The police and prosecution services need major improvements if the NAP has to be implemented

Never knew that in my quest for freedom I would face this dilemma: should I risk my life or let anyone else get hurt?

Time to acknowledge that Pakistani nationalism needs another anchor, extremists hijacked our religion-based ‘identity’

Since 1947, by making the liberation of Kashmir the lynchpin of Pakistani statehood, we have drifted into a morass

We now have a decisive army chief and this should provide us with the opportunity to review our policies

Until Pakistan's powerful institutions are not checked and made answerable, they will continue to make mistakes

The mass-deradicalisation will only begin the day we decide that Pakistan is a nation-state, not an Ummah outpost

Jalal’s latest book is a layered account that aims to undertake a much-needed correction of ‘national’ histories

Public hangings and military courts are akin to prescribing aspirin for a cancer that is consuming Pakistan

We have gone too far and for too long. Change requires decades-long struggle to reset the country’s direction