Opinion

Importance of Alamdaar Road protests doesn’t lie in their effect on other Shias, but on larger national consciousness.

Let us not derail the democratic process in search of a utopia, which has been sought many times unsuccessfully.

Pakistan’s contemporary heroes are driven by love, desire for freedom and passion to build a more humane society.

The audacity of attacks on Hazaras in Balochistan indicate that militants are unconcerned about being apprehended.

Sindh needs to move forward and use coal resource in a responsible way.

A non-receptive state has raised standards of responsiveness to an extremely high level for particular cases.

First, Ahmadis were attacked, then members of other religious communities, now different Islamic sects. What next?

Indian government struggle to get their message out in Kashmir's hostile environment & often have to pay to get press.

An astonishing number of women get divorced in Pakistan — and not just in the upper middle class.

It is by limiting resources to militaries that democracies of Pakistan and India can prevent chances of confrontation.

Leaders like the lovely Imran Khan, Islamic televangelist Tahirul Qadiri must tell the nation who the real enemy is.

In our case, what ballot-box democracy does is legitimise and entrench the status quo.

Our goal is to bring about a fundamental change in the contract between individuals and state as currently practised.

The notion in army circles that Pakistan’s civil war is transient, is delusional — this war will be long and...

MbQ was instructed by Hujaj bin Yusuf to travel through Shiraz, Iran. Thus his route was south by east by way of Kech.

Progress made by Pakistan in higher education is documented in detailed reviews by respected organisations, academics.

Largest share of PSDP, 26% has gone to political programmes, like Peoples Works Programmes, discretionary funds.

We should see Qadri, not as a threat but as the establishment ineffectually lashing out at its own lack of influence.

Just when it seems relations between Pakistan, India were warming and both were coming closer, LoC incident happened.

Problem when it comes to Pakistan is we use all clichés of the English language and even copy-paste our revolutions.

There finally exists consensus that terrorism, dictatorship, illiteracy, diseases are real enemies of Pakistan.

Mainstream popular television, radio channels need to allocate time for dedicated educational programming.

Rather than let Kasab become another story to incite hate & damage, we should stop rhetoric that catalyses conflicts.

Brennan is a strong supporter of torture, extraordinary rendition. An individual who has lost his moral compass.

Extortive moneylending system is run by rural and urban middle class, lending to those who can be chased and coerced.

Plastic may be fashionable but it is not, by any measure of the imagination, an environmentally friendly tool.

We've had four military messiahs that could have set Pakistan on the right path, but they left it weaker and poorer.

Qadri does not appear to be in any position to profit from the sit-in in Islamabad. But MQM stands to gain a lot.

The way in which students came out indicates they want to break from the past and bring down politicians from thrones.

Karachi needs to be cleansed; from pests residing in upscale areas as much as from thugs holed up in Orangi, Lyari

In my opinion, Pakistan’s failure to effectively combat terrorism is due to its failure to give weight to the problem.

We are suffering an insurgency of people using terror as a weapon and we need to do a better job of counter-insurgency

School mostly relates to recounting, retaining existing knowledge; university focuses on ‘creating’ knowledge.

Radicalisation is one way the poor and dispossessed find voice as it demands action to challenge the status quo.

It is about time we challenge TV narrative that focuses on taming female sexuality and glorifies sacrificial women.

Today’s Punjab, from perspective of its initial endowments, suggests the province could have made better use of them.

Feudal mindset thrives on political expediency, keeping the status quo and not taking the guilty to task

There is an absence of mass political parties effectively representing interests of workers, peasants, middle classes.

It did not take long for people to start suggesting that Malala was a Western stooge.

Focus on curbing birth rates is needed to enable households and state to ensure quality of life for new generations.

Does reviewing the military doctrine mean that the Pakistan Army will shift its military strategies soon?

Being illiterate may not kill a person but the feeling of being a jahil does, if not socially, then emotionally.

There’s nothing wrong or foreign about words like vishaal, shanti, mukti, as they have no Persian, Arabic parallels.

When our politicians talk about change, it’s not really change, just a minor adjustment in selection of the exploiters

Rhetoric of Tahirul Qadri is fairly similar to what hear every time there is going to be democratic power transition.

GoP feels talking to TTP can still lead somewhere, but army realises talks are no-go. Yet gives no alternative either.

“Baat karnay main kya harj hai yaar. We won’t talk to the ones who kill anyway, we’ll talk to the other ones.”

In some democratic societies, rape is used against marginalised communities where rest of society stays quiet.

The current assessment and incentive scheme has bred a rat race for fake publications and supervision of junk theses.

Ari Pir was a staging post between Sehwan to Lahut Valley for malangs who passed through from former to latter.