Opinion

The UNGA has ended on an ugly note for Pakistan and there is no point in hiding from this or remaining in denial

I am not the only one who feels that Islamabad airport is an international embarrassment

In many ways, the event of Dawoodi Bohra community in Karachi, is as important as the visit of World Eleven to Lahore

Pakistan does not treat its women well

Read articles in any newspaper or watch any talk show on TV, only one issue dominates — politics

India will continue doing what it has envisaged in Afghanistan, and it wouldn’t seek Pakistan’s approval, anyway

With the next elections barely a year away, it would be hard to test the applicability of most of the new provisions

One hopes that govt would undertake CPEC in the right earnest and link it up with all important cities of Pakistan

Implementation of guidelines at various levels requires collaboration of several ministries, departments and agencies

Polarisation and partisanship would eventually bring them nothing except disgrace

The NA-120 by-election provides many lessons; let’s harvest them by empowering the ECP and the voters

The climactic moment of the political opera may yet be around the bend

Too many countries are finding themselves trapped between rising authoritarianism and a sycophantic media

UN has called for a de-escalation of the situation, reestablishment of law and order, protection of civilians

Your vote can make or break the future of your country

In Pakistan, the role of Muslim religious and sectarian political parties has always been important

Pakistan, as it did in the Reko Diq case, try to reach a settlement with Karkey to pay less than the arbitral amount

Aung San Suu Kyi was absent from the UN General Assembly due to 'pressing needs' at home.

A country that has seen much tragedy since half century existence can overcome its troubling legacy of dynastic rule

This is the result of a GDP growth rate of over six per cent per year in the past 12 years, Bangladesh is better

The pace at which vehicles are multiplying today and the impact on traffic volume are fast leading us towards anarchy

For some reasons, mainly male chauvinism, the Women Reservation Bill has not been passed by parliament

Global advertising industry is worth trillions of dollars and advertising penetrates every corner of our lives

One of the raging social debates in Pakistan today is equal rights for religious minorities

Trump has rebuked both South Korea and China for appeasement after the North Korean ICBM test

Nisar also criticised Asif’s statement that there is serious need for introspection of security and national policies

Technological advancement placed man in an unenviable situation in which he has the capability to destroy the earth

Foreign loans generally labelled as ‘aid’ are procured to help the process of ‘development’

The “do more” is not new and neither is it going to be old anytime soon

We have thus far struggled and lagged behind in both identifying and acting on the obvious

Beauty pageants may make the news, but they fail miserably to focus on what really matters in the end, the soul

Income and wealth inequality is from top to bottom, only 22 people in the country have billions of wealth and reserves

Many argue that the problem lies with the fact that almost no locals are employed in Karachi’s police force

This delayed development of democracy-supporting institutions may have finally begun to happen

Congress VP Rahul Gandhi is wrong when he says that all of India runs on dynasties

Karachi has turned from a metropolitan city into an oversized ghetto

The scope of proposed FRC model for Pakistan should cover monitoring auditors of all

The word terrorism has become a powerful expression and is now exploited by states to achieve political objectives

Recently, more than 120 countries backed the first-ever treaty to eliminate the nuclear weapons around the globe

Current developments in Pakistan’s fight against terrorism are benchmarks for regional and international countries

For banned outfits to gain acceptance politically makes nonsense of banning them in the first place

One of Sindh’s leading lights, Dadi Leelawati Harchandani passed away this week at the age of 101 in Hyderabad

China may be aghast but unlikely to do anything to destabilise the regime in North Korea

The magazine claims that Pakistan is facing an existential threat from India and only the TTP can be the saviour

Pakistan has been placed at the 7th (for the long-term) among the worst-hit countries in the climate risk index

Citizens, when confronted by alternative policy options, are dependent on media to formulate an informed decision

Any name change on documents is, therefore, fraught with ramifications

Rahul began with a speech that was quite obviously stitched together by his economic and political advisers

Since the 2001 American intervention in Afghanistan, the lack of a clear political objective has undermined war effort

There is a long history of regional discontent within India, some of which has dissipated but much continues to fester