Opinion

Guns’n’books Urdu poets and writers from many countries gathered at Karachi last week to show their...

Attitudes Matter The Gulf countries undoubtedly are welfare states. Compared to many other countries, the standard...

Curmudgeon of Karachi One evening in Karachi, in the early 1960s, Ardeshir Cowasjee and his wife,...

Verification of voters The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Election.Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to conduct...

Just my luck As I near my car, I swear loudly. The pigeons have been at...

A defective strategy One has to be cautious while making generalisations. Any conclusion drawn from the...

The naysayers THE United Nations General Assembly vote last week on granting Palestine non-member observer status...

Hope for Pakistan There are a good number of politically active people who believe that the...

Playing with powder keg Issues that can best be settled through political dialogue are landing up...

Imran Khan on defeating ‘Jihad Syndrome,’ drones and Syria Long after his cricket heydays, 60-year-old Imran...

Turning a new leaf Although Pakistan’s parliament will be completing its full term in a few...

The missing taxpayers! Since the country’s apex court has won praise for its efforts to recover...

Statesman-like attitude Emerging out of the archaic political thought of considering rivals as permanent enemies, Nawaz...

Critical juncture Over the past decade or more, global security concerns have focused on developments in...

Obama’s second coming Judging by the timing of his Asian trip President Barack Obama seemed confident...