The annual mothers’ index, prepared by the respected US-based NGO Save the Children ranked Pakistan 77th.

There is a larger factory of emotional splurge asking the government and the army to take revenge against America.

It appears that for the people of the Swat Valley, crisis never ends.

Osama may have been given away by his deputy, Egyptian doctor Ayman alZawahiri.

One must laud the CPLC for having accomplished the Herculean task of digitising Karachi’s crime records.

Has bin Laden’s death registered in the Islamic world? Barring Pakistan, not at all.

The jirga and panchayat systems continue to wield power only because too many Pakistanis seek quick justice from them.

Chapters telling the story of violence in Balochistan seem to be growing longer and longer with each passing day.

If Pakistan is internationally isolated, any proud assertion of sovereignty will be of no use.

The rape victim faces a mixture of pity, scorn and being ostracised.