Opinion

I don’t care about the flood. Could not give a damn. I have no empathy for the survivors, no sympathy for the...

Last week I was visiting the flood-affected areas in south Punjab and whatever I saw was devastating.

The international response and media coverage of the floods – with a few notable exceptions – has been pathetic.

The apathy of those unaffected by catastrophic flooding towards their unfortunate counterparts is shocking.

Few Pakistanis even know of it by name. Fewer still remember that it eventually contributed to Pakistan’s break-up.

Regardless of who ruled – in uniform or in civvies – the real power was always exercised by the establishment.

The man who threw shoes at Asif Ali Zardari in Birmingham had terrible aim, despite being armed with a size 10 shoe.

Dove World Outreach Centre, has plans to publicly desecrate copies of the Holy Quran on September 11.

The flood of 2010 has exposed the FFC's performance and its projects. Where has all their development money gone?

As Pakistan marks Independence day, it faces a political disconnect between the ruling political elite and the people.

The latest casualty in the devastating floods has been Sindh, and where are her powerful landlords?

The idealism of the political leaders is in fact a game plan to maintain the status quo.

A friend of mine suggests we literally do what the Brits did electorally in their last polls: hang the parliament.

Benazir Bhutto may have been the daughter of the east, but President Asif Ali Zardari is definitely the punching bag.

I believe it's wrong to stereotype the tribal insurgency as a religious movement, as is being portrayed by the media.

The 7th NFC Award which became operative this year has fundamentally altered the public finance landscape.

For good and bad reasons, there is too much focus on President Zardari for everything that is wrong in the country.

Floods in Pakistan have made even the UK's National Security Council hold an emergency meeting chaired by Cameron.

One can be less sure of Jinnah’s intended direction for Pakistan as far as political liberalism is concerned.

"The rains are clearly a natural phenomenon. But there is nothing natural about the destruction these rains brought."

If it doesn’t, a bloody anarchic revolution could most certainly be on the cards.

Is trouble in Fata caused by radicalisation of tribal society or is it a tribal backlash? I believe it's the latter.

What Muslims are in fact rejecting is the process of suiting themselves to changing circumstances.

I walk into Mohalla Qazian in Nowshera district. It is on the banks of the mighty Kabul River.

Allama Iqbal’s message which had filled millions of Muslims with revolutionary zeal has been forgotten in Pakistan.

It has become a ritual to celebrate Independence Day every year without considering whether we have achieved it or not

Independence Day 1947, 63 years ago, was fraught with violent birth-pangs, death and destruction.

Someone once told me — ask the Kashmiris, ask the Chechens, ask the Palestinians how precious freedom is.

Asif Ali Zardari: Hot. Yousaf Raza Gilani — Not hot. Being “hot or not” in politics is a game of “value addition”.

Major efforts are required to deal with multiple challenges in order to help minimise suffering of the hapless masses.

Recent torrential rains have affected over 20,000 people in seven districts of the region.

Recently, President Asif Ali Zardari made a strange public statement, one among many of his peculiar gems.

The massive floods across the length of Pakistan have exposed yet another aspect of deteriorating governance.

Since we spend most of our waking hours at work, how do we know we are putting our best foot forward?

Fashion will continue to progress in Pakistan, come hell or high water.

In the aftermath of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, US helicopters lifted in millions of dollars worth of aid.

One thing is for sure: President Asif Ali Zardari is a determined man.

If a shoe falls on a president and no one is there to record it, did it make a splash?

Can’t we even get through a national emergency without flinging dirt on each other, staging a few “sit-ins”.

Power centres are busy in point-scoring as if the devastation was a playground for political mileage.

What is likely to be forgotten is the promise embedded in the new land.

To expect people to evacuate on their own is not going to work. The government needs to take charge.

The fact that this is the largest disaster does not mean that nobody can be apportioned responsibility.

One often wonders how a country run by a bunch of total lunatics can be expected to perform a reasonable job.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said something in India that made him an instant celebrity in Pakistan.