Opinion

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.

Its our choice, after all, to focus either on the signal or the noise.

The answer lies in promotion of seamless banking or branchless banking in the regional trading bloc.

The language status quo should continue until the nation can have a consensus on some other formula.

Only if Pak-Afghan join hands in a mutual fight against terrorism can the military operations ultimately succeed.

Only if Iraq remains united can the menace that ISIS represents be reduced, if not eliminated.

Around half a million people are expected to be displaced by the current military operation in North Waziristan.

An all-inclusive Iraqi government is the answer, one that serves the interests of all Iraqis and not just the Shia.

The time has come to privatise the FBR and the revenue function of the government.

Today, Jinnah’s legacy is often pursued to strengthen partisan political agendas.

Though I am equally at home in both languages, I invariably press the button for English, whether 1 or 2.

His missteps have been few, and where he has stumbled, he has recovered quickly.

A tsunami will march on to Islamabad on Independence Day to storm House of Sharif. A final showdown seemingly imminent

Deficit of our politics is such that while a war rages, people in IDP camps, Punjab remains theatre of power politics.

Pakistan ain’t letting India in on Afghanistan any time soon. It has its interests to secure.

We need serious national level therapy, whereby we develop productive mindset of creating and developing things.

Drop the pretense that you cared for democracy. Make Pakistan constitutional dictatorship, oligarchy & rule it forever

An honest policy reappraisal, restoration of system that worked would resolve current crisis, lay foundation for peace

Some historians, politicians make linear connection and assert it was language that drove East & West Pakistan apart.

While ICG criticises Pakistan govt, it shies away from blaming donor agencies for problems plaguing education sector.

With more anti-Muslim violence in the neighbourhood, radicalism and jihadist narrative will find more space to operate

Success of Zarb-e-Azb will not depend on how many militants are killed but on how Pakistan deals with IDPs.

Qadri's plane, quite correctly, not given permission to land in Islamabad where airport was besieged by his supporters

Last time Qadri was accommodated. This time a bravura performance is going to bequeath us a rather different outcome.

Instead of staying quiet Ali and his wife made a decision to talk about Down Syndrome openly, break social barriers.