China's snooping on dissidents is unfortunate but unsurprising, but Western governments – and businesses – need to get out of our private communications, too. Last week a British man, Paul...
Five years ago, give or take a couple of months, I was in Denver at a concert on the Plea for Peace tour. I was a rock and film writer just cutting her teeth on her first political column, and it was...
When I was in college in the US, I dated someone who used to say, “I'm a Christian with a big crush on Islam.” I think it's safe to say that I'm a Sunni with a big crush on Shi'ism. This is a...
I had never even heard of Moon Market. Iqbal Town is several kilometres away from Gulberg, where I live and work, and is a kind of mini-city on its own. I visited there once, to drop a student home,...
My grandmother, who's from Pittsburgh, was very afraid that I'd turn out not American enough, so she taught me the Pledge of Allegiance and the "Star-Spangled Banner," asking me to recite them every...
Scenario one: someone posts on the Internet step-by-step instructions for building a crude weapon of mass destruction, or act of bioterrorism. Scenario two: someone stands in the street with a sign...
I learned about Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum via Twitter, as I do much breaking news these days. More specifically, though, I saw people whom I follow on Twitter asking #tcot, the...
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...
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...
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...
