Editorial

Talent and ambition exist aplenty, but the misguided hands behind them result in agony.

What is good is that we seem to be heading towards a reality where there will not be any holy cows in the country.

Regardless of who these women were, it was the duty of the security forces to ensure that they were kept safe.

Around 2,000 cases of persons coerced into matrimony since January 2011 in England.

Pakistan has acquired a reputation as a country where terrorists strike at will with no one there to stop them.

The PAC objects to some persons walking away with multiple plots of lands, not to the idea of their getting plots.

Given the state of the electoral system in Pakistan, mandatory voting may be unenforceable at this time.

We need a strategy to make fire safety a compulsory measure at all sites and government institutions.

Government wants to be the sole authority on what we can watch and listen to and which websites we can visit.

Our narrow interest in having more influence than India in Afghanistan should not trump greater interests of the world

Act of self-immolation is unusual; unlike others, it does not involve a very poor man unable to put food on the table.

Those who issued murder verdicts against Kohistani women must be given exemplary punishment.

What we need today is more voices to speak out against such abhorrent actions.

EU advised Pakistan to work on key human rights issues to improve its standing in the eyes of international world.

Current economy crisis should lead to some introspection, temporary moratorium on military showing off its new toys.

We need to devise mechanism to regulate buses and vans, ensure these are not converted into killing machines.

Prime minister is trying to deflect blame for situation in Balochistan on outside forces and foreigners.

Matters of dual nationality should be investigated by the Election Commission, and not the Supreme Court.

With Kohistan video incident, we are not becoming a more civilised race, but rather more backward.

The reality is that in Pakistan, it is the military which — still — calls the shots on policies related to India.

The Ahmadi population remains under what is a constant state of attack.

Between the military and the IMF, it seems, there is little room in the budget for the people of Pakistan.

Pakistan is now realising that there is a limit to how much it can go on playing the “frontline state” card.

In its haste, government may have ended up passing a law that has too many loopholes to be truly effective.

To spend bulk of resources on defence, debt serving is close to calamitous, shame that no effort made to change this.

The issue of children suicides needs to be explored, not ignored.

It should come as no surprise that the govt missed most of the macroeconomic targets it had set for 2011-12.

The world is duty-bound to ensure that the wishes of the Syrian people translate into reality.

Time for posturing on both sides is over. Only through constant meetings, dialogue will trust between them increase.

A six-member committee set up to initiate a process of dialogue with Baloch dissidents is an important step forward.

Pakistan’s obsession with India is tearing apart basic fabric of former’s society, leading to self-destructive phase.

The question of whether the speaker made the correct decision should be decided by parliament, not through litigation.

The SCBA conference on Balochistan emphasised that the solution to its multi-faceted problems must be a political one.

In essence, jirga is a kangaroo court, in which local influentials satisfy their instinct of vengeance and avarice.

Abductions at hospitals must be stopped and every child taken to them must be kept safe.

No steps have been taken to reform security institutions on the lines recommended by the judicial commission.

Justice should be done across the board, will shed the perception that Ms Ispahani is perhaps being singled out.

Sindhi nationalists have been seen as pacifists but the latest incident of violence might have opened a new phase.

Whatever reservations one has about Muslim Brotherhood, it is incumbent on the world to respect results of polls.

No better way to foster healthier relations between people on both sides than easier travel to each other’s countries.

Events we have witnessed in recent months can help establish lines of division, why its crucial to prevent such.

Simply blaming the government alone is pointless given the nature of the Balochistan problem.

Why he was tried and sentenced in Khyber Agency when the crime took place in Abbottabad - which is under PHC.

It is time for government help to be made available to artistes with no strings attached.

The wave of kidnappings that has hit the country is not confined to a particular area and is spread all over.

The question, of course, is how to stop it. Hatred and anger flows in streams through the streets of Karachi.

Turkey is not yet a shining example of the country we need to emulate.

Pakistan recoiled to the position that the Nato supply route will reopen only after the US has apologised.

It would be unrealistic to expect the Cambridge-system schools to follow the Sindh government’s last-minute decision.

The message to Pakistan is clear: either open the Nato supply routes immediately or prepare to face the consequences.