Opinion

There are three important lessons Pakistan can draw from India's democracy, politics.

If Israel, US carry strike Iran’s nuclear capacity, we may see new trends in violence.

Our military planners have to give up their false and deadly dreams of strategic depth and regime change.

The military is an organisation, has to, must, function according to the rules of the game.

The ISI is an efficient and well-organised agency. It should not undertake functions beyond its charter.

Not only should guilty Generals be incarcerated, but also the question asked is there a political cell of the ISI now?

Describing Pakistan’s internal scene is like an exercise in cultivating despair. WE

As easterners, as Hindus, Muslims, should we accept sequence of enlightenment from West? Did we have any contribution?

Zardari government boosted party, those sitting in powerhouse seats than affect tenuous lives of ‘beloved awam’.

Imran Khan has to have an answer to the coming-together of traditional power elite to preserve jurisdiction in Senate.

The bankin­g system cannot work if willfu­l defaul­ters obtain stay orders from courts and bank loans remain stuck.

You have to somehow justify persecution of a religious group, blacking out their role in political history of country.

As ISPs get money from users, it will be the users who end up paying for cyber surveillance against themselves

Cambridge Women’s Campaign spearheaded a protest against former IMF chief, invited to speak on financial crisis.

In the 21st century, the links are not only being maintained, but are growing.

There is nothing more peaceful, beautiful than the sea, whether sparkling blue, or a dull greenish-grey.

ICC’s involvement at this stage of conflict undermines interests of victims, may be ill-advised on statutory grounds.

Doesn’t Kayani know criticism is aimed ONLY at senior ranks i.e., major generals and above, their equivalents?

Imran Khan, his movement, raising undue expectations, can do more harm than good.

The interest in taking this issue up, enforcing the law and making a difference does not appear to exist.

Diyanet is worth emulating in Pakistan where the clergy, religiopolitical parties have been using religion at will.

Maybe government should hire that 15-year-old to compile a new list, showing all terrorist groups we failed to ban.

Of all the degradation our cultural events have had to face over the years, banning of basant is the most damaging.

While Republicans continue to beat drums of war, Obama is right to caution against advocating this as the only option.

Few realise that PTCL was, before its privatisation, one of the leading telecom players in Asia.

End of winter raised new fears about re-emergence of dengue, possibility of it causing even greater damage this time.

I am dismayed by the barometer with which the Supreme Court appears to gauge the seriousness of events.

Military transcripts reveal that officers wouldn’t bother investigate civilian killings as “it happened all the time”.

Climate change ‘patterns’, instead of being predictable, are now completely unpredictable.

Partition only proves people's capability of doing horrible things, not that Hindus, Muslims are 2 different nations.

Power in Pakistan is constituted by appropriating resources for sharing with other factions in coalition for support.

We need to reclaim glaciers from armies, restore their status as water reservoirs of river systems of India, Pakistan.

PTA must issue list of blocked websites, explain for who, what, why, how long, per which law, they were banned.

One way of moving from extractive to inclusive is to dispense with the control of families over political parties.

The women of Pakistan should assert a particular commitment to the struggle against intolerance and extremism.

What dismay­s me is that caste, religi­on and money play crucia­l roles at the polls.

The feeling I had was that of walking into an old ancestral family home.

KANUPP has tons of radioactive material stored in its core, can wreak destruction if a major accident happens.

If, by next election he is gets enough Dalits, Muslims to add another 5% to Congress’s share, success will be at hand.

Tragic paradox is that Salman Rashid’s own article is generously punctuated with insulting jibes, scornful reproaches.

The Indian generals are more professional; Pakistani ones are ideological — therefore non-professional — and daring.

Imran Khan knows what he promises is not only undoable, but impossible even under the best of circumstances.

Senate elections have taken place, there is agreement on transfer of power via Twentieth Amendment. There is not plot.

It has become fully acceptable for Muslim to slay Muslim — all in the name of a misguided interpretation of faith.

It is our history until we reflect deeply on it, confront culprits, we will remain victims of our own tragic past.

Our esteemed media turned a grave violation of law into a caricature, which has become the routine here.

Railways pleaded with the saint to let them take their line past his home, but he was adamant: they had to go around.

Textbook board editors have no patience with niceties of fiction; state ideological considerations are more valuable.

While funds allocated to legislators are part of development budget, no PC-I is prepared for schemes they identified.

Zardari stands to benefit politically in the run-up to general elections, claiming he stood up to US bullying.