Opinion

Is it possible that I might be living in a country whose people have forgotten what’s best for them?

Salmaan Taseer, RIP. This country did not deserve you.

This is our democracy without legal realism and we are condemned to it. “Injai!”

Surprising as it may sound, the Galiyat are on the verge of running dry — again!

If Pakistani-Americans want to feel welcome in the US, they must actively combat the cancer of radicalism.

Unless we stand up to obscurantist forces, the country will keep sinking in religiously-wrapped ignorance.

The ECO adopted a declaration on regional economic cooperation, climate change and ensuring energy and food security.

Pakistan has many unsung heroes who do not get any recognition from anyone.

Foreign aid has become an essential element of attempts to equalise the obscene level of global inequality.

Mr Zardari has emerged once again smelling, if not like fresh roses, then at least withered ones.

With recounting of this incident begins a fascinating exhibition currently showing at National Army Museum in London.

Language is tool of communication, fundamental means of identity and empowerment for both group and individual.

Our religion freed us, but our culture conspires to take this freedom away from us.

Since moving to England, well over two years ago, I continue to find it difficult to explain Pakistan to westerners.

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was prime minister of Pakistan for 13 months, General Ayub thought him disloyal to Pakistan.

One wonders if the Punjab govt could think of buying it from the owner and dedicating it to the intellectuals.

Moral knowledge and values can not be derived purely from facts and logic.

Now we all know what 'establishment' refers to — it is the army and its agencies who poke their noses into...

University environments should feel like being in a ‘bubble’ where scholars are untouched from all kinds of...

Musharraf is only partially right. It is difficult to implement the strategy of dislocation here.

We are entering not just a new year, but a new decade. Yet our politicians are behaving as badly as they always have.

There is a belief that women are suited to soft jobs like art, culture, tourism, education and women’s development.

There are a large number of issues arising from the Eighteenth Amendment, deserving the attention of the economists.

The funds for both Alexander monuments were supplied by the National Fund for Culture and Heritage.

There is still a long way to go before Pakistan can make any claims to have achieved a basic level of tolerance.

Former President Pervez Musharraf’s article “What should be done in Afghanistan” presents a selective...

10 things I hate about fat people: Pick on the angular all you want, but have pity on the bloated.

The outgoing year will be remembered as the year it all began to come apart at the seams.

I’m positive Pakistani writers trot out more banal clichés in December than in any other month.

So far, there doesn’t appear to be a light at the end of the tunnel.

I am extremely saddened by the state of our identity. Even while living in Pakistan, I desperately search for it.

Once an exclusive male preserve, the Tehreek-i-Taliban seems to be opening its ranks to women.

There is a need to engage affected groups, prevent their ostracism and encourage voluntary testing and treatment.

Pakistan is at a crossroads. It can either support the US or continue to facilitate the Afghan-borne militancy.

Pakistan can turn this adversity into an opportunity, but only after corrupt elements are punished.

Removi­ng the veil will aid securi­ty and emanci­pate women from the intole­rance and misogy­ny of men and...

Its time the present government took steps to bring change in lives of tribal people, bring them to mainstream.

There was chaos on the roads and trains last week, as people tried to reach their families in time for Christmas.

It is through highlighting the fallacies of the system that a silent revolution can start.

I do not relate to her and our similarity ends where it begins.

Solutions only come from within, through consistent engagement, civil society and affected communities.

There is no other system in the world that can offer anything better or even remotely close to a democratic system.

I was blessed not only to assist Benazir Bhutto in the field of communications but also to know her personally.

The insurgent is under pressure and has no option but to strike back. His best bet is the suicide bomber.

There is a very select and rare breed of people who become immortal after their deaths - Benazir is one of them.

The war on terror has made it fairly simple to do year enders, previously, one had to take a very wide view.

Not many are interested in what Pakistan’s first dictator thought, but his diaries remain worth glancing through.

Just like Babur, though, Obama has come to the conclusion that Delhi is at the heart of his legacy.

The US tirade targeting the ISI for causing the security lapse, certainly emerges as a case of overreaction.

When it comes to research our narcissism does not allow us to explore or extend our intellectual horizons.