Opinion

Performance was so unlike Pakistan of recent years, a team criticised for its slow, negative, boring approach to Test.

Education alone will not reverse our continued decline into chaos and stupor, but surely, it will play a major role.

Our leaders have to be able to deal with heads of state at UN meetings just as comfortably as with a large landowners.

It seems that inspiration of the ICC proposal is drawn from the lopsided UNSC, where big powers retain veto powers.

Recurrent droughts, associated famines in Thar has led to the realisation that this will be a continuing phenomenon.

With only minor changes in its vehicle verification system, Sindh E&T dept can provide useful, powerful data to users.

While Southeast Asia strikes positive note on so many fronts, there is disturbing streak in form of majoritarianism.

The risk-opportunity nexus has to be borne in mind when states plan for the future.

The greatest damage to Pakistan happened as a result of the ill-conceived educational policies of the 1970s.

I can’t claim to have found harmony, but I do realise now that I need to stop and smell the roses more often.

Pakistan is one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to work in.

Muslim countries fail to realise that by destabilising one another, they are further aggravating their insecurities.

Even the privileged are beginning to question the future of our country, though they’ve never had it so good.

There may be need to rethink idea of Rahul as party’s future, but it can't be done on the basis of an imagined result.

Evidence suggests that economic gains out of GSP plus would be lower than trumpeted.

In reality, development and economic progress eventually eliminate corruption, not the other way around.

Why may the rule of law be established only through one man alone? Is it not a pervasive need across the spectrum?

There is no one, or no group, to whom or to which one can, right now, look for salvation to come.

In our admirable haste to find scapegoats, we often forget that every segment of the elite has done equal harm here.

Pluralism and democracy are the best way forward towards progress and development.

The new government has clearly no interest in security and gender justice.

Any plan precipitating intra-Afghan conflict as part of anti-Taliban strategy will jeopardise reconciliation process.

Legacy, in terms of SBP’s report, is not as dismal as it appears in official pontifications. nor prospects any better.

I am not sure how this beluga, suffering in a pool in Karachi, would help in conservation of belugas in the wild.

Countries like Pakistan will find it impossible to achieve prosperity with such deeply ingrained gender biases.

It is in their unsaid and unspoken bewilderment that Pakistani visitors in India speak the most.

Imran Khan, I wonder if your handlers expose you to the blood and gore that is there for all to see on our screens.

Same as it was under previous government, wonders of democracy have, at least, brought us continuity of deprivation.

The only Pakistanis who benefit from these companies are the corrupt employees.

The review committee is reversing the improvements in the revised curriculum.

Pakistan should realise the inappropriateness of its existing economic model and go for a more socially inclusive one.

Silence pushes an issue under the carpet, at least, up until the popular narrative can be changed through deception.

Without drastic reform, the police cannot really function as society’s first line of defence.

Sheikh Hasina should not look for short-term political gain in a sham election victory, but save the soul of country.

Clearly, this election does not reflect the will of a population far advanced from those early days.

It seems each time Pakistan looks to tear itself apart, another Pakistani steps up and saves its soul.

Provincial autonomy would create political and economic competition among govts operating from three different levels.

Those desiring peace as a strategic goal for India and Pakistan have no choice but to keep waiting.

Robert Gates writes that the US president had no faith in his own strategy of sending in more troops in 2009.

Our privatization experience so far has not been good.

The govt and military need to send out sharp and clear-cut messages that they will not tolerate any violent agenda.

BJP’s presence in major states, its superior organisational capacity should be able to convert those attracted to Modi

All that Chaudhry Shujaat is requesting is a little reflection.

We cannot continue to let education policy be dictated by political expediency.

Junior officers knew their boss was very much on the ground, so they had to do their jobs as thoroughly as possible.

Till the time you cannot name the known murderers and condemn them, please do not bother, thank you very much.

It can be argued that exercising love, care towards others is important expression of presence of God in our hearts.

Apart from performing as the city toughest top cop, he was also known for his investigative sharpness.

When people acquire some financial power, they also want to take their political fate in their own hands.

Real tragedy is not that Pakistan lost brave heroes but that they died in vain, their deaths unlikely to move govt.