Opinion

To both the left and religious right, I have an appeal: take the middle road.

To fulfill its function of posing, pursuing new questions, nurturing intellect, freedom in a university is essential.

Development is an incentive in itself; we do not need to sweeten the pot with any other goodies.

Despite Pakistan's 16th rank on the Happy Planet Index 2012, there is little in Pakistan for people to rejoice over.

Given possible size of towns, city populations in 2012, urban areas should have much larger representation assemblies.

As for now, like other systems in Pakistan, the sheep wait in limbo, looking also at the courts for their future.

Government departments of K-P under FOI 2002 have not responded about land allotted on Nathiagali hill station.

Can Kejriwal's idea for direct democracy survive the Cleons, or share the Socrates fate for opposing it?

On-record statements from Osama confirm that he was responsible for 9/11, planning it in 1982.

Why doesn’t head of state or PM try to cleanse the country of illegally acquired weapons in a door-to-door campaign?

Pandering to militants & being an apologist ensures that both suicide fanatics & drone attacks continue.

In a week where Putin and Dempsey postponed their visits, Pakistan was left clutching few straws of MoUs.

As Pakistan & India face off internationally, locally surrogate groups are co-opted to display cosmetic democracy.

Pakistani online space lets like-minded individuals reaffirm, solidify their own myopic views and existing divides.

PTI peace march has already got its point across — that they will not leave the tribesmen alone in their suffering.

Government should honour Khan for his lifelong devotion to saving thousands of lives, pioneering BDS in Peshawar.

Unfortunately, during his dying days, Huntington sowed seeds of a conflict that is neither necessary nor inevitable.

Leaders who tried to run down Anna movement as “urban” will be deprived of the rhetoric when it comes to poor Indian.

Unlike Mujib, who faced opposition from within his party, Mengal's 6 points have been supported by a government ally.

Is anyone safe at all in Balochistan, Minister Kaira? Even WITH the FC everywhere?

Apathy will extinguish the preciousness associated with life if all one feels is the softness of their skin.

Iran, Israel, US are engaged in brinkmanship with potential of becoming global crisis with implications for Pakistan.

I want to ask not why Muslims get offended so easily, but why defenders of free speech are so ready to insult others.

Freedom of opinion must not be hijacked to spread hatred, fanaticism and undermine our peaceful coexistence.

Insist on a little bit of quality control and we might be able to save ourselves and our intellect from contamination.

Those holding on to any information in government, public sector, have turned it into a saleable commodity.

SC, like a goalkeeper, is the last line of defence. Judicial activism is a sign that this defence is failing.

Quaid-e-Azam was named Muhammad Ali but he added the name Jinnah to it. What is the meaning of Jinnah?

It is a misperception that Liaquat Ali Khan's failure to visit Soviet Union brought Pakistan into US camp in Cold...

A former mujahid told me that Taliban killed three children in Sarobi because their parents had Pakistani ID cards.

Insider attacks, apart from weakening Nato troops, are physically shattering their resolve to fight.

Talks cannot begin till some issues on Balochistan are admitted and words are followed up with action.

The Balochistan issue has not reached a stage of no return yet, but will fast slip out of our hands.

Despite clear evidence of army's involvement in Balochistan, murder of Akbar Bugti, government, army denies outright.

Narrative for drones can be created from how good intelligence is, how many Taliban, al Qaeda leaders killed.

India is a more diverse country than Pakistan and yet, it has developed a consensus on how it should be governed.

A university is the most complex institution ever devised, it aims to nurture the highest human faculty: intellect.

The Baldia Town inferno has brought into focus a lingering obliviousness to occupational safety, labour right issues.

A movement against the government is neither feasible nor desirable.

Enough has been said. We need action now. Lets listen to the Baloch leaders for once.

With no history of fighting, it is only after creation of regiments by British that Punjabi Muslims are called martial

It took both political will and relentless efforts of several govt departments to fix the intermediate exam system.

Despite separation in time, Ziaul Haq & My Lords have one thing in common: belief that only they can save Pakistan.

Chou-en-Lai once told Dr Hosain “You should form a Commonwealth of South Asia”.

In the countryside, class system is another name for caste system and it changes at a glacial pace.

It is the people who must react and reject in large numbers if obscenity does appear in the media, not PEMRA, CII.

We are all liars, hypocrites & scamsters whose only service to a cause or belief, even religion, is only lip service.

The casting couch is a reality few want to accept even if they have made the mandatory visit to The Permanent Suite.

There can be no excuses for the killing of a country’s citizenry by its own citizens.

Musharraf opted for the theocratic Bangladesh model in Pakistan, which failed and leaft the country worse off.