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.

Whatever the future holds, Asif Ali Zardari has left in place important blocks and key reforms.

Blasphemy laws have been misused blatantly over the years, often in a bid to settle personal scores.

The State Bank of Pakistan is no longer going to be able to lend to the government.

The yet-unanswered question is whether political courage exists beyond the merely rhetorical.