Opinion

There’s no talk of hundreds of poverty-related suicides, increasing unemployment or education.

Ably supported by politicians of all hues, the religious right has now claimed the streets as their own.

Kashmir continues to bleed and the Indian forces continue to enjoy the bloodbath.

Among the major attractions at the Jaipur Literature festival every year are the large number of Pakistani authors.

Pakistan's descent into religious extremism and fanaticism is deeper than any moderate had imagined.

Fact is that Raymon­d Davis is a ‘diplom­at’ and hence entitl­ed to diplom­atic immuni­ty.

We should try to reawak­en that initia­l spirit that so many Pakist­anis showed.

The bright prospects of their growing economy can often blind Indians to the weaknesses embedded within growth rates.

We have to send a message to Washington. If we don’t send this message, he will only be the first of others!

Islamic democracy, democracy in Islam, and Islam and democracy, all miss the point. It is always about governance.

Perhaps the time has come for to officially declare the national language of Pakistan as Engdu or Urlish.

This enemy of the state is too big and too powerful for you or me to tackle alone.

When logic disappears, a childlike combination of resentment and craving for approval is bound to take over.

Welcome to freedom Egypt. Don’t let it break you.

While the political and socio-economic conditions are equally precarious, there are critical disabilities in Pakistan.

However this chapter plays out, the world will see that democratic dissent in Muslim-majority countries is not dead.

All those parliamentary forces whose stakes are in the system are the ones who say yes to all evils.

Our venting is going to achieve nothing unless we honestly and fearlessly charter a future course for ourselves.

The threat of social tyranny has great potential to ruin lives and the soul of Pakistan.

Who wins match point here need not be one country, or the other, but a just application of Pakistani law.

Within the civil society debates, monitoring hate speech has been termed as mirror vigilantism.

The media provokes public emotions and feeds itself on these emotions.

Salam arrived at Cambridge as a student of Tripos mathematics in September, 1946 with a three-year scholarship.

Pain felt by families of victims of drone attacks, extrajudicial killings no less than that felt by Taseer’s family.

Does blocking negotiations over the vaunted fissile material treaty serve any purpose for Pakistan?

The price of action pales in comparison to the incalculable cost of inaction.

Why did Davis try to run away from the scene after displaying the calm ability to shoot a pistol?

The Raymond Davis situation can play a powerful role in mobilising public support for the extremist cause.

We barely flinch when we hear of yet another disaster — another kidnapping, another beheading...

Veena has more human worth than the TV hosts trying to increase their ratings at her cost.

What is it that allows Muslim majority countries to have such long and often dynastic political nightmares?

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.