Opinion

French intellectuals were quick to recognise the artistic potential of cinema.

Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of The Indian Express, wants Rs100 crore from his peer, Outlook’s Vinod Mehta.

Terrorists are not there because of drone attacks but precisely the opposite: they continue due to homicidal fanatics.

Prime minister convicted by highest court of his land for contempt should have done the honourable thing, resigned.

Pakistan can gain little strategic advantage through Siachen that it cannot gain more easily from other border points.

The first thing a person trying to answer of who they are, is supposed to come up with the name of his caste or tribe.

They mostly start with story of a king of days long gone, how he took care of people, linking it to issues of today.

we do not know our indigenous species of trees, we simply lack the acumen to see connection between trees & ecology.

Number of clauses are ambiguous, contradictory, restrict investigation into rights abuse by army make NCHR toothless.

Pakistan is no stranger to toxic colonialism. Customs must monitor hazardous materials entering Pakistan.

In the most precarious of times, the country is in the most fickle of hands.

Let me say Zardari, Nawaz: Please sirs, country is in extremely difficult situation. Do something before its too late.

Bloody revolution is romanticised as some purifying process ensuring rotten people are eliminated, leaving the pure.

Divide, fragmentation of Pakistan’s political landscape requires 2 major parties to build coalition in next...

I came away from the movie understanding my country much better than I had when I went in.

Salman sees our land pillaged, historic sites looted, public facilities trashed, validate growing sense of alienation.

The absence of trust and lack of understanding has become a festering wound that will continue to bleed.

The fact is that the Pakistani state is in really bad shape and only honesty can save us now.

Such are the binaries in this country that we can either be shamelessly ghairatmand or proudly bay-ghairat.

Be positively engaged with the world; estrangement doesn’t help. Ghairat will have to take a back seat for now.

What is 'right' in Islamic terms depends not on force but scholarly consensus to what is mandated by Quran, Sunnah.

'Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom'. This absence is evident in Pakistan.

There is a desperate need for a bit of acerbic criticism, a dose of pessimism to ignite the nationalist fuse.

There is danger that current stalemate could lead to Pakistan’s isolation and further damage its international image.

Much of what happens to the Pakistani economy in the future will be determined by what happens in its provinces.

In India, Hillary chose to add to her repertoire the act of criticising Pakistan at every available opportunity.

Ideologies are creatures which know various survival tactics. That’s how Maoism spread across one-third of India.

When writers consider modernity an elixir, it’s easy to blame notions like honour, religion for causing suffering.

Why won’t Pakistanis donate their eyes, kidneys, hearts, and livers after death?

The protracted recession, associated human suffering requires fundamental rethinking of economics & economic policy.

Khalil Gibran had poetic licence, but one expects judges, shielded from criticism, defer such impulse till retirement.

There are other things to be proud of as an Indian. Having a brutally effective spy agency should not be among them.

Now fear of the nonstate actor trumps the Pakistan Army's fear and lowers their stature.

He is a deep thinker, often in his captain’s ear, overrules field placements. But marks are for results, not advice.

Gilani's is the case of yesterday’s men who cling on & on, carrying on their merry way regardless of consequences.

Not only are villages spatially divided to impose social segregation on groups, cities force them to live in ghettos.

Non-issues like memogate get column space, airtime, but religious decree affecting lives is not protested against.

It is sung that even in death Dodo did not relinquish hold on sword in either hand as Rajputs retreated to Vighekot.

An ordinary Pakistani is no better than a scared animal in a dark jungle, where fear is the lord of the realm.

There is no outrage at contradictions when event managers lend talent to GHQ as they tend India-Pakistan peace shows.

If Clinton has signalled Zawahiri is in Pakistan, US has a bead on him already, will take him out whenever expedient.

Sympathy must not make us blind to the darker shadows that lurk behind the visible stories of missing persons.

Reform is necessary and land redistribution is the only way to do it.

Under the RTE Act in India, poor & socially disadvantaged children will seek and get free admission to schools.

Next fiscal year, Pakistan’s requires $10.5 billion to manage fiscal deficit & pay $4.3 billion in prior IMF debts.

I get paid $400 an hour to suggest drones will be more effective if they launch bombs, Captain America action figures.

Pakistan wants an apology on Salala, which it will never get, & is isolated as US can maneuver around the closed GLOC.

Several measures, initiatives taken by the government of Punjab merit appreciation.

A total lack of respect for the land, and the environment as a whole, pervades Pakistani society to the core.

China has experienced unusual turbulence over transition of leadership in the party, relations with US.