Match Point

Rawalpindi is home to a few doctors with amazing mystical powers, miracle cures for cancer... and huge advertising budgets.

If leadership was all about monitoring who is working and firing those who don't, there would not be much leading to do. Leaders need to inspire people to motivate themselves.

A veil is a piece of cloth, just like a beard is only facial hair. It does not say Muslim or non-Muslim. It is a physical symbol which portrays what an individual feels.

What does being a blood relation have to do with borrowing text books? Answer: a new strategy to generate more profit.

A Pakistani diplomat whispers that Americans realize they can't “clean the mess in Afghanistan without us - and of course we want a solution to Kashmir."

As I head to Swat I can't bear to look at 'khooni chowk'. This is not the valley I remember. A bullet-ridden Swat is something my mind refuses to register.

As I fly over Afghanistan to Oslo I think about the war. I might be Hazara but I support the Taliban's desire to get rid of this ISAF cancer.

As news of an MQM leaders death broke all shops were closed. A day without business in the financial hub of the country will not help solve our national economic problems.

The utterly careless, stolid response of the Pakistan media in general and the blogosphere in particular towards the flood disaster is appalling.

Cameron’s remarks are arguably ineffective and aptly demonstrate a glaring lack of consideration for attempts made by Pakistan to eradicate terrorism.