Saturday 4 August '07
After Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf met Benazir Bhutto in Abu Dhabi last week — according to the Daily Times, through the assistance of the Emirate’s royals — the pace of political developments has picked up.Monday 30 July '07
Time (‘China’s me generation’, August 6) spends time with twentysomethings in China, taking note of a generational and demographic shift...Saturday
28 July '07On 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 surrounded by security forces.Sunday
29 July '07J.K. Rowling’s skill lies in her ability to bring the world of magic so tantalisingly close to usMonday
23 July '07In 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 the nuclear challenge posed by Tehran?Saturday
21 July '07Friday’s Dawn capsuled Pakistan’s post-Lal Masjid days into figures: “The series of bomb attacks mostly targeting the security forces has claimed more than 285 lives...Monday
16 July '07With US encouragement to “colour” revolutions in neighbouring Ukraine and Georgia, Putin’s world tilted on its axis Stanislav Belkovsky Kremlin analyst to NewsweekSaturday
14 July '07The 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 10...Monday
9 July '07‘Human brain is designed to seek out patterns. The urge is particularly strong when we are frightened, and rightly so’Saturday
7 July '07A sense that action was imminent at Islamabad’s Lal Masjid was conveyed by newspapers on Tuesday morning. Dawn reported that forces had been reinforced on MondayMonday
2 July '07A weekly round-up of leading journalsSaturday
30 June '07The Lal Masjid standoff in Islamabad has now drawn the Chinese government into demanding action. Dawn reported on Thursday...Wednesday
27 June '07Blair leaves still arguing the case for liberal intervention. Agree or not, there’s no mistaking the passionMonday
25 June '07Tony 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 Middle East. That task got that muchSaturday
23 June '07This week Annie Woods Patterson, the US ambassador-designate to Islamabad, told the Senate Foreign Relations committee: “I would be...Monday
18 June '07We have heard it so many times before, but in restatement this week it appears even more compelling. The Economist (June 14) claims:Saturday
16 June '07May 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 rallies. Two in Karachi: a thwarted one by the suspended Supreme Court...Saturday
9 June '07It 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 by a new ordinance so that the truth doesn’t get outMonday
4 June '07In the June 11 issue of Newsweek Fareed Zakaria worries that the United States has...Saturday
2 June '07President Pervez Musharraf addressed army officers at the Jhelum garrison on Wednesday, and The Daily Times reported the next day that he said that...Sunday
3 June '07Time passes in a special way in Murakami’s new novelMonday
28 May '07The pantheon of living organisms is about to get some newcomers — and we’re not talking about extraterrestrials,” announces the June 4 issue of Newsweek..Saturday
26 May '07Nilofar Bakhtiar, Pakistan’s tourism minister, reported back at work after Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz returned her resignation.Sunday
27 May '07Manjushree Thapa’s characters struggle to find the past and future in their present concernsMonday
21 May '07Could 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 taking a majority of the...
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