Government-led measures, like official recognition on CNICs while welcome, do not equal societal acceptance

Whoever succeeds Hagel will have less than 2 years to mend a cracked pot, & few would bet on their chances of success

Given that ECP is the fount from which all things electoral flow, it is obvious that an early resolution is required

Farzana Parveen may not have died in vain, and it is to be hoped that this presages more guilty verdicts

Mass murder creates little but fear and intimidation, & for murderers, sadly, this was another ‘mission accomplished’

The challenge for India and Pakistan at Saarc is to find themselves on the same page

Talking and dreaming about our ‘glorious past’ is not enough, it needs to be preserved for the dream to remain...

It is too soon to call the COAS visit a watershed, but it does allow a cautious optimism to break the horizon

IPR’s findings may have been critical, but they reflected the government’s inefficiency

We need to cleanse our school syllabus of militant subjects and inspire our youth to shun militancy