THE police have an umbilical relationship with gamblers and prostitutes. Wherever the latter exist, the police is bound to act or at least expected to act. So

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 FOREIGN Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was not far off the mark when he said on Friday that the talks between the Indian government and the leadership in

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai begins his second term on a note of uncertainty if not gloom, compounded by his controversial re-election and his western backers’

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

DEAR Comrade Ji, Salaam.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

TWO events of the past few days — though wholly unrelated to each other or to Pakistan — contain a lesson for our leaders, hence they form the preface to this

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

MUCH has been written in recent months about Pakistan’s ‘culture war.’ The plot is a simple case of good vs evil. On one side, there are the Taliban who despise

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

NAWAZ Sharif recently went to see Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Apparently, he was fully satisfied with their meeting. He told newsmen that he had urged

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

JAPAN’S fledgling recovery is under threat from falling prices, the government said on Friday, as it conceded deflation had returned to the world’s

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

THE Marathi manoos of the Shiv Sena’s conception … took a hard knock when … Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray … messed with Indian superstar Sachin Tendulkar….

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

PAKISTAN had little to be proud on Friday, Universal Children’s Day. At a recent meeting of a UN committee on children’s rights, serious concern was expressed

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009