Editorial

President Hussain can probably be relied upon never to rock the boat.

Education deserves priority and we are pleased to see attention directed towards it.

The prime minister has been candid about how long it is likely to take to repair the economy.

Sovereignty has increasingly become an irrelevance in drone wars.

Balochistan has been used, abused by successive governments, but equally, it has been architect of its own misfortune.

Whatever the future holds, Asif Ali Zardari has left in place important blocks and key reforms.

Blasphemy laws have been misused blatantly over the years, often in a bid to settle personal scores.

The State Bank of Pakistan is no longer going to be able to lend to the government.

The yet-unanswered question is whether political courage exists beyond the merely rhetorical.

New Delhi and Islamabad need to find a way to ensure that they do not destroy the wider peace process.

Finance ministry complains about FBR’s failure to meet targets, but it is complicit by not forcing FBR to improve.

It is unfortunate that the August 11 speech has not been found, we have lost something immensely valuable.

With continued drone strikes, Pakistan has just as much reason to keep a close eye on what the Americans are up to.

Higher education suffers from the dual blights of underinvestment and political interference.

Sabre-rattling aside, in a conventional war, the uncomfortable reality is that Pakistan would eventually and lose.

General (retd) Musharraf becomes the first former army chief to be formally charged with murder.

Pakistan’s weaknesses were still quite apparent.

The issue appears to be whether the university is under civilian or military control.

The lack of government clarity on how to tackle militancy and the Taliban is becoming rather disturbing.

The militants strike and kill at free will every day; there is no guarantee that they will not come after this woman.

he stoppage of theft can alone help overcome an energy crisis that has virtually paralysed us.

Violence against women should never be considered a private home matter; it is and always will be a criminal matter.

The changes required of players need to take place at a much junior level.

The ruling set-up should play the role of a leader and decide once and for all how to tackle the monster of militancy.

HEC scholars should be held accountable and the HEC should be pushed to collect the money that it is owed.

It is hard to see why a rethink on Dr Afridi’s sentence would come so many months after his conviction.

Director General PTA bars all calls and SMS packages and seeks a compliance report to be submitted by September 2nd.

While it is not the job of wealthy citizens to feed those less able, some might say it is their social responsibility.

The delays that occur in our judicial decision-making are well known; the initiative of mobile courts is laudable.

President Obama and his team are under growing pressure to make up their minds.

Pakistan’s bowlers proved to be off-target and struggled to gain momentum against a determined batting line-up.

Rather wisely, the Court opted to dismiss the closely watched case.

The notice taken by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of events in Karachi is welcome.

The PPP government had five years to fix the PSM and failed miserably.

The stories told by relatives of missing persons before the Court once more highlights their plight.

The accusations by Kabul of Pakistan intervening in its affairs by backing certain militant groups must be dealt with.

Those who have studied cultural anthropology of Pakistan, know impulsivity is a common trait in society.

It is a fact that the PTI must now look at itself as a party which wields power, not one sitting in the opposition.

In the violent melting pot that is Karachi, law enforcers need to be more proactive.

If villagers claim that there are not enough rescue boats, let the authorities correct this concern.

The government places too many bureaucrats in charge of what companies can and cannot do.

Pakistan has already been termed one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.

Outlawed outfits, sometimes using altered names, carry on their ‘missions’, creating still more havoc.

At the heart of the matter is the asymmetry between the domestic approaches to the peace process in both countries.

The PPP’s strong showing in Sindh and the PML-N’s in Punjab also displays before us a divided country.

Funding short-term consumption with long-term financing is the very height of fiscal folly.

In a somewhat expected decision, the DCC decided that there would be no attempt to talk with home-grown militants.

The foreign policy of Pakistan is littered with lofty promises of future cooperation that never materialise.

Voter turnout and enthusiasm was significantly less than on May 11.

Rains across all four provinces have delayed a polio vaccination campaign that was to begin on the 13th of this month.