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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...

Must Pakistan - or perhaps one should say specifically its government, its political leaders, its judiciary, its military and its bureaucra...

A few days ago, there was a lavish launch in Karachi for Pakistani Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy 's new documentary project, a ser...

When you have four stories on one patently manufactured 'issue' carried by a newspaper in five days, you can safely consider it an ...

We are sometimes accused by partisan supporters of opposition political parties of being soft on or for not being more vehement about denou...

Almost two years ago, I wrote this piece and this piece about reporting on the Air Blue aircraft crash in Islamabad. The tragic crash of ...

Recently, the comedian and writer Sami Shah tweeted the following image, accompanying the visuals with the line 'My gift to anyone wh...

I would have posted this yesterday but sometimes weekends should remain weekends i.e. work-free, no matter the happiness work may bring. ...

I was going to post my outrage over the depths of tabloid-y sleazebaggery that The News sunk to today but blogger Tazeen has already said...

This is a post about the heart-rending tragedy that struck on the Siachen Glacier early Saturday morning, which has buried - and in all lik...

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

I know, I know. We've been terribly bad. No need to rub it in. But the simple fact of the matter is, things have changed since we began...