Editorial

We certainly need an independent judiciary, but one which is made up of individuals with unchallenged integrity.

Kamran Akmal has to be dropped. The wicket keeper, in name if not deed, was the chief villain in our heavy loss.

The irony of the PML-N’s proposal is that it has repositioned itself as the champion of civilian rule.

The popular notion outside the Pakhtun belt that majority of the locals supports the Taliban movement lacks substance.

It is now time to admit that anti-Taliban lashkars have contributed to the constant cycle of violence in tribal areas.

According to NGO figures, 46 per cent of victims are women, 36 per cent men and the remainder children.

With a literacy rate of just 51 per cent, Pakistan slips lower on the list of countries with attainments in education.

There are few cities that have been spared the wrath of the extremists.Until yesterday, Faisalabad was one of those.

The trouble in Balochistan is deeper than most people think.

March 8, International Women’s Day, has, since 1909, brought women from across the world together.

Our obsession with matters of morality is increasing.

It has long been an open secret that intelligence agencies have been holding sway in Balochistan.

Malik is far from the only politician unwilling to consider resignation for dereliction of duty.

Any thoughts that violence could be receding have been shattered over the past few days.

Public focus on the ‘independence’ of the judiciary has politicised the conduct of the Supreme Court.

The real enemy is India and the power that now stands behind India, the United States.

Even though the gesture comes rather late in the day, it should be taken up.

It is becoming clear that the Taliban remain free to attempt to imprint their violent ideology on peaceful citizens.

Passing the RGST bill may be hard, but, in the long run, it is also the right thing to do.

We have seen similar indifference in the past from Pakistani missions when it comes to helping nationals abroad.

Pakistan depends solely on imported petrol, there is not much that can be done about passing this increase in prices.

At a broader level, the events in Karachi highlight the dilemma of the government in regulating oil prices.

The Interior ministry is famous for overreacting to what it deems dangerous to Pakistan.

The new banking regulations have been passed unanimously in both the Senate and the National Assembly.

A host of social attitudes and discriminations come into play when it comes to protecting women's rights.

If Qaddafi is true to his word, very few Libyans will be allowed to survive.

Tax evasion on the scale that exists in Pakistan is not possible without the connivance the FBR.

The recognition of Faiz in India is to be welcomed, we need to do our bit to promote what we have in common.

Whether Davis has diplomatic immunity needs to be decided not by a court of law but by the foreign office.

There are too many secrets and the Davis affair, now with the ISI-CIA tussle, appears to be adding to these.

The Sharifs have had differences with the PPP on such as the RGST and the phasing out of the petrol subsidy.

The interior minister’s remarks that artists going to India will require a NOC from are hardly reassuring.

If Afridi bats at the top and brings in Wahab Riaz as an opening bowler, we might have a chance against Sri Lanka.

The study also calls for a bigger effort to channelise money coming home through the formal banking system.

While justice may have been belatedly served in the Godhra case, Modi is still in charge in Gujarat.

Many figures from the HDI can be cited but that will be pointless. Sadly, we know just how badly off we are.

There is no doubt democratization forces in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are taking succour from their Muslim brethren.

Will the PPP be able to keep its government afloat with IMF mandated taxation and ending of the subsidy on petrol.

While Kasab faces capital punishment, his patrons, and masterminds of the attacks, still operate freely in Pakistan.

WAR revealed the shocking statistic that only 3% of rape cases in Karachi result in convictions against the accused.

The lifeline offered to Pakistan’s flood victims through WFP food distribution programmes has been severed.

Another attack on foreign soil launched from Pakistan would inevitably leave the country still more isolated.

The controversy over the so-called PCO judges creates a cloud of doubt

Why should an innocent seasonal pastime become a revolt against the state?

One will have to respectfully disagree with Supreme Court’s suspension of a decision by the Parliamentary Committee.

While India are the slight favourites, the dominant Australians of the past are no more.

High emotion and reference to national honour should be avoided in the Davis affair.

The Raymond Davis case raises key questions about what exactly is happening on our soil and for what reasons.

Ad hocism was once the habit of the executive because of its dominance of the judiciary as an institution.

His poetry was lyrical, above politics, despite accusations to the contrary and, therefore, eternal.