Opinion

The person who controls the governing party holds the reins of power.

It is difficult to see how health work and politics can be decoupled after the damaging incidents of the last decade.

The Indus Basin, which has sustained civilisations across millennia, presents new challenges to people of the region.

None of the politicians who are elected will be able to eliminate entrenched customs that militate against progress.

Will Zia Mohyeddin be remembered? Perhaps not in toxic annals of our ideology but in our hearts through recordings.

He must do the elementary things that show that he is not the man many in the media think he is.

Who would wish polio upon their child? The TTP and their clones would, and do. They wish it upon all of our children.

Ccelebration of Working Women’s Day acknowledges women who have entered the workforce, despite adverse circumstances

The top, all the way along, has been rotten to its core, rot has steadily permeated downwards as deep as it can get.

It is clear that all forces enjoying good relations with establishment have united to eliminate the PML-N from Punjab.

Attempts to revive economy has to begin with macroeconomic, fiscal policy framework explicitly favouring industry.

This story was the Brahuis’ salute to a mountain whose fertility had kept them alive through the generations.

Experts agree that the battle against polio is going to end with Pakistan, and what is needed is that last, heavy push

In this environment, reducing interest rates did not make sense. It only decreases the incentive to hold rupee assets.

Horrors such as Sister Bargeeta’s murder, remind us that this killing is another nail in coffin of civilised Pakistan.

Musharraf's devolution taught us that minimising federal role in education, health is counter-productive.

For 41 years, two or three generations of 300,000 Pakistanis have been stranded in five refugee camps in Bangladesh.

While Pakistanis are moved by Connecticut tragedy, it would be a mistake to overlook what is happening around them.

Gun culture in US encourages individualism. It fosters a society of individuals — everyone isolated from each other.

How do we tell apart the fish when all accountability body has done is to sit by riverbank without catching anything?

PHF officials need to stop revelling and work on improving the system by replacing the seniors past their prime.

Disallowing single men because some men cause trouble is like banning all motorcycles as they have more accidents.

Big thank you to the Na Maalom Afraad for giving Karachi the most peaceful day it has experienced in a long, long time

Borrowing has become a habit. This is how we ended up being a nation without what is called the tax culture.

US, Europe need to maintain their current levels of assistance to Pakistan to help with economic crisis and militancy.

My alternative to limited liability is to rely more on partnerships; or, to be more precise, limited partnerships.

Tattoos on terrorists is not our concern, security of citizens, creating environment encouraging economic activity is.

Imran Khan needs to take drastic measures to stop becoming more and more irrelevant.

Pakistanis must stand united as citizens of the world and show solidarity with those who are hurting, just as we are.

The prospect of producing GM corn in the country brings about varied concerns.

Much of the Muslim world has lagged behind developing nations due to lack of political stability and social harmony.

Those with power and money have a vested interest in keeping things as they are, even if it holds the country back.

Until we punish those we catch, we will continue to be held hostage by the people who kill our own citizens.

Bribery restricts economic growth and at the same time accentuates income inequality.

The world’s funniest people are the British. For, in addition to humour, they have something called wit.

Media all over the world has become frivolous in last 2 decades, but Indian media doesn’t balance the light stuff out.

Today, the Lal Masjid Operation is owned by no one, but fact remains army conducted operation, and suffered backlash.

In my reckoning, our erstwhile compatriots may well forgive us but can never forget what was done to them.

There is evidence of new cadre of young, hungry entrepreneurs undeterred by positions of authority their fathers hold.

As things stand, who or what is the alternative? Theories and suspicions are rife.

If only coming together of 3 main parties at the dais of BNU convocation could in future form a grand coalition.

Information & knowledge are power. Information tools are participation, access to media. Our womenfolk lack both.

Fact is, Tanhaiyan sequel is making desperate attempts to carry us back to where we once were, while we have moved on.

Modi’s letter on Sir Creek is a political gimmick and spurred by his national ambitions.

Official day, calendar are marked by date, times fixed by astrologers who have confidence of paranoid people in power.

Ongoing gas curtailment is taking a heavy toll on agriculture sector and also on the economy as a whole.

Our protests should always be reserved for khakis - who will never learn - rather than democrats, who may improve.

Realistically speaking, Army’s best chances to acquire Kashmir through military means are now over, dead and buried.

Pakistan shall be left to pick up the pieces in Afhganistan, while US will be desperate to invent a notion of victory.

It is strange how we think of women as wild animals, discursively establishing inequalities and excusing sexual abuse.