Opinion

The reason why non-Muslims insist on being called Pakistani first is because they want equal treatment.

Amir had promised honesty, integrity, plans to get hitched early to avoid controversies, and a bright career.

It is erroneous that Jihadi outfits will calm down, and become part of the society after the Afghan endgame is won.

Proper sanitation, advance planning to manage excess monsoon rain, would have perhaps prevented dengue’s advance.

Past and present provincial governments should be lined up and charged with criminal incompetence in Karachi.

Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, a professional maulvi, can be studied as a product of modern, colonial times.

Children are found working in sectors with hazardous working conditions, especially harmful for children.

I am surprised how investigators missed the tablet with a long-barrelled jazail from the late 16th century to date it.

Those leading Pakistan did their deceitful best to suggest they follow will of people, their story is least credible.

Afghan Pashtuns hated us (official Pakistanis) almost as much as the non-Pashtun Afghans did.

The expenditure on education in nine months of 2010-11 was Rs219.76 and in 12 months, it came down to Rs161.2 billion!

The net effect of collapsed local administration is that we can neither manage disasters nor fight epidemics.

Policies regarding energy generation are more than adequate, however, problem lies in its implementation.

India's FO and the NSA are often seen at loggerheads with the prime minister’s office on relations with Pakistan.

In Bangladesh, history is not something you read in books, but a living thing that constantly whispers in your ear.

We do not mourn our dead. They receive no memorials and no tributes. To us they are dead and gone.

Ceding political initiative to opponents, Obama has been pushed into compromises that upset his core constituency.

The USIP-JI report participants agreed that debate in Pakistan was contradictory and inconclusive.

Only glitch is that Ali’s sword was not double-edged — the Arab sword was single-edged and curved, it had two heads.

We have been trying to clad Jinnah in an identity we wish to assume for ourselves — an overt religious identity.

The urge for equitable, representative polity dates to ancient times in areas and people which constitute Pakistan.

The Pakistani community in UK has always been at the forefront whenever Pakistan has faced any calamity.

Naushervani rulers of Kharan state claim the tombs as their family burial, but gazetteer puts it as Mazar-e-Nikodar.

You are requested to please order ‘across the board’ and total deweaponisation of all weapons licensed or otherwise.

Failed policies of Pakistani leaders pitted the country against neighbours, friends, financiers, even each other.

Umair Haque, a Pakistani heading the Havas Media Lab, in London, has tackled the subject in a new way in his book.

‘Modern maulvi’ display repugnance towards people aspiring education, improve lives and called them ‘upstarts’.

The Objectives Resolution denied all Jinnah had stood for, plunging Pakistan into a morass of religious ideology.

One of the motives for establishing the court was to deter political violence in Karachi but,it seems to have failed.

Deindustrialisation in Pakistan may be arriving earlier than it makes economic sense.

The debate about the increasing use of ‘Ramadan’ instead of ‘Ramazan’ took an inevitable turn in the holy...

The local government, however, is a live issue with an ever increasing possibility that this too may slip.

Two Nation Theory is like the scaffolding, which is dismantled once the building has gone up.

In many low-lying parts of the world where flooding is routine, people build homes on stilts, houseboats, or rafts.

In my experience, Pakistan is a unique society where most people get offended if you don’t agree with their opinion.

If Zardari is in control, then Mirza makes sense, if not, then we are witnessing a free-for-all in cuckoo land.

Then, as now, events in Peshawar seemed to be held hostage by the tribal belt, which were masters unto their own.

If the regular paramilitary forces cannot prevent the homicides, government have no option but to turn to the military

Without sufficient taxation powers, provinces will never have the funds to effectively run subjects being devolved.

Religion is not culture. Yes, the two get mixed, but argument that there is one way of following religion is false.

Enmasse culture of incalculable hatred is whipped up and promoted to benefit from the frenzy thus generated.

Mirza may have helped the Zardari/Malik duo to achieve the end they sought.

The South Asian populations will remain young for several more decades while those in the West will age rapidly.

We cannot rule out the role of others in the run for the AG position becoming a ‘source’ for the media to malign Rana.

Resisting violence is a battle for the human mind, involves defeating the appeal on which the violent group relies.

Dr Mirza was successful in creating one of the most compelling spectacles of our already colourful political history.

For the first time, next week, Delhi will dismantle Indian textile sector’s protectionist walls towards Bangladesh.

In my view, most of the time, Eid in KP used to be an expression of Pakhtun ethnic identity or sub-nationalism.

Can foreign policy of a mid-level economically weak state developed without “Political and Intellectual Leadership”?

Pakistani travel writers lack the background knowledge to write about their travels, end up destroying history.