Opinion

Disbursing cash and wheat as a short-term plan is useless — what will the Tharis do once the aid runs out

Pakistan cannot afford to ally itself with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait, while flying in the face of Iran.

Beyond the familiar rhetoric, NSS process has been just another global junket in the global non-proliferation agenda

To build a better future, the challenge is to establish a new relationship between humans, commodities and nature.

There is much that the K-P government can claim credit for, but the economy is not one of them.

When societies go through political transformation, it is only to be expected political winds will also affect media.

Given Internet's potential, public apathy towards the need for greater internet freedom in our country is troubling.

For any lasting “peace”, TTP must give up those among them who actually attacked or executed our soldiers and others.

The country I visited and fell in love with was not the country I had chosen to live in.

Malaysian govt’s incompetence, callousness in dealing with crisis of MH370 has sparked widespread dissatisfaction.

Pakistani journalists should take a hint: you’re doing no one a favour by trying to report the truth.

Most effective policy tool that govt can employ right now is to offer a powerful counter-narrative to the Taliban.

There is little hope for the interest of common workers being represented, which is a job for trade unions.

Medieval full-page advertisement in Dhaka reflects official ignorance of need for credible, attractive govt narrative.

BJP’s leadership triumvirate agreed that Jaswant Singh is voice of dissent in a BJP that should speak with one...

What a contradiction it is, she thought; they call her a 'rape victim', yet law minister says the girl was not raped.

Successive governments have failed in helping media persons avert life threats while performing their duties.

The strategic community is divided on whether the Nuclear Security Summit should have also included global disarmament

Solutions to Pakistan’s health challenges need innovation that is both inclusive and frugal.

The new Afghan IDP policy gives some hope that more people will be given the protection they deserve.

It is important to keep in mind that politicians are not magicians who can wave their magic wands and fix everything.

Putin, like any Western leader today, fights the security challenges that his country confronts.

It is not the dark, desperate side that we showed in Jalalabad that needs nurturing.

The state’s duty is to leverage the existing potential the tribes for accomplishing the goal of establishing peace.

A determined effort is required to increase exports by focusing on development of new product lines and new markets.

If government continues to steer Pakistan down this destructive path, then the most vulnerable will continue to suffer

For the landlords, who dominate both the Sindh assembly and the cabinet, a drought in Thar brings them good tidings.

While pursuing relations with Arab states, Pakistan should not entangle itself in power politics in the Middle East.

In post-colonial Muslim states, political Islam failed miserably, but militant Islam won.

I had no issue with Matthew McConaughey being declared Best Actor. I just didn’t like the film.

The federal government and perhaps the state have an ethnicity and it is Punjabi. And they just do not care.

If Saudis came here to shop for nukes, weapons, insurgents, then they should know Pakistan is a country, not a shop.

The so-called peace process has turned into a farce exacting a heavy toll on the already dwindled state legitimacy.

If pitched convincingly, we can ship all of our religious warriors on a one-way ticket to Syria.

We as Pakistanis seem to prefer existing in escapist, isolated, individualistic reality than face enormity of present.

Government must ensure that TTP recognise all schools as safe sanctuaries and agree to re-open closed schools.

Pakistan should consider how a change in its Mideast policy could damage its relationship with Iran.

Our good people are our strategic depth: ordinary Pakistanis, and not some foreign country.

Major snowfall in March, heaviest fall of the winter, was not until recent years, part of localised weather pattern.

In condemning terrorist acts, China must ensure it does not place onus of hatred generated on one ethnicity, religion.

The stand-off warrants political solution. Military coups in Bangladesh, unlike in Pakistan, have always been bloody.

Thinking out of the box was not high on the agenda either and the narrowness of their vision was striking.

Extremist forces have Sindh, will gradually challenge plural sociocultural norms, just as it happened in South Punjab.

Chinese put up defence of Pakistan in presence of leading Western think tankers, intellectuals and ex-diplomats.

Since the day we won our independence, Fata's Pakistanis have been living under the shameful colonial law of FCR.

Our cure comes in form of an infected, leaky band-aid that seems to work for time being, but only makes problem worse.

Minus the military’s induction, there would have been no reaction to the events across the border.

Productivity increase & international trade are central to development models used by miracle economies of East Asia.

We are a nation that does not try and seek answers.

A cluttered mind cost the defending champions the Asia Cup title.