Opinion

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.

The Indian govt is set to provide 150 vending machines at the CWG village for athletes to be able to purchase condoms.

Today I am not going to write a story of grief and helplessness, but a story of hope amidst this misery.

Constant self-promotion. Congratulations, you have a blog. So does everyone else.

“Madam, Madam,” he yelled as if the mountain was on fire. “I have brought some guests.” The guests were his...

Covering the floods wasn’t easy. For 5 days I had to do without air-conditioning and most of my make-up artists.

As the floods rage, knocking out villages, towns, and cities the government continues to flounder.

The Taliban in Fata and the mob and the police in Sialkot are kindred beings bound by an aversion to tomorrow.

The idea that building a mosque at Ground Zero highlights Muslim insensitivity to “Americans” is cowardly, illogical.

Flood-affected families of the Ahmadi community were shunned from relief camps setup to 'help' citizens of Pakistan.

How can one explain the lynching of two teenage brothers in broad daylight by a mob, while policemen stood watch?

Looking at the devastation caused by the floods, it seems that God may have joined the CIA or RAW.

One of the principal tasks expected of charter signatories would be to disarm militant wings of political groupings.

Shahbaz Sharif looked out with great sorrow and a deep sigh said, “Look at the devastation. It’s simply mindboggling."

The notion that millions in misery has nothing to do with social values, individual actions is a concocted reality.

We are wrong to look for terrorist tracts in madrassas. The suicide bomber is not made through syllabi, but isolation.

I was mentally planning out this article the other day as I started reading the newspaper.

Why is it that people are willing to contribute to Talat Hussain's fund rather than the prime minister’s fund?

Sadly, no political entity is really noticeable in the problematic flood areas, though they are there in the media.

The media-venting of ire against the head of state of this Islamic Republic continues, like the floods, unabated.

Whichever bright spark came up with the idea of relocating flood affected people to Karachi should be hanged.

There is an impression that international donors are stingy because of the gov'ts lack of credibility. I disagree.

As I wrote in the first part of this series, more food was delivered to Sakhi Sarwar by our local correspondent there.

Flood relief is being used by some as an opportunity to orchestrate political upheaval via the media.

The existing federal and provincial budgets can be restructured to make a jump start, and the donors will follow.

Most donors are channeling their limited aid through the UN, Red Cross and Red Crescent due to lack of trust.

Sudden and severe monsoon floods have wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people across Pakistan.

Of course nobody in the world wants to rush to our rescue when we need it the most. Why should they?

The biggest challenge is to restore the confidence of the masses in the continuing viability of the state.