Opinion

US plus the army chief himself were involved in the taking of the extensions with Gilani playing a yes-man.

Mehr Gul predated Islam and came from Central Asia, not a Pakhtun as is common perception.

General Statistics (Reorganisation) Act 2011, this single act contradicts the claims of ensuring autonomy of PBS.

Previously only those having soft corner for India, opposing jihadist policies were labelled as ghaddar, kafirs.

It’s shocking that no Pakistani journalist covers India properly.

Parties and numbers, the two facets of electoral politics which are considered indispensable, are also invidious.

Watching the emergence of Imran Khan, I am reminded a little of Nawaz Sharif’s rise to power

In 2012 tens of millions of Pakistan’s poor will be direct victims of squabbling for personal gains among the elite.

Mr Clean will set up an entirely new cabinet with huddling hordes of Reformed Crusaders turned Retro-fit Carpenters.

The fact is that Balochistan wanted to hear the PTI leadership clearly acknowledge that Balochistan is suffering.

2011 was a year directed like a bad Hollywood disaster movie with explosions and plot-twists.

Contradictory signals from US polity, military have left stakeholders, within Afghanistan & the region, confused.

Besides its temples, lights and exquisite saris, Banaras is also famous for being home to Agha Hashar Kashmiri.

When Taliban ruled most of Afghanistan, they were seen as dependent on Pakistan & we discovered limits of influence.

What is different this time is that government incompetence is likely to be punished by an alternate party than coup.

Anna’s firm ‘no’ to the Lokpal Bill indicates that the battle may go to the streets.

She persevered and struggled to make Pakistan a peaceful, progressive and tolerant, educated society.

It seems that Imran Khan is falling victim to the very change he is fighting for: the love of the kursi.

Kim Jong I had no option but to adopt a tough ‘military-first policy’ around which the whole country gravitated.

I will never give up on the woman who sacrificed herself so Pakistan could be free. Her dreams are now my dreams.

Today, Iraq is a potential battlefield for a contest between forces led by Saudi Arabia and Iran.

A civil war is a tragic situation, politics of identity degenerates into a destructive armed conflict.

It is not in Pakistan’s interest to comprehensively disbar dual nationals from participating in Pakistan’s politics.

I have always alluded to is that most of our legislators have only a skin-deep commitment to democracy.

Here is a story. In the days long gone when all was well in the Kingdom and the memo had not yet surfaced.

Since PR restructuring started it has been in serious financial crisis with debt, underinvestment in stock, equipment.

The mission, Mr Khan, should you choose to accept it, is to pick up the pieces and rebuild the Quaid's original dream.

Why do Pakistanis hold politicians responsible for nation’s problems when budget, foreign policy, are run by army?

Muslims have to focus on modern education. Seeking military dominance is foredoomed.

In an odd way, BB was never a ‘female’ prime minister or leader, she was just a leader.

Zardari’s going nowhere, unless, as he himself said quite some time ago, he is carried out, feet first.

Mocking North Korea is most fascinating because Pakistan, perhaps, is more like it than most other countries.

Will the political parties forever be hostage to the Deep State and to the conspiracies spun by it?

A dozen kilometres north of Lala Musa, near the well & sarai of Khwaspur, Khwas Khan was buried by his followers.

For any observer of civil-military relations in Pakistan, lack of coup is a development both fascinating & positive.

Mendacity and fecklessness have become part of our national character, dear readers.

It is evident that factors that led SBP to project lower growth rates in 2010, not only persist but have worsened.

This Christmas; let us reinvent Pakistan and create it on the basis of love and tolerance.

When it comes to dealing with nuclear armed enemies threatening its shores, US shows how solicitous, patient it is.

The danger to the country is that the PPP government may not survive 2012, & that US may go to war with Pakistan.

Sardar Mengal warns that atroci­ties agains­t the Baloch have pushed the situat­ion to a “point of no return”.

The ‘Asian Brown Cloud’ is estimated to be responsible for over two million deaths annually in India alone.

Throughout the SBP report, governance is the key theme, whether fiscal affairs or management of public sector.

The world needs the kind of crazy these dictators offered since they gave us a template to compare our own sanity to.

The relevance of these political events for Pakistan lies in ‘Occupation’ and ‘Wall Street’, i.e Afghanistan and aid.

In my view, democracy is the only way Pakistan can stabilise itself, progress, achieve peace within & in the region.

The military option in Iran appears not only risk-fraught, but dangerous for all parties, as well as for the region.

'Lahore: Topophilia of Space and Place' gives you a taste of how deep Suvorova goes into the origins of Lahore.

Even if Husain Haqqani dictated it, even if Zardari knew of it, it has the real interests of Pakistan at its heart.

How does Islamabad explain contradictory stand of apology, one on Bangladesh & the other on the attack by Nato forces?