Opinion

Pakistan has improved ranks mainly because many new countries scoring worse than Pakistan have been added.

Nothing seems to be going right for Pakistan and the list of our problems is long and painful.

No one, I repeat no one, has the right to abuse or prevent the airing of ideas.

It is time to concede defeat and salvage whatever we can. Talks can then be held with real leaders of the Taliban.

In Pakistan’s history, strategic decisions have occasionally been taken invoking ‘national interest’ by the military.

A way of alleviating Sindh’s grievances on local governments would be a just solution for everyone across the board.

I am bewildered at the attitude of leaders and activists who ask for clemency on behalf of death sentence culprits.

A poor and oppressed community, rampant attacks on the Hazaras have become increasingly common in Balochistan.

Is evil dispositional, genetic or is it something which circumstances and roles can create?

As his options in his own country diminish, President Karzai seems to be inclined to gamble.

Incapable of generating revenues inside, we hope like hell for the world to resuscitate us from the outside.

Steve Jobs died within hours of India on Thursday launching the world’s cheapest tablet computer 'Aakash'.

The moral of this story is that as long as the feudal structure stays, Imran Khan stays out.

PPP was supposed to be the voice of the people, sartorial elegance of Pakistan’s current PM belies that fact.

Jobs did what he did for his genius but also the fact that he was in a country that rewards individuality, creativity.

Iran quarantined its non-state actors; Pakistan allowed its terrorists to penetrate society and is paying the price.

Every time we allow expression of bloodlust in pro-Qadri protest go uncontested, we inch towards death of our society.

Religious radicalism is the only game in town; it is now time to think of ways to grapple with this new reality.

With so much negative news, it’s hard to get donors to help children in Pakistan, who pay the price for their rulers.

Thanvi was particularly angry that Muslim leaders had subordinated themselves to Gandhi’s decisions, instead of ulama.

Given Pakistan’s geographical location, she more than some others needs strategic depth for defence.

This incredibly dysfunctional government, which continues to exist because alternatives are short on the ground.

Only when one travels on it does one realise what a courageous and tough lot of people these Baltis were.

High time that our policy makers transcend their conventional fire-fighting and reactive mode of disaster management.

Unfortunately, peace agreements, enacted with tribal and militants, did not work in the past.

We have a government which refuses to stand up to Deep State even when it has a wiser handle on international affairs.

Mian Sharif has come out with a proposal, wants the constitution to be amended to break the ‘kashkol’ (begging bowl).

That there was no winner from the Muslim world did not surprise anyone.

Begging is not just a cause of antisocial behaviour, it is a consequence of it as well.

Nawaz Sharif could use electricity as a framing device for populism he needs to get back into power.

Barkha Dutt in a recent programme exposed how 21 Muslim youth were wrongly implicated in the Mecca Masjid blast.

MQM currently in between resignations, PML-Q decided to enjoy the freedom of a work-free lifestyle for a few days too.

Instead of cool dispassion, clinical objectivity, government’s ‘heroic’ claims could lead to later disappointments.

The Rohtas that Abidi saw was only a shadow of its former self, transmuted into somewhat of a shrine.

There are 7,000 thalassaemia patients in Malakand division; one man aims to eradicate the disease by 2020.

Readers must have come across that mysterious word ‘na-kat-khuda’ on a wedding card? What does it mean?

The insertion of religion in every sphere of life in Pakistan has meant the religion has lost its special value.

Karzai, India will sign strategic partnership agreements , far cry from last visit when he desisted due to Pakistan.

Our rulers came to power by defaul­t, that too by narrow and insign­ifican­t margin­s and fluid coalit­ions.

If Taliban take over in Afghanistan their influence will come to Pakistan, our society will become more Talibanised.

It has long been forecast that the next world war will be ignited by a paucity of water.

DO businessmen deserve business class justice? The short answer to this question is, yes.

The resumed journey to a Palestinian state with pre-1967 borders can be delayed but not denied.

Two features of Pakistan’s political economy create uncertainty about the outcome of continuing confrontation with US.

Pakistan govt needs to pay more attention to the long neglected imperative of self-reliance and limit expenditures.

Rhetorical questions were all that we could muster up in the face of probably our gravest national security challenge.

The government of India wants him to hang. But will that satisfy the “collective conscience”?.

Thanvi followers sometimes ignore his categorical judgments on issues, adopting policies dictated by current politics.

Instead of letting extremists lead discussion on Islam, we need to challenge their ideology through people like Edhi.

Records say the 10,000 strong cavalry led by Korean general Kao Hsin-Chih first engaged with Tibetans in Wakhan.