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The entire country seems to be seized with the issue of whether dual nationality holders should be allowed to hold public office in Pakista...

The hue and cry over the 33-year sentence handed down to Dr Shakil Afridi , the doctor who may have aided the CIA in tracking down Osama b...

I came across an essay today that contained the following passages: "Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national ...

Some new evidence has come to light related to 'Memogate' that we think should be placed in front of the Commission investigating ...

I had promised a comprehensive post about the unraveling of Husain Haqqani when it first happened. The different aspects of the case (techn...

I had the chance, or misfortune, to stumble upon yesterday's Khari Baat Lucman Ke Saath on its repeat today and I am still reeling at ...

I had not actually planned to write this post but am doing so on the insistence of some of our friends on Twitter who think, quite rightly,...

In this lead story from the online edition of the New York Time s on the 26th of September, reporter Carlotta Gall humanizes one of the 1...

So, most of our readers have probably already heard about the advertisement that the Government of Pakistan took out in the Wall Street J...

The recent spate of violence, mayhem and bloodletting in Karachi has drawn a number of responses, ranging from the outraged to the resigne...

I have been musing a little bit about belief, especially after a couple of outraged comments on the previous post about the absurdity of the...

In the preface to his book Inside Al Qaeda And The Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 , the late Syed Saleem Shahzad wrote: “I have never...