Opinion

Yes. You heard that right. The award for the most unfriendly neighbour on the planet goes to… India.

About 10 million people fell below the poverty level since 2018

The onus is on our authorities

The decision is harsh and inhumane, and it comes as a surprise that no one objected while it was being made

How would this building conflict get resolved?

Clearly, the Indian government has little option to hit back at China

The region is currently living the reality of the third option. It just may be time for the world to act.

The thief’s hat is always burning, so was the case here.

India today, the India of Modi is not the India of Nehru and Gandhi

Now the Erdogan administration is quickly pressing ahead to gain an overwhelming control on GNA government

Children from 16 to 18 may be allowed work only in non-hazardous occupations, and under defined code of conditions

Perhaps the Indian diaspora needs to start defending itself against the machinations of this Hindu ISIL

Pakistan is rewarding Covid-19 as a chance to get bailouts, abstain from undertaking changes under the IMF agreement

Some stories that inspire and move the most are written in blood and sweat — stories of those who dared death itself

In the post-budget presser, the person who appeared the most clueless was the Finance Secretary

This evident leakage is just the tip of the iceberg given other forms of kickbacks and corrupt practices

Difficult days are ahead and the growing economic predicament will not end by mere rhetoric and blame game

For South Asia, India has been a hostile neighbour and its current border disputes have exposed her hegemonic design

The world doesn’t need more knowledge as much as it needs the truth

To borrow from Tomas Pueyo’s popular Covid metaphor, if we hammer it hard now, we will soon be dancing

Corruption-tired common Afghans continue to flock towards the Taliban, viewed as “brutal but efficient and devout”

There was hardly any reason to assess the performance of the Sindh govt during lockdown in light of its past record

In the bid to acknowledge mental health, the ‘rescuers’ stigmatise mental healthcare

The coronavirus that has caught us unguarded also exposed several other national weaknesses

When all is said and done, meaningful peace in Afghanistan will flourish, if people have freedom of choice

The British Museum houses one of the world’s largest and oldest collections of historical artefacts

The virus is creating havoc and the misinformation is making it harder to separate fact from conspiracy theories

Pakistan has been on the trajectory of fiscal unsustainability for quite some time

When the story of Covid-19 in Pakistan is written, let it show how indecisiveness doomed a country

Developments on one side of the ocean impacts the other side

Pakistan is trying to convey that it has no favourites in Afghanistan and it is willing to work with all groups

The killing of three beings because of their colour, status and species reveals our true mentality

India continues to play a provocative game in its territorial disputes with Pakistan, China and Nepal

We all need to free ourselves from our biases and prejudices. That will take much longer

There is little doubt that mismanagement and incompetence has stood out as two noticeable characteristics of this govt

For far too long, many brown voices have been silent about racism in US because they want to be ‘model’ immigrants

We have suffered enough already with our laissez faire approach to all matters of national import

The public must learn to condition themselves to identify the signs of inaccurate information

Govt needs a health security strategy for migrants which encompasses safeguarding the overall health of emigrants

The socialist-capitalist hybrid model that we try to put to work in the country only adds to the misery of the people

The pandemic provides us an opportunity to restructure our health system and introduce reforms to remove inequities

The litmus test for any effective regulator is its ability to promote transparency and accountability

Critics of rampant consumerism are not very impressed by the promise of CSR

Those who were a liability in the PSM should have been fired after due process.

At this point China has the choice to de-escalate which is what India is hoping for through its diplomatic efforts

Ashraf Ghani and his allies have claim that the Taliban and ISIS are allies

Child labour in Pakistan is a despicable continuum of exploitation and cruelty

As Sino-Indian border skirmishes hint at a war between the two countries

South Asian leaders struggle to contain the disease and its economic fallout

Money would help deliver social protection programmes to poor, expand health sector capabilities and create jobs