Opinion

Eight-year-old Beenish did not know how to make roti for her employers in Gujranwala which put them in a rage

Following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, there was a huge public effort to block Indian nuclear projects

While we await greener technology, long-term cost effectiveness may prove case for LNG over other fuels

In K-P, there was just a single case last year, against eight in 2016 and 68 in 2014

There is no part of daily life that the OBOR project will not touch in Pakistan

Tribal solidarity looks at everything foreign with suspicion

one cannot rule out the possibility that the PML-N’s money could also work on these eight

Though women constitute 49% of Pakistan’s population, they constitute only 24% of the labour force

The Senate is a symbol of federation, democratic continuity and inter-provincial equity

Many of the problems exist in informal surgical instrument workshops

A woman’s role today is so much more and despite challenges, women in Pakistan have time and again broken barriers

Twenty-five million children in Pakistan don’t attend school today

There is ample evidence that investing in women is the most effective way to lift communities

What ought to be headline news is largely absent from the prints and the airwaves

Media’s role as ‘agenda setter’ on police reforms has been largely inconsequential

Ghani has made a generous, mostly unconditional offer to the Afghan Taliban for direct peace talks

proportional voting system used to elect members of the Senate has been exposed as a farce

How are we going to deal with these major anomalies and weaknesses?

sexual exploitation of racialised women and girls has a long history

Our police have become a force for intimidating people, rather than a public-friendly service

The realisation after 2013 and the subsequent years is that there is no appetite for an education policy

Pakistan Railways must go towards institutional and financial reforms to turn around the entity and make it profitable

No democracy should allow such desensitisation towards the literal buying of votes by independent candidates

Why Lahore has become an epicentre of abuse of blasphemy laws

So much of national wealth plundered and squirrelled outside the country is shocking

What was once taken as amazing and inspiring inventions are now taken as a given for teens

Xi Jinping can serve in the position he currently occupies until he dies

Next few weeks will see names of many hopeful being bandied about in the media

Presidency of Shehbaz will mean little to his person and to his party

Potential danger exists of India deciding to use Chabahar to launch further intelligence-related ventures

Pakistan putting its weight behind Ghani’s offer create a golden opportunity for peace in Afghanistan

New Delhi has understandably avoided on one pretext or the other talks on the subject with Islamabad

The drone technology is an excellent example of digital mix of satellite and localised information

The attackers are none other than the bigwigs of the PTI in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government

Pakistan must not lose the opportunity to make its mark on global tourism

We desperately need to enact and implement better food hygiene laws

For Asma, no cost was high enough when it came to civil liberties and political rights

India is in intense competition with China to achieve everything that China has attained

Erosion of the boundary between the civil and military leadership makes lawfare even more appropriate

Pakistan went into the plea-bargaining stage with no leverage. It had nothing to sell

The Republican gun obsession is the reason for the deaths of young children in Sandy Hook — not Muslims

A consistent ostrich-like attitude has remained prevalent in policy formulation since 1963

What is required is for Pakistan and the US to engage in multi-dimensional foreign policy

The dire need to change the working conditions of bureaucracy became apparent

Pursuit of national interests in a globalised world requires pragmatism, domestically as well as internationally

The biggest fault in Nawaz’s current narrative is that it is Nawaz-centric

Pakistan has been advocating political dialogue and engagement as the best course

CPEC with its focus on Gwadar, has also given impetus to maritime cooperation between China and Pakistan

Scientists need inspiration and for many it comes from science fiction literature

Concern of America is not nuclear proliferation in the Middle East but economic benefits it extracts from nuclear deal