Opinion

If govt fails to push Pakistan’s case for what it deserves as one of the victims of climate change, no one else will

One can't keep accepting hard cash from the US and expect to give nothing in return

The PPP is increasingly being perceived as the Qaim Ali Shah of political parties

Younger generations in Pakistan are attached to Middle East & its issues despite never having lived there

The LG election today is as important as the 2013 general election; let us not waste this chance

Nawaz Sharif's trip to US convinces us of one thing: PM & his cabal are out of ideas and simply going through motions

"Oh, you're from Pakistan? Give me a big hug then." The irrepressible Om Puri responded to me with a huge smile

Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs were formulated subsequent to the largest consultation process in UN history

I don't concur with Roger Moore's comment that Bond can’t be black

Bal Thackeray was once a cartoonist who drew caricatures of Pakistan’s touring team to India in 1960-61

Our elite appear to have always excelled in one area — propagating corrupt ideologies

There is no specific budget set aside for teacher training in most private schools

There is no attempt to address the cancers that are deep within and eating away

World needs to realise that there are other illnesses seriously affecting patients and these are not getting attention

It’s not as if America doesn’t love its citizens; it just loves its guns more, and that is the detestable truth

The only certainty is that migration in a world of unprecedented border controls remains shrouded in myth

The expanding sea of the black economy continues to offer the ‘misled’ a ready source of terror-financing

Every time our PM visits an important country, question that dominates media is: how much help are we going to get?

Will goodwill for Imran Khan’s mission fade under his seemingly arrogant, self-righteous confrontationist approach?

Akbar S Ahmed's recent cinematic venture Journey Into Europe seeks to answer: “Is Islam compatible with the...

Sense of relief on part of Netanyahu may be short-lived as flames engulfing Syria will spread to other countries

Connecting scientists from Israel & Middle East through a apolitical conference, there was only one language: science

Many women in conservative societies hide their Facebook accounts from their families

Unlike any military berets he wore with great distinction, NSA hat will be a difficult one to wear for General Janjua

In all the havoc — beef bans and ink attacks and the lynch-murders — we see in Pakistan schadenfreude: shameful joy

Pakistan participated in pioneering experiments of poverty alleviation under the able leadership of Qazi Ismat Isa

It was expected that once Modi gained power through elections, he would pursue the Hindu agenda

If both you and your spouse are always miserable, then it may be for the betterment of everybody to let go

To start with, the widely abused and largely outdated gun licensing system has to go

NA-122 may have devastated Khan and vindicated Sharif, but for many this is just National Geographic entertainment

The success of a few government schools will speak for the success of a new beginning in the right direction

If we have not been able to totally reverse the negative effects of the Kargil days, we are very nearly there

If President Ghani wants to restore peace in his country, he should re-engage with Pakistan

75 per cent of class five students in Sindh can’t read class two-level English sentences

CPEC’s potential won't be realised if planning and financial allocations happen at a snail’s pace

Public private partnership programmes in the education sector, such as adopt-a-school schemes, remain ad hoc

The selfie… is a tribute to narcissism, an ode to our desire to be desired and the epitome of self-projection

Without legislation, there is little that can be done to help improve their welfare

We need an open debate on what motivates young persons to join the TTP or the BLA

This child had no siblings, nor friends, but she claimed the contrary

There was a time, and it seems very long ago, when it was worth getting up early just to watch Pakistan breakfast TV

For as long as I’ve known Shoaib Malik, he’s been fiercely determined to make a comeback

I gave the worst speech of my life last week. I fumbled one incoherent sentence after another

Talking to Russians, it was pleasant to see the mention of Pakistan did not automatically result in tense expressions

Pakistan has the geopolitical advantage of being a friend of China as well as a close partner of the US

Should we be shocked over juvenile exuberance and an over-projected sense of self-righteousness flowing out of India?

Are we becoming an increasingly schizophrenic society?

Instead of making our canals theft-proof, we waste all our efforts debating the contentious Kalabagh Dam

US is counselling nuclear restraint to Pakistan as well as selling state-of-the-art conventional weapons to India!

It is obvious that the only diversity the government cares about is that of foreign currency