Opinion

Have you done enough to inspire your southern neighbours to choose someone like Justin Trudeau in 2016?

If Nandipur and the LNG deals are any guide, the future is not very bright

What endows you the right to state what happened inside the four walls of someone’s privacy?

Creating a new language — ‘Pakistani’ — will be representative of all Pakistanis

Whatever one may think of the unfortunate couple, they don't deserve what is happening to them

Munir Husain’s Surviving the Wreck spotlights one brave officer’s defiance to become Zia’s ‘yes-man’

If two people decide to part ways by mutual consent and gracefully, they’re still better off than thousands of...

Indus Hospital has a vision to expand its outreach to patients in all four provinces

Only by working together, can the countries of the Asia and the Pacific become disaster-resilient

Success of the PPP and PML-N in LG polls lies in the lure and lustre of patronage politics

Pakistan has reached the point of zero-sum on nuclear weapons capability with India

International mainstreaming requires Pakistan to pull the plug on all non-state actors operating on its soil

Is Pakistan being led down the same path as Greece? It is imperative the dependence on foreign financing is reduced

China has deliberately avoided any proactive role in regional disputes that do not affect it directly

This year 600 adult houbaras were released in Lal Suhanra National Park by International Fund for Houbara Conservation

When I was growing up, I was taught that the sources of all ills are zarr, zameen aur zann (money, land and women)

The country has existed for over four decades as a compact state with a sense of history and a vision for the future

In Sindh, Asif Ali Zardari said the PPP was “alive and kicking” after 11 people were shot dead in Khairpur

The power of the pharmaceutical lobby ensures that the cost of drugs in the US is highest in the world

The total number of adult illiterates in the country adds up to 100 million people

The declaration of the 2016 troop withdrawal deadline by the Obama Administration was a mistake

How long will we continue to be held hostage to the whims of thugs who pose as student groups?

The more power is dispersed among elected institutions, the more difficult it is to dislodge democratic institutions

In Bollywood terms, we are the Shahid Kapoor of cricket though we think we are the Shah Rukh Khan

Benghazi inquiry looked like a partisan attack by a group of spiteful Republicans who wanted to tarnish her image

The martyrdom of my father represents the battle between right and wrong

If govt fails to push Pakistan’s case for what it deserves as one of the victims of climate change, no one else will

One can't keep accepting hard cash from the US and expect to give nothing in return

The PPP is increasingly being perceived as the Qaim Ali Shah of political parties

Younger generations in Pakistan are attached to Middle East & its issues despite never having lived there

The LG election today is as important as the 2013 general election; let us not waste this chance

Nawaz Sharif's trip to US convinces us of one thing: PM & his cabal are out of ideas and simply going through motions

"Oh, you're from Pakistan? Give me a big hug then." The irrepressible Om Puri responded to me with a huge smile

Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs were formulated subsequent to the largest consultation process in UN history

I don't concur with Roger Moore's comment that Bond can’t be black

Bal Thackeray was once a cartoonist who drew caricatures of Pakistan’s touring team to India in 1960-61

Our elite appear to have always excelled in one area — propagating corrupt ideologies

There is no specific budget set aside for teacher training in most private schools

There is no attempt to address the cancers that are deep within and eating away

World needs to realise that there are other illnesses seriously affecting patients and these are not getting attention

It’s not as if America doesn’t love its citizens; it just loves its guns more, and that is the detestable truth

The only certainty is that migration in a world of unprecedented border controls remains shrouded in myth

The expanding sea of the black economy continues to offer the ‘misled’ a ready source of terror-financing

Every time our PM visits an important country, question that dominates media is: how much help are we going to get?

Will goodwill for Imran Khan’s mission fade under his seemingly arrogant, self-righteous confrontationist approach?

Akbar S Ahmed's recent cinematic venture Journey Into Europe seeks to answer: “Is Islam compatible with the...

Sense of relief on part of Netanyahu may be short-lived as flames engulfing Syria will spread to other countries

Connecting scientists from Israel & Middle East through a apolitical conference, there was only one language: science

Many women in conservative societies hide their Facebook accounts from their families

Unlike any military berets he wore with great distinction, NSA hat will be a difficult one to wear for General Janjua