Opinion

The Hazara community can hardly be blamed for taking steps to demand the Prime Minister’s attention

Pakistan has set a target of vaccinating 70 million people to achieve ‘herd immunity’

We cannot go back in time and undo our collective praise for a man who has done so much damage to the US

Many who argue about what should go on social media and what should not. The bigger problem is who decides this

It is only twice in Pakistan’s 70-plus years of history that the state directly intervened to help the poor

Transitioning from dirty energy is also the only option for humanity’s survival

Imran Khan is not new to politics, but naïve he certainly is

Imran Khan’s reformist govt, despite many mistakes, continues to create new winners and losers in Pakistani politics

Wars serve a political purpose, as without one wars are only adventures

Absence of mass mobilisation is why PDM’s rallies haven’t translated into any game-changing political moves

Not all mutations make a pathogen resistant to medicines but may make it more or less infectious

No nation of the world deserves to be occupied, its people killed and its infrastructure razed to the ground

The damage done to the democratic project will need a long hard look

While Pakistan successfully tackled the pandemic, questions were raised as to why we couldn’t eradicate polio so far

US' pre-conceived ideas about China’s actions and intentions seem to be leading Washington into a deadly trap

If 20 million Sikhs can roll back the steamroller of RSS, what will be the motivation level of 200 million Muslims

Is there light at the end of the tunnel for the people who continue to experience back-to-back crises?

In sheer excitement or plain ignorance, some spokespersons have been declaring the country in surplus

Coercive and authoritarian tendencies have re-emerged across South Asia

The assaulted coal miners were Hazara Shias, they had suffered this tumultuous fate many times in the past

US-India relations as a balancer to a rising China; and the enduring US national interests

Artificial sabotage of dissent were used by the Indian government in its hybrid war against Pakistan

The reality is not lost on the Afghan people, who can clearly see Kabul’s fingerprints on this violence

We need to understand that the battle against Covid hasn’t been won

Child, early, forced marriages place children at risk of violence and abuse, and deprives them of fundamentals right

The year just ended saw Pakistan shaken by the struggle between political order and disorder

The key for Pakistan to achieve foreign policy goals is to have internal political and economic consolidation

NawazSharifism may mean leaving your responsibilities as a senior minister of the governmen

The centre-piece of a modern fighter’s cockpit are three glass displays of 8x10 inches

According to Abraham Maslow, culminates into self-actualisation with satisfaction of all lower-level needs

Pakistan has the advantage of being a central point in the world’s geological history

With the new vaccines coming in, the Covid-19 crisis will fade with time but air pollution is here to stay

Pakistan is only recovering from the damage it sustained during the two decades of fighting terror on its land

The road towards achieving immunity is not going to be smooth

Shortage of shipping containers in some countries matched by an oversupply in others has created bottlenecks worldwide

Asia and Pacific region is providing lessons on how new normal can be more effectively achieved with gender equality

India’s desperate quest for seeking legitimacy in IIOJK is a reality and must be taken seriously by Pakistan

Accompanying aspirations of creating multicultural nations, Western states have embraced the notion of being secular

The power sector in Pakistan has operated on the assumption that supply creates its own demand

The American commitment to the Afghan war during president Obama’s administration rested on domestic politics

A year that will go down in human history as a memorable and historic landmark

We never heard from our rulers — both civilian and military — that may be it is them who don’t know how to govern

It was sort of a crash course where we paced through enormous events crammed in a single year

Attracted with its manifesto and slogans, quite a sizable population dreaming of a better tomorrow voted for PTI

Modi govt’s policies toward Pakistan need to be viewed in context of RSS’s anti-Muslim and Hindu nationalist agenda

Deplorably, soon after Quaid's demise, his ideals were abandoned and his vision was lost

A glance at the planning process in Pakistan gives a discouraging image

The reason for rise of right-wing political parties include frustration with the political establishment

Making enough land available is fundamental to the success of the programme

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time