Pakistan's military coup truncated a democratic process that would have thrown out Nawaz Sharif as decisively as Benazir Bhutto was rejected in the last election.
What does the fate of a small island in the Pacific Ocean have to do with the conflict in Kashmir? If the island is East Timor, the answer is everything
Much after the fighting in Kargil had ended, came press reports that the intrusions happened because the warnings of the Kargil sector Brigade Commander Surinder Singh had been ignored by
Pink-cheeked, top-hatted schoolboys walking across vast playing fields surrounded by medieval stone buildings: surely that's what Eton Hall is all about? Wrong. Eton Hall is a concrete suburban
Mega projects and Nawaz Sharif seem to be made for each other. Sharif has to his credit a 16-billion-rupee yellow cab scheme and a 40-billion-rupee Lahore-Islamabad motorway. And now he
The war in Afghanistan started in the middle of the excavation of six Kushan graves in Tillya Tepe. Through the war, the world wondered about the Bactiran golden hoard'
Credited for putting together almost all the anti-government political alliances in the last four decades, Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, the wily old man of Pakistani politics, was at it again. Sporting
The biggest threat in recent times to peace and security in the South Asian region was averted by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's unexpected air dash across the
Leaders of Pakistan's radical jihadi organisations have been touring Pakistan. "We will stop only at Srinagar," boasted one of the commanders. Another made a rather more
Pre-Partition Pakistan had a tradition of writing in English, but only in recent years have Pakistani English fiction, poetry, and some drama started to come into their own. The distinguished
