The government is relying on an increased flow of aid — post-flood — to help it deal with its fiscal pressures.

Despite the fact that the US is the single biggest floods donor it has found goodwill notoriously hard to win.

It is ridiculous that lawmakers choose to occupy themselves with forming committees to discuss banning hindu cartoons.

We see more and more outrages committed in the name of religion.

The Taliban are continuing their campaign of indiscriminate violence.

There are reports that gangs of human traffickers may be taking advantage of the flood crisis.

Overall, the proposal may be sound but its implementation will be controversial.

What we need to guard against is anarchy, which could destroy what we still have, or a new era of dictatorship.

Some lives in the Lahore procession attacks could have been saved had there been greater determination to do so.

After clamouring for autonomy, the provinces, having finally achieved it, do not seem to know what to do with it.