Opinion

CPEC will not bring automatic prosperity for Pakistan

India and China will be able to forge an independent path of bilateral and regional cooperation

Trump’s speech appears to be sketchy with considerable incoherence and lack of clear-cut strategy

Why do we always first wait for the tragedy to occur and then look for damage control?

Graceful US exit from the region with some credibility intact might be the only definition of success

he closest the Taliban have got to giving the state a nudge was their occupation of the Swat valley

The question is why democratic governments with public trust and faith in them would remain indifferent

Missing pieces of evidence, inconsistent narratives and shifting versions of eyewitnesses keep adding to the mystery

The desire for normalisation of bilateral relations could not have come without a nod from Washington

Lahore has grown haphazardly in all directions as the city that was once confined within 13 gates

Russia would not take much time to join the project provided Pakistan and more importantly China let it join it

Trump’s speech may therefore create a quasi-autonomous state in the Pashtun areas on the Afghan side of the border

The year 2015 was the year of hope in Myanmar

Every Eid event I have ever gone to has people behind the scene who never get to celebrate the holiday

Professionalism took a hit as the semi-literate, uncouth, indicted and dishonourable were handed plum diplomatic posts

Extremists are incapable of dispassionately examining the basis of their views and beliefs

The method centred on lengthy and iterative one-to-one interviews

Pakistan has lost 60,000 troops and civilians in the fight against the Taliban since 2001

We also need to equip our future generations for critical thinking

Developed economies know how much they would have to invest to mitigate developing economies adapt to climate change

With a year to general elections, federal lawmakers are in a race to decide the fate of the new Elections Bill

To temper Pakistan, Tillerson has since acknowledged that resolving the Kashmir issue could bring peace in Afghanistan

After the wall, you won’t have to pay a secure Afghanistan as many billions as you do now

Will India commit another 'Himalayan blunder' like it did in 1962?

The Panama corruption case has the potential to reverse this trend

The pictures can never tell the whole story in a disaster as vast as that unfolding in Texas

Advocates of technological progress at all costs argue that with things moving faster, life has become more efficient

Intrusive and detailed screening of drivers should be the top priority

Female labour force participation in Pakistan is at 22 per cent

NFC should ponder over whether it is time this system of centre to provincial financial transfers should change

Washington is in a serious fix because it cannot take incalculable risks of losing the longest war it has ever fought

Muslim women challenged triple talaq in the Supreme Court which has said that gender equality should be considered

For the last 19 years, we have been adding one person to our population every eight seconds

It is valid to say that evaluation is central to human development

The census numbers are alarming

It is need of the hour to assess the Indian decision to construct dams over rivers of Indus Basin

Not everyone has an equal sense of moral responsibility or equity and sometimes it needs to be taught

Despite all the other issues that we face, the biggest issue for us remains population

The new Afghan policy has a heavy military footprint

China will definitely respond to the US-Indian nexus in Afghanistan politics

Merely passing laws is not the end of the state’s responsibility

Local self-government is essential to ensure that peoplesubstantially benefit from policies, development plans

Seeking a ‘shahbash’ certificate from Trump will not work as Gen Bajwa hopes

Bush declared Pakistan a frontline state against terrorism, Obama gave Pakistan a status of major non-Nato ally

Our 70-year-old history makes us feel that as a nation we may have grown old but we have not grown up

The US has finally decided to stay put in Afghanistan and fight to the last Taliban

Time to put things together and present an overall picture of education spending in Pakistan

Trump’s well-known slogan “America First” appears to have shaped the framework of the new Afghan policy

The current political environment portrays Pakistan as an example of Huntington’s third wave democracy

Global average temperatures will still go up to about three degrees above pre-industrial levels