Opinion

Floods, shoe pelting, Sialkot, cricket criminality, bomb blasts – Pakistan’s crises are legion, but hardly legendary.

The state is rotten to its core. And if the core is rotten then the fruit is bad. Is it an irretrievable situation?

The allegations of spot-fixing made by a sleazy British tabloid have been like a stab in the heart for Pakistanis.

As the flood tragedy unfolds, I feel helpless as I see chaos and lack of coordination between govt agencies.

Altaf Hussain’s call to patriotic generals to take martial law type action on key civilian fronts refuses to die down.

I heard the News of the World story and thought of Tommy Sheridan, who was accused of being a serial adulterer.

No doubt the OIC countries can and should do more but we should recognise that they have begun to do their bit.

Most of the readers of Pakistan’s English newspapers rarely read an Urdu daily.

Why do people get so disappointed so soon with governments? Is there any alternative to constitutional democracy?

‘Kondemn the Kommunity Klan’ is actively pushing the narrative that Pakistan is a failed state because of our culture.

The media has missed the relevance of the SC extending terms of additional judges of provincial high courts.

For individual investors mutual funds provide numerous benefits.

Foreign trips. Floods. The Sialkot lynching. Frenzied moral outrage seems to be the bee’s knees these days.

Pakistani media, particularly the TV talk shows, have a steep learning curve to climb.

The truth is, the 4 Hashmi sisters are proud and get easily offended if they are not treated like VIP celebrities.

The cricket that brought respite to Pakistanis from suicide bombs, floods and atrocities has now left them distraught.

The rate of inflation may rise between 17 and 19% - virtually double the rate projected prior to the floods.

Patriotism is antithetical to the idea of democracy for it does not allow exposure of the rot within.

If you believe Ahmadis should be killed, Jews gassed, all Hindus made slaves, then you can be a Sialkot killer too!

The country is facing a grave crisis (again). It’s apparently on the brink of ruin and anarchy (again).

In a post flood Pakistan, there will be an immediate contraction in output and an up-turn of inflation.

Pakistan still languishes in an era of the stone-age Land Management System (LMS).

A campaign of vilification against Islam continues unabated.

Now there is a much greater consensus in Pakistan that the Taliban are the common enemy.

The media refrain regarding the incapacity of the govt seems to be creating doubts in the minds of potential donors.

The emigration rate of the highly educated from Pakistan is currently 9.8 per cent, about triple the rate for Asia.

The worst possible consequences for Pakistan will not be its break up but that it continues being what it is.

Foreign direct investment has plunged even further by over 40 per cent in 2009-10.

While the flood disaster has exacerbated the situation, food insecurity had already become a major problem.

Had the pieces by Mr Zaka and Mr Fulton been reflective of national soul-searching, one might have given them credit.

“Western, liberal” columnists have used abusive and shameful generalisations to justify a verbal lynching of...

A large bulk of Pakistan’s external debt of $54.5 billion is due to international financial institutions (IFI).

The incumbent government, according to surveys, doesn’t invoke confidence, nor does it appear to have full support.

I have never understood why our president and PM throw their hands up in the air as soon as a calamity strikes.

Food insecurity will be a major issue not only in flood-affected areas but also in major cities especially in Karachi.

We have been too depressed to notice a piece of good news. Our ISI was ranked the world’s top intelligence agency.

A part of me died when I saw the footage of that lynch mob in Sialkot doing its gruesome business.

Take a bow President Asif Ali Zardari. Your place on wikiquotes.com and brainquotes.com is guaranteed.

President Obama, who showed us the audacity of hope, has become a victim of basest human fears.

“Our Marines were greeted with hugs and kisses by survivors in the flood-devastated northern Pakistan."

President Zardari struck yet another death blow by saying “I don’t think Pakistan will ever fully recover.”

Zardari, Sharif, we don’t need your blood — give us your (our) money instead!

This has certainly not been President Zardari’s fortnight. Not by a long shot.

We are, and have always been, a barbaric, degenerate nation revelling in bloodlust. Go read any HRCP report.

1. There is no need for a separate commission. The NDMA and the Federal Flood Commission can do the job.

Who has courage to tell our PM that money garnered from his cast-off clothes are not what people need.

Pakistan, you are a failed state. Not because of Zardari. Not because of America. But because you are a failed people.

The Pakistani state is already a weakened entity and has to be rescued and aided, not trashed and further weakened.

There is a striking parallel between the Sialkot lynching and the massacre of more than 90 Ahmadis in Lahore.