Opinion

With its 175 billion tons of coal at Thar, Pakistan is well-placed to meet its energy needs

There is no match between Hamas and IDF when it comes to aerial power

Many of those who identify themselves as Asian-Americans are, in fact, born in the United States

Such a model underscores prevalence of patronage politics at constituency level

Evidently two largest parties are being treated differently

That’s what the modern day life treadmill tells us

In today’s world it is just not the application of liberty and equality that is likely to transform the world

Democracy is castigated as an inefficient system

Answer to long-held hopeless public hope lies in transferring national stakes to their real owners

It is time for this duplicity to be exposed and this axis of evil recognised for what it is

Those of us living in the Global South are constant victims of the Western political and media hegemony

Amidst Pakistan’s election season, people really want leaders to focus on key principles

The weaponisation of media, is an immediate menace to be wary of.

Over 3.5 million Afghans in the garb of refugees have upturned our social, economic and political matrices in KP

Ongoing assault on Palestinians, lingering conflict in Ukraine, will complicate efforts to curb climate change

Arabs in the MENA region should leverage their oil wealth in the Gaza-Israel War to call for a ceasefire

Repatriation of Afghans is a tit-for-tat response to Afghan government’s indecision to stop terrorism

Saner voices in the World Jewry need to stand up and be counted

Israeli government is not the representative of Jewish community as a whole

West Bank and Gaza are bad enough, but Kashmir is the world’s most densely militarised zone

We access this knowledge of language usage through (unconscious) acquisition or (conscious) learning

No one is ready to answer how countless innocent lives were lost in the name of religion and nationalism

Pakistan must work towards building a resilient economy that deliberately chooses innovation and reform

Non-traditional security analysts would always argue that development of these imperatives could ease the pressure

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghan refugees are returning to their homeland

If Pakistan can accommodate millions of Afghan, why was it unable to bring back only 350,000 people from Bangladesh

Nothing illustrates power of narrative like the Gaza War where the oppressor’s version gets the primetime media space

China produces more than 60Mt of plastic waste every year

Institutions are legally required to establish a committee on sexual harassment

There are some gains from the long meeting held by the two leaders

Cities are engines of growth if run optimally

Pakistan uses state institutions to deprive 90% of its workforce of their legal right to old-age benefits

Fulbright and UGRAD provide sources for candidates looking for educational standards along with financial support.

Pakistan should rethink and re-evaluate its economic growth policy approach towards BRI in general and CPEC

Real culprit is the US which has a history of how it views and understands geopolitics

ECP’s data of enlisted parties shows, only 6% of women hold leadership positions

'It is not death but the way one dies that matters and only a fortunate person goes in such a noble way.'

The sane ones among them came up with various ideas to ameliorate the lot of the most vulnerable.

India’s chemical and pharmaceutical industry under the radar because of its weak regulatory and legislative regimes

Reading and writing must also waltz in tango to produce a beautiful piece of writing

Wealth evidently does not trickle down to the masses in Pakistan

Issue boils down to this: a sharp segregation exists between private gain and public good

Building mass-scale affordable housing has continually been a political slogan

Israeli terrorism has driven home further the idea that key threats to the world is the erosion of democracy worldwide

All diplomatic and peaceful means demanding delivery of humanitarian aid have failed

Freedom of speech is a sacrament that defines democracy

Patients in hospital lost on life for power failure, lack of oxygen, shortages of other life support medications

The arena is set for COP28 — the “world” is coming together to save the “world” from the “world”

The only difference between success and failure is effort

The fact is that the Afghan refugees have been hosted by Pakistan most munificently since 1979