Editorial

Regular high-level meetings and strengthening of economic ties will lay the foundation for peace.

The royal decree only goes into effect in 2015. Activists will have to be vigilant to ensure the implementation.

Challenge lies in areas where extremists have managed to convince parents that children are at risk from the vaccine.

Pemra to send notices to television channels asking to stop airing programmes that make fun of the country’s...

Laws barring overcrowding to be enforced, schools penalised for violating safety rules while taking children on trips

Class eight girl blasphemy case: We are turning into a nation of rabid persons, succumbed to the fever of fanaticism.

From their climb down a steep ladder, Pakistan-America relations have gone into a chaotic slide down a rocky cliff.

The whale could have offered students an opportunity to learn more about the biggest mammal on our planet.

The days of the Taliban are far from being over; their capacity to scar lives remains intact.

It doesn’t matter whether it was suicide bombing or not, what matters is that eight lives were lost.

Biggest problem in the dengue outbreak is public panic. Calming the public could help manage the problem rationally.

It does not seem that keeping Malik Ishaq under house arrest for a temporary period will serve any purpose.

Had the lynch mob and the policemen not been caught on video, is unlikely the case would have been brought to court.

SSP Aslam said that he would continue the fight against militants and teach them a lesson.

Lankan doctors found eggs in flower pots, outside the office of the medical superintendant at the Ganga Ram Hospital.

Pakistan cannot claim sovereignty of decision-making in foreign policy if it harbours terrorists on its soil.

Taking on the Haqqani Network may be a good idea, but the question of ability still lingers.

Over the weeks ahead, the biggest challenge is posed by sickness, which so often follows calamity of this nature.

Accepting defeat in Dir is as good as accepting defeat in the entire war against militancy.

His act seems quite ironic, with him coming from a land where rules are, literally, made to be broken.

For a multitude of reasons, the floods that have devastated Sindh have not received the attention they deserve.

The Taliban have taken to killing children because they are getting desperate.

How Pakistan actually played will be anyone’s guess as the tournament was not broadcast in Pakistan.

Dengue has now been with us as a yearly event for more than five years.

Karachi's creaky antiquated drainage system is just not up to the task.

Medical experts say obesity among children is a growing issue.

Promotions and transfers are decided not on merit but are entirely due to political connections.

Al Qaeda is very much around while many institutions of the Pakistani state are struggling to fight it.

During his address, Mr Hussain said many things but most were not relevant or earth-shattering.

Killing enemies has just become politics by other means in Karachi.

Although the Taliban are Pakistani, they no longer care that innocent Pakistanis are suffering.

Pointless to have hordes of policemen or forces on guard if they can do nothing to stop the killers.

Contrary to the advice of politicians, the Supreme Court should cast as wide a net as possible in its hearings.

After months of tension between US and Pakistani agencies, it seems things may finally be coming together again.

This is not the first time the American government has funded journalism activities in Pakistan.

It is time that we learnt to face reality and address the issue before it worsens.

The police can only play a reactive role and try to limit the damage from each militant attack.

Mr Zulfiqar Mirza has always spoken as if he were a loose cannon.

Freedom to information is a basic right of every citizen. It is protected under the law of the land.

Ethnic violence rising in Quetta, we must ask why no outcry from society, media, political parties and clerics.

Questioning the police, is not enough, Until political parties inflaming the violence are also held accountable.

A solution to the Balochistan problem, as we can see, is as distant as ever.

Let us hope that this Eid we use the occasion to reflect on what has become of us, what we can do for a better future.

One lesson the Pakistani Army needs to learn is that it cannot treat different tribal agencies as separate entities.

Allowing US military trainers back into the country needs to be reciprocated.

The AGP, responsible for looking into financial wrongdoing in government needs to be a person who can command respect.

To expect these powers to be used wisely is extremely optimistic, almost to the point of naivety.

Despite the presence of a large number of military personnel, not every location can be kept under constant watch.

There has been a warning that the hours of loadshedding will increase still further after Eid.

One wonders what dehumanisation process the killers must have gone through to be able to engage in such ghastly acts.