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

With US troops withdrawing the onus will shift to Pakistan to do more, with a subsequent increase in drone strikes.

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.

The militants have specifically targeted girls and that is just one more reason that they need to be stopped.

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.

The Taliban leaders worth talking to are mostly located in Pakistan; hence Pakistan should be approached.