Opinion

Parliament’s utility as well as the executive’s governance is under serious doubt.

It should be mandatory for some members of our political class to obtain a NOC before they open their mouths.

Let us not remain the one country in which billionaire political leaders pay Rs5,000 as annual income tax.

Pakistan is still divided and confused over matters which collectively form its national identity.

As cricket fans, Indians or otherwise, putting aside worldly matters, you need to sit back and admire the legend.

Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has revealed that the breakdown of the PPP-PML-N alliance is not a divorce but a separation.

It is critically important to find out what hundreds of CIA agents are doing in Pakistan.

After being frozen in time for decades, many wondered whether real political change in the Middle East was possible.

How much longer can Afghanistan allow itself to become a battleground between Pakistan and India?

The old US Consulate Building is one of the few buildings by an accomplished master of the late Modern Movement.

What does the parting of ways mean for the politics of Punjab and the country?

It is, in fact, the average Arif who will suffer the consequences and pay the price for our zealous anti-Americanism.

As oil prices rise, inflation can be expected to follow suit.

Honour is prized in tribal societies more than in urbanised societies.

Trojan horses of a discredited regime spearhead privatisation. They base its rational on myths and mantras.

An element of fear has crept into speaking out and caution is the order of the day.

Groundhog Day — the sequel — appears to be playing it again for Uncle Sam in Afghanistan.

We need to disengage from the US at the operational and tactical level and chart our own course.

One issue has become evident: the US agenda for Pakistan has growing question marks to it.

The most important aspect of the win against Kenya was the positive body language shown by Shahid Afridi’s team.

The citizenry is appalled at the Sindh Protection and Prohibition of Amenity Plots Bill, 2009.

A billion dollars, to put it mildly, is real money. You can do a lot with a billion dollars, even buy an F-16 or two.

A bureaucrat mutated into an ‘intellectual’ that hogs the waves of an Urdu channel is a liar and a charlatan.

Despite lamentations against the Taliban, we expect politicians will be safe without causing disruption to the public.

If these events lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state, then the sacrifices would certainly be justified.

The Davis disaster may cast much-needed transparency on the activities of the US government in Pakistan.

It’s important to not fall for the line that Davis’s capture proves terrorism is being ‘masterminded’ by Americans.

I would guess they do, but in different, and definitely more surreptitious, ways.

It will need more than just ‘jazba and junoon’ for Pakistan to achieve success in the 2011 World Cup.

Cheers for the governor's assassin have me mourning for the flight of reason, tolerance and rule of law from Pakistan.

The change we are chasing, the revolution we are dreaming of, needs state functions to work seamlessly for people.

Like earlier waves of revolution, the new revolution has spread across national boundaries to engulf a whole region.

The media in Pakistan has enjoyed freedom for over a decade now but we have yet to have our Watergate or Tehelka.

Who would have figured Mumtaz Qadri, the self-confessed murderer of Salmaan Taseer, to be such a heart stealer?

The revolution was genuine and will prevail, but under the watchful eye of the armed forces.

Despite his poor electoral performance, no one should laugh off the ‘Imran Khan factor’.

Why do people rebel? This depends on their level of frustration, anxiety and fear...

Is Raymond Davis our biggest issue? Or is the 24/7 coverage symptomatic of a nation that is unable to prioritise?

In the eyes of Pakistanis, Raymond Davis is a murderer and should be punished accordingly.

The Centre weds within it a state’s pluralism and its strategic realism. That Centre we do not have.

We have fallen for we have divorced ourselves from our glorious ancient past.

There are two types of military anti-Americanism. The first is Hamid Gul-ian. The second is Aslam Beg-ian.

Tunisia, Egypt and now Bahrain have ripped off that veil of hypocrisy and subjugation that has consumed them.

Perhaps if Qureshi really wants to be taken seriously, he should quit acting because that would be a sign of maturity.

Peace in the subcontinent will only come through a new vision, or after greater bloodshed.

Mad mullah leader Hafiz Saeed called for a nuclear jihad against India. He can get away with it; no one can stop him.

The Indianisation of cricket has led to predictability. India’s World Cup promises to be the dullest ever.

Small, landless farmers must form the backbone of agricultural development initiatives to improve food security.

From Veena to Taseer, the preaching brigade is the first with (often misleading) interpretations of honour.

Raymond Davis has succeeded where parliamentarians have failed — securing a temporary halt in the drone programme.