Opinion

Increasing demands from groups wanting media space, threatens journalists’ judicious editorial judgment, credibility.

As Baloch bemoan centre's indifference, they begrudge provincial government inaction, inability to improve situation.

In its sixty-third year, Pakistan has failed to give dreams to Shahdad Khan Marri of Kohlu.

It was Pakistan’s clear understanding that the area, according to 1972 LoC delineation, demarcation, belonged to her.

If JI wants to be taken as serious political contender, it needs to focus on issues relevant to the people.

There is a solution which could be arrived at if both sides were to put aside their stubbornness and stupidity.

Middle caste Muslims struggled to attain social status compatible with their newly earned economic status.

Solar 2020 Project be established: achieve cost-effective solutions to meet demand, become largest exporter of solar.

I let out choice curse for those who put at peril lives of Pakistan, India men by ordering occupation of glacier.

Drug addiction knows no boundaries of class, wealth, race, age. It eats at the fiber of society at every level.

If anything, it strengthens Pakistani families, in line with what Islam outlines proper behavior between spouses.

In 2012 warmth and goodwill of the young people of Pakistan are its greatest resource.

The team that takes out the pages every day did not and has not come with any kind of baggage.

With at least 35 per cent of its population in urban areas, Pakistan is the most urbanised country in South Asia.

Laboratory tests have proved that the underground water in Thar has a heavy percentage of arsenic deposits.

It appears PTI, instead of peeling away extremists, is pandering to hateful agendas of Pakistan’s Islamist fringe.

‘Energy conference’ was little more than a waste of the government’s energy spent in talking about futile efforts.

We all live in Pakistan, but the Pakistan that we all perceive is radically different for each person.

The deal that was struck under General Musharraf, inherited by Zardari, army would look the other way as US bombed NW.

More provinces based on administrative ease would strengthen the federation rather than weaken it.

Pakistan didn’t start this conflict. It wants end to it. Possible agreement is there. Elephant in the room is India.

If men don’t want women in their lives, the issue is settled and we can ask all women to leave the country en masse.

Pakistan embodies a strange contradiction when it comes to women in positions of power and influence.

Pakistan, Delhi would do themselves & world good were they to make Afghanistan launching pad to create mutual trust.

Militants army allowed to be unleashed on India after 1989 had worldview beyond Kashmir. They wanted Islamic govt.

Zardari is forcing Manmohan Singh, to act in the direction of normalisation, telling us to get a life.

Can Pakistan emulate some of the fundamental principles that guide the Turkish model of democracy.

A hero has been turned into the biggest public villain in recent memory.

BRICS may well attain a strategic salience and the pillar erected by it may not be hollow.

Policymakers are oblivious to the fact that the global economic and political order is being slowly reshaped.

In the coming elections, which way the tide turns, whether towards Imran Khan or Bilawal Bhutto only time will tell.

Mourning in this particular political parlance indicates not a spell of grieving, but a foray into extreme violence.

Those who breed like flies die like flies.

Pakistani nationalism is tinged by Islam and anti-Indian passions. Nationalism is a middle-class exceptionalism.

Mass-based credentials, popular support for PPP comparatively deeper, wider than Muslim League in Pakistan Movement.

Ziaul Haq reminds us of the evil, mediocre and I stake everything and say; common men are capable of.

Even if the US put the bounty on Saeed to please India, and I believe it did, the beneficiary will be Pakistan.

Media on both sides of the border, as well as some politicians, are perhaps expecting too much.

Immediate measures are needed to harness potential of increasing youth population, or it could become social unrest.

No one in India, media nor political parties, comment on military affairs thinking its not in the country's interests.

32 year Shaista Khan, a graduate, 6 days a week would set off from Ziarat Town at 6.00 AM, ring bell in Zezri at 8.

For him, assaulting random people, including children, is an acceptable way to live and make a living.

Have we not ramped up ‘confrontation’ with supplier of most of our sophisticated defence(?) equipment rather a lot?

An economic consensus is still lacking, but the Seventh NFC is a major step in this direction.

I hope I am right, that Pakistan may still have time — but it will need some effort to save it from itself.

In the last year of this government, ordinary Pakistanis are poorer, insecure, disillusioned, frustrated than before.

I wear my biases on my sleeve — honesty compels me to do so, so that the reader knows where my work is coming from.

With no discourse on water rights, water availability, water quality, private sector operators can run unregulated.

All India Muslim League's Malik Barkat Ali was amongst those nominated by Jinnah to prepare the Lahore Resolution.

The so-called ‘power crisis’ is, in fact, a state of affairs growing out of 3 different areas where government failed.