Opinion

To me, the Centre acts like a suspicious husband with Balochistan, always in doubt of the latter’s loyalty, fidelity.

A radical shift in our thinking and a national resolve to see the Baloch as ‘us’ and not ‘them’, is needed urgently.

Judges are required to apply their legal minds to issues, not be swayed by patriotic considerations peddled by media.

The current structure of the Pakistani economy was shaped to a considerable extent by the past.

I am tired of being penned up behind the walls of our village and scared with talk of the Indian bogeyman.

For the Iftikhar Chaudhry-led Supreme Court, taking on de-facto & de-jure rulers of country is simply called Monday.

Banning Shezan shows that the main problem in Pakistan is that people tend to view everything from a religious lens.

Freedom is necessary for creativity because creativity requires intellectual space to make a leap of the imagination.

It does look as if the US is losing its grip on Pakistan. The old bonhomie that once existed has evaporated.

It is also about time that parliament rises to the challenge. It is a race against time but it can be won.

There is a solution: good science books exist. So use them!

Mansoor and Haqqani, two veritable peas in a pod, were having fun and games although in the process both got hurt.

India’s position is quite indefensible, but position of the others in this problem, the Hurriyat, is even worse.

Jamshed Dasti from DG Khan says the hills of DG Khan were the training grounds for jihadis patronised by the state.

Lawyers, media have learnt to fight as a result of lawyers’ movement, but haven’t grasped who to fight, or for...

We killed Saleem Shahzad. If you read the report carefully, it lays the blame on us.

Let’s condemn him for what he is doing, at the same time douse the flames that we have lit ourselves in Balochistan.

Somewhere, just downstream of the crumbling ramparts of Bhakkar, there lies to this day a good deal of wealth.

We must hope that Lahore Bar Association is an aberration and not the norm and other bar associations will protest.

We should sell whatever knowledge we can while retaining our primary right to do research without any botheration.

There are sections in society that take pride in the fact that we will become the most populous Muslim nation soon.

The politics of Bahawalpur has gone way ahead for anyone to put the ‘geneie back into the bottle’ of its history.

It ensures that overzealous reformers will not waste time and energy on transforming economic governance in 90 days.

If the situation in Syria is not settled through peaceful change,it will divide the Middle East along sectarian lines.

The festival remains an oasis for people who love reading in this surreal, violent and sometimes insane city.

The Deep State goes on cruelly, following its own narrow ‘strategic’ policies that have all but destroyed our country.

Study: What emerges is a depressing picture of hapless people trapped in a legal quagmire, seeking some redemption.

I was glad the organisers did not invite high-profile officials since their security details usually sour such events.

Now a boom is underway to our east, in India. And once again, we need to find a way to tap into this boom.

In well structured irrigation system, consumers pay cost of efficient operations, maintenance, replacement of assets.

The PTI is not some idealistic MBA joining a tobacco firm to ‘change the system from the inside’.

There we were two journalists, an Israeli and a Pakistani, sipping pineapple juice in the land of the killing fields.

Dislodging al-Assad through domestic unrest, as in Tunisia, Egypt is unlikely, hence West has been arming opponents.

Patience is vital to partnering with Pakistan since the country is still in the dawning of its independence.

The government’s angry reaction, though laudable, is not representative of the general sentiment of the Baloch.

Effects of economic performance in military rule not filtering on to civil rule indicates performance was an anomaly.

If Taliban come back in to any position of control, my employment will end, as will my daughters’ education.

On February 14, 1945, Franklin D Roosevelt and then Saudi King, Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud made the Quincy Agreement.

In our passionate moments, as we start searching for who to blame, we often ignore the need to strengthen the system.

My students reported on a startling array of under-covered good news stories painting inspiring pictures of Pakistan.

At play are half a dozen politi­cal intere­sts, each repres­ented by politi­cal partie­s or people’s movements.

In India’s poorest state, caste is dominant and will still decide the fate of most candidates in the legislature.

Grading universities is not an easy task. As in a beauty contest, opinions and tastes count.

Khar has negotiated a realistic framework of bilateral cooperation that may supersede a long history of estrangement.

It can be shown in fact that higher the level of inequality, lower the poverty reduction effect of economic growth.

How do weak states survive? You can answer this question effectively if rivalry is not the irreducible option.

The only problem for India appears to be to convince Jammu & Kashmir’s Muslims to accept the Indian constitution.

The decision to replace Mohsin might just be one of the few thoughtful moves by the PCB in a long, long time.

The congressional hearing had one unavoidable background question i.e. do Baloch have a right to self determination?

Functioning head of government should not have army men on his staff, Gilani should not follow ZAB’s wrong precedent.