Opinion

Karachi is a mixture of high-walled fortress like villas in posh areas and acres and acres of rundown shanty towns.

Action is warranted not out of choice, but out of necessity.

It took US nearly 200 years to acknowledge its second major populace to be equal citizens.

Patriarchy is a solution to the difficulty and pressure of carving one’s own political destiny on one’s own.

With its capability, a clearly defined military aim and a political mandate army could surely turn tables on Taliban.

Pakistan’s academic curriculum tends to produce students who are unable to think beyond conventional means.

Due to the indisputable advent of ‘climate change’, survival on the mountains is getting tougher by the day.

There needs to be a check on the kind of control the PCB chief has, whoever he may be.

Let us also stop being in denial about the nature of the ongoing war.

This is not an interstate war. While everyone knows that, most do not understand the implications of that fact.

By offering unconditional talks, Pakistan has conceded defeat. This is unfortunate.

There is a growing discord between the liberal faction of PTI with the more conservative. So, then, who is Imran Khan?

The US-Russia agreement is a big face-saver for President Obama who didn't have support for strikes in Syria.

Fighting inexorable technological advances with an out-of-date mindset will lead to inevitable failure.

With the strikes seeming imminent, Mr Putin swore he would ply Assad with more guns than he could handle.

The youth will wait for results but not for long.

The problem is that parents often say and do things that cause their children shame without even realising it.

Let us hope a similar future of meritocracy lies ahead for the thousands of PIA employees.

Afghanistan has been unable to absorb such a large number of people. Reintegrating refugees has not proved easy.

The US has never apologised to the Vietnamese people for the use of Agent Orange.

The tunnel project is a direct assault on the MHNP and if not checked, construction will certainly begin straightaway.

A campaign fought on the strength of a man’s personality won't change the dynamic of the caste-based Indian election.

Putin is now hogging the international limelight and calling the shots.

The meagre consistency Mian Sahib and Mr Khan are displaying is that of being consistently afraid.

Now we know In Pakistan if you are powerful enough to kill, you will be elevated to be its stakeholder.

There's an old maxim that ‘all politics is local’ and this proves true even in cases like the use of chemical weapons.

It is sad that in some medical facilities, people with no degree are allowed to assume the position of pharmacists.

A complex interplay of class, property and electoral interests joined to translate a religious sentiment into arson.

President Obama and his advisors must also stop and take stock.

It seems the region is fast approaching a period of change with potential upheaval.

The BJP told us the Congress only fools Muslims. As a Hindu, I think that is how I feel about the BJP today.

Healthcare professionals continue to be the victims of violence in Pakistan.

The General Manager of the Orchestra, Nikolaus Bachler, was the most sensitive to the quite valid criticism.

First the interior minister and now it is the finance minister, one sees a pattern of intolerance towards dissent.

We like to blame our leaders for everything but in reality they have the same flaws as us.

The misuse of the qisas and diyat laws will sadly produce more Shahrukh Jatois. It’s a tide that must be stemmed.

How many of those users pay attention to their privacy settings — or even understand how they work?

As a son, and a Pakistani citizen, I could not be more proud of President Zardari.

Taking umbrage at Shahzeb’s family is scapegoating to avoid the difficult topic.

Are the civilians, once again, relinquishing charge? The coming months will tell.

They want the courts to stop him from leaving the country and escaping with his billions and trillions.

Talks, no doubt, are the best option but that should not and must not mean surrender or compromise.

Atrocities in Syria cannot be denied, but throwing bombs from a safe distance into a civil war is not the solution.

Among contemporary batsmen, only Alastair Cook has a better average than Younus.

Resolutions can afford to be vague; action cannot.

It's as if ‘India’ & ‘enemy’ are synonymous. This is symptomatic of our India obsession & our great fallacy, I believe

Foundation of peace in Afghanistan must rest on Afghan reconciliation, negotiations, accommodation among Afghan group.

The vast majority of world leaders and the US public oppose a strike on Syria by a factor of percent.

Bashar became a problem only when he started winning, breaking the rebels with guns from Russia.

Dialogue as the consensual representative will must be given its due share of time to play itself out.