Editorial

The initiative to measure happiness in order to develop more targeted, direct and effective policies is a logical one.

The project violates laws, is a threat to the ecology and has been proceeded without approval and NOC.

Pakistan has no shortage of good legislation, but it has a chronic problem with its enforcement.

The police were given the back seat in this operation due to the high number of political appointments in their ranks.

Those whose illusions about the Taliban may have been shaken need to pull themselves together and face facts.

A raft of agreements and MoUs has been signed that bode well for future cooperation.

Poverty is the engine that drives the illegal transplant business.

The murder of three women on jirga orders will make headlines for less than 24 hrs, but the story has a familiar ring.

General Kayani, whose primary role, of course, is to defend the nation, has done well to speak out forcefully.

To err is human but to fall down repeatedly in the same manner is plain stupidity.

A year after YouTube vanished, there is still no indication of when it may make a comeback.

The political response to the attack in Dir is illustrative of the weakness of the government.

Former PIA managers have welcomed the move, but warned that it could get violent.

Those engaged in anti-state extremist activities now are Zia’s children grown up, a crop of dragons teeth.

Pakistan cannot be helped unless we as a nation first decide to help ourselves.

The Shahzeb case has thrown open the whole range of issues surrounding the Qisas and Diyat law.

Two children have been robbed of their innocence, which no punishment will ever restore.

Currently, around 80,000 barrels of crude oil are produced in the country each year.

What is bound to further complicate and already complex issue is the government’s plan to talk peace with the Taliban.

Pakistan is going to miss its Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in education.

The cooperation of major political parties in Karachi is essential.

The K-P Chief Minister has made parliamentary history by appointing 32 parliamentary secretaries.

The polling in cantonments indicates that ECP is eager to conduct the election as swiftly and efficiently as possible.

It is shocking that charges have still to be framed against the owner of the factory.

The release of Mullah Baradar may be a damp squib rather than a catalyst, appeasement rather than rapprochement.

This case reflects how laws can be so easily misused by those with sufficient wealth.

There is as much cause for concern as there is for the most cautious of optimism after the APC.

With the 3G auction, the industry has had a fairly simple demand.

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.

New Delhi and Islamabad need to find a way to ensure that they do not destroy the wider peace process.

Finance ministry complains about FBR’s failure to meet targets, but it is complicit by not forcing FBR to improve.

It is unfortunate that the August 11 speech has not been found, we have lost something immensely valuable.

With continued drone strikes, Pakistan has just as much reason to keep a close eye on what the Americans are up to.

Higher education suffers from the dual blights of underinvestment and political interference.

Sabre-rattling aside, in a conventional war, the uncomfortable reality is that Pakistan would eventually and lose.

General (retd) Musharraf becomes the first former army chief to be formally charged with murder.

Pakistan’s weaknesses were still quite apparent.

The issue appears to be whether the university is under civilian or military control.

The lack of government clarity on how to tackle militancy and the Taliban is becoming rather disturbing.

The militants strike and kill at free will every day; there is no guarantee that they will not come after this woman.

he stoppage of theft can alone help overcome an energy crisis that has virtually paralysed us.