It was just before dawn when the residents of Chinagai, a small border village in the Bajaur tribal area, woke to a thunderous blast. Before they realised what had happened, three more explosions ripped through the village. The lightning missile attack reduced a local madrassah,.................detail

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, or GIK as he was commonly known, took many national secrets to his grave. This was typical of the man, who lived by the book and shunned controversy. Penning his memoirs would have been a deviation from this trait as it would have generated a myriad controversies., ...........detail

Fire of creativity and imagination is promising to make the Karachi beach front a much sought-after tourist destination in the foreseeable future. Entirely practical and wholly reliable projects will have a deep impact on the lifestyle of the people of Karachi.........detail

A mosquito has the nation in panic. And for good reason. Mosquitoes, often considered the scourge of the world, are transmitters of some of the world’s deadliest diseases, such as malaria and yellow fever. ...........detail

Late September, it emerged that the so-called Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali, had made an extraordinary claim in a sermon delivered in a Sydney mosque during Ramadan. “If you take uncovered meat and place it outside,” he said, “and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats’.........detail

Karen Armstrong, perhaps best known for her best-selling book, A History of God, is more than an inspirational speaker. More and more, in a world torn by ethnic and religious strife, she has come to symbolise the voice of reason and tolerance. ............detail