The greatest threat is to local workers who are usually not provided even a fraction of security given to foreigners.

The Taliban seem bent on creating an environment which makes it hard for people to be in contact with leaders.

A fundamental way to keep children off the streets and out of trouble is to implement Article 25(A) of Constitution.

What should be an integrated anti-measles programme has been neglected and now, we see the results of this negligence.

Qadri's proposal is to have a caretaker, technocratic govt, but this would be in clear violation of the Constitution.

We ban YouTube, cell phones and pillion riding, but allow ostensibly banned militant organisations to thrive.

Pakistan must look at 2013 with trepidation. It anticipates punishment for wrong decisions taken in past three years.

Winter, with its brisk chill and bracing breezes, was once a season long awaited in Lahore.

Pakistan was thoroughly mired in terrorism that it did not have the capacity to put down.

Pakistan does not have a credible policy on the Taliban. Its approach is riddled with contradictions.