Opinion

While at a critical junction, South Asia is struggling to make higher education a matter of national interest.

A 'bhaand' is always preferred to the scholar and the crooner always trumps the thinker.

A single acre of this plant produces the same amount of cellulose fibre, used in papermaking, as 4.1 acres of trees!

The US supported the coup against the democratically elected Islamic regime. Which 'democracy' supports dictatorship?

Unless we don't react with 'speed of war', terrorists will keep embarrassing us with contempt and ease.

Once again, the international community is stepping in with a large dose of finance to bail out the country.

Let us hope that Pakistan has the sense to learn from modern Germany.

You may know your weaknesses better than anyone, but don’t force a room of interviewers to live inside your head.

The teen years are always going to be difficult but they need not be impossible.

While our media is possibly the freest in the Muslim world, it is also one of the most targeted the world over.

Democracies only vote once every 4 to 5 years: popular opinion is not an election and no justification for a coup.

All we are now left with are memories. And that is something nobody can take away from us.

We have walked long enough and with exactitude reached the middle of nowhere.

Vadra is son-in-law of most powerful person in India. If nothing else, Sonia is morally obliged to set matter to rest.

Mr Khan should at the least be charged for placing public security in jeopardy.

If the suspension of dialogue does not produce desired results, it can only be followed by military action.

Our ability to protect Pakistani children depends on the strength of Pakistanis to stand up against these attacks.

Bad news from Pakistan should define the country no more than bad news from America is allowed to define America.

Several self-proclaimed Marxists consider these fascists as some sort of nationalist progressive force.

An agreement between the countries would reduce the support the Jihadis groups receive and thus ensure peace.

Tagore’s complex relation with nationalism is on supporting anti-colonial movement but opposing nationalism by itself.

The media, Indian media leading, and ours coming in a close second, has gone overboard reporting the LoC incidents.

The power policy should have included concrete measures to strengthen Enercon.

Climate change has resulted in an increased variability in the timing, location & volume of precipitation of monsoon.

People ask me why I visit India despite the enmity. It's easy, I have my roots there and love it like I do Pakistan.

The mechanisms of democracy don’t have to follow a set example.

Over 60 years later, Muslims in Pakistan are more unsafe and suffering than those in India.

We should not be willing to compromise ethics for cricketing gains.

As a 'pure blood' citizen (not dual national), the increasingly xenophobic nature of Pakistani society is appalling.

The journey of cleaning violence from society is steeply uphill. The only option is to free the state of any religion.

Conventional wisdom has been that once democracy is allowed to take root, everything would fall in place.

People should be free to disagree with his words, but we should all know and agree on what his words were.

Khan's task will demand creating a federal force as well as inducing the provinces to improve their police forces.

First and foremost must come the realisation that all nation-states are borne out of accidents of history.

66 years ago, Indians made a pledge to establish a pluralistic and secular democracy. It's time to redeem that pledge.

We have done you a favour, by electing you to power, now you have to return that favour.

It is problematic to explain acts of violence perpetuated by states in essentially the same manner as terrorists.

India’s overreaction also shows a lack of pragmatism on the part of its politicians.

To cooperate with a country that you may not like is a patriotic duty, if doing that strengthens your own country.

The new governments are in position. But do they have solutions to his problems?

Against all odds, the master of comebacks has now been selected for the Zimbabwe tour.

Since we don’t read, we become easy prey for the disinformation that goes around on such critical issues.

Expanding the tax base will require documenting the economy that remains outside the government’s reach.

Both the PML-N and the Tehreek-e-Insaf possibly are now realizing what it takes to be in power.

President must have an autonomous stature and not just be a signing machine for advice of prime minister.

Alpine skiing is popular wherever there is combination of mountain slopes, snow and sufficient tourist infrastructure.

Jirgas commonly discriminate against women, who are often traded away to absolve men’s crimes.

There were questions on the Maulana, the contempt notice and jailbreak but none on inflation and prices.

Taliban & cohorts have us over a barrel, helped along by those who say all will be well after US leaves Afghanistan.

No matter how much cross-border violence we see Nankana Sahib will remain in Pakistan and Ajmer Sharif in India.