The Tasman Spirit - a Greek-registered, Maltese flag-flying oil tanker - carrying approximately 67,500 tonnes of Iranian crude oil for the PNSC (Pakistan National Shipping Corporation) from the Emirates, bound for the Pakistan State Oil refinery, drifted perilously close to the Karachi harbour, became grounded,..........detail

General Musharraf's aides are burning the midnight oil working on a new plan to establish a system of presidential rule, as the increasingly contentious dispute over the Legal Framework Order (LFO) remains unresolved. The President sent out a clear warning when he declared that the Parliament would not survive if the LFO was rejected.........detail

Sixty-year-old Shah Jahan, who lives in the remote mountains of Kohistan in the Wari subdivision of the Frontier, is not intimidated in the least by the government clampdown on the poppy crop. Although he has witnessed a number of shootouts between the law-enforcing authorities, and the growers, he says that the tribals will not back down on the issue of protecting their own livelihood.. . ..detail

Search for Freedom, a documentary directed by Manizae Jahangir, is about four Afghan women and their struggle to bring some semblance of sanity to lives disrupted by war. The women run the gamut of social class, ranging from the aristocratic Princess Shafiqa Saroj,King Amanullah's sister, to the simple village woman, Mohsina, whose husband was slain by the mujahideen. ...detail

From London to Lahore, the kurti rules this summer. Gone are the days of figure-hugging, slinky tops; short, cool and trendy variations of the age-old subcontinental kurta have swept through every designer's atelier from the high street to haute couture. Kurtis have been given a new funky twist and treated with glamorous elegance. .....detail

During a one-year tenure in General Pervez Musharraf's cabinet from November 1999 to October 2000 as Advisor on National Affairs and Minister for Information and Media Development, I had the privilege of being closely associated with two significant cabinet decisions on electronic media policy......detail