It is not normal protocol for World Bank vice presidents to make presentations. But this was a special occasion: it was March 2005 and Pakistan’s new-found prosperity was at risk. So as General Musharraf sat to listen at the Presidency in Islamabad, Praful Patel, vice president of South Asia for the World Bank..................detail

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates struck twice against the personnel of the law-enforcement agencies with suicide bombings on August 29 and 30 in different parts of the NWFP, killing 38 Khassadars and policemen, to send a warning that they still retained the capacity to fight back,............detail

China banned Alice in Wonderland for several years because the animal kingdom was upgraded to human form, England banned D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover until 1960 for its sexually explicit content (E.M. Forster was among those who defended the book at the trial), but India has now gone one step further........detail

Living within your means is a most un-American ideal, but it seems to be the secret of survival for Pakistani- Americans. If managing the hyphen in Pakistani-American was not enough, they must also grapple like most Americans, with unemployment, a fickle stock market and fallen disposable incomes. ........detail

In January, Qasim was admitted to the National Medical Centre, at Kala Pul, for a bypass. Unfortunately, after removing a vein from his right leg to replace a clogged vessel in his heart, he lost his leg altogether due to a surgical slipup. “They fixed my heart,” says Qasim, .........detail

Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri is seen as the kingpin of the radical Baloch nationalist movement, which explicitly demands an independent Balochistan. Although the veteran Baloch leader appears to be living a quiet life in Karachi’s posh Defence Housing Authority for the past several years...........detail