Editorial

So should ccountability bar be set higher for organisations delivering succour to neediest and most exposed

In South Asia, the US needs to work with China and Russia as well as Pakistan and Iran

Governance is all about how best we are able to manage our lives in different public domains

Between 2000 and 2010, Pakistan lost forest cover equivalent to size of Lahore

Step back and breathe deeply

Roads can come in many forms, not only tarmac and concrete

One in 22 newborns fail to live past the first month

In a nutshell, America is attempting to place pressure on Pakistan by persuading a raft of other states

Effective protection of witnesses is a critical tool in the fight against terrorism and other serious crimes

The disastrous policy is akin to a parent ranking his or her own children

The devastation by PIA to the national exchequer has amounted between Rs34 billion and Rs45 billion annually

The arrival of the sixth team also means that the talent pool has been both expanded and stretched

Not all protests in the capital were sparked by the vagaries and compulsions of domestic or national politics

Education is mandated for all but the government needs to facilitate parents and students

If we are shunted into the grey zone, the international banking community is unlikely to be impressed

Let her death be catharsis rather than a footnote, and Pakistan move to being a better, safer, place for its children?

Sindh’s women and girls also lag behind in literacy and the overall socioeconomic conditions of the masses

The production of a video-tape is not the same as a court appearance and should not be touted as such

The main obstacle seems to be the current impasse between the provincial government and the labour ministry

The legal point of whether Mr Sharif is being disloyal to the state is in a sense marginal

Neither the Americans nor the Afghan forces have the wherewithal to dislodge the Taliban from its position of strength

The report highlights a very bleak picture for women and girls in Pakistan.

The debate over gun control is a settled one, and not even the most appalling attack seems to bring any change

The failure to advance literacy, missing a target of 88 per cent and scoring 58 per cent is perhaps the most worrisome

It is a pity that even a disease, hepatitis B, that has a vaccine is found to occur in such high numbers

In some ways the situation in Karachi is not dissimilar to the awkward paralysis seen in the PML-N government

The fact that the fluid was taken under false pretences should leave us fully alert

A little more willingness and a lot less prevarication would have served Pakistan far better

The current PML-N government is now intensely pre-occupied

Direct and transparent action is needed

The current standoff has enveloped the Anti-Corruption Establishment

This is no bad thing and constant change is here to stay

There is an urgent need to develop a system for training skilled labour, creating more jobs

The country cannot survive on international donations and continue erecting subsidised public hospitals

Perhaps the most challenging task is to undertake a vigorous and across-the-board tax audit

Auditors find inaccuracies and irregularities in contracts for energy supplies frequently

Pakistan remains one of the only three countries that still harbours the virus

It raises issues that bear consideration in the evolving internet environment in Pakistan

Even if there was an exchange of information it is going to be exceedingly difficult for the revenue collectors

Local producers had long felt that they were at a clear disadvantage against their Chinese competitors

Dhaka needs to safely navigate its way out of the crisis, defuse the unrest and conduct polls as soon as it can

Health services in Sindh are threadbare at best and virtually nonexistent in large parts of the province

The latest cunning stunt to squeeze taxation out of the people of Pakistan is to use the national identity database

Corruption, it’s in for the long haul, part of the national genetic code, hard-wired for longevity

Over the last two years, the human rights ministry has filed 70,000 complaints on its 1099 helpline

It is unfortunately true that the much-vaunted K-P police have failed outright to nab the primary accused

The golden age of Islam ended as a result of the opposite behaviour that led to its initiation

It does not take long for a standoff to become a crisis and graduate into something resembling an upheaval

The Free and Fair Election Network is something of a martinet when it comes to the numbers

Washington has said that it has no desire to sever ties or to conduct military strikes inside our territory