Opinion

PM Nawaz visits Saudi Arabia as floods rage through the country. The worst, say experts, is yet to come.

The restriction on human movement creates more problems than it solves.

Every sane person is condemning the militancy, but nobody appears to be doing anything about it.

Quantity of an individual’s education appears to be unrelated to their support for terror groups and terrorism.

It is remarkable that people say India should have a smaller government. Numbers show the problem to be the opposite.

Without defending the state, development and democracy would be just a cry in the wilderness.

If domestic politics sour, all eyes turned onto the army chief; the army is seen as the saviour in troublesome times.

Secularism through which alone India can remain a vibrant democracy, cannot work through polarisation.

Being forced to live away from her country Malala may have to deal with the burden of legitimacy.

Beyond fasting and praying, what does it really mean to be a Pakistani Muslim in the 21st century?

Annual Plan 2013-14 says Pakistan has achieved MDG1 before the 2015 deadline. However, this is too good to be true.

The trauma suffered by them will be long lived and is quite emphatically unjust given lack of proof of their guilt.

To stop the domination of Punjab and of Karachi, the three provincial governments need to develop their own provinces.

Is it really the job of the media to tell us who will win? Are journalists astrologers?

Could it be that PTI government policy of appeasing terrorists took away whatever remained of K-P police’s spine?

Simply by referring to an act of violence as ‘terrorism’, the media is already condemning that which has occurred.

NACTA would probably benefit from making a short-term versus a long-term strategy to deal with the problem.

Population of Guantanamo can be cut by one-third if all Yemenis who have been ‘cleared for transfer’ are repatriated.

Being the brave person that he was, Zeeshan refused to just sit while others fought for their lives.

Whoever is responsible for allowing this attack should be taken to task to avoid such disastrous debacles in future.

Pakistani women may be irresistible beauties, but they have contributions to offer to society.

Best way to kick-start economy is to invest in projects producing the commodity in greatest demand: electricity.

Pakistan is never dull but if your trip is, you’re doing something wrong.

All we see is patchwork of a response if not paralysis, in tackling an adversary who grows confident by the day.

The US and Pakistan need to work together to avoid another influx of more Afghan refugees into Pakistan.

Term ‘homemaker’ is beautiful, comes with lot of responsibility. It also seems have the obligation to do nothing else.

He lashed out with some choice words about my anatomy, so I attacked him.

It does not matter who heads our army, but it does matter that the civilian leadership must provide good governance.

Pakistan has just started on the road to democracy and we must not derail it by wanting perfection at each stage.

Poorer countries cannot lean on richer ones for support and at the same time, resent them for the interference.

The fact that Nawaz has yet to convene the DCC is disappointing.

National integrity and harmony are not served by the quota system; many remain unrepresented in federal services.

Lahore must respond to different impulses and determine its economy itself during the early phases of urbanisation.

Mamnoon Hussain does not have much standing in the PML-N, not to speak of Pakistani politics.

The job of a civilian president, especially in a country like Pakistan, is essentially a ceremonial one.

While there are multiple causes of transmission of hepatitis B & C, the most risk is from unsafe injection practices.

The baniya is excellent at accumulating capital but not particularly good at giving it away.

Supreme Court is writing a new history of this country, where lawyers movement, restoration was storming of Bastille.

Could the taxi driver's death have been prevented? Yes! If the Rangers were given more equipment than just guns.

The drainage system is completely choked, and no one is willing to take the responsibility.

Asking the terrorist lot ‘nicely,’ to be ‘nice’ and desist from activity was and is not a solution.

Stop criticising just for the heck of it. She’s fighting all the bad men — the ‘Vadero Pajeros’. Appreciate...

From Dr Abdus Salam to Malala, there is a long list of heroes who became our victims and eventually our enemies.

Holding of elections when 42 voters were yet to be elected is tantamount to rigging of elections.

In a country where we constantly bemoan lack of national assets, let us start by supporting the ones we already have.

With ‘stand your ground’ laws, parts of the US are again encouraging vigilante justice despite rampant discrimination.

The frightening part is our establishment still believe they will ‘control’ the collective Taliban once US is gone.

It was unsettling to see the UN’s blatant attempt to showcase Malala in the effort to raise its own credibility.

In a 2005 interview, he acknowledged this fear “around him” and that he needed to lose elections to learn.

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