Over a hundred people gathered last month at a mosque in the small village of Mahmoudabad, a mile from the Afghan border, in the Chaman district of Balochistan. They were there to pray for the soul of a local boy killed in battle with coalition forces near Kandahar.................detail

A problem postponed is a postponed problem. It seems General Pervez Musharraf is discovering the hidden wisdom of this saying - and that, too, the hard way. Specifically, he's been experiencing the truth of this phrase through his dealings with the still-continuing...........detail

Not long after Muammar Gaddafi, then a 27-year-old colonel, spearheaded a successful coup in Libya in 1969, it became clear that he would be something of an enfant terrible among Arab leaders. Alongside Houari Boumediene's Algeria and Syria under Hafez El Assad, .........detail

Tumhari Amrita was a hard act to follow. But The Citizen's Foundation made sure that Shabana Azmi's act was followed by an equally powerful one. They flew in Naseeruddin Shah, Azmi's colleague from her parallel cinema days, to help raise funds for the 1000 schools they plan to set up throughout Pakistan. ..........detail

With six years of designing behind her, Rosy Patel has moved into the realm of glitzy evening glamour-wear. Staying close to her roots, Patel's design ethos is incorporating our cultural heritage with western catwalk style.,..........detail

I watched renowned Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah, his wife Ratna Pathak and daughter Heeba perform Gharwali, Mughal Bachcha and Chhuimui - three short stories written by Ismat Chugtai (1915-1991) - at the Al Hamra, Lahore, last month and I wish Shah had chosen Lihaaf instead of Chhuimui............detail