Editorial

Without the two largest PML groups, it is hard to say if the new, united force will have any significant impact.

It is good that the British home secretary Theresa May has promised that processing time will be reduced to 15 days.

On the face of it, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s 25-year plan is unobjectionable.

This a welcome step in our relationship with Afghanistan beyond the national security paradigm.

That the Sindh government is fighting tooth-and-nail against Napa shows that arts and culture are not a priority.

Asma Jahangir is a figure the conservatives hate and the liberals love.

Pakistanis need to be convinced that the tax they pay is actually being put to good use and not being pocketed.

The commonly held notion that the Taliban problem may be solved if the US pulls out is not necessarily true.

The prime minister also has some explaining to do: Why were so many rules violated in the grant of plots?

The will to fight militants and to end the process of dividing them into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ guys is imperative.

The PPP should be careful; the new deal may help shore up a government but it will polarise a divided party.

The tone adopted by the State Bank of Pakistan in its annual report is cause for optimism in itself.

What we see is the unfolding of a terrible tragedy, the impact of which grows worse by the day.

In fact, we are saddened to see the widespread lack of action towards resolving the problems of the power sector.

Fiasco: govt mistakenly identifies two living individuals as the suicide bombers in Karachi shrine attack.

Will the US soften in front of the new ‘serried ranks’ of policy in Pakistan?

It is a shame that political parties have turned a blind eye to the rampant killings in Karachi.

WikiLeaks is performing an important service by putting reality before us as it unfolds.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani says Pakistan had already spent more than the amount announced on the war effort.

Illegal kidney transplants continue, notably in Punjab, involving the purchase of organs from impoverished vendors.

At a time when the country should be tightening its belt, official extravagance is plundering the national exchequer.

The government needs to accept that Pakistan needs to find ways to help itself.

With some signs of violence having abated there is a question mark over the need for a curfew.

The feeling that Pakistan has not been doing enough to deal with militancy appears to have been growing of late.

Some jurists thought the ‘unanimous’ amendment was too strong for the Court to overturn.

It seems that those with any power appear to believe they are above the law and not expected to conform to it.

The dialogue is a good opportunity for both sides to air their grievances and hope to come to some common ground.

Until we know what sinister games are being played, we will not be able to stop the spiral towards chaos.

Few Hindus celebrated the Dussehra festival at Lahore’s Krishna Temple, in contrast to the high turn-out last year.

Failure to act now and stem the killings, catch the murderers and prosecute them will only prolong the violence.

The necessities of state demand that all institutions work together harmoniously, with the poise expected of them.

We see how different events in Karachi contribute towards growing tension and a general sense of mayhem in the city.

If Qari Hussain is dead, someone equally cruel may take over, and that dampens whatever joy we may feel at his passing

The nation expects the PM to comply with HEC requirements and submit his certificates for authentication.

FODP nations make no bones about the fact that Pakistan needs to make more effort to usher in domestic reform.

There has been a natural atrophy of the trend of “judicial activism” that began in India and was followed by Pakistan.

Airblue must make speedy compensation a priority, especially for those families who have lost their sole breadwinners.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the European Union are finally saying what we’ve known for decades.

The government, the judges, the media and everyone involved must play due role in ensuring the stormy sea is calmed.

Quite evidently, value of life has a different meaning in our part of the world.

We wonder if the remarkably thick-skinned PCB will realise just how serious a warning has been issued by ICC.

If the leaders of parties who represent people are murdered, who will the central commanders of our country talk to?

Prime Minister Gilani got it half-right when he said that Pakistan was essential to the peace process in Afghanistan.

The move by MQM to submit a bill in parliament to enact land reforms has to be welcomed given its aims and objectives.

The latest example of police torture emerges from Toba Tek Singh and has been brought to the forefront by the HRCP.

Hamid Karzai has once again set the world abuzz with speculation about how the end game to the war will play out.

It would be an immense tragedy for Pakistan to lose its democracy once more. This would set us back decades.

Woodward focuses on the threat Pakistan poses to the world but the the country presents a bigger risk to its people.

The threat of a new long march sounds hollow as it will finally depend on the army for its successful denouement.

Police allege­dly castra­te a man after he refuse­d to comply with orders to bark like a dog.