Opinion

The sale of Agatha Christie's works was surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare

People use Facebook to comment on pain of others to accumulate 'likes' instead of participating in real-life struggles

Today there is angst in being a Pakistani because the future that looks bright now is a future that has lapsed

Is it possible the US hinted, quietly, it would be a good idea if Raheel Sharif stopped over on his way to Brazil?

Ishtiaq Ahmed laced his works with an unhealthy dose of paranoia, pseudo-history and geography

An education system that once produced leaders of stature is barely able to produce semi-skilled workers today

Pakistan, Bangladesh and India should jointly organise a music festival in Europe

Explicit constitutional protection accorded to the right to information is commendable

#IStandWithAamirKhan become one of the top trends in Pakistan, but where is the #IStandWithAhmadis hashtag?

A new ADB publication estimates that by 2030, Karachi will be the fifth-largest city in the world

'Insta-bombs' can be created by amateurs in weeks, using stolen radioactive materials

Again military power is readily being applied in seeking revenge. France is doing exactly what Americans did post-9/11

Modi is a man who shouted his radical views from pulpits, in saffron rallies, in media — everywhere

Why should Muslims apologise for the Paris attacks? The Charleston shooting was perpetrated by a white citizen

Yet again an alleged blasphemy lay at heart of disturbances in Jhelum which were stoked, incited, by local clerics

The gross over-reaction to Aamir Khan's statement has only validated his deep-rooted fear about Indian intolerance

The term ‘refugee’ has come to be associated with criminality, a drain on local resources and most recently, terrorism

The Russian narrative is all about Putin defiantly standing up to the thoroughly corrupt and imperialist Western order

Pakistan's institutional endowment for democracy is far stronger than any other Muslim states

Hopefully, no non-economic, self-destructive reason would be allowed to come in the way of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline

A look at the riches we boasted off in the 1990s can leave fans wistful — all players won us many an ODI

General Raheel's concerns about the lack of effective governance have caused an uproar

It is a sad state of affairs that Imran Khan has no faith in civilian institutions — bureaucracy or the judiciary

Pakistani universities have failed to enable students to understand the complex problems of our time

Large multinationals, i.e. Singapore Telecom, British Petroleum, Chevron, Royal Bank of Scotland & HSBC have all left

Country struck by at least 40 earthquakes since 1970 hasn't been able to strengthen resilience to reduce disaster risk

PML-N has been forced to contemplate that replacing Dr Abdul Malik Baloch might prove to be counter-productive

All at once, clouds parted: Donald H Rumsfeld, president’s chief of staff, had been boosted to Secretary of Defense

Samuel Huntington believed two world cultures were bound to clash. One was democratic and secular. The other was Islam

Around 30% of the Karachi police force is reserved exclusively to massage the egos of the rulers

The objective of COP21 is to unite all the world’s nations in a single agreement on curbing climate change

Sindh and Balochistan continue to be neglected while Khyber-Pakhtunistan is still finding its feet with PTI government

From being the protege of military during 1980s and the leader of IJI in 1990s, Nawaz Sharif today has found his orbit

India is a far cry from becoming a Great Power, let alone a superpower

I don’t recall any European expressing grief over the number of Iraqis who are being regularly killed by extremists

Moderate Muslims need to come out and challenge the radical interpretations of scriptures advanced by extremists

Inside the walls of Aitchison College, there were Shakespeare and Hali, outside there was intolerance and bigotry

In the last five years, Pakistan has sustained over $14.5 billion losses due to floods and other natural disasters

During the Bush era it seemed that the schisms in the world order would unravel civilisation itself

There are an estimated 70 million people in Pakistan who aren't connected to the electricity grid

Terrorists might be on the run, but environment that enabled them to carry out deadly attacks continues to exist

Why does the PPP remain successful in elections in rural Sindh? The most common view is that ‘there's no other choice’

Polio is now cornered in only three sanctuaries — the Khyber-Peshawar corridor, Karachi and Quetta

Civilian presidents in Pakistan are usually figureheads. This is what they should be, neither more nor less

The rhetoric of hate can only be annihilated when the Muslim world starts focusing on domestic issues

There is still denial regarding the perpetration of child sexual abuse despite scandals like Kasur surfacing

The attackers took control of the concert hall, held the audience hostage & started firing

Zulfiqar went on to become vice-president of student body and flourished in his academics; extra-curricular activities

The conflict against IS may not be existential, but it does have the sense of being the defining conflict of our age

France has experienced what the Syrians, Lebanese and Iraqis have been experiencing