Opinion

I’m positive Pakistani writers trot out more banal clichés in December than in any other month.

So far, there doesn’t appear to be a light at the end of the tunnel.

I am extremely saddened by the state of our identity. Even while living in Pakistan, I desperately search for it.

Once an exclusive male preserve, the Tehreek-i-Taliban seems to be opening its ranks to women.

There is a need to engage affected groups, prevent their ostracism and encourage voluntary testing and treatment.

Pakistan is at a crossroads. It can either support the US or continue to facilitate the Afghan-borne militancy.

Pakistan can turn this adversity into an opportunity, but only after corrupt elements are punished.

Removi­ng the veil will aid securi­ty and emanci­pate women from the intole­rance and misogy­ny of men and...

Its time the present government took steps to bring change in lives of tribal people, bring them to mainstream.

There was chaos on the roads and trains last week, as people tried to reach their families in time for Christmas.

It is through highlighting the fallacies of the system that a silent revolution can start.

I do not relate to her and our similarity ends where it begins.

Solutions only come from within, through consistent engagement, civil society and affected communities.

There is no other system in the world that can offer anything better or even remotely close to a democratic system.

I was blessed not only to assist Benazir Bhutto in the field of communications but also to know her personally.

The insurgent is under pressure and has no option but to strike back. His best bet is the suicide bomber.

There is a very select and rare breed of people who become immortal after their deaths - Benazir is one of them.

The war on terror has made it fairly simple to do year enders, previously, one had to take a very wide view.

Not many are interested in what Pakistan’s first dictator thought, but his diaries remain worth glancing through.

Just like Babur, though, Obama has come to the conclusion that Delhi is at the heart of his legacy.

The US tirade targeting the ISI for causing the security lapse, certainly emerges as a case of overreaction.

When it comes to research our narcissism does not allow us to explore or extend our intellectual horizons.

Locals have been forced to travel through dangerous routes via Afghanistan to Peshawar just to purchase rations.

Laws in this strange land, neither fish nor fowl, are made to be bent and broken.

Meticulousness and singularity of purpose were Jinnah’s binding principles, and he never strayed far from his...

Manto wrote that in politics “the Quaid never made hasty decision..."

Quaid- i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's political achievement remains momentous, indelible and unprecedented.

proceedings suggests that Mian Sahib expects to regenerate the positive and high net hope in a solo flight.

Almost every decade has had its share of weirdos and cranks with their rollicking chronicles of demented derring-do.

There is insufficient public deliberation concerning supplemental measures required for land reforms to be effective.

With each milestone, Sachin seems to confirm for us that he is a great ornament to Indian cricket.

It’s the things they don’t say that fright­en me the most. What was Sharmila Farooqi thinking?

The she-was-asking-for-it brigade, apart from their moral failings, exhibit a clear ignorance of the nature of rape.

The Council of Islamic Ideology's response to Sherry Rehman's bill can also be seen as a major success for Rehman.

If Israel is the insurance policy, then Saudi Arabia is the credit line that keeps the American enterprise solvent.

All three rulers in the past two decades have tried to advance the cause of revenue enhancement.

Civil and military services have miserably failed to provide Pakistan with a truly democratic state.

The judiciary is having to step up and do the job of the executive and the parliament because they are not performing.

Any hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan could spell disaster and plunge the country into another civil war.

The mindless pursuit of a policy that centred on non-state actors has been fatal indeed.

The United States might not always be morally right when it comes to Muslims, but it is also not always morally wrong.

Never in history has politics been what major powers and their players state in public.

Bengalis have always been acknowledged as the greatest proponents of the Pakistan movement.

One year is too short a period to evaluate the effects of a policy aimed at solving a very complex problem.

The wont of a soldier is to strive for victory, however impossible it may appear, regardless of the consequences.

The insurgent-terrorist wins even when he decides not to attack or even when he fails in his bid.

Among the many factors behind the sorry state of education is the fact that an alien language is used by teachers.

The bottom line is that we who live upon the wide breast of the Sindhu are the real Hindus.

Security searches at airports are for the benefit of the passengers and not the staff.

To receive media attention, all one needs to do is form a political party called PML and add a suffix or prefix to it.