Opinion

We need a set of robust public policy responses to resolve issues of education and unemployment.

Nobody is ready to raise this question in these times of judicial activism.

Shaukat Aziz made three predictions, all of which I disagreed with, but which came true.

Reconstruction is an opportunity to initiate the reconstruction of our social order for economic democracy.

Climate can alter weather in many ways, affecting countries around the world, including our own.

The people are already contributing to the flood relief fund. Charity yes, tax no.

Can’t the president of Pakistan at least provide board and lodging? His late wife certainly would have.

India’s one-wicket win against Australia in the Mohali Test is causing an epidemic of pulled pectorals here.

Looking for an exit strategy and failing to find an honourable way out, Nato and America have become desperate.

As they attack judicial officers, police and media people performing their duties, lawyers have turned back progress.

Musharraf is trying to come back too, but it’s too soon. Now you just seem desperate and needy and that’s a...

People are being tested like never before with the high inflation. What is our threshold?

Its high time Pakistanis realise that objective journalism is a myth, an outdated ideal and possibly even an oxymoron.

The lawyers’ movement has turned on itself. Consider the facts...

In 200 years, the British Raj did not allow elected representatives of the Indians to oversee security of the country.

This part of the article indicates some of the immediate policy initiatives required after the floods.

Kashmali Khan’s musings have left me confused despite the fact that I have extensively written on nuclear issues.

It is better to fix the wrong course of direction rather than to follow it for political expediency.

Finding another home away from home, the old man had learned to live a life of simplicity.

Disingenuous reporting makes Pakistanis suspicious of American interests, which in turn affects their views on the US.

Absolutist ideologies are something that Mr Ahmadinejad and the Taliban have in common even though they are enemies.

It is possible to redirect and redesign the education systems to be responsive to today’s needs courtesy floods.

This powerful lawyers’ faction has become the latest Frankenstein of our society.

Spontaneous dancing in the street. This isn’t an episode of “Glee”.

What should one make of the YouTube video that allegedly shows Pakistan Army troops executing six men?

If someone wants to learn how not to write policy documents, they should ask Pakistani bureaucrats.

Fanciful shenanigans of stale politicos or talented Pakistanis willing to share their money and expertise.

Pakistan has come to rely on its nuclear weapons and their dispersal to prevent Indian preemption.

PML-Q parliamentarian Marvi Memon has no heroes in fiction or real life and wishes she could live in a caravan.

The most astonishing statement by Musharraf is that he would like to start his political career with a clean slate.

The clergy and the state in Pakistan have had problems with Allama Iqbal’s view of the state in his Sixth Lecture.

I sat among the audience in the courtroom watching the sentencing proceedings of Aafia Siddiqui on September 23.

There is an underlying reason which compels aid agencies to build people’s homes on land that does not belong to...

The biggest strength and security of this country is its human resources. It's time we invested in it wholeheartedly.

General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf, doesn’t think he’s a hummingbird. Nor do his supporters.

The greatest polluter of the constitution (Ziaul Haq’s 8th amendment) remains very much a part of this nation’s...

The way to improve the functionality of Pakistan is to accompany every act of welfare with a call to civic action.

Could the deficit in 2010-11 even exceed the record level of Rs1.2 trillion attained last year?

The rich cannot continue to shop whilst the Pakistani people drop into further poverty. Death and taxes for all.

Importantly, in the words of Israeli/Gazan scribe Amira Hass, journalists must always “monitor the centres of power.”

The moral of the story is that higher fees, fat salaries and private management do not improve delivery of education.

Nothing wakes people up like a good ol’ economic crisis. Every so often the cycle repeats itself.

The usual voices claim that either military rule or politicised religion offer more hope than this corruptocracy.

Since the campaign to win Afghans over isn’t going so well, US soldiers decide to take a few skulls and fingers.

If we had principles and believed in Pakistan we would be willing to put opportunist politics aside and get to work.

If the ‘good’ Taliban can be persuaded to cooperate, additional troops could help bring the ‘bad’ ones in line.

The influence of the generals and admirals declined as the post-Waterloo environment receded in memory.

I know ‘balle balle’. And I feel the Commonwealth Games is on a trajectory dramatically different from that.

Does the prime minister really need an armed chaperone of seven cars every time he steps out.

Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s sentence of 86 years of imprisonment by a US court is both shocking and surprising.