Mini Kapoor
Stories of cultural contact dominate the 2007 ‘Booker’s dozen’ — from Malaysia during World War II and Lahore after 9/11 through the conflicted soul o
Time looks at India 60 years after Independence through intergenerational life stories to take stock of improved opportunities and those that still ne
After Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf met Benazir Bhutto in Abu Dhabi last week — according to the Daily Times, through the assistance of the Em
Time (‘China’s me generation’, August 6) spends time with twentysomethings in China, taking note of a generational and demographic shift...
On July 24, one of Pakistan’s most wanted militants, Abdullah Mehsud, blew himself up in Zhob, a border town 350 km northwest of Quetta, upon being su
In a special report on Iran, the July 21 issue of THE ECONOMIST widens the canvas to ask once again a familiar question: how should the West deal with
Friday’s Dawn capsuled Pakistan’s post-Lal Masjid days into figures: “The series of bomb attacks mostly targeting the security forces has claimed more
With US encouragement to “colour” revolutions in neighbouring Ukraine and Georgia, Putin’s world tilted on its axis Stanislav Belkovsky Kremlin analys
The full gamut of implications of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s orders to commandos to storm Islamabad’s Lal Masjid in the early hours of July
‘Human brain is designed to seek out patterns. The urge is particularly strong when we are frightened, and rightly so’
A sense that action was imminent at Islamabad’s Lal Masjid was conveyed by newspapers on Tuesday morning. Dawn reported that forces had been reinforce
A weekly round-up of leading journals
The Lal Masjid standoff in Islamabad has now drawn the Chinese government into demanding action. Dawn reported on Thursday...
Blair leaves still arguing the case for liberal intervention. Agree or not, there’s no mistaking the passion
Tony Blair finally steps down as Prime Minister of Britain this week, and speculation is afoot that he will coordinate efforts to bring peace to the M
This week Annie Woods Patterson, the US ambassador-designate to Islamabad, told the Senate Foreign Relations committee: “I would be...
We have heard it so many times before, but in restatement this week it appears even more compelling. The Economist (June 14) claims:
May 12 has become an emblematic date in Pakistan, and Newsline’s June issue is devoted to tabulating its reverberations. That was the day of many rall
It couldn’t have been a busier week in Pakistan. In his Friday Times editorial, Najam Sethi picked up three developments: " has tried to gag the media
In the June 11 issue of Newsweek Fareed Zakaria worries that the United States has...
President Pervez Musharraf addressed army officers at the Jhelum garrison on Wednesday, and The Daily Times reported the next day that he said that...
The pantheon of living organisms is about to get some newcomers — and we’re not talking about extraterrestrials,” announces the June 4 issue of Newswe
Nilofar Bakhtiar, Pakistan’s tourism minister, reported back at work after Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz returned her resignation.
Could the array of possibilities for a Democrat bid for the American presidency have ever been so rich? Time has a chat with the man who lost after ta
After the violence in Karachi on the weekend, the consequences are still being counted.
