The report highlights a very bleak picture for women and girls in Pakistan.

The debate over gun control is a settled one, and not even the most appalling attack seems to bring any change

The failure to advance literacy, missing a target of 88 per cent and scoring 58 per cent is perhaps the most worrisome

It is a pity that even a disease, hepatitis B, that has a vaccine is found to occur in such high numbers

In some ways the situation in Karachi is not dissimilar to the awkward paralysis seen in the PML-N government

The fact that the fluid was taken under false pretences should leave us fully alert

A little more willingness and a lot less prevarication would have served Pakistan far better

The current PML-N government is now intensely pre-occupied

Direct and transparent action is needed

The current standoff has enveloped the Anti-Corruption Establishment