Editorial

The sense of alienation among the people of Balochistan is high. The reasons for this are quite evident.

Something in our mentality encourages us to leave things to fate, rather than make any effort to protect ourselves.

It is clear is that strict security measures need to be provided to ICRC and other such organisations.

Pakistan’s political horizon tends to change quickly and unpredictably. Things move from one extreme to the other.

Weapons need to be immediately removed from circulation so that safety of life can be restored.

Sardar Atique termed the AJK elections as a dangal between PPP and PML-N, Imran Khan, called it noora kushti.

What PIA needs right now is not another spending splurge; rather it should tighten its belt and cut losses.

Pakistan suffers due to its proximity to Afghanistan, which produces almost 90 per cent of the world’s opium.

The prisoners, both India and Pakistan need to remember, are not pawns in their great game.

The hope for normalised relations from doves on both sides has led to unrealistic expectations.

The fox came out firing from both holsters at BB’s birth anniversary, making it look like the ‘Sindh card’ again.

The issue of how we treat animals has received very little attention.

The piracy issue need to be addressed, otherwise we may see more abductions, with no guarantee of happy endings.

The picture revealed, in a recent poll, is that of a country in denial.

In India and Pakistan, people are convinced of their separate morally correct assumptions to support any real change.

Political parties that should be more sensitive to igniting sectarian tensions have instead been fanning the flames.

What is upsetting is that Brigadier Khan was allegedly hobnobbing with an organisation opposed to democracy.

Commissions have not had a good innings in Pakistan.

The nation has other extremely pressing problems as well, the land we live in and fight for must be tended to.

It is important to remember that ending the de facto ban on women driving is only the start.

Zawihiri is the man who, by his own admission, wants to become the caliph of Pakistan, if not the entire Muslim world.

Pakistan’s loose hold on Bajaur is undermined by a loose hold of Kabul in Kunar, allowing al Qaeda to flourish there.

The pressure Shaikh is under is obvious. Agricultural interests are over-represented in parliament and get their way.

Investigations in to the murders of journalists have seldom been completed let alone reached an end to implicate ISI.

It is time to return the ownership of foreign policy and security matters to the people and their representatives.

Women in Pakistan are exposed to barbaric acts and perverse ‘judgements’.

Law-enforcement and intelligence agencies accused of picking up people and using intimidatory methods against them.

It is ironic, the position that women are accorded in our society as mothers etc, is now used as a weapon against them

Karachi is the shape of future Pakistan as it comes apart at the seams.

Any agreement that is hashed out must keep the needs of Karachi’s citizens as a priority.

Latest figures show a rise in prices of over 13 per cent in May, as compared to the same period last year.

On June 9, Pakistan ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The culture of impunity that governs Rangers’ conduct needs to be examined and remedied.

Several features presented in the 2011-12 budget seem to be populist in nature.

PML-N leader has spoken out in defence of an aspect of democracy that has gone missing in Pakistan.

Environmental samples collected in all provinces indicating that the threat is still present almost everywhere.

The Pakistan Army clearly stands with the people of Pakistan since most of them also seem to dislike America.

We want our intelligence agencies well-funded, with proper parliamentary and judicial oversight.

Police and Rangers need to have instilled in them values that are expected to be upheld by the guardians of the law.

Widening the tax net will not only give Pakistanis a say in the running of the country.

The breach of the Tori Dyke led to large-scale flooding and destruction in Balochistan.

The consensus behind the quantum of what Pakistan spends on its military is wearing thin.

The police force needs funds to expand its numbers to protect the people.

Saba Dashtiari, just 55 years old, becomes the latest victim of terrorist bullets.

That terrorists of all variety are hiding in North Waziristan is admitted on all hands in Pakistan.

While Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, the military-militant nexus isn’t yet.

In the West, where media is free, governments have been toppled and institutions exposed with no damage to the nation.

In a matter as sensitive as events of May 2, we need consensus so that the commission findings will have credibility.

The allocations in the federal budget for fiscal 2011-12 are more or less in line with those of previous years.

Military operations need to be accompanied by better defensive tactics.