On October 6, in the heavily guarded city of Islamabad, US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, was meeting Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and top civilian and military officials to discuss the security situation in the wake of the ongoing war against terrorism...........detail

Just one year after its spectacular electoral success, the six-party Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) appears to be in troubled waters with signs of a widening division among the coalition partners. Two of the component groups have threatened to part ways in the Frontier and several of its MNAs are believed to be ready to switch their loyalties.........detail

The Pakistan Muslim League could well be renamed the 'Pakistan Mutant League.'The organisation, credited with the creation of Pakistan, has a long history of fragmentation and atomisation. Now it is set to undergo another change. This time, not by breaking up further, ... . ..detail

Twenty-four-year-old Siddiqullah had recently become engaged, with a wedding scheduled soon thereafter, but he chose to cast aside marriage plans for the forseeable future. Instead he proceeded to the war zones of Afghanistan to join his ideological compatriots, the Taliban, who have recently upped the anté once again with intensified attacks against Afghan forces,....detail

Watching German model, Veruschka wearing feathered waistcoats, beads and painting her face with flowers in the '60s, and knowing how to translate that look into today's sartorial vocabulary is how Sonya Battla describes the inspiration behind her innovative new fall collection. Battla's quirky design ideas are cut from fluid jersey to create softly form-fitting ensembles. .....detail

Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) is uncomfortably, chillingly close to home. Set in the Punjab village of Charkhi in 1979, at a time when General Zia's "Islamisation" began to spread insidiously through Pakistani society, the film tells the story of the making of a religious extremist.......detail