Short of being able to evict the Taliban, there is little the government can do to protect educational institutions.

These organisations have reinvented themselves as welfare organisations, relying on their rural outreach.

Soldiers who are fighting a war they know cannot be won and for a cause that now eludes them, are bound to snap.

Abida has simply chosen to tell her reasons for favouring smoking. Is this truly a crime?

To stop such attacks, all agenci­es, all securi­ty force person­nel must demostrate their will, commit­ment.

Only time will tell if new powers granted to the commission have a genuine impact on the lives of women in Pakistan.

The National Commission for Human Rights Bill should not end up being yet another govt body that is ruined by inertia.

Experts are warning that the dengue outbreak this year could be even worse than in 2011.

Fact remains that simply appointing a new head is unlikely to have much of an impact on ISI's activities, performance.

Our current phase has grown directly out of a warlike nationalism etched into the national mind as ideology.