Opinion

Financial flows originating in the diaspora communities will become increasingly important.

The most important challenge is to develop and systematically implement a strategy to confront violent extremism.

How important will young people actually be in deciding the election result?

The good news for Hamid Karzai is that Uncle Sam will keep military and civilian advisers in Afghanistan.

The appointment of Justice Mir Hazar Khan Khoso as caretaker PM is being hailed as a victory for democracy.

Since terrorism is not predictable in any scenario, responses cannot be programmed into a national security strategy.

JDU brings most of the middle castes & many Muslims, BJP brings all the upper castes & the two split the lower castes.

Brutal 30-year legacy of Saddam, inseparably wed to cruelty of American policy in the region, broke the Iraqi people.

Quaid arrived in Lahore on March 21 and the resolution's draft was finalised in a session of the AIML on March 22.

The Metro Bus is run by a sophisticated set of IT systems, each carefully tweaked, according to our requirements.

Indian Muslims are not, and never have been interested in becoming Pakistani citizens.

Tolerance is need of the hour, especially when hatred is everywhere and violence & intolerance is becoming the norm.

Political parties should, through their manifestos, make it clear that police will not be used to thrash opponents.

Had a procedure for choosing successor to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) been prescribed, history would have been different.

Killed, wounded and displaced civilians cannot be treated as merely “collateral effects”.

The PML-N will be tested by the Mush-factor more than any other party.

The army's Canteen Stores Department is now just another retail store catering to all comers.

Sitting in Bratislava, I kept wondering why the divorce in our case had to be so violent.

Ideologically, politicians use the concept of the devil to characterise their opponents as being ungodly.

What we need instead of one-man rule is a country where decision-making is pushed down to the lowest possible level.

It breaks our courage to see terrorists being arrested and then set free on one pretext or the other.

There were three basic claims that Mr Bangash put up, which need to be reviewed in detail.

The need now is to get rid of the invasive paper mulberry plant without any further excuse or delay.

Badami Bagh should serve as test case for criminal administration departments, to avoid recurrence of such happenings.

Prime Minister Netanyahu envisages a Bantustan, with municipal powers, not a sovereign state, as mandated by the UN.

One must congratulate Hina Rabbani Khar and her team for playing a good innings at a very difficult time.

New leader Xi Jinping will don four caps of leadership in the Chinese political spectrum.

While the Shia populations of south Lebanon may be accommodated, the Shia populations in Pakistan face difficulty.

Joachim Prinz might as well have been talking about Pakistan when he wrote about the Germans becoming silent onlookers

Jinnah’s Pakistan is an Islamic state, which defines who a Muslim is and is not very democratic.

Women of the world should realise the battle for gender equality can't be fought and won at the national level alone.

It is only when all of us South Asians speak up that the change will begin.

For cities to become the new engines of growth, public order and rule of law are necessary, not the fires of anarchy.

Politicians should focus on trying to ensuring state institutions are implementing constitutional right to education.

About a 0.3 percentage point increase in national income could be attributed to remittances from the United States.

Goodbye, Perween Rahman. Your only crime was that for three decades, you devoted yourself to the cause of the poor.

Anti-terror strategies would require consultations from gatekeepers to make them more representative nationally.

There are also CCTV cameras observing inmates. How did Ram Singh evade all this?

The minorities in Pakistan continue to live in constant dread of being attacked or molested.

The scenes of Joseph Colony are the real “image” of Pakistan. That image is Pakistan going to hell on a metro bus.

Nobody in the parliament has raised any eyebrow about the issues of obsolete textbooks and teacher absenteeism.

Government, army achieved new landmarks in five years, but their attitude was far from effective with daily murders.

It is only the amendment to the national mindset that can cure the evil.

Reporting cannot be without responsibility, particularly when journalists believe that advertisements come from wars.

Islamists in Pakistan celebrate terrible losses, as they perceive themselves to be locked up in crusade against West.

Movement of Projonmo Chottor presents opportunity for youth of Pakistanis to reach out to the youth of Bangladesh.

The media doesn’t consider anything to be news if it hurts the bottom line.

Pakistani government must increase tax revenue and tackle corruption to rebuild people’s faith in politics.

Shahbag may define Bangla secularism while we continue with ambiguity in determining place of religion in our politics

The numbers in the PML-N's economic policy manifesto don’t add up. They did not, even in their earlier tenures.