Opinion

With political commitment, efficient management and new technologies, water balance can tilt from scarcity to surplus.

Faith may help in ensuring rule of law but it does not ensure law abidance by followers of a particular faith.

Closing down Durand Line for Afghan presidential elections marked a departure from our age-old Afghan policy.

It is now an appropriate time to revisit relations with neighbours with region in the midst of transformative moment.

Ensuring quality of medicines is a national priority and a national security problem, which makes everyone vulnerable.

One wonders whether a reborn, renamed, reformed BJI, might turn into the centre of the opposition.

The election has established that a vast majority of the Afghans have rejected the Afghan Taliban.

The press is making a mistake in remembering him now, while everyone tries to forget.

Kejriwal know that the publicity from the Battle of Benares will help people know about the political agenda of AAP.

Expulsion of Russia from G-8 has created an even greater distance between Moscow and the West.

How can Pakistan be a democracy if all citizens are not treated equally?

Our profession asks us to report truthfully, not to die silently.

Civilian leaders will have to change Pakistan’s internal security profile in order to cut back on the role of military

We offer lots and lots of solutions. The problem is… nothing happens… nobody is interested.

Terrorists based in Pakistan cannot be allowed to cross borders and hurt the interests of our neighbours.

Everywhere you look its become normal, if not a matter of slight pride, to be cheating, especially in terms of taxes.

For Modi, 272 seats are no longer satisfying, he seeks dominance. Its the difference between him and Congress.

Demolition of Islamabad's katchi abadis would also mean destruction of communities’ social fabric, ties and...

Afghanistan sucks its friends in its conflicts,destroys them and then very conveniently blames them for everything too

Fact is that Malik’s shattered confidence and a reluctant willow are getting in the way.

Everyone in India knows that the real games will be played after the elections if no single party can get 272 MPs.

An all-out ban on Pakistanis by Kuwait based on the insecurity of their homeland is perplexing.

We must decolonise our bureaucracy from the colonial mindset, make it performance based and accountable.

ZAB was a people’s man and thrived amongst the milling crowds. He was everywhere when the chips were down.

March 31 will go down as a day when an unprecedented accountability of a military ruler was initiated.

What will be done to keep children in school & provide them an effective education still not getting enough attention.

A picture of small children being frisked by a soldier, another of a man completely out of his depth, looking scared.

Food security cannot be ensured only by increasing the availability of food.

Where conspiracy theories are 10 a penny it is not difficult to fool a lot of people for large proportion of time.

In facing giant challenges, enormous threats, nations need to overcome futile machinations, manipulative entanglings.

Barring a few ultra-right-wing television anchors, most of the country will heave sigh of relief to see Musharraf go.

We are a people given to the easy way up. As in cricket, so in our lives, a Six is just round the corner.

The Awami League, it seems is determined to keep using 1971 as the political staple for its followers.

During last few years, there has been an unprecedented increase in vehicular traffic along Murree Road.

Instead of hard cash, Pakistan could have bargained for something more long-term and sustainable.

A narrative based on self-denial can never be a prescription for dealing with the Taliban or other militant groups.

Objectivity in India & Pakistan is essentially subjective conditioned by political climate and by extremist tendencies

Making HEC focus solely on innovation, research, scholarship, we can take away the political baggage it carries.

I took a number, and lectured my son on possible impact of insentient control mechanisms on a tribal society.

No doubt Constitution protects Competition Commission, but it must decide whether it’s a regulator or a whistleblower.

hose who have influence with the Taliban must persuade them to allow the elections to proceed unhindered.

We need to stop blaming others and take responsibility for our own happiness, our successes and for our failures.

In the reshaped — and reshaping — world, bilateralism may lose significance to ‘multi-nationalism’.

Pakistan is not a failed state but its powerful and educated elite are failing it.

People who do research on code switching point out that people do it to emphasise certain aspects of identity.

Now whole of Pakistan can benefit from this new initiative, which brings discipline into classroom, ensures standards.

In every single election Modi has contested, he brought up in some or other manner, this instinctive dislike of his.

Governing principle of Pakistani State is that it negotiates (read surrender) to bullies, punishes weakest of the weak

I appeal to government to provide me security, not let me remain victim of an ideology asserted with bullets, bomb.

The trio that now controls the nation, are selling — not its soul, its future as an integral entity of this century.