Opinion

In what world, I ask you, is Bilawal more immature than Imran Khan, Sheikh Rashid or Tahirul Qadri?

Opposition is so busy fighting one another, they are unable to build a platform, even in Parliament, to challenge govt

At the heart of this ambivalence is issue of narrative that informs our understanding of war, identifying the enemy.

Sadly, with the turn of the 70's began a culture of exodus of original thinkers from Pakistan’s intellectual landscape

What we need is an anti-extremism campaign, which cannot be waged without the development of an anti-extremism ethic.

Majority of students in remote rural areas of Swat face access problems leading to much higher dropout rates.

With half a billion people now at risk of conflict, instability, world has become less peaceful every year since 2008.

Stopping the show may be viewed as a sad ending, but we would like to see new generation go out, express themselves.

The infection of extremism running in our society has permeated very soul of Pakistan.

Imagine your masi’s child having the opportunity to study in a mainstream school, impact on her family this can have.

There is a need to capitalise on the momentum and continue on the reform agenda.

Arsalan’s federally-inspired appointment was ‘Reko Diq-specific’. Who else was in on the attempted scam?

The state is now bobbing, barely afloat but not drowning nor toppling sideways.

Poor get driven to violence because of material needs, but militants draw support from those with better social status

What is needed? First, a credible national narrative and then another to counter the al Qaeda-led narrative.

They know they cannot take on technologically, numerically, and professionally superior security forces in open combat

Ghani’s ascendancy will not change geo-strategic picture of Afghanistan, not take it closer to a negotiated settlement

Arabs have endured almost a century of Western imposition, the time has now come to let them decide their own destiny.

Support for teaching innovation from universities, incentive to innovate in approach, use new tools, are non-existent.

30 years after this third wave of democratisation began, it has not only run out of steam, but its tide has receded.

Where sex crime seems to be rooted in people’s consciousness, statements trivialising rape aren't a trivial affair.

Justice Jillani walked a tightrope — between activism people had come to expect, and conservatism people predicted.

absurdities blacken the front pages of our newspapers, events of importance to mankind are ignored.

60 million refugees in Pakistan are divided into four distinct groups and each of them has shaped Pakistan’s history.

The fact of life is that people need people, no person needs job.

We should put national pride aside for a moment and have these entities run by commercial managers.

It is probable that ISIS will eventually collapse even if the Americans do not intervene militarily.

They are more powerful than any journalist has ever been in print in India and they can turn the national debate.

Are we U or non-U?

Democracy is in danger. But from those who rule in its name & can't grow beyond level of their own abysmal mediocrity.

We want all our generals, retired or serving, to be good generals, honourable generals in the true meaning of the word

Fear of instability now grips as opposition threaten to march to bring an Arab Spring like revolution.

For over two decades the interested or concerned or contributing world has maintained that Pakistan is a weak state

In South Asia, where education for girls is still frowned upon, all faiths and cultures unite to keep women subjugated

Najam Sethi will have to ensure Pakistan gets a say in important matters and doesn’t get bullied by the ‘Big...

India shouldn't be encouraged in its Maha Bharata designs, instead it should nudged towards dialogue for peace.

Adopting comprehensive approach of recognising varied forms of trafficking would be first step in tackling the problem

For the moment, it will be earning on the one side and losing on the other.

How the new and old IDPs will be accommodated as well as employed are questions that policy-makers should consider

Let us stand behind our armed forces as one. May they do well and may the Almighty watch over them.

Pakistan is not entirely populated by a bunch of blood-boltered philistines bent on mayhem.

Saad’s decisions in those fateful days could alter very fabric and future of one of Pakistan’s leading universities.

USSC will find itself out of touch if it continues to make decisions reflecting views of Christian Caucasian males.

The phrase ‘chak de phatte’ is commonly used now to describe, “Bring the house down!”

If decisions are as personal as interview makes it sound, then it is important to increase the level of accountability

The big boys of Bollywood, your game will soon be up.

Unless the police is freed of political interference, the public will remain sceptical and wary of it.

Pakistan should do its homework for Paris and someone needs to brief the prime minister about it.

Pakistan was on the brink of being clean but failed, and the virus is now being exported to other countries.

Nothing undermines the sacrifices of our brave soldiers, civilians more than politicians engaging in point scoring.