Tough President Musharraf's latest sojourn to the United States may have reinforced his status as America's favourite dictator, his standing as a credible leader has hit a new low. During his inordinately long stay in New York, for the United Nations' General Assembly session, and to promote his newly published autobiography .................detail

The fate of a 12-year-old Scottish girl at the centre of an abduction row is still in limbo. Even her name hangs in the balance. The young girl at the centre of the controversy says she doesn't like to be called Molly Campbell and wants to retain her Muslim name, ...........detail

"As in the Philippines and Burma," Simon Tisdall commented in The Guardian late last month, "democracy in Thailand is in danger of being musharrafed." It's hard to say for certain whether this is the first time the name of Pakistan's military ruler has been employed as a verb, but the usage obviously offers little cause for pride.........detail

Aban Marker Kabraji is an eternal optimist. Despite being a woman, an environmentalist AND a Pakistani! "I've always had a positive sense of this country," she tells me during our chat in her office - the same office she occupied as country representative of IUCN - The World Conservation Union in Pakistan............detail

When Judy Chicago's 'Dinner Party' was exhibited in 1979, the idea of collaboration in art was associated solely with the feminist project. The inclusion of seamstresses and craftspeople in her production team was intended to elevate the every-day work of women to the status of high art,..........detail

Mahmood Jamal's Sugar-Coated Pill: Selected Poems gives a sense of different aspects of the South Asian experience. From the problems of colonisation, to the problems of migration, alienation, the marginalisation of minorities, political problems, and even the complexities of romance,............detail