Opinion

Draft of this bill should have been shared with broader range of relevant stakeholders including lower court lawyers.

The Deep State was/is an aggrieved party in the Murky Memo; so how come DG ISI took it up to be Chief Investigator?

We should distinguish between the two types of militants who are known as Taliban: Afghan Taliban, Pakistani Taliban.

In comparing PTI manifesto with that of the PPP, the PML-N, one does not find his to be decisively more compelling.

Most Japanese believe Pakistan has to think ways of improving ties with India, place greater responsibility on India.

Having seen such affairs in the past, the first question in the ‘memogate’ business is this: who has the story?

One wonders what an intelligent man like Haqqani was doing talking to Mansoor Ijaz, lifetime achievement flip-flopper.

US is worried that China could begin to impinge on US interests, especially in the Pacific.

Imran Khan offers only a myopic vision of reforms that do not offer solutions to multiple crises country faces today.

Jugni is a presiding genius of sorts. But what explains its peripatetic or wandering nature?

Haqqani is much too controversial to handle anymore Pakistan’s most difficult international relationship.

In Pakistan, we have cult-based politics even though we are in a constituency-based political system.

I think revolutions are dodgy business with entirely unpredictable consequences. They are, in any event, unnecessary.

The jirga delivered its expected verdict, according to which US military presence in Afghanistan was legitimised.

It seems that the primary reason for frisking Abdul Kalam at JFK airport is that he is a Muslim.

Everything about this sordid affair (memogate) beggars disbelief, yet it seems to become truer by the day.

Pakistan has never been a friendly place for minorities, particularly the Hindus.

The country is isolated as never before in its more than six decades of history.

Admiral Mike Mullen has dropped a daisy-cutter on the heads of the trio — Zardari, Gilani and Husain Haqqani.

I don’t think we have yet seen the last of this unfortunate misstep even if the axe falls on Haqqani.

More disturbingly, beyond spelling mistakes, there are several fundamental problems with the bill.

Despite legislation, problem of bonded labour continues to persist, affecting not only men, but also women, children.

Absence of piped gas in majority of cold-prone area, gas loadshedding, people lack fuel, equipment to survive winter.

Why does vision at times become the difference for us between a great leader and an ordinary one?

Memo shows civil-military contention in governance reached a point “…where no central control appears to be in place”.

Ayub Khan disclosed in his memo, Table of Organisation & Equipment of the Army to US, which is always kept Top Secret.

The role of maulvis has turned into declaring who in specific situations can give his daughter in marriage to whom.

One of the gambits politicians employ is responding to a query by answering a question that hasn’t yet been asked.

As Captain Malik told Karam Hussain Shah that his only son was dead, he thanked God, who gave & took away their son.

The various hues of leaderships down the years have played havoc with what was, and what is, Pakistan.

For me, the story is a sorry tale of a state failing to address its principal contradiction, civil-military imbalance.

Women legislators have found themselves constrained due to the indirect method of elections.

Pointing out low quality pre-university education, got lecture on HEC quality improvement cells, a bureaucratic reply.

Imran Khan, supporters must understand is you have to have a big heart, thick skin to succeed in electoral politics.

“The Ally from Hell”, co-authored by Jeffrey Goldberg: It’s a shame when prestigious magazines publish such fantasies.

Until Qureshi stops teasing us and finally reveals his destination, this is a question that will consume the media.

Pakistan’s economy has weathered some very severe storms, yet it still stands and delivers.

Choosing to leave the PPP is allowed, as is choosing to not vote for the PTI.

No matter where you live, if things aren’t going well for your country, blame America for everything.

The bedrock of a lasting relationship between India and Pakistan is people-to-people contact.

If PTI is indeed party of change then why can’t it exhibit that change internally before it vows to do so countrywide?

According to Mr Abidi, Lahore’s reputation as a city of gardens is almost as old as the city.

Islamabad should endeavour to promote less contentious and more cooperative ties on its eastern and western fronts.

Dargah is sometimes positioned relative to Islam of mosques in way that it is rid of its inherent orthodoxies.

The change of faces alone in the absence of a concrete plan will not change the destiny of the nation.

One would be surprised to know that we use words related to ‘Eid’ every day in Urdu.

Does PTI have anything to offer regarding changing our India-centric policy, drone attacks and dealing with the army?

Pakistan’s security experts need to rethink its security paradigm in line with changing facts and theory.

If South Asia achieves economic integration, it could emerge as the second largest economy in the world.

Previously I wrote about our futile search for ‘saviour-like’ leaders. Today, I want to focus on making of a ‘leader’.