Opinion

Internet can play the balancing act between western corporate media by creating closer links with people.

Alloying modern education with religious to limit corrupting influence on the young was promoted by Maulana Thanvi.

PPP and the PML-N need to recruit capable professionals and traditional politicians who share power with them.

Imran will have to come up with something more tangible, policies that are realistic and in tune with the times.

Contrary to Kepron's analysis, India has been pursuing greater outreach and second-strike capabilities.

Average expenditure on higher education is 1% of GDP globally. UK is at 0.6%. Pakistan spends about half of that.

Imran Khan’s project is self-centered. He may challenge PML-N, PPP, JUI for the urban rich, but not the poor, bazaar.

Imran mentioning Mansur Ijaz reflects poorly on him as a politician, who sees himself as great hope for this country.

Shoaib's 'Controversially Yours' gives a first-hand account of the bizarre goings-on in the Pakistan dressing room.

In order to emancipate ourselves, we must confront and defeat religious fundamentalism as a whole.

Gujranwala has also produced many celebrities: sportsmen, politicians and writers, but it is not a historic town.

For Islamabad residents, politics is nothing but a game, nothing that should ever be infected by questions of morality

Methodological controversies concerning the prevalence of poverty in the country makes a mockery of poor Pakistanis.

If one calls for revolution, one is in danger of overthrowing the system and what will replace it is anybody’s guess.

Any new government will be left with the monumental task of inflation control, avoiding default on its external debt.

PTI rally shows real decision making remains with establishment, political parties must counter with strong democracy.

My fear is that Khan's supporters expect too much and expectations have a horrible way of ignoring reality, go sour.

The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests began with small numbers in Manhattan, so symbolic of American capitalism.

The Commonwealth is peculiar in that it is very informal, the only world organisation that is just like a family.

Non-implementation of Constitution is as critical a phenomenon as implementation is, and needs to be deeply studied.

I was not at all surprised after reading a news item on the tardiness of Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan.

Iran may be ‘a dangerous country’ in the western perception but for Pakistan, it can only be a source of strength.

Teacher education enables a teacher to be one of the most effective agents of change.

Misplaced principles, particularly in international diplomacy, are like walls and walls are dead ends.

Pakistan and India need to discuss US long-term policy, but Islamabad is suspicious of New Delhi's interest in Kabul.

While India remains caught in mounting debt, usurious interest, its attention is fixated in the F1 rally, Lady Gaga.

Army's has been proved wrong in the failure of its strategic depth policy, must return foreign policy to civillians.

Instead of aping 'Occupy Wall Street' or 'Arab Spring', start 'un-occupy Balochistan', 'stop killing Hazara'...

It took the British 150 years to place officers at powerful positions in India & took much less to do it in Pakistan.

Much of the sharp increase in region’s food prices is due to production shortfalls caused by extreme weather events.

Nusrat Bhutto was spared these past few years from seeing the depths to which the party has descended.

Difference of opinion often divides maulvis on subjects such as adoption of new technologies, suicide attacks.

Lawyers have acquired a reputation of being venal, mercenary and negligent in looking after their client’s cases.

The Hunza men robbed and killed ruthlessly travelers on the Karakoram Route.

The reality is that economically, politically & socially Pakistan is falling behind even its immediate neighbours.

Independent analysts applying our methodology to our data to get our results do not validate fudged poverty figures.

Health expenditure in Pakistan constitutes a mere 0.54 per cent of the GDP and has fallen over the last 10 years.

If Begum Nusrat Bhutto has been named the ‘Mother of Democracy in Pakistan’, she fully deserves the title.

Almost $40 billion were pumped into Pakistan in the Zia decade to support the jihadi network.

There are many ways of defining a concept. I would like to add a few thoughts from a European and German point of view

It is ironic that financial mandarins today hold exactly that region in debt where their ascendancy first began.

Only those nations prosper and flourish where citizens have values and the privileged class realise their significance

Haqqanis have already talked about their refusal to talk, which means we will have to talk at them, not to them.

As I tried to enter the IHC building’s visa section, a swarm of Pakistani intelligence agents interrogated me.

Qaddafi's burial has split the new Libya between those who want to move away from his legacy, and revenge-seekers.

Clinton’s visit may not have removed the mutual doubts, misgivings, but it lessened tensions.

Conflicts end because of either a negative or positive incentive for both sides to end it. Taliban have no incentive.

Iranian-born Ispahani was a political mind in her own right, skilled in the diplomatic arts and politically informed.

The original word must have been ‘Syedi’ meaning ‘my lord’ in Arabic. Why should a Sindhi person be called...

Nusrat Bhutto's steadfastness, perseverance, loyalty and commitment which made her the ‘iron lady’ of Pakistan.