Opinion

If we harness our potential & utilise opportunity of our times, specific problems can be overcome through innovation.

Reducing women quota in local government from 33% to 10% would impact women rights, health, education in K-P.

Decision to first reveal Rimsha's name, later unveil her face without realising consequences is one of those blunders.

Playing Israeli card to perfection, Netanyahu makes no effort to disguise his deep misgivings about Obama’s politics.

Customers deposit their money which the bank lends out many times over, in many times its value.

Iran also has its soft power over Pakistan, but with India, the linguistic co-extension bothers Pakistani ideologue.

Pakistan will never progress if everything is left to the government; people must take responsibility, get involved.

First lady positioning hijab with better motherhood, family life put women not wearing it in uncomfortable situation.

IMF loans are usually short term, given when countries are in distress thus ill-equipped to afford belt-tightening.

Wouldn’t you wonder that if sheep were indeed healthy, then why would Bahrain not take delivery of the animals?

Modern systems allow police, prosecution to decide who to arrest, release, put to trial. Here, judiciary decides that.

We need a national initiative to prevent the deaths of mothers and newborns.

There is an urgent need to of address the problems of crime, corruption and an ineffective justice system.

There were no tunnels of any considerable length built by the Mughals. They lacked the capacity of tunnel engineering.

Markets must be embedded in sound regulatory institutional structures; public spending must be underpinned.

India and Pakistan need to understand how policymaking process works across the border.

Our history is replete with instances where leaders have died in mysterious circumstances but no trace of killers.

Aggressive legal action, noise from media in India have led to softening laws on freedom of speech, expression.

There is the odd protest, but it is never against issues that strike at the very core of our constitution.

Shahida was locked in a room & repeatedly raped by men that Anila procured with the help of her brother, a known pimp.

Like Bangladesh, the military believes it can control situation in Balochistan by varying the intensities of violence.

Why continue the masquerade of parliamentary system, move instead to the presidential system.

Without addressing fundamental, structural flaws of election, subsequent democratic process would fail to bring peace.

Germany’s public banks are a model worth adopting or adapting by the World Bank/IMF, impoverished countries like ours.

I have no reason to be optimistic till workers are made stakeholders in industry, labour policies, factory affairs.

Though responsibility lies with factory management, it was victim of goods pilferage by workers, extortion threats.

The new national manufacturing policy aims to create employment for 100 million, back to basics — the factory floor.

Our political parties, leaders commit to parliamentary system, but willingly submit to authority of individual.

The “Sim Sim Hamara” alleged corruption case, USAID denies being “in a position to determine if fraud was committed.”

Dismal record of PML-N in government in Punjab creates doubts about future promises being made by PML-N in opposition.

I don’t believ­e a word of Afridi's interv­iew. Fox is lying until it provid­es proof that it did.

People expect that a sincere, serious attempt will be made by incoming leadership to tackle challenges facing country.

The question of processing time, scrutiny and general hassles will determine the efficacy of the new visa regime.

Responsible political leaders must be prepared for conflict, but aim for victory without war.

We need a zero tolerance approach towards children under the age of 14 being subjected to work.

Essentially, Afridi did it for the money. For that, some punishment is in order.

Trivedi’s toons have to be judged by political standards, he does not caricature national symbols, but subverts...

Pacha Khan Zadran insists that there would only be peace once every single Haqqani and Taliban is killed.

Its imperative to evolve technologically-updated gatekeepers, new set of professional performance criteria for media.

The new visa regime enables discussion about what Indo-Pak relationship is really about.

SDPI summit brings together largest gathering of experts in SA to give policy input in multiple areas.

There can be no durable, sustainable understanding between Pakistan, India without movement on political differences.

Pakistan is neither accepted in Arab club, nor proud of its heritage, and disengages from its South Asian legacy.

The mullahs, military, feudal elite thrive on fear because it encourages them to rule the country — with impunity.

There is space for Pakistan to help US create blueprint of Afghan peace, a framework for agreement among all players.

That is why the New Growth Policy announced by the present government is a step in the right direction.

While the state is becomi­ng increa­singly dysfun­ctiona­l, politi­cal evolut­ion since 2008 offers some hope.

IMF’s imprin­t on our macroe­conomi­c polici­es has been margin­al and fleeti­ng at best.

Ramchand Pakistani was an exceptionally enlivening piece of work.

We think we are safe because we have armed people around. The opposite is actually true.