Opinion

Breaking up is not the worst that can happen to a country, it is breaking down that one needs to worry about.

With recession, budget cuts, parking problems and security concerns, diplomatic functions aren’t what they used to be.

Pakistan is an ‘incomplete’ ideological state, a hybrid distasteful to the Islamists.

Trashing one's country to fit in with a foreign crowd, or to look cool, doesn't say much about us.

As Hajj pilgrims travel home, many will return with bitter tales of the substandard facilities they were provided.

I had concluded at an early age that the last thing I would want to be in Pakistan is a politician or head of state.

An innocent woman, falsely charged, has been sentenced to death with the party of the people in place.

Why do we keep failing in doing something against acts of remorseless killing aided, abetted through ineptness?

We do need to reform our education system but we need to think through what kind of system we want.

Reforms need to be based on creating private property rights, political empowerment, education, economic development.

The objective now is to conduct an independent inquiry, under Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s direct supervision.

Pakistan’s government should make economic interests rather than ideology, the basis of foreign policy.

The need to discuss/debate the content of education in public schools has been largely ignored.

Pakistan has to import livestock for Eid because of the floods, on the other hand we are exporting beef to Malaysia.

Conflict between Pakistan and India is in neither side's interest. it only benefits weapon-producing world powers.

Two modi operandi of local terrorist groups should now be obvious following the Karachi attack.

India has found a much more sustainable form of development and growth - by India, and for India.

To make the world body truly representative, it needs to be inclusive and expanded.

Everyone is guessing as to when an operation is going to be launched against militants in North Waziristan.

One thing that can never be an effective solution itself is more war in Afghanistan.

Obama faces a growing constraint that his predecessors did not: the relative decline of American global power.

It is time we changed the paradigm of defence in Pakistan and returned to the normalcy of trade and trade routes.

Zulqarnain Haider has done what any sensible person would have done in his situation.

Newspapers and television channels are an excellent front to protect other economic and power interests.

If the government were a little wiser, it would use the sugar crisis to increase its goodwill and establish its writ.

Consume less sugar. Help thwart the nefarious designs of a vile bunch of bloodsuckers holding this country hostage.

Not every 24-year-old will have the guts to withstand the pervasive pressure of corruption as Zulqarnain has done.

The only leader who seems to have an understanding of the need for strengthening economic ties with China is Zardari.

Next week, legs and bits and pieces will be exchanged between the chosen few and deep freezers will be crammed...

Pakistan is under attack from within. How can the good Taliban in the neighbourhood be good for the country?

The recurring nature of the sugar crises reveal the interlocking nature of the economic and political interests.

It’s time for us the citizens of Pakistan to take a stake, to field our own candidates and it's time we changed.

Corruption perceptions of ordinary people do have validity and cannot simply be dismissed.

Bilateral agreement is not to be touted as a unilateral success. The Indo-Pak example illustrates this perfectly.

Monetary policymaking suffers from 'time inconsistency'; people expect the opposite of what policymakers announce.

Cuba might not have a high standard of living compared to the West, but nobody goes hungry in the island republic.

The delay and indecision only adds an element of legal limbo to the mix of perennial political and economic limbo.

I know exactly who is responsible for the mutilation of the fair name of Pakistan. And today I am going to out him.

Because of maltre­atment, econom­ic pressu­re and urbani­sation, the master-servan­t relati­onship has become...

Too long have the politicians suffered our cynicism, our loathing and our justified venom.

Like China and India, Japan is an energy-dependent country, it would not like big power monopolisation of the region.

Pakistan must strategise early to prevent the actualisation of the Blackwill plan.

Corruption undermines everyone’s trust in the government and in other institutions wielding power in a state.

India successfully projected the fallacy that those who are pro self-determination live only in the Valley.

I have no access to my personal belongings or official papers and am unable to serve my people effectively as an MNA.

Whenever a crisis brews due to irresponsible reporting, there is talk of an independent commission, but little action.

Perhaps the Pakistani military’s main occupation should not be to win wars, but to avoid losing any.

This ‘land of the pure’ appears to have a death wish, it is pertinent to suspect that very few nationals honestly care

What has gone relatively unnoticed in Pakistan is his promise to lift sanctions imposed on India for going nuclear.

Islamabad is in a better position to mediate between Kabul, the Haqqani network and the Quetta Shura.