Opinion

People who mould opinion in Pakistan appear to have both tunnel vision as well as a short memory.

There is a curious silence and elusiveness on this glorious episode in history books in Pakistan.

Feedback has become an instantaneous reaction to what jocks say and do.

I truly believe that if parliamentary oversight is exercised with full might it can resolve many of Pakistan’s issues.

This public discourse is missing in Pakistan and needs to be initiated so that we move forward from this calamity.

Pakistan’s performers, singers, actors, and playwrights and poets, more than politicians, have benefitted its image.

The false sense of ‘objective’ analysis is one of the greatest threats to independent thinking and living.

The Indus is one of the largest rivers in the world and should have been able to handle the unprecedented flood.

We need to inspire confidence in online activists to move them out of the mouse-clicking, slacktivism mode.

As heart-warming as Aisam’s success has been, he has strived for more than just excellence on the court.

Power subsidies may make for convenient politics but nobody is willing to pay for them.

As the PPP government stumbles and cries foul, the vultures circle overhead, waiting for the lions to pounce.

The only possibility to save Pakistan is to go back to Jinnah's vision and carve out a secular democratic state.

Women are just as desper­ate, anxiou­s to feed their childr­en as the men fighti­ng over the last bag of flour.

The alleged video of army personnel executing 6 men does not bespeak heat-of-battle mindlessness. It appears planned.

Those who reach out and help those affected by the floods should not treat them as beggars.

Meet the accomplished homoeopath, hakim, faith-healer, herbalist and marriage consultant all rolled into one.

World Mental Health Day: The black shadow keeps rising and once grown enough, it swallows you up.

Terrorists are killing innocent Pakistanis. And they can kill army chiefs too, as Jaish nearly did Musharraf.

What is stopping us from encouraging an all out assault by local tribesmen against Taliban militants?

The only sure-fire harvest to be reaped is by the purveyors of GMO seeds not trusting farmers grabbing at straws.

People who are involved in such attacks and those who sympathise with them have no respect for humanity whatsoever.

Musharraf’s Ataturkish formula regarding a formal role for the army in politics may cost it more than it can afford.

Jinnah’s Pakistan has virtually ceased to exist, but a few still hope it has not yet been interred forever.

We need a set of robust public policy responses to resolve issues of education and unemployment.

Nobody is ready to raise this question in these times of judicial activism.

Shaukat Aziz made three predictions, all of which I disagreed with, but which came true.

Reconstruction is an opportunity to initiate the reconstruction of our social order for economic democracy.

Climate can alter weather in many ways, affecting countries around the world, including our own.

The people are already contributing to the flood relief fund. Charity yes, tax no.

Can’t the president of Pakistan at least provide board and lodging? His late wife certainly would have.

India’s one-wicket win against Australia in the Mohali Test is causing an epidemic of pulled pectorals here.

Looking for an exit strategy and failing to find an honourable way out, Nato and America have become desperate.

As they attack judicial officers, police and media people performing their duties, lawyers have turned back progress.

Musharraf is trying to come back too, but it’s too soon. Now you just seem desperate and needy and that’s a...

People are being tested like never before with the high inflation. What is our threshold?

Its high time Pakistanis realise that objective journalism is a myth, an outdated ideal and possibly even an oxymoron.

The lawyers’ movement has turned on itself. Consider the facts...

In 200 years, the British Raj did not allow elected representatives of the Indians to oversee security of the country.

This part of the article indicates some of the immediate policy initiatives required after the floods.

Kashmali Khan’s musings have left me confused despite the fact that I have extensively written on nuclear issues.

It is better to fix the wrong course of direction rather than to follow it for political expediency.

Finding another home away from home, the old man had learned to live a life of simplicity.

Disingenuous reporting makes Pakistanis suspicious of American interests, which in turn affects their views on the US.

Absolutist ideologies are something that Mr Ahmadinejad and the Taliban have in common even though they are enemies.

It is possible to redirect and redesign the education systems to be responsive to today’s needs courtesy floods.

This powerful lawyers’ faction has become the latest Frankenstein of our society.

Spontaneous dancing in the street. This isn’t an episode of “Glee”.

What should one make of the YouTube video that allegedly shows Pakistan Army troops executing six men?

If someone wants to learn how not to write policy documents, they should ask Pakistani bureaucrats.