Opinion

Rahul clearly carries more weight within the Congress party than Bilawal does in the PPP.

The new Urdu reader represented an attempt to remove blinkers forced on students by General Zia's education fantasia.

Quaid-e-Azam said of him, "I have lost in him not only a colleague, a collaborator, but also a great friend."

Tamils, intellectual community are waiting for the promise made to be implemented. The Sinhalese have no other option.

If Sethi wants to end up as honest caretaker, then his economic priority should be to ensure zero overdraft with SBP.

The shadow of the military still darkens the electoral process.

Pakistan is unique in the world in requiring proficiency in Scriptures as qualification for standing in the elections.

Let us hear what leaders have to say about complex challenges facing our nation today, how they plan on tackling them.

With army deployed to the border, state will never be able create a security apparatus for the internal threat.

It is time for a plebiscite to be held in Kashmir and determine what the Kashmiris want.

Clearly, colonel's intent was to micro-manage debate on Hazaras for the “sin” of being an ethnic, religious minority.

If countries can offer nuclear tech to India, US cannot suggest Pakistan and China refrain from similar cooperation.

The elephant in Afghan room today is that its post-colonial colonial occupation enjoys no credibility with the locals.

Change must ensure that all children, irrespective of parental wishes, receive the education they are entitled to.

In the 21st century, an ideological nation in possession of nukes and facing extremism has no place.

We need to introduce legislation to provide an enabling environment for mothers and children to seek health care.

Once-bitter enemies have managed to agree upon safe pair of hands — hands of fierce critic — is extremely heartening.

The India-Pakistan universe changed in such subtle, fundamental ways that both countries won’t be the same again.

Improving the quality of education deserves serious attention in a country like ours.

It may be necessary for the finance minister of the interim federal government to be sent in to bat.

In all this doom and gloom, the encouraging aspect is how the transition of power has happened.

It seems unlikely that any of the major parties will include a commitment on gender-based violence in their manifestos

We kick around smaller nations that are our neighbours because we can; there’s no other reason.

In modern warfare, numbers may not count as much as they did, which is just as frightening as prospect of all-out war.

My time with the government further reinforced my view that technology can indeed be a powerful enabler for reform.

I honestly believe social stratification has a great deal to do with the kind of candidate one wants to support.

The appointment of Najam Sethi has been welcomed across the board in India.

The core ideology of movements is always people-centric, something which is missing in revolutions.

The members of the PPP-Z are now surely laughing their way to their respective offshore banks.

It has become a Herculean task to rein in the malevolent religiosity nurtured during protracted dictatorships.

Those who take office now will have to make a number of public policy choices to pull country back from edge of abyss.

Translation of literary works into international languages may be a way to project a softer image of the country.

A specialty of my father was designing book covers. He had designed the covers of almost all novels by Nasim Hejazi.

If the BQFF had been staged 34 years ago, I know exactly the film that would have blown my mind then, Aurat Raj.

The only reason to vote is purely symbolic, wave my ink-stained finger around and act as if I have done my civic duty.

Our LEAs are not equipped with the most important thing needed to fight cybercrime, i.e., properly developed laws.

It is time for the hawks in our security establishment to come forward and for the military elite to put on war paint.

It appears that for individuals like me, decision to vote is a lot easier than decision of knowing who to vote for.

It is said a country where optimism best flourishes is truly a lunatic asylum.

My humble request to all politicians and leaders of this country is to please not turn Pakistan into a graveyard.

Our politicians have been no paragons of virtue, but they can't be accused of disastrous policies pursued by...

Vast majority of population, food insecure or not, has absolutely no understanding of basic nutritional value of food.

How much more can we mine the Indus for our uses without considering how we have destroyed its ecology.

Most effective firewall would be if media owners, practitioners file by March 29 forms similar to nomination papers.

Constituency politics is why it is difficult to get a median voter in Pakistan; nor does voting depend on issues.

The more we practice democracy, the better the system will become.

It seems to be a foregone conclusion that everything that happens in Pakistan is somehow planned in Washington.

ADB's recent report deserves attention to understand policy prescriptions being emphasised to tackle water insecurity.

Despite repeated elections in both Pakistan & India, corruption increased & governance became poorer over the years.

We must work on building a Pakistan, which is not of someone long dead, but of the 180 million living citizens.