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The rise and fall of the British pub	(May 7, 2008)
Making peace with militants	(May 3, 2008)
Tony Blair’s revenge	(April 30, 2008)
Shaving with Occam’s razor	(April 26, 2008)
Waiting for spring	(April 23, 2008)
The beat of a different drummer	(April 19, 2008)
The Pakistan Society’s tribute to Benazir	(April 16, 2008)
Amir Hamza in the land of Qaf	(April 12, 2008)
The migration debate in the West	(April 9, 2008)
A separate peace?	(April 5, 2008)
The economics of greed	(April 2, 2008)
The ghost at the banquet	(March 29, 2008)
Trauma support for crime victims in Britain	(March 26, 2008)
The trials and tribulations of air travel	(March 19, 2008)
Life’s great lottery	(March 15, 2008)
Navajeevana: transforming lives in Sri Lanka	(March 12, 2008)
Getting there from here	(March 8, 2008)
Sri Lanka longing for serendipity	(March 5, 2008)
Delicate art of coalition making	(March 1, 2008)
He who pays the piper calls the tune	(February 27, 2008)
An open letter to General Kayani	(February 23, 2008)
The intentions and benefits of election tourism	(February 20, 2008)
‘Yes, we can!’	(February 16, 2008)
Britain as a post-religious society	(February 13, 2008)
The power test	(February 9, 2008)
Demonstrations in Pakistan and UK: disparateness explained	(February 6, 2008)
The army’s camp-followers	(February 2, 2008)
‘Charlie Wilson’s War’: an insider’s view of Afghan venture	(January 30, 2008)
Lectures on democracy	(January 26, 2008)
The business of eating out	(January 23, 2008)
Pakistan’s Maginot Line	(January 19, 2008)
Another day, another scandal	(January 16, 2008)
Boycotting the boycott	(January 12, 2008)
Britain wakes up to harsh realities	(January 9, 2008)
Where does the buck stop?	(January 5, 2008)
What made Benazir the most favoured Pakistani in the West	(January 2, 2008)
A death foretold	(December 29, 2007)
Just say no	(December 15, 2007)
Lashing the victim	(December 8, 2007)
Politics of boycotts	(December 1, 2007)
‘Give us back our country’	(November 24, 2007)
Lost in a surreal world	(November 17, 2007)
The view from the palace	(November 10, 2007)
How to use a bayonet	(November 3, 2007)
The ‘yes, but…’ syndrome	(October 27, 2007)
Carnage at the carnival	(October 20, 2007)
Welcome to Babylon	(October 13, 2007)
Saffron and black	(October 6, 2007)
Fault lines in the mind	(September 29, 2007)
No graceful exit	(September 22, 2007)
Running out of time	(September 15, 2007)
From the mouths of babes	(September 8, 2007)
Shifting patterns	(September 1, 2007)
A sense of wonder	(August 25, 2007)
Fast forward to 2047	(August 18, 2007)
Reality and rhetoric	(August 11, 2007)
Games historians play	(August 4, 2007)
Reinforcing failure	(July 28, 2007)
Facing the real threat	(July 21, 2007)
Some unanswered questions	(July 14, 2007)
Changing outlook	(July 7, 2007)
Growing energy shortfall	(June 30, 2007)
Milbus and millionaires	(June 23, 2007)
A last roll of the dice?	(June 16, 2007)
Hear no evil, see no evil	(June 9, 2007)
Open season on minorities	(June 2, 2007)
A dismal record	(May 26, 2007)
The fallout from Karachi	(May 19, 2007)
British brand of jihadis	(May 12, 2007)
A tale of two armies	(May 5, 2007)
Time for reckoning	(April 28, 2007)
A catch-22 situation	(April 21, 2007)
Reaping what we sowed	(April 14, 2007)
Dilemmas and desires	(April 7, 2007)
The all-round decline	(March 31, 2007)
Four troubled years later	(March 24, 2007)
The shock and awe of it all	(March 17, 2007)
The limits to growth	(October 3, 2007)
One-way traffic	(March 3, 2007)
Contradictions to deal with	(February 24, 2007)
Give peace a chance	(February 17, 2007)
‘Dare to know!’	(October 2, 2007)
Putting our own house in order	(February 3, 2007)
What the opposition lacks	(January 27, 2007)
‘The mother of all elections’	(January 20, 2007)
Attracting tourists	(January 13, 2007)
The great kidney bazaar	(January 6, 2007)
Preserving the past	(December 30, 2006)
‘Disappearances’ without a trace	(December 23, 2006)
Corruption on the rise	(December 16, 2006)
Unjust to women	(December 09, 2006)
A guide to elections	(December 02, 2006)
The great divide	(November 25, 2006)
A tale of two bills	(November 18, 2006)
The twilight of tolerance	(November 11, 2006)
A new approach to peace	(November 04, 2006)
Humbled by circumstances	(October 28, 2006)
‘The Seven-Year Itch’	(October 21, 2006)
Beyond the veil	(October 14, 2006)
The search for utopia	(October 07, 2006)
Behind the scenes	(September 30, 2006)
Faith and reason	(September 23, 2006)
Who’s winning the war on terror?	(September 9, 2006)
A litany of disasters	(September 02, 2006)
Resistance, terror & faith	(August 26, 2006)
Wishing away reality	(August 19, 2006)
Blinkered view of visitors	(August 12, 2006)
Many bridges yet to cross	(August 5, 2006)
Morality and power	(July 29, 2006)
Insecurities of the local bully	(July 22, 2006)
The downside of dictatorship	(July 15, 2006)
‘The tipping point’	(July 8, 2006)
Inside the Lobby	(July 1, 2006)
Virtual wars	(June 24, 2006)
Paranoia and patriotism	(June 17, 2006)
The ultimate axis of evil	(June 13, 2006)
The day of the generals	(June 3, 2006)
Tackling the Tigers	(May 27, 2006)
On the campaign trail	(May 20, 2006)
Power and politics	(May 13, 2006)
Lessons of May Day	(May 6, 2006)
‘Clothes maketh the man’	(April 29, 2006)
A little less rhetoric would do	(April 22, 2006)
Oysters in Oualidiah	(April 15, 2006)
The slow train to peace	(April 8, 2006)
One-way traffic	(April 1, 2006)
A tale of two countries	(March 28, 2006)
Policing our wild frontier	(March 18, 2006)
Rituals and reality	(March 11, 2006)
“Bring ‘em on!”	(March 4, 2006)
Swaying in the wind	(February 25, 2006)
On a collision course	(February 18, 2006)
Let’s move on	(February 11, 2006)
The one-rupee school	(February 4, 2006)
Foil the bigots	(January 28, 2006)
The fog of war	(January 21, 2006)
Fun and frolic	(January 14, 2006)
A crisis of confidence	(January 7, 2006)
A divergence of interests	(December 31, 2005)
Out of time, out of place	(December 24, 2005)
Gender discrimination	(December 17, 2005)
Reality and pipedreams	(December 10, 2005)
Conversion losses	(December 3, 2005)
A personal credo	(November 26, 2005)
Harsh lessons in a hard world	(November 19, 2005)
No middle ground	(November 12, 2005)
The way of the world	(October 29, 2005)
Natural & manmade disasters	(October 25, 2005)
Challenge and response	(October 15, 2005)
Prodding the peacemakers	(October 8, 2005)
Crime and (no) punishment	(October 1, 2005)
Things better left unsaid	(September 24, 2005)
Moral dilemmas of our times	(September 17, 2005)
Tapping the religious right’s knee	(September 10, 2005)
Our heritage at stake	(September 3, 2005)
Democracy in decline	(August 27, 2005)
Our colonial heritage	(August 20, 2005)
The faith militant	(August 13, 2005)
Image and reality	(August 6, 2005)
The way of the ostrich	(July 30, 2005)
The ‘but...’ factor	(July 23, 2005)
Between a rock and a hard place	(July 16, 2005)
Dancing with the Taliban	(July 9, 2005)
Masterly inaction as policy	(July 2, 2005)
Battle for Pakistan’s soul	(June 25, 2005)
Hounding a heroine	(June 18, 2005)
Those horrifying myths	(June 11, 2005)
Why the poor stay poor	(June 4, 2005)
Human rights and hypocrisy	(May 28, 2005)
The right to run	(May 21, 2005)
Why theatre is important	(May 14, 2005)
‘The Thirteenth Tribe’	(May 07, 2005)
Converging towards the centre	(Apr 30, 2005)
Peace process: twists & turns	(Apr 25, 2005)
The heart of the matter	(Apr 16, 2005)
The scourge from nowhere	(Apr 09, 2005)
One hand clapping	(Apr 02, 2005)
In the eyes of the West	(Mar 26, 2005)
Probing with a bayonet	(Mar 19, 2005)
Fantasies from Tripoli	(Mar 12, 2005)
Winds of change?	(Mar 05, 2005)
Food for thought	(Feb 26, 2005)
The Lewis doctrine	(Feb 19, 2005)
Facing up to reality	(Feb 12, 2005)
A tale of two elections	(Feb 05, 2005)
The softening of the state	(Jan 29, 2005)
Living in cloud cuckoo land	(Jan 15, 2005)
The ifs and buts of history	(Jan 08, 2005)
Close-up of a tragedy	(Jan 01, 2005)
Obscurants blocking progress	(Dec 25, 2004)
Lending to the poor	(Dec 18, 2004)
Tales from Karachi	(Dec 11, 2004)
Time for him to go home	(Dec 04, 2004)
Liberalism and tolerance	(Nov 27, 2004)
Doctorates for sale	(Nov 20, 2004)
Peace and the bottom line	(Nov 13, 2004)
A city in free fall	(Nov 06, 2004)
'Peace in our times'	(Oct 30, 2004)
Persecuting the powerless	(Oct 23, 2004)
The military's bottom line	(Oct 16, 2004)
Hunting with the pack	(Oct 09, 2004)
Fickle fortune	(Oct 02, 2004)
South Asia in 2020	(Sep 25, 2004)
Reaping what Zia sowed	(Sep 18, 2004)
Mayhem and morality	(Sep 11, 2004)
Groping for gold	(Sep 04, 2004)
Seeking a better tomorrow	(August 28, 2004)
Clinging to power	(August 14, 2004)
The wall of silence	(August 07, 2004)
Identifying the foe	(July 31, 2004)
Losing the high ground	(July 24, 2004)
Suddenly sixty	(July 17, 2004)
Distant worlds	(July 10, 2004)
Musharraf's dilemma	(July 03, 2004)
Shock of pointless loss	(June 26, 2004)
The colonial heritage	(June 19, 2004)
Freeing trade with India	(June 12, 2004)
The Assassins at the gate	(June 05, 2004)
The forgotten Christians	(May 29, 2004)
Lessons from Abu Ghraib	(May 22, 2004)
Down, but not out	(May 15, 2004)
Not by bread alone	(May 08, 2004)
The devil you know...	(May 01, 2004)
Stumbling along	(April 24, 2004)
Back to the beginning	(April 17, 2004)
Tourism and terrorism	(April 10, 2004)
Centurions and legionnaires	(April 03, 2004)
Fuelling extremism	(Mar 27, 2004)
The untamed frontier	(Mar 20, 2004)
Free of fear	(Mar 13, 2004)
Just deserts	(Mar 06, 2004)
A faltering revolution	(Feb 28, 2004)
Out of step, out of time	(Feb 21, 2004)
The king of swing	(Feb 14, 2004)
The atomic arms bazaar	(Feb 07, 2004)
Behind the peace moves	(Jan 31, 2004)
Switching channels	(Jan 24, 2004)
Out on a limb	(Jan 10, 2004)
Intimations of mortality	(Jan 03, 2004)
Breaking the deadlock	(Dec 27, 2003)
The growing divide	(Dec 20, 2003)
Sarongs and serendipity	(Dec 13, 2003)
The strategic imbalance	(Dec 06, 2003)
Talking tough, turning tail	(Nov 29, 2003)
The Ottoman model of tolerance	(Nov 22, 2003)
Enough is enough	(Nov 15, 2003)
The limits of dictatorship	(Nov 08, 2003)
'A little clear thinking'	(Nov 01, 2003)
Tackling terror begins at home	(Oct 25, 2003)
A clash of narratives	(Oct 11, 2003)
Blow to idealism	(Oct 04, 2003)
Democracy in action	(Sep 27, 2003)
America's caloric crisis	(Sep 20, 2003)
The limits of unilateralism	(Sep 13, 2003)
Censored visions	(Sep 06, 2003)
A study in contrasts	(August 30, 2003)
The American dilemma	(August 23, 2003)
Why ZAB failed	(August 16, 2003)
Grab the olive branch	(August 09, 2003)
Faith and race	(August 02, 2003)
Age and independence	(July 26, 2003)
The first casualty	(July 19, 2003)
Thinking the unthinkable	(July 12, 2003)
Imperial overreach	(July 05, 2003)
Rhetoric and reality	(June 28, 2003)
The American dream - and nightmare	(June 21, 2003)
The hard road to peace	(June 14, 2003)
From drama to farce	(June 07, 2003)
Brothers in extremism	(May 31, 2003)
The gift of poetry	(May 24, 2003)
When in Rome...	(May 19, 2003)
'For the common good'	(May 10, 2003)
'Who killed Daniel Pearl?'	(May 03, 2003)
Crusade versus jihad	(Apr 26, 2003)
Possible next targets	(Apr 19, 2003)
Winds of change	(Apr 12, 2003)
Waiting for Saladin	(Apr 05, 2003)
Winning the war, losing the peace	(Mar 29, 2003)
'No LFO, No!'	(Mar 22, 2003)
It's only a game	(Mar 08, 2003)
'Cruelty and silence'	(Mar 01, 2003)
'Not in my name'	(Feb 22, 2003)
The high cost of accountability	(Feb 15, 2003)
A new referendum for Kashmir	(Feb 08, 2003)
States within the state	(Feb 01, 2003)
Caught in a cleft stick	(Jan 25, 2003)
So who's winning the war on terror?	(Jan 18, 2003)
'They' are out to get us	(Jan 11, 2003)
Looking ahead, darkly	(Jan 04, 2003)
Tragic and distasteful	(Dec 28, 2002)
When will we ever learn?	(Dec 21, 2002)
'Short and sharp!'	(Dec 14, 2002)
The final partition	(Nov 23, 2002)
More of the same	(Nov 16, 2002)
The Italian jobs	(Nov 09, 2002)
Welcome to the frontline	(Nov 02, 2002)
Religious right with a mandate	(Oct 19, 2002)
The messiah complex	(Oct 12, 2002)
Jobs for the boys	(Oct 05, 2002)
A house divided	(Sep 28, 2002)
Devolution and revolution	(Sep 21, 2002)
Whose land is it, anyway?	(Sep 14, 2002)
9/11: counting the costs	(Sep 07, 2002)
Sticking to Plan A	(Aug 31, 2002)
Vendettas, victims and victors	(Aug 17, 2002)
A cruel country	(Aug 10, 2002)
Lessons from Sher Shah Suri	(July 27, 2002)
Analyse this	(July 20, 2002)
The slippery slope	(July 13, 2002)
Triple squeeze	(July 06, 2002)
Buffoonery and betrayal	(June 29, 2002)
Bush-whacked	(June 22, 2002)
A time for tough decisions	(June 15, 2002)
The view from London	(June 08, 2002)
Giving peace a chance	(June 01, 2002)
A conflict neither side can win	(May 26, 2002)
The growth of terror	(May 18, 2002)
The calculus of violence	(May 11, 2002)
Hold the champagne	(May 04, 2002)
The blame game	(Apr 27, 2002)
Musharraf's metamorphosis	(Apr 20, 2002)
Time to draw the line	(Apr 13, 2002)
US support for Sharon	(Apr 06, 2002)
Walking through a minefield	(Mar 30, 2002)
Thinking outside the box	(Mar 23, 2002)
Mosques, mandirs & mayhem	(Mar 16, 2002)
Dangerous liaisons	(Mar 02, 2002)
What goes around, comes around	(Feb 23, 2002)
Halwa from heaven	(Feb 16, 2002)
A region in flux	(Feb 09, 2002)
Paying for the past	(Feb 02, 2002)
Saying the 'S' word	(Jan 26, 2002)
Serves 'em right!	(Jan 19, 2002)
Madness at noon	(Jan 05, 2002)
Reclaiming our faith	(Dec 29, 2001)
America first	(Dec 22, 2001)
Illusion of Muslim unity	(Dec 15, 2001)
A return to relevance	(Dec 08, 2001)
Governments from hell	(Dec 01, 2001)
History's hard lessons	(Nov 24, 2001)
Zero-sum games people play	(Nov 17, 2001)
Enough is enough	(Nov 10, 2001)
Can the lemmings be wrong?	(Nov 03, 2001)
A separate reality	(Oct 27, 2001)
Pipedreams and daydreams	(Oct 20, 2001)
The moment of truth	(Oct 13, 2001)
A nation divided	(Oct 06, 2001)
Reality check	(Sep 29, 2001)
Red tide rising	(Sep 22, 2001)
Troubled waters	(Sep 15, 2001)
Just say no to DoCoMo	(Sep 08, 2001)
Another day, another atrocity	(Sep 01, 2001)
Taboo or not taboo?	(Aug 25, 2001)
Clear and present danger	(Aug 20, 2001)
Going to the dogs	(Aug 11, 2001)
The view from Harding's Point	(July 26, 2001)
The spirit of Southall	(July 14, 2001)
Sink or swim	(July 07, 2001)
The end of politics?	(June 30, 2001)
But can he walk the walk?	(June 23, 2001)
How about some compassion?	(June 16, 2001)
The short arm of the law	(June 09, 2001)
Let's take the high road	(June 02, 2001)
A question of image	(May 26, 2001)
Welcome to the dark side	(May 19, 2001)
The winds of change	(May 12, 2001)
Never a dull moment	(May 05, 2001)
It's a minefield out there	(Apr 28, 2001)
The baby and the bath water	(Apr 21, 2001)
The vandals of Wah	(Apr 14, 2001)
Snakes & ladders, musical chairs	(Apr 07, 2001)
Partisan politics	(Mar 31, 2001)
Punching above our weight	(Mar 24, 2001)
The limits of sovereignty	(Mar 17, 2001)
The fire next door	(Mar 10, 2001)
Sense and stability	(Mar 03, 2001)
Israel as a colonial venture	(Feb 24, 2001)
Rattling our cage	(Feb 17, 2001)
Rush to judgment	(Feb 10, 2001)
Stagnation vs creative chaos	(Feb 03, 2001)
Defying the popular will	(Jan 27, 2001)
'I want it now!'	(Jan 20, 2001)
The price of hypocrisy	(Jan 13, 2001)
The battle for hearts and minds	(Jan 06, 2001)
Days of rage	(Dec 23, 2000)
The moral imperative	(Dec 16, 2000)
Straws in the wind	(Dec 09, 2000)
Concept of secularism	(Dec 02, 2000)
Riding the tiger	(Nov 25, 2000)
Reinventing the wheel	(Nov 18, 2000)
The deepening contradiction	(Nov 11, 2000)
A discourse of the deaf	(Nov 04, 2000)
The high cost of jihad	(Oct 28, 2000)
Intolerable intolerance	(Oct 21, 2000)
Jumping ship	(Oct 14, 2000)
Eqbal and the pain of Palestine	(Oct 07, 2000)
In the firing line	(Sep 30, 2000)
It's OK to say sorry	(Sep 23, 2000)
A nation of ostriches	(Sep 16, 2000)
Curbing the spooks	(Sep 09, 2000)
The silly season	(Sep 02, 2000)
Gateway to peace	(Aug 26, 2000)
Intimations of mortality	(May 06, 2000)
Kargil: the morning after	(Apr 29, 2000)
Strawberry season	(Apr 22, 2000)
All in the family	(Apr 15, 2000)
Looking for a scapegoat	(Apr 08, 2000)
Cost analysis of our Kashmir policy	(Apr 01, 2000)
Immigration and identity at Eid	(Mar 25, 2000)
War or peace	(Mar 11, 2000)
Fighting for the faith	(Mar 04, 2000)
The earthquake next door	(Feb 26, 2000)
Swaying in the wind	(Feb 19, 2000)
The armies of the night	(Feb 12, 2000)
The view from Washington	(Feb 05, 2000)
Give peace a chance	(Jan 29, 2000)
Where corruption is a way of life	(Jan 22, 2000)
What's new, Charlie Brown?	(Jan 15, 2000)
Throw the rascals out	(Jan 08, 2000)
Brave new world	(Jan 01, 2000)
A column for Christmas	(Dec 25, 1999)
Reality check	(Dec 18, 1999)
Gothic horror story	(Dec 11, 1999)
Sink or swim	(Dec 04, 1999)
How now, cash cow?	(Nov 27, 1999)
The liberal's dilemma	(Nov 13, 1999)
In-laws and outlaws	(Nov 06, 1999)
Please keep it short	(Oct 30, 1999)
The more the merrier	(Oct 23, 1999)
Democracy in the doldrums	(Oct 16, 1999)
The view from the CCU	(Oct 09, 1999)
Edward Said fights for his past	(Oct 02, 1999)
A question of faith	(Sep 25, 1999)
Out of step	(Sep 18, 1999)
A day of reckoning	(Sep 11, 1999)
Interesting times	(Sep 04, 1999)
A malignant cancer	(Aug 28, 1999)
A sorry state of affairs	(Aug 21, 1999)
The cost of Kargil	(Aug 14, 1999)
The fatal fault-line	(Aug 07, 1999)
Our image abroad	(Jul 31, 1999)
Survival of the fittest	(Jul 24, 1999)
No escape from politics	(Jul 17, 1999)
The end of morality	(Jul 10, 1999)
The real cost of Kashmir	(Jul 03, 1999)
Accountability in action	(Jun 19, 1999)
Passions and paranoia	(Jun 12, 1999)
The tyranny of time	(Jun 05, 1999)
A long, hot summer	(May 29, 1999)
'Here lies a man...'	(May 22, 1999)
Shooting the messenger	(May 15, 1999)
The view from the top	(May 08, 1999)
Vegging out at the beach	(May 01, 1999)
To catch a thief	(Apr 24, 1999)