Pakistan needs investment and activity that can generate jobs.

The government is under enormous strain from its coalition allies.

Pakistan now has over 100 such arms as compared to the 60 to 100 possessed by India.

Muslims are being divided into ill-fitting categories of moderates, fundamentalists, progressives and reactionaries.

Iran is model that appeals to Muslim states struggling with ill-digested ideology after rejecting modernists.

The government seems to feel entitled to IMF assistance without meeting any of the tough, but necessary, conditions.

It seems everyb­ody is helple­ss in the face of econom­ic populi­sm despit­e bad result­s from past manhan­dling.

Several important questions need to be answered and sorted out before Mr Davis can be released.

Has the future of President Hosni Mubarak already been written out?

Levels of malnutrition in northern Sindh around 23 per cent, south fares better with rates around 21 per cent.