Opinion

Even if the Pakistani middle class is 84 million strong how much purchasing power does it really have?

Besides recent generosity shown by Germany, all other European countries have been very stingy with accepting refugees

A welcoming multilateral diplomatic milestone bolstering Pakistan's foreign policy sway.

The deportation machinery is unlike the sort America has ever witnessed; it is extreme and frightening.

Minorities in India are facing existential threat, are not allowed to practise fundamental tenets of their religions.

In large part it is down to an absence of moral authority and a failure of leadership

Niccolo Machiavelli says “it is more important to be feared than to be loved”

The growth of services sector instead of industries could save the crucial time available for developing Fata

Industrial cooperation is one area where Pakistan seems least prepared

Those branding Pashtoons must remember; Osama bin Laden or Dr Al-Zawahiri or Abu Bakr Baghdadi are not Pashtoons

In Pakistan its impact has been most profound

We would vote for candidates because we would trust them to use their power for our interests

Federation’s Secretary General Zahoor Awan explains the importance of collective bargaining to the visiting delegates

Whether or not we like it, the burden lies on scientists to cast a spell on their audience

Pakistan is strategically located to become Asia’s premier trade, energy and transport corridor

The higher educational institutions of the US rank exceptionally high in international comparisons

The CM despite non-clearance from the security agency rushed to the hospital just after landing at Sehwan at about 1am

A moment to seize historic milestones

There's a need to develop a strong statistical base to get better knowledge of the state of society and economy

How could these passengers board in the first place?

Recent terrorist incidents have brought Pakistan’s policy of countering terrorism in sharp focus

Remembering the Lahore of the 90s makes me more sad than nostalgic

Lal Krishna Advani changed Indian politics with the Ram Janmabhoomi movement

Were the gains of Operation Zarb-e-Azb not temporary?

Lawmakers need to be reminded that they are answerable to the people

Media persons who cover violent events need to be aware of the risks to their life and limb

Pakistan is among the worst countries to live a life as a woman

Recent cataclysmic events have plunged our world into much turbulence

Who knew the issue of refugees would cause divisions in the ‘Free World’?

Political integration should happen politically, not through transitional development packages

There is little doubt that these attacks originated from, and were controlled by, handlers from across our borders

The core aim of Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad it appears is — eliminating residual and latent threat of terrorism

The Apex Committee has requested that the interior ministry lend about 2,000 rangers for between 60 and 90 days

The US administration will probably have to provide some form of a transparency rule for extractive industries

In the last 24 hours I have had to advise the CEO of an NGO I have worked closely with over the last 12 years

I have grown up to believe that [most] politicians and far-right religious conservatives explicitly hate women

Burhan Wani is dead but a new Kashmir is being born

Primates are possibly the species nearest to man in the animal world

Afghan officials refuse to look at the latest wave of terror in context of India’s “teach and bleed Pakistan” policy

Many experts argue that corruption ‘keeps the poor people in poverty’

It is no secret that we have differences with the US on several aspects of Afghan policy

My students and I, like millions of others around the world, love TED talks

We need to move away from the ‘Pakistani big brother’ rhetoric in the Pakistan-Afghanistan relationship

Our job of seeking the truth has become immensely difficult in face of a strategic communications industry

Pakistan needs to engage in constructive and meaningful dialogue with Afghanistan

His disastrous immigration policy was apparently rolled out without any real forethought or planning

Funding of International Organisations’ has been drafted by the Trump administration

The manner in which our country is being polarised is scary

Many thinkers in the Muslim world today question the validity of Samuel Huntington prediction about the future

I seldom read an article about Poland in the papers these days