We have picked nine items on Pakistan’s "to-do list" that we all must agree on
Did we expect an overnight change of hearts and a solution of the irritants that mar the bilateral relations? This was the first opportunity to see...
The dividends of democracy are incremental; they don’t happen overnight. It’s a process not a destination. That is a lesson the politicians...
Ziaul Haq the man may have died but Zia the thought lives on
The ordeal of Ahmadis in this country is an unending one, it seems
It is time to turn to literature or poetry, to see how others have felt and expressed and dealt with their sorrows -- through writing.
One year down the road, the government has made no headway in turning the energy sector around and has admitted that too; it falls short on both...
Perhaps Palestine is a dead issue already. There is defeatism writ large in whatever shade of opinion is expressed from the supporters of Palestinians
It is the ECP that assumes the role of the caretaker government and that is the institution that needs to be empowered
North Waziristan has been perhaps the most important geographical entity in the context of Pakistan’s terrorism problem in recent years, a...
The Football World Cup 2014 comes as a wake-up call for the lovers of football in Pakistan, looking sadly and shockingly at the poor performance of...
An operation in North Waziristan as a cure for terrorism within the country has stirred the imagination of ordinary Pakistanis for a long time now....
When one starts hearing the educated elite complain about polio vaccine as a ‘conspiracy’ to control the Muslim population, when a...
The issues of freedom of expression and media regulation are in the news once again in Pakistan. Is that because it is in the nature of the beast to...
If news reports and analyses are an indicator, the Pakistan Army seems to have pulled up its socks to start a full-scale military operation in North...
The overwhelming victory for BJP in the recently held Indian election was not entirely unexpected. There is reason to celebrate this remarkable feat...
Rashid Rehman, Salmaan Taseer, Shahbaz Bhatti… Who are these people and what message do they leave for the people of this country? Do they ask...
May is marked as the mental health month for 2014. We, in Pakistan, are not too worried about health of any kind, let alone mental health. As per...
The job of analysts in this country is rather tough. They must find ways and means of saying the same things over and over again. And be rather...
The party’s political motives were clear -- they were embedded in the economy. Election 2013 was all about an economic turnaround for the...
