Opinion

To ensure a future for our nations and to resolve our differences we will first have to try and put them aside

Campaigns on menstrual hygiene erase specificities to create the homogenous ‘Third World Girl’ in need of saving

Zbigniew Brzezinski worked for his country but in many ways what he did then now haunts the US today

Trump's approach towards the Muslim world will have consequences for years to come

Learning should not be restricted to a particular age, gender, class or marital status

Our failure has been that we have not been able to overcome that fear and distrust and build relationships

House of Saud and the White House have always cosied up in the past to pursue mutual enemies

PML-N’s fifth is not what it states to have achieved, but what it has not been able to achieve

Jared Kushner is perhaps the most powerful man in the White House today

At the age of seventy, we have grown into a nation of certifiable cribbers

The idea was to delegitimise Pakistan at the global forum and push it to the edge.

Budget-makers while preparing the annual balance-sheet did not take into consideration UN report

Discussions of political leadership in Pakistan are exercises in finger-pointing.

Forty-two died, in perhaps the single largest custodial killing in the history of independent India.

What we need to do is to study in depth the thought over the past centuries of leading thinkers of humanity

United States never explicitly made any commitment to defend Pakistan against Indian aggression

Brick kilns dot the landscape everywhere

Our leaders must pay more attention to the plight of the common man and woman

Basic premise of safe city projects is early detection and response

Nawaz’s failure to appoint an actual foreign minister and empower a foreign ministry is coming back to bite him

Lofty humanist ideals may be expressed at other forums but they must not influence decision of judges

2/3 of the workforce for current CPEC projects is Pakistani,only a critical mass of labour force comes from China

Malala, the idea, tells a particular story about people in Pakistan

The US being the dominant power of the region has a crucial role to play

As people we need to push for a system that is not just based on profit maximisation

The government of Pakistan should be encouraged to increase budgetary allocation to the education sector

PrepCom only exposed deep fissures among the Arab league states

It will be important for the K-P police to learn from the failures of the Police Order 2002

Who could have imagined that Russia would be the host of a Hilal Expo?

Less than four per cent of all articles in the Urdu paper were written by female contributors

It is urgent for Pakistan to upgrade its existing railway system to improve the quality and quantity of transportation

Lahore is reported to have three per cent green cover in contrast to a global requirement of 20 per cent

People-flows became important for the economies of the US and the UK

Sindh has been at the opposite end - with the province being treated like an outcast

Can Trump, too, survive the Memogate?

Every effort should be made to make an example of those who demolished the school

There are thought to be at least 30 Pakistani inmates in the central prison

Mr Rowhani navigated his country past the economic crisis, reducing inflation and stabilising currency exchange rate

What the country needs right now is sustainable human development

Both men have three crore followers and both use social media to reach their voters directly

Three names in Pakistan cricket will be remembered: Imran Khan, Younis Khan and Misbahul Haq

Pakistan’s economy needs to grow at an annual average rate of 10-12 per cent

The poor are our most efficient means to development

This is not the end of the road, it is just the beginning

The weakness of institutions in Pakistan has made domestic issues more important than the external challenges

The two countries should develop a symbiotic relationship

The proposed spur will help in diverting the river flow leftwards and thus minimise the risk of a flood

Effective devolution can have important implications for furthering democratisation

Both sides could use the biometric verification system to avoid any untoward incidents

The ancient Silk Roads played a central role in ensuring prosperity of the peoples across region