Opinion

RSS trusts Modi to take hard right ideology forward to where a Hindu state at least does not appear as just a mirage.

If encouragement of cheating continues, it won't be surprising if we produce inept professionals.

If Pakistan wants to escape poverty, it needs to move past the rhetoric of ‘elimination’ of corruption/terrorism.

Malnutrition is estimated to decrease Pakistan’s GDP by 2 to 3% and equates to billions of lost rupees every year.

No state has the right to act like a net nanny.

Effectively implementing the plastic bag ban in Islamabad or in other big cities would be a major accomplishment.

Modi will be good for India as he will unite Indians to cry “Fascism! Fascism!”, bring scrutiny on his every...

While Guantanamo may be closed down, facility based on same principles may open in US to try future terror suspects.

Finance minister has presented a pro-market budget, but its macroeconomic framework will be a hard sell for the IFIs.

Whenever it came to Afghan national interests, the Haqqanis have been Afghans first and our friends later.

Police hasn't yet realised that battle for combating terrorism and violence begins by controlling vehicles and...

Following the Bihar model and the Nitish-style merit emulation can lead to a turnaround by PTI administration in K-P.

Google, take a principled stand and refuse to negotiate with the government until it stops repressing its citizens

Newer determinants of international engagement for war, peace, trade are generating their own addendums to rule books.

The violence is not done by hands that are hidden, but hands that are visible, soaked in Pakistani blood.

The PM is wrong in thinking that he can be more effective by holding the defence, foreign portfolio himself.

NADRA and ECP restored trust in electoral process, but there is a huge risk that public won’t come out to vote...

Let us hope that the new govt will make Pakistan-centric policies rather than India- or Afghan-centric policies.

I find tranquillity in knowing that every morsel of my children’s achievement will be accredited to their native land.

All the countries need to look at one another’s problems, through putting themselves in the other’s shoes.

Immediate challenge for new government will be to ensure no more dead bodies are received, missing people retrieved.

By appointing a non-Muslim to an important ministry, Nawaz has shown his resolve to trust him regardless of religion.

The quest for intrinsic study without taking practical benefits into consideration is often necessary.

Government should create the new Information Technology policy urgently, with inputs from all stakeholders.

Our shared history, on state level, has become poison that affects water treaties, trade agreements, visa grants.

PM must understand what the world has become since the last time he was in power and also the change that will occur.

Despite all the challenges, the JPMC continues to provide good and cheap medical care to thousands daily.

Both insurgency and the energy crisis can be tackled at the same time with the same speed.

Education is being denied to our students by the institutions that claim to provide a platform for disseminating it.

One wonders if the electorate in Pakistan will one day behave like its eastern neighbour at election time.

Our national interest of rebuilding the economy must precede all other imperatives.

Congress strategy in the state has been not to insist on full-dress secularism but to ignore what was going on there.

Appointments to the Cabinet were done in good faith and on “objective” criteria, but the criteria need to be revisited

Popularity among the people isn't the criteria of being a lawmaker; it is the criteria of being a fundraiser.

Reserved seats must be filled via direct elections so women on reserved seats have their own constituency, power base.

Mr Sharif has not only made the right noises but has done what democrats claim to be the right and proper things.

The parents of Shahzeb Khan will never see their son again. The death sentence to his murderers is not cruel.

Male or female politicians, in order to remain elegant and sophisticated, must avoid overstated looks, extravagance.

It's time for India to break free and establish quick ties with the new democratic govt in Pakistan.

Afghan security forces are not prepared for the Taliban and will not be able to prevent violence across the country.

In designing the budget, due consideration should be given to the existing precarious balance of payments situation.

Indict the Commando for his crimes; send on parole; give date of hearing. If he doesn’t return, try him in absentia.

While law and order is a provincial responsibility, the nature of the prevailing violence requires a national policy.

Mirza turned back at 8600m to let his sister take the lead and declare to the world that women are as capable as men.

Suspicion on journalists from India stationed in Pakistan grew after The Hindu sent successive female journalists.

Very few people are prepared to accept that a change of cropping patterns is essential if agriculture is to survive.

Behind every great nation, there is always a great turnaround story.

Lawyers and their representative bodies should take up this matter as their first priority.

I cannot say that I haven’t seen more violent protests, but I’ve certainly not seen any of this magnitude thus far.

The use of drones, without the approval of our state, results in the continued loss of our national integrity.