PM Gilani advised to focus on economy to ride out of current socio-economic crisis.

Turkey can face off any ideological or political challenge if it stays focused on economic expansion, stabilisation.

Diyanet is worth emulating in Pakistan where the clergy, religiopolitical parties have been using religion at will.

In Germany attorneys called for president’s trial. In Pakistan a barrister went back on his position, defends premier.

The ruling elite-the politicians and the military-treat power as a privilege rather than as a sacred public trust.

Finding a remedy to combat increasing radicalisation cannot happen in isolation.

Islamiat textbooks for classes 3 to 9 ‘glorify war’; jihad, and the ‘other-isation’ or stereotyping of non-Muslims.

A new political realignment, it seems, is playing out in Central Asia by US and Russia.

One hopes that the Supreme Court, analysts and writers will succeed in deciphering the real motives of the memo.

In 2012 tens of millions of Pakistan’s poor will be direct victims of squabbling for personal gains among the elite.