The mighty can be vulnerable - more vulnerable than they think or are willing to admit. That is the message that the Pakistan Muslim League's partner in power in Sindh, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, has sent across very effectively to Islamabad. .................detail

For a process that Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have often boastingly described as irreversible, the present state of bilateral negotiations looks disastrous. ...........detail

Middle East's latest crisis erupted with little warning on the morning of Wednesday, July 12, when a bunch of Hezbollah fighters crossed Lebanon's southern border and ambushed a small Israeli military contingent, killing up to eight soldiers and taking two of them prisoner. In retaliation, Israel lost little time in launching bombing raids that targeted Beirut.........detail

Watching the class of 2006 graduate in Montreal, I was reminded of the dreams and aspirations that fill a graduate's mind - hopeful but anxious of a future that he is told is his for the taking...........detail

Isamabad 2001: A Pakistani journalist was urging a retired army officer on telephone to pose as a serving Inter-Services Intelligence official and give an interview to the bureau chief of a leading western wire agency as an anonymous source. After arguing with the retired official for several minutes in a mix of Urdu and Punjabi,..........detail

Finally, a calendar with a difference. Alaap, a Lahore-based organisation working towards the promotion of religious tolerance in the country, has printed an inter-faith calendar for the year June 2006 to May 2007. The calendar creates religious awareness by devoting ten of its pages to ten different religions practised in the subcontinent. ............detail