In the high-stake poker game that is Pakistani politics, President Pervez Musharraf currently holds two aces. The third is held by the restored chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, while ex-prime
Another day, another bomb. The question Pakistanis are now routinely asking each other is: "How many casualties?" On 27th July 2007, Islamabad's Lal Masjid claimed fifteen
The decision to knight Salman Rushdie, announced in Queen Elizabeth II's birthday honours list on 15 June 2007 has provoked a vigorous reaction in Pakistan. As protests continue,
For those who believe General Pervez Musharraf to be master of all he surveys, the provocative rebellion of clerics and female seminary students barely a mile from the presidency in
Pervez Musharraf's beleaguered government has begun a desperate attempt to defuse the crisis that the president himself precipitated on 9 March 2007 by suspending the chief justice of
The war in Sri Lanka continues. In January 2007, 154 people (101 of them civilians) were killed, prime minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake told the parliament in Colombo on 8 February. But
Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf has signed the Women's Protection Act (WPA) into law, and on 5 December 2006 announced to a women's conference
The circumstances surrounding the destruction of a madrasa in Bajaur, which killed up to eighty-five people on 30 October 2006, demonstrate yet again the tricky nature of President Pervez Musharraf&
The circumstances surrounding the destruction of a madrasa in Bajaur which killed up to eighty-five people on 30 October 2006 demonstrate yet again the tricky nature of President Pervez Musharraf&
Flying over Baluchistan, one has the impression of traversing a lunar landscape. Flat plains rise into barren hills and rocky crags. Temperatures can hit 130 degrees in the summer, and
The current conflict in the middle east is, as all wars do, producing some unexpected results far from the frontline. In Pakistan, at least, Hizbollah's stiff resistance has
A Taliban preacher is said to have told his Friday congregation soon after the American invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001: "Amreeka was too far for us to fight
