Opinion

While attacks by militants adversely affect business climate, natural disasters have taken a big toll.

Plainly put, Imran has got some facts on the war on terror wrong.

It would be fair to say that Pakistan is slowly, but surely, moving towards constitutional rule.

Mansoor Ijaz plans to be in Pakistan only from before dawn to early afternoon, will that be enough to question him?

Seeing the man, who shook the foundation of our govt, in a video featuring semi-nude female warriors was bizarre.

Thanks to the military’s misguided stewardship, Jinnah’s Pakistan has already been cut into two.

Introducing new sewage treatment practices and providing sewage treatment can transform the lives of residents.

Education reform must be emphasised, as it is today’s youth that will determine the state of tomorrow’s Pakistan.

When it comes to removing the sitting Government, us Pakistanis want a veritable menu of choices.

I hope Their Lordships are duly noting the irony in much that is going on in the country vis-a-vis themselves.

We should give opport­unity to those who want to study both mathem­atics & biolog­y in grade 11.

“Their ideology is completely different from ours. Such ideology is alien to all that is Afghan."

The Supreme Court may be the only constitutional check on the voracious appetite of those voted into power.

US remains unconvinced of Pakistan sincerity in war against militants, nor trusting of our nuclear non-proliferation.

It took Prime Minister Gilani some time to find his voice. But now that he has, I stand by him.

US defence strategy focusing on China, is bound to complicate the situation, add another element to Pakistan-US ties.

Populist & pecuniary gains seem to be the driving force behind so-called development plans launched by governments.

We must stop the supply of gas to industries which have alternative fuel systems.

In 1948 Karachi was a wholly remote town and to the modern denizen would have appeared a totally unrecognisable place.

It’s an exciting time to be a Pakistani. Our resilience, determination — it pulsates untouched through the streets.

In a country that is more anti-American than Iran, one would expect overwhelming public, government support for Iran.

As legal cases against the PPP reach closure, the Party, its leading lights have adorned a Tariq bin Ziad reflex.

Pakistan’s core crisis is not the scarcity of material resources but a deficit of capable leadership.

Chaotic political situation even with confrontation among political forces, is better than the calm of martial rule.

In April 2011, a presidential reference was filed to re-open ZAB's case, thereby vindicate his position.

In my view, Sindhi cult of honour, mixed with pragmatism, is superior, & was embodied by Shah Mardan Shah Pir Pagaro.

In the absence of laid down rules of the game, each power player is jostling to get the best deal for himself.

Change cannot come to Pakistan without reorienting its state, its army and its culture. This is its only real problem.

Saleem Shahzad filed a story by way of this report. There is no justice for those killed by a powerful murderer.

A positive in this fiasco, will probably be that most media, major political parties refused to welcome the khakis.

The military, government are paralytic when it comes to TTP — but fully supple when it comes to the mighty US.

Those who sing praises of a free media should pause and ponder if the media is really doing what it is supposed to do.

Large part of the population was sitting on the ideological fence when powerful elements decided for the ethnic divide

In the summer of 2009, I returned to Virawah to photograph Pari Nagar, but it had been picked clean of the ruins.

Populism revolves around charismatic figure and has historically given rise to authoritarian undemocratic structures

Islamiat textbooks for classes 3 to 9 ‘glorify war’; jihad, and the ‘other-isation’ or stereotyping of non-Muslims.

Lack of interaction between technical and policy sectors results in a macroeconomic fetishism.

Pakistan always had a vital interest in the stability of Afghanistan, after years of turmoil it had become more vital.

Examination of every move gives a fair share of public hearing and also self-examination, to all players.

What is of utmost importance today is a non-conclusive Saleem Shahzad Commission.

If Bangladesh’s narrative is full of exaggerated atrocities, Pakistan textbooks erased war crimes from consciousness.

The right to a clean, healthy environment is a fundamental right, violated by the pollution discharged into the Ravi.

With the super poweralliance withering away, Pakistan would be left on its own against a far larger army to its east.

Egyptian women are showing us that without women, without women’s rights, no country can become a real democracy.

As far as it can, for as long as it can, the military will resist a shift in balance of power in favour of civilians.

Sindh’s politics revolve around issues of identity, culture, history & miss out on reform, development, deprivation.

Uncertainty will be the region’s key feature, outside powers would do well to refrain from influencing developments.

Now that Imran appears to be an electoral threat, I would like to make the case, with a bit of logic, lot of hope.

Other than ethnicity, call for more provinces relates to system of governance that delivers services.

Pakistan needs to address the negative perception of playing double games which exists in the Afghan population.