Editorial

Political leaders fail to recognise that their responses in adversity reflect their character and leadership qualities

Canada and Pakistan fall within the First World and the Third World, respectively

Pakistan’s education crisis is no breaking news

Man is the sole creature on earth endowed with the capacity to laugh

Amendment to turn to law after passage by the assembly that only a woman would be appointed as a dean of KGMC

There can be few needs more pressing than those of a woman in the throes of childbirth

There must be a genuine, robust effort to take the country out of a state of perpetual anarchy

Pakistan has begun to feel the pressure of Donald Trump’s arrival in Washington

International charities have argued instead for the voluntary repatriation of the refugees to their place of origin

There are too many instances of people toying with the lives of those with lesser authority

The gemstone and jewelry sector is arguably one of the country’s most untapped sources of revenue

Political parties have grown like mushrooms in the autumn

We are thankful that Sarfraz did the right thing for himself and for the national game

Children, like adults, need to be taught lessons for transgression of rules but perhaps through different techniques

Modernization of security agencies needed to curtail criminal activity

Chronic lack of vision endemic among trade mission, policy makers

Foreign funding; ideology needs to be countered to defeat Taliban

Increase in parliamentary seats on the horizon

US urges any future Palestinian unity government to recognize Israel

Focus should be on promoting local languages

A far more effective policy can be found to cut imports

It doesn't appear as a serious attempt at hindering or even stopping the activities of banned groups

The Sindh government has sparked an outcry among literary figures, scholars and journalists with its new proposed law

Granting status to Rohingyas, Biharis, and Bengalis would be synonymous with bestowing them with basic human rights

If Taliban were to capture power in Afghanistan it would strengthen the hand of the TTP and other militant groups

Court wants land allocated to the legal heirs of the deceased lawyers to be transferred to the Balochistan Bar Council

Pharmaceuticals — drugs for prescription primarily — are big business

Many should have been disqualified years ago

One hopes that the government will frame a vastly improved policy for the registration of NGOs

Provincial government has let down 3,000 of the schools by failing to release additional funds

The court systems of the sub-continent might almost have been designed to deliver injustice rather than the reverse

This year the US military has accelerated drone strikes and other efforts this year against al Shabaab

The school authorities have suspended the two transporters but much more needs to be done

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah was about to treat himself to a 300 per cent raise in his own salary

Plans to mandate tracking devices could use deeper thinking

It remains loved by millions though. There are none so blind as will not see.

We await developments, though with little hope

There is a growing cohort of politicians and ex-rulers that are proclaimed offenders

There is growing suspicion among expatriates that Pakistani authorities haven’t promoted their labour force enough

Government needs to remove the confusions that exist between religious interpretations and federal and provincial laws

It will be intriguing to see how much ghee usage can actually be phased out by 2020

It is the low- and middle-income countries such as Pakistan that are bearing 80 per cent of deaths annually

Parliament has been gradually becoming an ossified irrelevance virtually since the last election

In the last four years alone, Pakistani nationals have invested an astounding $8 billion in Dubai’s property market

Against the public airing of Uzair Baloch’s statement and elections on the horizon we must exercise skepticism at will

Kabul government pulled out of the upcoming meeting of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Coordination Authority

Before officials begin plans for the future, they should also check whether they are bound by any regulations or not

Baloch's statement makes for hair-raising reading and is a catalogue of murder, extortion and gangster activity

The new chairman is going to have a very short honeymoon

Norway has named Abid Qayyum Raja as one of five vice-presidents of its parliament