Opinion

Political satire is nothing new to this region. Akbar Allahbadi and Manto masterfully employed satire in their works

Pakistan’s relations with the US have deteriorated significantly in the final years of the Barack Obama presidency

The Pakistani disdain towards Punjabi clearly carries over to our attitude towards the Punjabi culture in general

It would be a miracle if the bill makes a difference in presence of mindset that encourages violence against women

Here is a dilemma: Just how far Modi will go to bully a militarily smaller neighbour who also has nuclear weapons?

Hindutva ideology's three demands - all of them - require something from the minority communities

The sad saga has now reached a stage where doors are slamming shut on the geniuses who dreamt up this scheme

What have we now? Sharifs, Zardaris, Imran Khan. That’s it

Economic security which is very much essential for safeguarding the national security

The Clinton-Trump (I call it ‘Clump’) war of words was an embarrassingly bad circus

Please do something about the mess you have created

The previous law enabled the heir of the victim to forgive the perpetrator

The rhetoric of aid often refers to lofty values such as the pursuit of ensuring social justice

The Republican Party is in considerable disarray and at the time of writing

Unlike the past, those who now kill women will not claim ‘honour’ as the main motive for the killing

Even after operationalisation, managing these facilities on a sustainable basis is another challenge

Islamabad and Rawalpindi, no doubt, have to go a long way in countering terrorism and religious extremism

India’s attitude caused postponement of SAARC summit that had to be held in Pakistan in November

Don’t let all the sudden noise fool you

Consider the question of how we can achieve good governance in Pakistan

The actions of men should not depend on whether they have daughters or sisters, or whether they are married or not

After the 18th Constitutional Amendment, it is clear that local government is a provincial subject

The urban electorate in Pakistan seems to be divided on the elections issue

True or not, the story is haunting: even back then, a man’s honour was directly related to a woman’s body

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the main reason for India’s impressive moves in the area

Pakistan says that the Kashmir issue should be resolved according to UN resolutions

It seems Boeing is doing a special favour to PIA. Or is it?

Modi must realise that the dialogue has to be unconditional as his predecessors PM Vajpayee and PM Manmohan Singh had

The myth that wealth is acquired by merit is essential to providing a moral justification for extreme inequality

PBC must reconsider the wisdom behind its age-restriction policy

Indian govts cannot even deliver on the primary condition of state effectiveness, & that is the monopoly over violence

Let the Indians fall into the hole they are digging for themselves in Occupied Kashmir

What is common nowadays between America, Israel, India, Pakistan and Britain?

Marx had said ‘history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce’

Headlines in Pakistan have been dominated by the PM's UN speech focusing on Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir

Both provinces have made large development allocations to education and health in their respective budgets for 2016-17

The IMF’s rhetorical admission of flaws in its lending policies is nothing new

Let us review what a surgical strike is and its implications

Pakistan’s categorical response has been that India cannot unilaterally withdraw from IWT

Escalating tension between Pakistan, India has brought worst out of our artists and they’ve picked guns over guitars

The scale may be smaller but the savagery is no less in Pakistan

Not one local newspaper bothered to fawn over Kim Kardashian being robbed at gunpoint at her luxury apartment in Paris

No surprise that the two countries have found containing violent religio-political groups difficult

The Kargil war (1999) was the first occasion that showed the restraining role of the nuclear weapons

How do leaders detoxify the narrative once they have brainwashed their people into hating the other country?

When everything is in a flux, some semblance of constancy is required to anchor our being

One needs to peel off some basic layers of thought processes that have popped up in both the countries

The situation is highly complex but it is essentially the ruthless iron grip of Assad

I am not arguing here against higher education or scientific research or the pillars of the scientific method

Both the Senate and the House overwhelmingly voted in favour of the bill