Opinion

When Manmohan Singh steps aside, someone new must take charge of what is a serious problem that needs a fresh approach

There is still confusion in minds of people, particularly those who lived under Ayub Khan's secular government.

Unless regulatory frameworks improve, creating large bureaucracies to deal with rising challenges will keep failing.

We need more transport projects, but the next ones need to be better planned and better executed.

TTP has made elections into a two-party contest and PML-N, PTI must express their desire to stand against them.

Juxtaposing military spending with the social sector speaks volumes about Pakistan’s misplaced priorities.

India is witnessing a struggle between secular and communal forces. This has been the case ever since independence.

Yanks have their screaming tabloids, nutjobs, hate-mongers. But by & large, they get slapped down by a savvy public.

The nonsensical bigoted kerfuffle raised by Articles 62, 63 of the multi-mess made of the Constitution has retreated.

The actual culprits in most cases go scot-free while only petty criminals and lesser thugs languish in jails.

Insecurity is manufactured at the global level and has less to do with cultural and religious forces found locally.

In the circumstances, a population that is passive or intimidated by terrorists enables their success.

The PTI needs to not fight shy of telling the tiller what it promises.

His conduct recalled to mind elegant way in which Zulfikar Ali Bhutto suffered at the hands of another army dictator.

The security forces of Pakistan must confine the invisible contestants to their hideouts and protect democratic forces

National literacy campaign will need to be planned with provincial, federal governments so it reaches towns, villages.

It may be the time to work out the cost-benefit ratio of our adventure as the frontline state in the war on terror.

For the right people to be elected, our people need to be informed and educated.

Never in history had potential lawmakers faced such a demeaning time, and that too, before the glare of the media.

The official figures of GDP growth do not reflect the massive amount of black cash in circulation.

Voters are influenced less by foreign policy and economic programmes and more by ethnic, linguistic, tribal factors.

First, Pakistani tin-pot leaders make secret deals & leak to Western press, then coroborate it to same Western press.

No definition of 'sagacious' and 'ameen' has been given, leaving process of scrutiny open to being abused.

I hope that we Pakistanis, leaders, people, can learn from Margaret Thatcher, her ideals, sense of purpose, character.

If a coalition government is realised following May 11, political maturity will be the need of the hour.

It's never too late to execute a dictator when democratic institutions are strong, enjoy full support of the people.

It'll be a step forward when Balochistan people elect candidates as party flags, colours flow in fresh political air.

As our digital and real lives become intertwined, the revolution won’t just be televised, it will be mobile.

If inanities in the name of faith and morality are left unquestioned, the country will plunge into medieval times.

What the PML-N is less clear about is its plan to find the money to finance the effort it wants to launch.

Bringing about tangible reforms in the agricultural sector remains vital in a country like Pakistan.

Rural workers are not responding sheeplike to commit votes for the locally dominant political party.

As May 11 approaches, one hopes for a change of government. We will have a better leadership. Or will we?

Corruption feeds into loop of poverty, increasing social distributive injustice, making it difficult for poor to rise.

Pakistan needs to work towards fixing its internal water disputes within Indus Water Treaty to combat water scarcity.

Surat wasn’t designed by outsiders, it had an urban culture developed by its citizens, much of which it retains today.

Musharraf has to be tried, hopefully punished to establish a point; dictator is never all right, never acceptable.

It is, however, not very clear just what it was that miffed the returning officer in Ayaz Amir’s case.

New breed of politically motivated youth has been brought up on half-baked truths, pessimism, paranoia and xenophobia.

The half-full or half-empty metaphor does not appropriately apply to Pakistan.

Instead of remaining consistent in democracy, we have been experimenting with distorted forms of government.

In a country where states had for long been complaining of central authoritarianism, the reverse now seems to be true.

For those who are contesting elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), security, and threat of attacks are prime issues.

To be sustained over a long period, economic reform must be thought up, legislated, implemented by the elected.

While health implications of domestic abuse are known, what is not so well known is its relation with mental illness.

Disqualifying people for character issues and past transgressions will take the politics out of democracy.

Why in the world should line officers, particularly senior judicial officers such as members BoR be posted out?

Pakistan will have to do better in the critical areas of implementation and management of its vaccination programme.

Newspapers need to spark editorial conversations that focus on informing and educating rather than simply criticising.

The RO could have gone through a series of Ayaz Amir's columns to gauge his commitment to Pakistan and its ideology.