A cell-phone video of the flogging of a 17-year-old girl in Swat has garnered much public attention in Pakistan over the last two days. Barely recovered from the previous attack on Manawan police...
Rahman Malik, the Prime Minister's Advisor on the Interior, calls on the nation of Pakistan to party like it's 1965. Which is to say - unite, be nationalistic, perceive an external threat to the...
Last night, Lahore waited uncomfortably for the night to pass. The morning would bring the third day of the Long March. Lawyers, students, party workers, activists and ordinary people have been...
Late Tuesday morning, the Sri Lankan cricket team was driving towards Qaddhafi Stadium in the centre of Lahore to continue its test match against Pakistan when gunmen leapt out at them and shot from...
My father's warning to me 9 years ago, faced with my first US election as a voter, has come true today: you're voting for yourself, and your father and your family, and your country. President...
These last few weeks, Indian-American filmmaker Sarah Singh has been touring in Pakistan, screening her documentary, “The Sky Below”, and taking questions from an energetic Pakistani public. The...
I wanted to tell you why I thought the bombing in Islamabad just happened. That’s what I ought to talk about, in this world of terrorists and wars on terror and conspiracy theories about military...
I’m watching Capital Talk on Geo TV out of the corner of my eye as I research madly for news from Pakistani and foreign press sources about American troops on the ground in northwest Pakistan....
The problem with democracy is that sometimes the person that comes into power is exactly the person you wish would get arrested and sent to prison forever. In the case of Pakistan, it has come to...
Far be it from me to reinforce stereotypes about Pakistani attitudes towards the safety and security of women. I am a product of Musharraf's Enlightened Moderation and the soft image of Pakistan is...
