Pakistan needs to strengthen its economy, undertake major social reform and only then it can dictate with power.

We have missed the chance to demonstrate that we are a rule-based state, compliant with international law.

Within the civil society debates, monitoring hate speech has been termed as mirror vigilantism.

Jinnah's Pakistan is not dead: Millions of Pakistanis who want a tolerant homeland resent its creeping radicalisation.

Appeasing short-term bargain-lobbies at home and not losing sight of long-term national interest is tricky business.

Salmaan Taseer, RIP. This country did not deserve you.

Veena Malik has challenged the middle class morality embedded in Urdu press by extension and its counterpart.

Those drumming up Hindu, Jewish and American Taliban may wish to focus on militancy financed by Islamic countries.

The WikiLeaks saga has reconfirmed the status of Pakistan as a client state.

Pakistan is under attack from within. How can the good Taliban in the neighbourhood be good for the country?