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Pakistans educational institutions are churning out weak-minded soccer types who cannot properly process their own feelings, identify emotions, or self-regulate.

Pakistanis are suffering due to the five capital curses

The second example of selective memory is the hullabaloo over the atta price/availability scandal.

24 Jan 2020 1:05 AM IST

Pakistans educational institutions are churning out weak-minded soccer types who cannot properly process their own feelings, identify emotions, or self-regulate.

Army chiefsâ€™ tenure law fixed without any discussion

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court did not touch on the justification or otherwise for extending a service chiefâ€™s...

10 Jan 2020 12:59 AM IST

Like in Tunisia, go beyond the Islam vs democracy debate

Like in Tunisia, go beyond the Islam vs democracy debate

The conflict between the religious and state forces came to a head in 2011 when Tunisia had a revolution that sparked...

26 July 2019 12:47 AM IST

Why any sign of creeping fascism must be resisted

Why any sign of creeping fascism must be resisted

This theory was used to capture the state and scrap the Weimar Constitution.

18 Jun 2019 3:04 AM IST

Peace still sole option in South Asia, rein in all the warmongers

Peace still sole option in South Asia, rein in all the warmongers

National causes can be upheld by journalists without playing second fiddle to warmongers.

15 March 2019 7:49 AM IST

Although Pakistan is not a contracting party, we can still glean from this that the determinants of naturalisation in any given protracted situation are less legal than economic, social, cultural or racial.

View from Pakistan: PTI should avoid the mistakes of past regimes

Over the decades, the challenge of properly governing Pakistan has been getting heavier by the year.

26 Oct 2018 7:13 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

View from Pakistan: Creating party watchdogs will help Imran to...

In the present situation the PTI and PPP parliamentary parties are unlikely to question party chiefs' choice of CMs.

17 Aug 2018 7:12 AM IST

Stability in Pak will depend on the choice of mantris, bureaucrats

The way ministers are usually chosen in Pakistan does not suggest awareness of the imperatives of efficient and...

10 Aug 2018 2:14 AM IST

The most worrisome fact about the state of Pakistan today is that, while addressing individual wrongs, the institutions concerned are transgressing law and propriety.

Hard times lie ahead for Pakistan: Acrimony will not go away

The suicide bombing in Quetta, in which more than 30 people died, and the killing of an activist in Swabi, could only be...

27 July 2018 1:17 AM IST

The most worrisome fact about the state of Pakistan today is that, while addressing individual wrongs, the institutions concerned are transgressing law and propriety.

View from Pakistan: July 25 vote may have been manipulated beyond...

One wonders whether the terrorist groups' decision to spare some parties and candidates amounts to their endorsement of...

20 July 2018 7:21 AM IST

This is about keeping Pakistan: first, safe; second, strong; third, prosperous; and maybe eventually all three at the same time.

Election 2018 is unprecedented: The outcome is no mystery

The only secret left is how a consensus Prime Minister will jump out of the magician's hat.

13 July 2018 12:57 AM IST

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan

View from Pakistan: A manifesto should be a programme of action

It is often said that in Pakistan election manifestos are meaningless as parties make promises they do not intend to...

11 May 2018 7:26 AM IST