Opinion

Everyone is guessing as to when an operation is going to be launched against militants in North Waziristan.

One thing that can never be an effective solution itself is more war in Afghanistan.

Obama faces a growing constraint that his predecessors did not: the relative decline of American global power.

It is time we changed the paradigm of defence in Pakistan and returned to the normalcy of trade and trade routes.

Zulqarnain Haider has done what any sensible person would have done in his situation.

Newspapers and television channels are an excellent front to protect other economic and power interests.

If the government were a little wiser, it would use the sugar crisis to increase its goodwill and establish its writ.

Consume less sugar. Help thwart the nefarious designs of a vile bunch of bloodsuckers holding this country hostage.

Not every 24-year-old will have the guts to withstand the pervasive pressure of corruption as Zulqarnain has done.

The only leader who seems to have an understanding of the need for strengthening economic ties with China is Zardari.

Next week, legs and bits and pieces will be exchanged between the chosen few and deep freezers will be crammed...

Pakistan is under attack from within. How can the good Taliban in the neighbourhood be good for the country?

The recurring nature of the sugar crises reveal the interlocking nature of the economic and political interests.

It’s time for us the citizens of Pakistan to take a stake, to field our own candidates and it's time we changed.

Corruption perceptions of ordinary people do have validity and cannot simply be dismissed.

Bilateral agreement is not to be touted as a unilateral success. The Indo-Pak example illustrates this perfectly.

Monetary policymaking suffers from 'time inconsistency'; people expect the opposite of what policymakers announce.

Cuba might not have a high standard of living compared to the West, but nobody goes hungry in the island republic.

The delay and indecision only adds an element of legal limbo to the mix of perennial political and economic limbo.

I know exactly who is responsible for the mutilation of the fair name of Pakistan. And today I am going to out him.

Because of maltre­atment, econom­ic pressu­re and urbani­sation, the master-servan­t relati­onship has become...

Too long have the politicians suffered our cynicism, our loathing and our justified venom.

Like China and India, Japan is an energy-dependent country, it would not like big power monopolisation of the region.

Pakistan must strategise early to prevent the actualisation of the Blackwill plan.

Corruption undermines everyone’s trust in the government and in other institutions wielding power in a state.

India successfully projected the fallacy that those who are pro self-determination live only in the Valley.

I have no access to my personal belongings or official papers and am unable to serve my people effectively as an MNA.

Whenever a crisis brews due to irresponsible reporting, there is talk of an independent commission, but little action.

Perhaps the Pakistani military’s main occupation should not be to win wars, but to avoid losing any.

This ‘land of the pure’ appears to have a death wish, it is pertinent to suspect that very few nationals honestly care

What has gone relatively unnoticed in Pakistan is his promise to lift sanctions imposed on India for going nuclear.

Islamabad is in a better position to mediate between Kabul, the Haqqani network and the Quetta Shura.

The rise of this class is bound to redefine feudal politics in the rural regions of Pakistan.

Everyone says PPP govt is in doldrums. Almost mockingly, Mr Asif Ali Zardari and his government are oblivious.

We are fighting a war with the enemy within, which refuses to let us forego corruption.

Is democracy an elixir which will take us back to the state of innocence? We have got the concept totally wrong.

Pakistan is repulsed by politics, filled with loathing when we look at it, but desperate to help at the same time.

There are two kinds of consensus that Nawaz Sharif can lean on: national economy and civil-military relations.

Pakistan and Iran must both look to a regionally guaranteed stability as the occupation in Afghanistan ends.

The discourse of politics has moved away from ideology to becoming a politically asexual process.

Pakistan needs to put on its collective thinking cap and cogitate about the our place in the global scheme of things.

It is clear that the hateful and violent Taliban feel threatened by the tolerant religious perspective of the Sufis.

The Baloch must realise the irony of fighting for their rights while living in a stultifying tribal system.

By pushing people like Sherry to the wall, the party is only harming itself — it needs competent people like her.

If Imran Khan ever become­s PM of Pakist­an, his ‘person­al life’ will be front page fodder for intern­ationa­l press.

Land reform will do nothing for the poor and to blame poverty on skewed distribution and landed aristocracy is wrong.

There is little evidence of any lessons having been learnt from the previous local government experiment.

The West is not always consistent in its own choice between cultural relativism and universal morality.

Judges and lawyers arrested, media gagged, political parties took to the streets, Musharraf was sent packing.

When PM Gilani apologised for the nationalisation of schools, he forgot it was a critical part of the PPP manifesto.