Opinion

Blind hereditary political culture needs to end

There are some who believe that entertainment of any kind is evil and must be stopped

The plight of women in Pakistan is so daunting that it is never told in a narrative form, just in statistics

The social media went abuzz with varied opinions on the Pakistan women’s team’s debacle

But the reality is that coal may be even nastier than the source of biogas

Sistani has millions of followers not only in Iraq but also abroad

Now it is up to the Supreme Court to decide what needs to be done next

What kindled interest is the apprehension that we in the Land of the Pure are on our way to become a nation of anglers

The latest G-20 summit was held in Hamburg under darkening economic and political clouds

By keeping the rupee to dollar parity at an artificially higher level, Pakistan will suffer

Donald Trump and Nawaz Sharif are top offenders of nepotism

Basic conditions need to be met at the resource level

It is not a clash of ideologies, policies or processes but a clash of egos

If the JIT holds out, it will set a remarkable precedent in terms of investigating a money trail

I think what font to pick for the headstones of the grave should be obvious

In September 2016, Salahuddin vowed to block any peaceful resolution to the Kashmir conflict

Thucydides is considered a father of the ‘realist’ school of international relations

In Pakistan, the government has launched aggressive initiatives to meet the skills development gap

he change that Air India customers will be experiencing is part of an aggressive campaign

In actuality, it is in India’s interest to keep Bhutan away from China’s embrace

In fact, ending global deprivation through foreign aid to poorer countries cannot solve the problem

If I were an actual investor, my interest would have been lost and my faith in government capacity doomed

Most politicians are crooks to a greater or lesser degree, and honesty is a quality that is rarely in their interests

One was pleased when a few months back the interior minister issued a stern directive for resolving the traffic jam

Accountability starts at home

A literacy rate of 24 per cent, a million children out of school, and numerous nonfunctional facilities in FATA

PML-N government has been supposedly “blessed” with stable management in the Cabinet

What’s more worrying is that the economy fundamentally remains dependent on foreign transfusion

This year, Pakistan earned Rs 3,400 billion in tax revenues, amongst the lowest in the world

'It’s wrong to link the US-Pakistan relations to Afghanistan'

It is believed that bureaucrats of olden days were not as inward looking as their present counterparts

Before the Panamagate scandal, this nation was on the threshold of an economic upswing and the worst finally behind us

Not only do we live in a post-truth world, we also live in a post-decency world

People start taking matters in their own hands when they see absolute power corrupting absolutely

We have to deal with huge population increases, whereas water resources and housing are already hard pressed

Countries have benefited a great deal from the migration of their citizens to the Middle East, Europe & North America

Inclusion and diversity in the long run will help the cricket team and the country

Economic empowerment is a complex whole embedded in political, social, legal and in fact moral empowerment of women

Tt’s noora kushti [a fixed fight] for public consumption

Our political and military elites should come out of the colonised frame of mind

Tragic part of this tendency of appointing hitmen is they pervade the system of not one but multiple organisations

Power is lost and power is grabbed again and again through the most vicious of means

From a moral and ethical standpoint, inequality is an issue of concern for almost everyone on the political spectrum

A key responsibility of the ruler is to advance the quality of life of his subjects

It is an open and shut case

The lack of awareness breeds aloofness in our social behaviours and we turn a blind eye to victim’s plight

It emerges that the ill-fated tanker did not meet the safety standards of the company that owned and operated it

Pakistan may have missed tech opportunities, but it can ride the innovation wave by the 4th Industrial Revolution

The report is a decade-old but none of its recommendations have ever been implemented

It is very important to acknowledge that culture and religion are two different entities