Opinion

In 2015, Pakistan was the only Saarc country to have improved its position on the Corruption Perceptions Index

Give the general his due. He opted for a route fraught with peril. His stock since then has risen phenomenally.

As we left his house, Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said to me, we will meet again inshallah

First, the attack proves that we have learnt nothing from the past

Income inequality can result from risks taken by people with good ideas who make a lot of money for themselves

I've seen scores of female students stating that a good Master’s degree puts them in spot for a good marriage proposal

In the aftermath of the Charsadda attack, the government is asking for schools to “beef-up” their security

Zafarullah Khan was Pakistan's first foreign minister. We now can't even imagine a Ahmadi being in a position of power

There has always been enthusiasts who turned up at every event of Western classical music held in Karachi

My feeling is that 2016 will be a good year for Amit Shah and the BJP electorally

Digitisation of Criminal Record Office is part of a larger effort to develop an integrated criminal profiling system

Erecting barriers, checking ID cards at check posts, and having police mobiles parked at major chowks is not policy

When Nawaz Sharif announced that Pakistan had licked the terrorism bug, he was way off the mark

General Raheel had countless opportunities to stage a coup but he never even thought about it

Here we are, after 15 years of waging a ‘war on terror’, thousands have lost their lives, the enemy is at our gates

It’s scary to think there are over one million ‘idle’ young males in Pakistan, who are vulnerable to crime & militancy

In years to come, he will be revered, like the Frontier Gandhi, for his outstanding courage

Ahsan Iqbal has likened Pakistan to an aircraft and insists that it is ready for a ‘take-off’

Is the so-called Kissan Package working only in Sindh? Is the Khadim-e-Ala building any rural roads in Punjab?

The likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have spent millions in philanthropic efforts

Political temperatures are set to rise in Sindh when a powerless mayor of Karachi takes charge

Out of $21bn worth of “priority energy projects” of CPEC, only one project is meant for K-P and two for Balochistan

It’s important to celebrate people like TCF Chairman Mushtaq Chhapra when educational institutes are under attack

There was an overwhelming diversity of grub at the Karachi Eats festival

I’ve travelled on both Air India and PIA, and I have found Air India infinitely superior to PIA in about every...

Sahibzada Yaqub resigned his commission & governorship rather than opening fire on civilians in East Pakistan

We blame the politicians and the army, but we don’t blame ourselves for not demanding accountability and hard change

Arab-Iran rivalry has found battlegrounds at societal levels in many Muslim-majority states, including in Pakistan

Given the poisonous bile taught in our textbooks, it’s not surprising Safoora Goth terrorists were highly educated

Idea that Women on Wheels scheme is effort to ‘follow the West’ and breaks the family value system is preposterous

President Obama's foresight regarding the continued instability in Pakistan must not be taken lightly

That is my regret that my friend, Ashfaq Kayani, ignored his siblings’ deeds. He should and could have done better

The pressure to become a doctor or an engineer is often just based on social pressures

Poisonous ideologies do not emerge from thin air. Oppression, corruption and injustice are greenhouses for resentment

Today groups like Jaish-e-Mohammad may be targeting our adversary, but tomorrow they will come after us

Analysts complain our liberals refuse to believe India’s behind the TTP

A media-blackout of terror attacks like Charsadda would deprive the terrorists of their real target

Most important feature in emerging shape of the global economy is the reaction to the turmoil in emerging economies

As long as the likes of Abdul Aziz are allowed to roam around free, there’s clearly a problem with the govt’s mindset

Privatisation is always a controversial issue and this government is no stranger to controversy

Imperatives of electoral politics impede both PML-N & PTI from pursuing a policy towards sectarian and militant groups

I can guarantee that in any major office, the most likely place to find dalits is in the list of grade one employees

I will be very surprised if anybody will be amused by the recent cartoon published by Charlie Hebdo

The erosion of the rational moorings of society could lead to the erosion of the moral values as well

As long as the TTP maintains a centre of gravity in Afghanistan, we will never win this war

Bhutto’s trial, while deeply skewed, could not be attributed to one man

Conspiracy theorists believe the US is producing more oil than it needs to undermine Russia

Since majority of conflict-affected populations are in Muslim states, role of Islamic finance needs to be highlighted

Nothing can bring the state closer to citizens than local governments

Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung-hee transformed the countries they inherited — Singapore and South Korea