Opinion

Trappe­d by a gang the workin­g woman was offere­d ‘work’ in the profes­sion she is curren­tly involv­ed in with.

Pakistanis should forget the ire of Allah, the rich might deserve it, and look to the real causes of their misfortunes

The nervousness exhibited by the establishment towards the mullah fraternity is not understandable.

Trust the silly economic team to start the exercise with the HEC at a time when degree verification raised its profile

It is still unclear how regime-change will be affected by the ardent, messiah-lovers on the idiot box.

We pay for a bureaucracy and government that does not seem to do much, and talk goes back to corruption, incompetence.

Mandelson’s memoir The Third Man, truly give us an insight into the whole grisly dysfunction of New Labour.

Three more faces that I need to reconcile with, they put me in a spot, they put me in a fix.

If banned charities can offer support the state cannot deliver, they are likely to succeed in gaining support.

Women prisoners in Pakistan need help, a contribution to the legal aid office would be a donation to a worthy cause.

With legislators, public representatives, demanding immunity from accountability, what can FIA or NAB do?

Two dangers that lurk for our democracy: shadowy intelligence outfits and inability to finance governmental operations

In order to start improving the quality of education, we need to understand where and why we have failed.

Literacy and education could turn the population into a resource rather than a burden on the country.

It seems the Pakistan media like a free media except when it comes to commenting on itself.

Watching local music channels makes me want to find a blunt object and pay someone to slowly beat me to death with it.

An operation needs to be launched in Mohmand to eliminate the strongholds of terrorists in Khwazai and Baizai areas.

Ayodhya is far from their reality, but as dreams go the chrysalises are quick to become mortician chroniclers.

It may well be that in the future the Taliban will not allow al Qaeda or a similar group a base in Afghanistan.

Land-owing, slave-owning ‘farmers’ do not require aid in any shape, why the scheme to make farmers buy fertiliser?

The govt should engage tribal insurgents in talks and bring them into the mainstream in order to isolate the jihadists

Every time things go wrong, massively wrong, and then we have someone out there who gives us reason to hope.

Contrary to what all the News of the World would have you believe, all is not rotten in Pakistani cricket.

The crisis relates to recurring budget funding. The Teacher and Staff Union is threatening to shut down operations.

If suicide bombings are not representative of Islam, then by no stretch can they be associated with Pakhtunwali.

With no alternate leadership or a system that can catch the attention of the people, there is despondency all over.

Unfortunately, education (let alone higher education) has never been on the agenda of the national parliament

It is clear now that Pakistan will remain in a fiscal quagmire for some years to come.

Those who see honour in the nation-state for its warlike nature should realise that dishonour lies in being poor.

The debate over the proposed construction of the Islamic centre near Ground Zero shows an intolerant side of America.

Indian-held Kashmir is once again reverberating with the sound of gunfire and chants of the youth demanding rights.

It's about time that the media fixed problems of professionalism to thwart the threat from the agencies.

For the first time in history more than one billion people go to bed hungry each night.

Priori­ties in this Islamic Republic tend to be wonky. There is little concept of what should be first and last.

Journalists acknowledge that bias affects decisions regarding what news people want to – and should – know about.

The voices of moderation from the Islamic world are given scant attention by the international media.

What I’m trying to accomplish here is point out areas you can get involved in.

The purpose of the ban is not a personal attack on Muslims. The crucial point appears to have been misunderstood.

For every misfortune that falls on our country, there is a scapegoat at hand, and we all love a scapegoat.

The silliness of the economic team knows no bounds. Or is there a method to their madness?

Moon-sighting has become a complicated affair and it should be handed over to the army.

The more vulnerable and marginalised segments of society are often side-lined when sharing the incoming resources.

A dictator proposes to come out of retirement to do politics on the strength of a Facebook page.

The covenants of the IMF and the World Bank rule out the possibility of any debt write-off or rescheduling.

There still exists a loud cacophony of voices in our midst which seeks to deny that we have a problem with extremism.

The thinking man has been replaced by the conspicuous consumer who accepts everything and questions nothing.

The floods might be an opportunity for the minorities who are otherwise forgotten to become marginally less invisible.

Critics say in a time of financial crisis billions for the Benazir monument is callous, clearly they lack vision.

Political and social scientists have a consensus that without food people either revolt, migrate or starve.

“The system will kill your dreams” he said, still in disbelief over my answer. “You will soon want out too.”