The police can only play a reactive role and try to limit the damage from each militant attack.

Mr Zulfiqar Mirza has always spoken as if he were a loose cannon.

Freedom to information is a basic right of every citizen. It is protected under the law of the land.

Ethnic violence rising in Quetta, we must ask why no outcry from society, media, political parties and clerics.

Questioning the police, is not enough, Until political parties inflaming the violence are also held accountable.

A solution to the Balochistan problem, as we can see, is as distant as ever.

Let us hope that this Eid we use the occasion to reflect on what has become of us, what we can do for a better future.

One lesson the Pakistani Army needs to learn is that it cannot treat different tribal agencies as separate entities.

One wonders what is the purpose, or perhaps motive, of Mirza’s emotional press conference.

Allowing US military trainers back into the country needs to be reciprocated.