The release of Mullah Baradar may be a damp squib rather than a catalyst, appeasement rather than rapprochement.

This case reflects how laws can be so easily misused by those with sufficient wealth.

There is as much cause for concern as there is for the most cautious of optimism after the APC.

With the 3G auction, the industry has had a fairly simple demand.

The cancer eating Karachi requires more than an anodyne sticking-plaster.

President Hussain can probably be relied upon never to rock the boat.

Education deserves priority and we are pleased to see attention directed towards it.

The prime minister has been candid about how long it is likely to take to repair the economy.

Sovereignty has increasingly become an irrelevance in drone wars.

Balochistan has been used, abused by successive governments, but equally, it has been architect of its own misfortune.