Editorial

The stand-off between the Supreme Court and the government could threaten our system of checks and balances.

The Bahawalpur incident incident stems from growing intolerance, hysteria over blasphemy & the failure to amend laws.

So, is Mortenson a hero or a villain? We still do not know.

Is there a lesson in all this for Pakistan? Yes, three lessons.

Non-Muslim Pakistanis contributing to the society have been pushed aside completely — out of thought and out of...

The CCP must be more proactive rather than acting against cartels long after.

Point of setting up commission was to make public security, intelligence lapses leading to the raid, not to cover up.

Al Qaeda is looking for a state that it could run with enough internal revenue to launch its global jihad.

Five Pakistanis were arrested in Uganda for being members of the al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shaabab rebel group.

It is crucial that the person who presides over the general election, due by early 2013, is an unbiased one.

Educate masses about gender sensitivity, not through billboards that hint towards operating within strictures of Islam

With the failure of the negotiations in Qatar, now might be a good time to rethink our policy towards Afghanistan.

Judges will do well to study majority opinion in Affordable Care Act, see what role of judiciary is meant to be.

The war to fight is the war inside Pakistan — with the help of the outside world we are being taught to hate.

The Greenshirts have not brought home a gold medal since Los Angeles, in 1984.

An ECP that is not scrupulously fair will ensure that the reforms are not worth the paper they are written on.

If Ashraf follows Gilani’s lead and refuses to write letter, he too could be rendered ineligible from office.

Killing Sarabjeet Singh or letting him rot in jail till he dies will not serve the interest of the state.

The role of journalists in reporting critically on the Taliban is too important for them to be left exposed.

Pakistan continued their less-than-satisfactory sojourn to Sri Lanka, falling to a 209-run defeat in the first Test.

The govt, military should realise that they need to continue to pressurise the Taliban and launch an operation in Dir.

At present, a shocking 48 per cent of the pollution in the Indus comes from the Ravi, despite its small size.

The biggest challenge he faces is that of uniting the disparate political forces in Egypt to keep the military at bay.

India's green toilet initiative needs to be replicated, expanded even if that means giving up a missile or two.

US blamed the Haqqani Network for the attack. The Pakistan military has repeatedly refused to take action against it.

Pakistan has no shortage of people for whom ‘sorry’ is a dirty word. Salman Butt is only latest addition to the list.

The omens are not good for Egypt and it risks falling under authoritarian rule again.

We have to realise that the real enemy is in our guts. It is the Taliban and its master, al Qaeda.

Ashraf did try to sound all the right notes in his inaugural PM speech despite not being the ideal candidate.

Even today, language deeply divides Pakistani where many barely-known dialects are spoken, some with no script.

Gilani may claim that he almost completed his tenure, but he left behind the same uncertainty that was there in 1990s.

It would be tragic if we lose what limited means of entertainment we have left in Pakistan due to power crisis

The legal fraternity, it seems, would prefer not to extend constitutional rights to those it disagrees with.

Ever since Shakil Afridi episode, Western aid workers have found it even more difficult to gain the trust of locals

The new state of instability that has been created, post removal of Yousaf Raza Gilani, will not help us at all.

The ODI series loss against an opponent that Pakistan had dominated in the recent past is a worrying sign.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry is taking on what may be his greatest challenge yet: the might of the military.

Taking guns out of hands of extortionists would be a more viable policy than putting them into the hands of traders.

Of course, all of this is not to say that Yousaf Raza Gilani or the PPP is without blame.

Here was a middle class woman, defiantly and proudly taking centre stage in an arena that was dominated by rich men.

Ahmadis are lambs silently going to their slaughter, its ethnic cleansing that recalls the pogroms of Hitler’s...

Shifting to democracy was never going to be easy but the people of Egypt are now finding out it may well be impossible

The reliability of the news we hear and the integrity of those who present it is coming under serious scrutiny.

Despite possessing the nuclear bomb, we are hardly better off than the non-nuclear neighbours of India.

It is quite obvious that emergency measures need to be put in place immediately.

Can attorney general, in his investigation of the matter, be expected to re-visit alleged link between Riaz and CJP?

Hopefully, this will lead to measures by media itself to subject journalist activities to rules, regulations.

Simple apology, few words either written or spoken, over what happened at Salala should not be so difficult after all

It is imperative that we get to the bottom of the matter and discover the whole truth.

Order advises media to ensure that it is not used by elements acting against the state or the Constitution.