Saturday 19 May '07
After the violence in Karachi on the weekend, the consequences are still being counted.Monday 14 May '07
Tony Blair’s announcement of a late June exit has given Britons an opportunity to mull over the changes of the past decade.Saturday
12 May '07Will Karachi outdo Lahore today? Will the MQM outdo Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry? Or could President Musharraf mop up the numbers in Islamabad today? Over the weekend Chaudhry took more than 20 hours to make a four-hour road journey from Islamabad to Lahore, and the reception there took everyone by surprise.Monday
7 May '07They have, predictably, got round to asking whether British Prime Minister Tony Blair made too long his goodbye.Saturday
5 May '07The World Bank’s vice president for South Asia, Praful Patel, was in Pakistan recently and surprised observers by offering to “seriously consider” funding for the $7.2 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.Monday
30 April '07Even as our bones and teeth soften, the rest of our body hardens,” explains Atul Gawande while detailing the bodily implications of getting older in the lead story of The New Yorker...Sunday
29 April '07A novel about 1971 keeps the war so personalMonday
23 April '07Something quite historic happened in 2006, says Shawn Tully, editor-at-large of FORTUNE in the cover story for the magazine’s...Saturday
21 April '07With enough indication of a much anticipated “deal” between PPP chief Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf coming through, analysts in Pakistan moved to the further adjustments this could set off.Monday
16 April '07The three leading candidates for the French presidency cut such interesting political profiles that The Economist, in its cover leader...Sunday
15 April '07Is isolation good for Burma’s people? Or only for its dictators? A new book argues for fresh engagement with the countrySaturday
14 April '07By week’s end, Daily Times gathered some strands of President Musharraf current troubles (‘Divided government fights on many fronts’): The standoff at Lal Masjid, sectarian violence in Parachinar in Khurram agency, vigilante action in parts of NWFP with music cassettes being confiscated.Saturday
7 April '07Mohsin Hamid’s second novel carries a Kiplingesque encounter between East and West in the 21st century.Saturday
7 April '07The Daily Times reported on Friday that elders of the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe have formally requested the government for air support and supply of weapons against foreign militants.Saturday
31 March '07Interesting times beget interesting questions. And in his customary front-page editorial for the weekly newspaper, The Friday Times, editor Najam Sethi recaps them.Sunday
25 March '07A lively and overstated case for messiness at home and in the workplace.Friday
23 March '07Cricket is just a game. But it has been the arena in which so many of the major issues in Pakistan have played outTuesday
13 March '07Every four years, the same teams — why? Imperialism was probably cricket’s only effective proselytiserSunday
4 February '07Paul Auster once again play tricks on the reader, this time more chillinglyFriday
26 January '07Will agenda dominate the fight for the US presidency, or identity? As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama enter the fray, the answer may lie in the books they wroteSunday
14 January '07In this unsettling novel, an accident survivor accuses his sister of being an imposterSunday
24 December '06John Sutherland offers a guide on how to survive and be happy amidst this deluge of bestsellersSunday
10 December '06McCarthy’s novel about a journey in post-apocalyptic times is strangely comfortingSunday
3 December '06Ian Rankin, forty something chronicler of ageing DI John Rebus, has other ideas.Friday
1 December '06The return of the former captain will not hand India a formula to regain the winning habit
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