It took us 17 years to figure out but we finally know the secret to cricketing success: a Khan should always captain Pakistan. In the country’s first major trophy since Imran Khan’s cornered tigers lifted the World Cup in 1992, Younus Khan’s motley crew of unfancied outsiders ..................detail

The two-month old military campaign against the militants in the NWFP has now expanded to newer and more dangerous places, such as South Waziristan. This has created a real risk that neighbouring North Waziristan could become the new battlefield, and the conflict could then spill over into adjoining districts.............detail

It twould come as a surprise to most Pakistanis that the country has an indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [UAV] industry. In fact, there are three private entities – East West Infiniti [EWI], Integrated Dynamics [ID] and Surveillance and Target Unmanned Aircraft [Satuma]. .......detail

Hopes that Barack Obama’s presidency would lead to significant changes in the way the United States conducts itself in the Middle East were tempered by the realisation that numerous domestic and international considerations would prevent him from making a clean break with the past, even if he were so inclined.,........detail

They’re holding hands. A double take confirms it. And they are not two men holding hands (or hooking pinkies) like some do here in the subcontinent. There is one man and one woman. In broad daylight. In Tehran. .........detail

Juergen Wasim Frembgen is senior curator of the oriental department of the Museum of Ethnology in Munich and associate professor of Islamic studies at the University of Munich. He is author of the book, Journey to God: Sufis and Dervishes in Islam, and himself a devotee of Sufi saints...........detail