Opinion

While pundits are predicting Trump will finally bow out of the US elections, for Muslims that is not the real issue

Human beings are best the means of development, superior to all alternatives

Trump displayed a bit of pantomime evilness by reminding Bush that he had received 43% of the votes to Bush’s three

One reason for injustice in mass violence cases in India is ruling party is uninterested in prosecuting its own people

PPP has told people of Karachi to take a hike. How smart is that for a party that claims to be a ‘people’s...

The country’s liberals had hitched their wagons to the star of the show — General (retd) Musharraf

Guerrilla operations are complemented by urban terrorism and these are countered by counter-urban terrorist operations

What is happening at Hafeez Centre demonstrates continuation of sporadic agitation against Ahmadis since independence

GIK's understanding of economy is perhaps the single-most important reason why we are in such socioeconomic mess today

For 35-year-old Rab Dino, heartache has been a lifetime companion. He can’t imagine life without it

Pakistan urgently needs better laws on occupational safety and health

Grand plans of the government to add 10,000 megawatts to the national grid by 2018, according to him, are “not enough”

Politicians spare no opportunity in talking of risque concept but often, they themselves are worst offenders

The 147 martyrs of APS will only really rest in peace if we do the following: look within. And act. Now

A Chinese official said Pakistani leaders express little interest in building consensus amongst their people on CPEC

This barbaric incident was one of the thousands that Pakistanis have endured

The Age of Letters is past. There will be no more collections of the musings of literary lions or us less exalted

For a minute, I was aghast on reading about Kevin Pietersen being denied entry into a Qantas lounge for wearing thongs

Like most boys his age, Aakif Azeem’s Facebook page has a lot of sports updates, funny videos and memes

Driving around you soon begin to wonder if this was the only way to rebuild the war-torn city and morale of the people

The APS Peshawar attack has very few parallels in history for mass murder of innocent children

The talks appear more to be stunts that help the establishments in both India and Pakistan domestically and abroad

PM and his kitchen cabinet unintentionally manufactured a miracle by appointing General Raheel Sharif the army chief

Only six boys from our class survived the attack

Reconciling Indian and Pakistani views on Kashmir would require a change of mindset

The social pressure on parents of qualified and motivated young women to stifle their ambition to study is enormous

"When I saw that my four best friends were dead, I fell to the floor and finally lost control of my emotions..."

There is no denying that the people of erstwhile East Pakistan were subjected to injustices before and during 1971

Faced with killers of children, we vowed to change. Yet have we?

Since 9/11, there have been 52 incidents of religious terrorism in US, of which 27 were created by FBI entrapment

Bush played on fears of Americans after 9/11 while Obama emphasised importance of freedom after Calfironia shooting

The Republican Party enjoys most of its support from white working class people with minimal education

All well said and done, we can only wonder at the change of heart in both capitals

Pakistan cannot avail the new opportunities if the outdated mindset on the part of policymakers aren’t discarded

The Congress is a private limited company in which the shares are held by one family

Some commentators have played around with the words ‘furore’ and ‘Fuehrer’ and even compared Trump to Hitler

Thinking of language as an ethnic or a national entity restricts our ability to use it as a resource for development

If Pakistan has to move forward, the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 should resonate with slogans of #ThankYouNawazSharif

Like it or not, it is my strong opinion that two countries are unfit to lead South Asia

With Pakistan in Afghanistan, Pakistan can become the hub of trade routes extend to all four corners of the world

IS hate the acronym 'Daesh' so much that they have threatened to cut out the tongues of those that publicly use it

The NSA talks and Sushma Swaraj’s visit exhibited the clear failure of India’s ‘Ignore Pakistan’ policy

Afghan Taliban’s authority has been challenged by the advent of organisations like IS in Afghanistan

Pakistan is strategically located, with land connections between South Asia, Central Asia, China and Middle East

Children in Pakistan work as street vendors, shoe polishers, rag-pickers & car washers to earn measly amounts of cash

PM gave an empty speech at the Paris summit that lasted even less than the three minutes allocated to heads of states

People you killed were among those who welcomed you to their country and invited you to make your home next to theirs

Elite housing societies in our cities are like islands where residents enjoy all the luxuries of the world

Terrorism is not exclusive to the Muslim faith

The real horror wasn’t Trump’s statement, but what was happening on the other side of the microphone