Opinion

Why has ‘Action Stations’ not been sounded by NAB yet, for did it not notice the recent extravaganza in Lahore?

Pakistan needs healthy digital laws that encourage expansion of minds and businesses.

Nepotism is very unappealing but some groups will only be able to be represented because of their family name.

Whatever growth that has taken place in the past four years has been contributed entirely by consumption.

When one fetes a traveller, it is not long after that one finds oneself on the lonely road in need of hospitality.

Like Batman and Nightrunner; Islam and the Republican-right are pairings that reflect the times we live in.

Efforts should be focused towards strengthening the system from within, rather than replacing it.

What Qadri spoke about on December 23 is not about change but metamorphosis in which most people will be blindfolded.

BB’s sacrifice on December 27, 2007 will live on as tale of bravery inspiring struggles against extremism and...

The rupee is taking a free fall. It is now almost Rs100 to a US dollar.

Mr Tahirul Qadri has been dusted, remade, put in shining robes and para-dropped over Pakistan.

Afghan contractors who, despite putting their lives on the line by working for Americans, are continually exploited.

Election results in Japan and South Korea, though welcomed in Washington, have generated concern in the region.

Pakistan is looking more and more like Afghanistan as it loses control of its territory.

Legal system, law-enforcement should go after those compelling kids to undertake illegal acts, than punish children.

Until education is genuinely owned and effectively delivered at the district level, no other remedy is going to work.

In Pakistan, neither the judiciary as an institution nor the individual judges are independent.

Our options are either to fight back or be killed. But it looks like we would rather be victims. But count me out.

Best comparison would be that Pakistan has been ruled by the Republicans since independence, but without the benefits.

The future, despite the supposed joy of the festive season ahead, looks quite grim.

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.