Editorial

Pakistan and America are unwilling bedfellows in a marriage of convenience but divorce is not an option

The authorities need to ensure the restaurant remains shut otherwise lives of countless people could be at risk

Far better time, effort is spent tracking those who mean harm to Pakistan and let Sharbat Bibi go back to her life

There is scant recourse to law for those who are harassed and many thousands suffer in silence

The state cannot abdicate their responsibility and hand over guns to children and tell them to act as guards

The latest report by Amnesty International (AI) says bluntly that 2014 was a “dark year for human rights in...

The getting of wisdom may be free to the end user, but making it happen takes hard cash

Anything that clean up the cesspit that is party politics in the country is to be welcomed

Given Pakistan’s recent history, accepting possibility that IS may aim to make inroads would seem to be a logical one

Justice Bhagwandas was among the judges who refused to take oath under General (retd) Musharraf’s PCO in 2007

Although the new rape bill approved by Senate is a welcome development, there is still much room for adding to the law

It makes more sense to develop our wind and solar resources than it does to pull poor-quality Thar coal out of ground

Many of Pakistan’s child domestic servants work under debt bondage, toiling to pay off debts accrued by their parents

The report seemingly makes no mention of the intelligence failure that allowed the APS attack to happen

What is needed is an effective counter-narrative to the one being propounded by extremists

The win has put their World Cup hopes back on track while Pakistan are left in a do-or-die situation

It is time our male-dominated ruling elite realise that Pakistan cannot progress if its women are left behind

ECP rejected nomination papers of almost two dozen candidates seeking a seat in Senate in the forthcoming elections

To ‘win at all costs’ Pakistan needs to activate the sectarian kill-switch, and that is years away

FBR not only lost taxpayers’ money, but also never actually achieved its downward revised revenue collection targets

The minister was right to be embarrassed when he admitted that govt doesn't have complete data on banned organisations

There is still no precise detail as to who was on the boat, what they were doing in Indian waters & where it came from

The murder of polio workers across the country has held back the polio campaign

There are no axes to grind with Turkey, no simmering animosities and a common interest in fighting extremism

Freedom in the Pakistani media is hard won, and there is much still to fight for

It is high time the government started viewing economic development with the same urgency it views national security.

At least eight were killed & an unknown number injured in an explosion that took place near the Police Lines in Lahore

Pakistan need to somehow galvanise their energies now and improve their performance in the upcoming matches

More than 40 per cent of Pakistani brides are under 18

Pakistan as a whole has to take on the spectre of sectarianism not only with guns but in school classroom, in madrassa

Chiniot’s iron ore reserves are a happy discovery, welcome development, but hardly a panacea for all our economic woes

Capacity for retrospective corruption in a country as corrupt as Pakistan is vast, Shah just added a new page to it

A carefully tended pitch awaits the resumption of one of the most important games in the world

A break from history with a win against India will be just the tonic that could galvanise hopes of a repeat of 1992

Those saying capacity, capability of TTP has been degraded by ongoing security operations are once again proved wrong

It remains to be seen whether Mr Kejriwal can improve on his last stint in power, which was shambolic and short-lived

There is a real rise in the numbers of children being sexually abused and this can no longer be swept under the carpet

Welcome as the briefing was by the ISPR, it must be noted that it would have been even more welcome had it come sooner

Three young Muslim lives have been brutally snuffed out, and we want to know why

Sindh alone accounts for 602 of the 933 cases of honour killings reported in the country in the last two years.

Least the govt could have done was to manage PSO as would a responsible shareholder,instead of looking for a scapegoat

From petroleum products to luxury items, govt seem to be falling in habit of increasing tax rates to enhance revenue

The stage appears to be set for the hammer to drop on those who have brought terror to Pakistan

Though US has backed off from sending arms to Ukraine;but it seems that a war between Russia & West is now conceivable

If Sindh gets Talibanised, it is feared the whole of Pakistan will be Talibanised

A 10-kg package of narcotics ought not to be the spark that ignites a diplomatic incident between India and Pakistan

Traffic-wise, Karachi is something of a war-zone with an average of one person a day being killed and 83 injured daily

Barbarism knows no limits and the brutality of the IS brutalises all of us

A more terrifying thought than children being stolen is who they are being sold to &how they could possibly be treated

K-P is ready for elections in May. And if K-P can do it, so can Sindh and Punjab, so quit the foot-dragging