypt on January 25 and have continued daily since.

Awaiting king’s permission to enter town, philosopher and friend stayed in a temple, a short ways outside Taxila.

The ghairat lot, those that talk endlessly about non-existent things like sovereignty, integrity, have forgotten much.

In Pakistan, the worst kind of governance has taken place under what passes for democracy.

The real test lies in a credible counternarrative that ensures equitable treatment of our Baloch countrymen.

Are they part of the silent majority? Or the silent minority? Are they even out there? Speak now or forever...

It’s the politicians, stupid. It’s the Americans, stupid. It’s the religious right, stupid.

In Shyambazar, where it all began, Republic Day represents a peaceful holiday. That I have from the horse’s mouth.

Those who argue that voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil will always be marginalised.

It took the brutal murder of a public figure, flamboyant and defiant, to shake up the elite from its long slumber.

Here is a country that values its economic rivalry with China over everything else.

Are we, who pontificate liberation, really connected to those for whom we advocate this liberty?

While the need for international support keeps growing, the donors resolve to do so seems to be inversely decreasing.

The legendary wealth of Balochistan will remain buried beneath the sands of misery that haunt the Baloch people.

Both Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri and Veena Malik are examples of absurd extremes.

We need ideals and romanticism to save the world.

Despite many weaknesses, Pakistan’s education system can take measured pride in its medical education establishment.

The present efforts by the government’s economic team to seriously discuss a 10-point agenda are highly commendable.

Who will be responsible when a fatwa is issued and crazed killers take it upon themselves to eliminate 'immorality'?

Veena's behaviour on Bigg Boss 4 is proof that Pakistanis find it convenient to take extreme sides.

The regimes that turned back mighty European empires soon petrified politically.

I share the general public’s concerns about corruption, bad governance and the economy not doing well.

Pakistan has been blessed with enough scientists that it can do the things it wants done.

Underlying the crises of economy and internal security, is the crisis of governance.

What kind of resolve can the government show to yank Karachi back to normalcy?

Should the state be named after its majority population — Islam and Hindutva — or should it be pluralist.

Let’s hark back 150 years, a time when Hindu and Muslim ‘sipahis’ collectively rose up against their colonial masters.

Karachi is too big a cake for any political party to eat alone. New migrants will have to be integrated into the city.

Rise in Islamism is more than what can be resolved through war machinery or through client regimes in Muslim states.

It was a tragedy that her life was stolen but a greater one would have been if we didn’t wake up to fight for...

The few who do not support murder garbed in reasons religious, do their best under threatening circumstances.

Religion, in its pure form, is God’s response to the yearning for guidance man is born with.

Corruption, unlike bribery, has more serious and far-reaching consequences for the national economy.

Each one of us needs to stand up and say that we want a society that adheres to the rule of law.

The silence of the electronic media on issues of corruption in the military is deafening.

The drone strikes are the use of force by representatives of one nation state against the civilians of another.

Jinnah's Pakistan is not dead: Millions of Pakistanis who want a tolerant homeland resent its creeping radicalisation.

Liberals have always been the permanent opposition in Pakistan. It is time to go beyond that.

This is arguably the worst period in the political history of Pakistan, and the worst government the country has seen.

Reformed electoral law implementation will lead to a more democratic Pakistan.

Ten years from now, we will still be talking about Pakistan on the brink of collapse and things falling apart.

Like lumbering fools, we are always late to the most important realisations.

As a perceived collapse of the Pakistani state looms in India’s bosom, panic diplomacy takes hold.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are among the more serious and chronic ailments of Pakistan’s wobbling economy.

When will it be a good time to speak out? When they have guns pointed at our uncovered heads?