Opinion

Should Pakistan and its military establishment be concerned on recent deployment of US-manufactured drones on the LOC?

Th census will be conducted after a gap of nearly 20 years

Armed with more and better data, policymakers would be able to plan a healthier future

Pakistan has proved that it is able to deliver on its regional and international hosting responsibilities

ICT itself is not going to provide answers to some of the fundamental challenges faced by the agriculture sector

Thank you Najam Sethi, for your persistence, planning and audacity to bring cricket back home

Pakistani women have a pro-active and pre-disposed responsibility to ask questions, the right questions

Growing food in a sustainable way means adopting practices that produce more

If we do not put a halt to this fear and loathing we should be prepared to lose more than just our sense of direction

The intellectual growth of a child is a complex process; a graph that increases and plateaus at times

WikiLeaks has once again caught the world by surprise with the releaseof a large set of files it calls “year zero”

Pakistan has been host to the largest refugee population in the world

Pakistan exports around $4 billion worth of merchandise to its immediate neighbours

The revised executive order aims to protect the US by keeping out people who could pose a terrorist threat

Most of the elements of Trumpnomics are reactions to China’s economic rise

Trump’s revised Muslim ban will probably meet the same fate as its January predecessor

Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations — sectarian, ethnic, criminal — must be eliminated from its roots

The narratives in Kabul and Islamabad refuse to change

Cricket has never moved me. Ever. It was the summer sport at school

Pakistan ranks as the third-most dangerous country for women to live in

The demand for abolishing the FCR, a legacy of the colonial era, was widespread and virtually unanimous

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights

We celebrate the progress made in improving women’s inclusion and empowerment for inspiring women

Gender equality in the world of work is a sine qua non for sustainable development

Pakistani people crossed a psychological barrier with the holding of the PSL final

Appnesia is a term used to describe distraction by gadgets and app

Ashraf Ghani’s government has shown a paradigm shift in economic policy from its eastern border trade with Pakistan

Justice and equality have a kind of symbiotic relationship

Jirgas do not possess the concept of due process — there is only an oral hearing and verdict

Why are students so willing to get into trouble? Because there is no other forum today in India for resistance.

Democrats are taking for granted that Trump will not win a second term, just like they assumed Hillary could not lose

Pakistan is much richer than what it and the world believes it to be.

While we are quick to point out how great we are, we continue to mistreat the weak such as transgender persons

Today nothing else matters... except the magic of cricket wrapped in the enchantment of a shared belief of commonness

PSL is a reminder that our people can find memories, dreams and happiness in cricket

It would have been nice if the government had acted as a culture vulture instead of a political drudge and directors

Pakistan has done well in again reaching out to Kabul

We don’t need a counter-narrative to defeat terrorism

Pakistan has the highest number of dowry-linked deaths per 100,000 women

This piece is in response to Rustam Shah Mohmand’s article ‘The Unanticipated Perils of FATA Merger with K-P

Even if the Pakistani middle class is 84 million strong how much purchasing power does it really have?

Besides recent generosity shown by Germany, all other European countries have been very stingy with accepting refugees

A welcoming multilateral diplomatic milestone bolstering Pakistan's foreign policy sway.

The deportation machinery is unlike the sort America has ever witnessed; it is extreme and frightening.

Minorities in India are facing existential threat, are not allowed to practise fundamental tenets of their religions.

In large part it is down to an absence of moral authority and a failure of leadership

Niccolo Machiavelli says “it is more important to be feared than to be loved”

The growth of services sector instead of industries could save the crucial time available for developing Fata

Industrial cooperation is one area where Pakistan seems least prepared

Those branding Pashtoons must remember; Osama bin Laden or Dr Al-Zawahiri or Abu Bakr Baghdadi are not Pashtoons