Opinion

I plead with you to bury Zia’s Pakistan once and for all.

Both India and Pakistan are leaning towards achieving economic stability but possibly at the expense of growth.

Some of the finest cities of the world — London, Chicago, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Beirut — were once unlivable.

There has been no mass appeal to help the Baloch in their time of need. Can we write it off as donor fatigue?

It is surprising that the war on terror, is still dividing Pakistan’s intelligentsia down the middle.

If the prime minister level meeting was not to produce any positive results, why did the two prime minister meet?

Amalia Rodrigues was to Portugal what Umm-e-Kulsum was to Egypt, the greatest ambassador her country ever had.

All 5 of these leaders will be prominent in the campaign and in none of their cases will their being single come up.

TTP is coming your way. It’s snarling, it’s growling, and man, it is pumped up to blow up.

Those who seek to communicate will still find ways, while the federal and Sindh governments revel in their idiocy.

Was it fear of economic shunning? Fear of TTP, who clearly threatened the government against executing its members?

The army is a well-disciplined force which banks on fresh blood to inspire generations of leaders.

Every non-Muslim member of the assembly had opposed the Objective Resolution, giving due warning of things to come.

Once all communication in Pakistan is blocked or monitored, we can then turn our attention to transport networks.

One can just not comprehend why elected governments are unable to muster the courage to defy extremists with peace.

A prime minister on the defensive and sullen and uninspiring; hardly convincing.

Please, Mian Sahib, have a heart. Let us preserve the sanctity of the national park as you once directed.

Trying to predict climate change's impact on glaciers in as large and inaccessible an area as Himalayas is not easy.

Great historical figures can become just their images. What they wrote, thought, stood for, can become immaterial.

The crisis is not Baloch versus Baloch or Baloch versus Pashtun. It’s a conflict between the Baloch and the centre.

Is it not clear that having successfully divided us, the TTP have us over a barrel just as they knew they would?

That there is a full chapter on Pakistan’s place in the world is in itself an improvement.

Our years of manliness haven’t taken us very far.

Fast food outlets, Western style, are popping up like mushrooms in the autumn.

In a country that remains wracked by sectarianism and intolerance, there is much to be learnt from Tharparkar.

Raising tariffs will not be a sustainable measure for a poor country like ours.

We all know the hatred often spewed in sermons, which ranges from the nightmarish, where imam damns everyone to hell.

The pro-war camp has yet to recognise how much state violence fuels the narrative of the TTP and its supporters.

We are in this for the long haul. There are no easy and final solutions. This fact must be drilled into naive minds.

The decision to order the DGMOs to come up with a plan to keep the LoC cool did not need a summit.

This tech savvy tribe is increasingly demanding to know why certain things are happening in Pakistan.

Zinda Bhaag proves that great storytelling does not need massive budgets or a Bollywood repertoire.

Is the government really serious about solving these conflicts through negotiations or is it just political rhetoric?

I learnt that the outside world is limited by accessibility, not by choice.

The stage for a historic breakthrough between Iran and the West, if not fully set, is, at least, emerging.

The TTP and their allies have inflicted far greater destruction on Pakistan than the Indians did during the ’65 war.

The ethnic Tamil population has been permanently marked as ‘terrorist’.

Due to low literacy rates, the majority of people rely on TV news discussions to make up their minds on a given issue.

As economists have known for long, confidence is the first requirement of economic health.

Many Pakistanis, despite the number of casualties, will not own the war. For them, the enemy remains India and the US.

Universities were considered oases in deserts but if NUST orders its students not to wear jeans what is one to think.

Problem with men and women who don’t exercise is that not only does it affect them but it also affects their children.

The day after the event, Surat was in danger of being flooded from an overflowing Tapi river again.

Imran Khan has lost the plot. His naiveté & stubborn refusal to face reality has unfortunately redefined his persona.

To be neutral when you are under attack is a clear ideological position, just the wrong one.

The disappearance of political leaders of stature is why the military is becoming more important than ever before.

Today, the lack of freedom of religion has made us a nation devoid of empathy, scruple and humanity.

Global carnivals, no matter how well motivated, will bring neither peace nor development.

If the Taliban is not a unified body, would it be fruitful to talk to it?

When Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharif meet on September 29, they should remember they need to do what is right.