Opinion

The enemy is somewhere within, deep into the Pakistani psyche which inherits an ‘invasion-threat’ to land and God.

Haqqani, on the other hand, is not merely a reliable ally, but a friend of Pakistan.

All of the promises made by Hafeez Sheikh at last years budget presentation have not been kept.

What endeared him to me was his absolute humility, a trait generally rare and rarer still in our profession.

Shahzad’s life was not more precious than other journalists, but his tragic death can become a symbol of resistance.

With freezing of foreign university projects and funding of higher education, plans are afoot to destroy the HEC.

Expect the budget speech to invoke emotions over the floods, the damage, and how our reserves and exports have grown.

Amongst all the bomb blasts, tortured corpses, incompetent forces, no one sees that we are really brave.

When the interests of rulers are in foreign lands it is unreasonable to expect them to fight for the rights of people.

We need to review our national purpose away from ‘hatred of India’ to something like ‘peace at home and peace abroad’.

Muslim scientists should not bask in past glory. There is resurgence in Muslim science and Pakistanis are part of it.

Weaker states still have to find the means to survive; they still do it through balancing or bandwagoning, or both.

We may never be able to please Washington but we can do more to persuade Iran to keep bilateral ties remain strong.

By design or through characteristic recklessness, the delicate strategic balance in the region has been disturbed.

In the global community of nations, Pakistan doesn’t figure very well, and that has been the case for many years now.

We compel ourselves to love an object that is designed to hurt us; this is the very definition of sadomasochism.

The notion that Pakistanis are watching more porn and watching more porn leads to rape is false.

The Indian government looks jaded and its claims sound like an overused gramophone record.

American assistance to Pakistan is overestimated, as press does not distinguish commitments from disbursements.

Today, every inhabitant of this blighted republic has his/her own idea on how the military should defend itself.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - a place where when lives are lost one can just play again.

The term university should be reserved for an institution teaching all possible subjects.

OODA stands for, observe, orient, decide, act.

It is time for the US to publicly apologise to Pakistan for greatly aggravating an already dysfunctional situation.

The Pakistani military is in some ways an admirable institution, but it is obsessed with India and Kashmir.

It is important to note that now is the time to think of greater accountability of the defence sector.

The political class is supposed to tax those who spend on infrastructure, but it has not understand how to do it.

The people have no doubts that it is the military that controls the miserable happenings in the country.

Information given to us was lacked truth, government and ISPR need to take the nation into confidence on both events.

Newcomers told of communists’ propensity for virgins coupled with ‘Islam against the rest of the world’ mentality.

Bloody civilians can perhaps bring us out of the morass in which we find ourselves.

"Afghanistan is a means to accomplish our top mission, which is to kill al Qaeda and secure Pakistan’s nukes."

This deliberate policy of lying means that we are stuck in war with no clear idea as to who we are fighting or why.

Days of insidious brainwashing by dangerous ideologues now replaced by mediocre polemicists, as subtle as a blowtorch.

I suggest an alternative vision where one is not forced to accept the current situation as an only option.

Who benefits from the misery and death of millions? The direct beneficiaries are very few who become wealthy.

Our collective habit of finding bogeys and imagining enemies has turned into a deep psychosis.

Suffering from unique forms of humiliation, Coke Studio has become our only source of pride healing, and punching bag.

Pakistan may not be able to react with the required skill and imagination to the emerging challenges.

Rather than blaming others for its own failures, the military should start doing its actual job for once.

Pakistan has more doctors writing columns than any nation on earth.

Spending a few million rupees on security would not be remiss to protect equipment in the billions of rupees.

Aunts Agatha and Dahlia are commanding the PN and PNS Mehran respectively.

It would take time to overcome memories of the past, when Pakistan was a staging area for mujahideen fighting Soviets.

Nawaz realises that common Pakistanis want peace with India and take advantage of its economic development via trade.

I don’t think anybody has any doubt that these attacks are a direct consequence of Osama's (supposed) execution.

Worryingly it seems that extremist Islamic forces are being mobilised to quell the secular Baloch struggle.

In my view, interests of Pakistan and the United State have great convergence.

From 1980 to 2006, the richest one per cent of America tripled their after-tax percentage of the nation’s total income

New institutional economics suggests that economic performance is fundamentally determined in the realm of the polity.