Opinion

Anticipated surge in NFA has already led — just on expectations — to an appreciation of rupee vis-à-vis US dollar.

There are millions of young folk, who despite being educated, know nothing of anything else affecting national life.

We can now expect the arrival of an Arab autumn, when all ornaments of Arab nationalism will fall away like leaves.

By following predetermined formulas, Indian musicians are depriving their audience of enjoying diverse forms of music.

Bulleh Shah have too challenged the orthodoxy and I wonder if a mob would have attacked him had he been alive today?

Parthasarathy says India let Pakistan off too easily in 1971, similarly again post-Mumbai especially with 'evidence'.

What the massacre of soldiers in Gujrat speaks to is the fundamental crisis within Pakistan’s jihadists.

If judiciary crosses limits, there will be reactions which may damage judiciary, its independence, respect in society.

Will Pakistan change or will it enforce a change in how others view it?

If an amendment is to be made, it should be to bar a foreign national from occupying any office of profit in Pakistan.

Case is similar to the Mujahideen, Pakistan hosting refugees from Afghanistan, much like what Turkey is doing now.

Most crucial part of the process was assessment of best possible or best available deal & when it could be clinched.

If India could be given a waiver and considered for full membership of the NSG, Pakistan has no lesser credentials.

The objective is to secure America, whatever it takes. Cost for Pakistan — or for any other country — doesn’t...

Obama should have apologised immediately, using it to begin frank conversations about divergent goals of Pakistan, US.

If the situation is allowed to continue unchecked, unregulated, soon food will only be easily available to the rich.

PPP constructed a fake argument to distract SC & it insists on charging like a bull every time this red flag is waved.

Poor governance, corruption and uneasy civil-military relations continue to retard progress in Pakistan.

How can we engender interfaith harmony and understanding in Pakistan when we cannot even visit their holy places?

It will be self-delusion to think that Pakistan’s handling of the post-Salala situation has made the task easier.

The drug trade across the Afghan border is now too sophisticated for any one country to address singlehandedly.

It is in education that the Pakistani women have made the most spectacular advance in the country.

Kashmir’s Jamaat-e-Islami issued a statement that was widely perceived as an imposition of ‘dress code’ for tourists.

I would only say that by all means enjoy your dual nationality. Just leave our elected houses alone.

Pakistan continues to vote on basis of identity. In India vote is not for issues or ideology, but for one's own.

General Niazi threatened that he would let his soldiers loose on Bengali womenfolk.

I see no reason why NA, provincial assemblies, Senate websites should not have detailed assets of all their members.

The local admin officials seem obsessed with figuring out how to prevent such stories from getting out in the future.

Entire half-page, blank and white, in hard copy of international press available here, was unusual, warranted comment.

Even though DPC are planning to march on Islamabad, they look like a tool that has outlived its utility.

One wonders if thought of justification for his meteoric rise ever came to mind, or, the family brought it up.

Punjab suffered total ethnic cleansing in the wake of the bloodiest riots that took place at the time of partition.

The self-proclaimed custodians of Islam would have killed him because Jinnah was a Shia & that would be reason enough.

There can never be any ghairat on borrowed F-16s; their spares; the required permission from the American managers.

In Pakistan, unfortunately, our passion is daily politics of the most mind-numbing kind.

The opposition to listing Western Ghats in India as a natural World Heritage site should be considered ridiculous.

Given historical trajectory of civilian governments, time to work honestly, argument arises in favour of 3-year terms.

Original target al Qaeda, is neutralised; newer quarry Taliban, in shape of Haqqanis, remain most visible.

For Pakistan, having a more coherent perspective on the world and how it works is imperative now more than ever.

Govt needs to learn backdoor negotiations to win the doctors if it really wants to improve the healthcare system.

It is absolutely mind-boggling to understand what prevented US from making such a statement earlier?

He was nurtured by his dad who loved classical music, patronised its gifted practitioners; taught English; loved stage

Playing ostrich, ignoring reality is certainly wrong way to proceed; in fact, its asking for more mayhem than ever.

Elitist representative democracy failed to give electricity, social services; deepened inequality, humiliated public.

Working on counterfeit, sub-standard drug related challenges, I have yet to see action making drugs safer.

Our democracy is weak as its burden is shared narrowly. Shared across persons, institutions, it can be antifragile.

I wonder if efficiency, health, temper improve if Punjab government continued tradition of moving to Murree in summer.

In Pakistan, behind the veil of extremism, there is sex, alcohol and high fashion.

See how countries like the US and its allies rank on it for their recent fiascos in Iraq, Afghanistan.

Mr Gilani was defending state immunity, a legal principle on which rests the edifice of the state structure and power.