The “revolution” may not punish the PPP and bring the PML-N to power. It may bring al Qaeda closer to ruling Pakistan.

Between the military and the IMF, it seems, there is little room in the budget for the people of Pakistan.

Pakistan is now realising that there is a limit to how much it can go on playing the “frontline state” card.

In its haste, government may have ended up passing a law that has too many loopholes to be truly effective.

To spend bulk of resources on defence, debt serving is close to calamitous, shame that no effort made to change this.

The issue of children suicides needs to be explored, not ignored.

It should come as no surprise that the govt missed most of the macroeconomic targets it had set for 2011-12.

The world is duty-bound to ensure that the wishes of the Syrian people translate into reality.

Time for posturing on both sides is over. Only through constant meetings, dialogue will trust between them increase.

A six-member committee set up to initiate a process of dialogue with Baloch dissidents is an important step forward.