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So Asif Zardari is off to be feted by the British Prime Minister David Cameron at his Chequers country retreat. This despite the fact that ...

From the Pakistan Post, New York. A picture is worth a thousand words, wouldn't you say?

The Jang Group in general and The News in particular are just so lucky. On their staff they have someone who is not only a fearless and i...

I have such mixed emotions about the WikiLeaks expose of the Afghan War Diaries and so many strands of thought that I want to pursue that ...

Tragic air crash in Islamabad this morning. More than 150 people died when Air Blue's Karachi - Islamabad flight went down on the Margal...

Two bits of silliness from the Pakistani media today. The first comes from Geo Online (thanks to Huma Imtiaz for pointing it out). Please...

We'd held off on posting about the changes at Express TV and Dunya TV - even though it has been some time now - in order to confirm th...

From the Express Tribune website , thanks to MissingRomance. A windfall for journalists?

If you don't know the television phenomenon known as Mathira , you have obviously been living on a different planet than the rest of Pak...

Stumbled across this hilarious gem of a song by legendary Indian composer Madan Mohan from the first film he ever composed for. The film wa...

Our friend Ahsan at FiveRupees had once done a post on his blog about the curiously fanatical predilection of Pakistani internet surfers to ...

Nawaz Sharif seems overly fond of cake. Having it and eating it all at the same time, that is. Nawaz Sharif: the paragon of naivete? (sour...

So a German octopus has been more adept at predicting the outcome of matches in the football World Cup than a thousand highly paid human pu...

So I've still been thinking about the whole General Stanley McChrystal affair. No, not about the vibrancy of American democracy that ha...

Another day. Another brutal massacre of innocents. Is there anything to say about the horrendous suicide attack on the Data Darbar in Lahore...

Here's some more 'ah zat! addled yeah' for you. The Chief Justice Lahore High Court Khwaja Sharif decided to take time out from...

Ok, I know we've only made fun of MNA Jamshed Dasti 's verbal diarrhoea so far. But really, enough is enough. It's one thing to...

Chief Minister Balochistan Muhammad Aslam Raisani is a man of few words. And we should all be thankful for that. Because when he does open h...