The grisly attack carried the hallmark of a well
knit terrorist group. Some gunmen took up positions
on the balcony of a two-storey house on Quetta's congested
Liaquat Road, while another group mingled in the procession.
A huge explosion sent a massive shudder through the
mourners. .............detail
A couple
of years ago, a graduate of the Chandka Medical College
in Larkana, unable to find a government job in the city
at the time, set up a private clinic in an isolated
village of Larkana district. He was, he admits, not
very confident of his medical skills and did not want
to risk offering his services to comparatively more
informed patients in the city.,.........detail
When
India last played a Test match in Pakistan, there was
no internet, no e-mails, not even mobile phones - at
least not in our two countries. The Soviet Union was
still intact with Mikhail Gorbachev as its undisputed
leader. Benazir Bhutto was Pakistan's Prime Minister
while Rajiv Gandhi had just been ousted in India by
his ally-turned foe, Vishwanath Pratap Singh. ......detail
On the freezing winter night of February 15, a group
of miscreants went around Daarayle valley in the Diamer
district of the Northern Areas, torching six girls'
schools.Four days
later, unidentified people blew up another girls' school
with a hand grenade in the city of Chilas......detail
en
Oliver Stone's latest production, the 100-million-pound
epic, Alexander, is released, look closely at the tents,
banners, wall-hangings, the Babylon drapes and the tent
interiors. They have been created right here in Karachi
at factories and kaarkhanas in Landhi, Korangi, Saddar
and Defence. For seven months, around 100 craftsmen
worked two shifts every day to complete this mega-project
in time........detail
You
could call it the quiet before the storm, this eerie
pre-poll silence that seems to have descended over India.
Back-channel negotiations are still the order of the
day, as major political parties test permutations and
combinations over innumerable cups of chai and other
liquids, with forgotten enemies and future friends..........detail
