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  • The rise and fall of the PPP

    PPP can win back its lost position only if it could successfully eradicate corruption & improve governance in Sindh

  • Speaking the truth

    Universities ought to be places where envelope of thought, ideas is stretched rather than channelled down narrow path

  • Our Parsi community

    The fact that members of the Parsi community operate in kindness and tolerance for others is entirely ignored

  • Deadly doings

    The fact before us is simple: the long-drawn-out Kashmir dispute can be sorted out only at the negotiating table

  • Champions Trophy challenge

    PHF needs to chalk out a sustainable financial plan & team will have to back that up with solid on-field performances

  • Hope springs eternal

    There is a positive ‘feel’ to Pak-Afghan bilateral relations and we cannot afford to miss the opportunities it offers

  • A CEC at last

    We need a body to oversee elections which is fully autonomous and clearly impartial

  • Combating HIV/Aids

    Burying our collective heads in the sand helps nobody, but honest ownership of the battle can work wonders

  • The barbaric Punjab police

    The handling of blind protesters by Punjab Police was inept at best, criminally abusive at worst

  • The slaves of today

    Slavery is widespread across Pakistan & comes in many forms, with bonded labour being the most obvious & high-profile

  • Protecting our minorities

    Migration of Hindus, Sikhs and other minority communities might escalate if their rights are not preserved

  • Gordian knots

    The Kashmir conflict was born of colonial downsizing in a bloody division that is still within living memory for some

  • Right direction

    The government and the PTI need to find a solution to the deadlock that has hung over us now for months

  • The real test after the Tests

    Not playing arguably your most consistent batsman of the year raises some serious questions

  • Good thinking

    A number of Western nations are reportedly already importing defence products from Pakistan

  • Careless and clueless

    National Crisis Management Cell fears that around one thousand of proclaimed absconders have joined militant groups

  • Aitchison and merit

    Opening of Aitchison College to a more egalitarian set of values has to be good news for the country in the long run

  • The internet deficit

    Pakistan has enormous internet growth potential, but is saddled with a government that is suspicious of the internet

  • The right way

    Some kind of agreement must be reached to move forward from the present entrenched positions

  • Delaying tactics

    Those who sit in the assemblies must realise the urgent need to do better if they want to serve the people

  • Modi’s tough posturing

    It seems those on whom we had been banking to intervene on our behalf have joined the other side

  • Metro for Karachi

    For Pakistan’s largest city, its financial hub, absence of an organised transport system is a jaw-dropping fact

  • Dangerous work

    We need to pay more attention to BDS, give them equipment, training and support they need to perform their functions

  • Bustards 1, Fed Gov 0

    One small step in the direction of the rule of law, one giant leap in the protection of the Houbara bustard

  • A tragic death

    Cricket needs to be treated for what it is: a game that must be enjoyed by players and fans alike

  • Fighting discrimination

    It appears that policemen can only tolerate women law enforcers as long as they are confined to women’s police station

  • Saved by a handshake

    Turning a brief interaction at a conference in Nepal into diplomatic reality is not going to be easy

  • Polio kills

    Eradicating polio was almost within national grasp five years ago, since then, the downwards slide has been inexorable

  • Unused funds

    Consequences of failure to utalise the funds will be huge & the K-P government needs to think about this seriously

  • A curious case

    The girls recovered by the police from a house in Karachi were seemingly being used as a form of currency

  • Erdogan unhinged

    His latest comments about women need to be seen within larger context of what seem like ramblings of an ageing ruler

  • Cast not the first stone

    It is in both Pakistan & Afghanistan's interest to fight the Haqqani group & finger-pointing helps nobody and nothing

  • SAARC realities

    Modi rightly said that nowhere in the world are collective efforts more urgently needed than in South Asia

  • Rights of transgenders

    Government-led measures, like official recognition on CNICs while welcome, do not equal societal acceptance

  • Exit Chuck Hagel

    Whoever succeeds Hagel will have less than 2 years to mend a cracked pot, & few would bet on their chances of success

  • Eternally vacant

    Given that ECP is the fount from which all things electoral flow, it is obvious that an early resolution is required

  • Speedy justice

    Farzana Parveen may not have died in vain, and it is to be hoped that this presages more guilty verdicts

  • No peace for Afghanistan

    Mass murder creates little but fear and intimidation, & for murderers, sadly, this was another ‘mission accomplished’

  • Great expectations

    The challenge for India and Pakistan at Saarc is to find themselves on the same page

  • Preserving Khan Klub

    Talking and dreaming about our ‘glorious past’ is not enough, it needs to be preserved for the dream to remain...

  • General Raheel’s excellent US visit

    It is too soon to call the COAS visit a watershed, but it does allow a cautious optimism to break the horizon

  • Missed targets

    IPR’s findings may have been critical, but they reflected the government’s inefficiency

  • IS: the threat is real

    We need to cleanse our school syllabus of militant subjects and inspire our youth to shun militancy

  • Death in the crib

    What happened at Sargodha nursery is a tragedy we must get to the bottom of, so that we can prevent others like it

  • Modern slavery

    There is no single national body to organise a coordinated response to slavery in 21st century Pakistan

  • Business with the Bear

    Doing business with The Bear makes sense at many levels, not only military, and we welcome this agreement

  • Facebook revolution

    The education department must devise a proper strategy to put an end to the menace of ghost teachers once and for all

  • Pointless law

    The problem of power theft must be tackled so that we can move a few steps closer to tackling power crisis

  • A different broom

    Operation Zarb-e-Azb is in India’s interests as well, given the expansionist statements of both al Qaeda and IS

  • Plight of the girl child

    Instead of penalising the culprit, we put the victim under scrutiny, at the cost of her physical & intellectual growth