Opinion

When Swat found itself overrun by the Taliban in 2008 and 2009, the state again didn’t seem too bothered.

“I don’t watch TV anymore”. It’s the new mantra of the educated middle class, the “thinking classes”.

The fake degrees have become a major issue in this country — and quite understandably so.

Maybe it’s our fault for not appreciating what the silence meant.

It is not easy being a woman anywhere in the world but it is a tad more difficult being a woman in Pakistan.

I hate what I have become. I am no longer able to catch my gaze properly in the bathroom mirror.

On my recent trip to Morocco, I did more than just sing.

The Holy Quran puts the highest emphasis on the importance of acquiring knowledge.

How did a rape victim become an icon and why?

Pakistan’s founding fathers wanted the country to become a modern and enlightened democratic Islamic state.

On July 1, 2010, the Data Darbar was bombed.

The reverberations of Israel’s act of piracy and brutality against the Freedom Flotilla on May 31st remain in the air.

After class, I distinctly remember standing for hours at the edge of a moss-covered pond.

The ‘failed state’ debate about Pakistan needs some serious review and debate.