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.

The capacity of the British tabloid press to blow matters out of all proportion is well established.

A month after catastrophic floods, the charges levelled against the influential are serious.

Politics in Pakistan has always been cyclical, with long periods of military rule.

The move by the ICC to provisionally suspend the cricketers may be unprecedented but the correct one.

The Red Cross has warned that mines have moved into areas where they may not previously have been.

Just a day went by and the sectarian terrorists struck again — this time in Quetta.