President Musharraf appeared visibly jittery at the farewell dinner for Zafarullah Khan Jamali as he tried to defend Shaukat Aziz's nomination as the country's new prime minister. "When India can have a prime minister from the upper house why can't we have a senator for the post,"...............detail

Outsmarting and outmaneuvering all the other contenders vying for the prime minister's slot, Aziz, 55, has squeezed the maximum benefit out of his less than five years of investment in Pakistani politics. His financial wizardry and President General Pervez Musharraf's implicit trust in his talent and professional skill,.........detail

MAJOR non-Nato ally. It has a nice ring to it, doesn't? Actually, it sounds about as cosy and intimate as describing someone as your third cousin, twice removed. Or a dependable subordinate rather than a valued colleague........detail

An exquisitely designed and crafted garment splashed with the colours turquoise and twilight is more than mere garb. A designer of such garments, Yousuf Bashir, has returned to Pakistan after extensive professional success with many big names in Hollywood movies, haute couture, fashion houses and garment firms. ....detail

Pakistani cricket legend turned social crusader, Imran Khan, drove to the Karakoram mountains with close family friends the day after he announced his divorce from his beautiful British socialite bride, Jemima Goldsmith. These were the same mountains Khan and Goldsmith had honeymooned in nine years ago......detail

In A Mighty Heart, journalist Daniel Pearl's widow, Mariane, writes about her unsuccessful efforts to stop CBS from screening the video of her husband's beheading. In answer to her protests, Andrew Hayward, president of CBS News, tells her that the video has "news value." She writes:..........detail