World

Good Cop in a Bad Land

Reem Wasay

Dread and despair in Karachi after the death of Chaudhry Aslam Khan, the city’s most daring police officer

All Shapes and Sizes

Osama Motiwala

On Pakistan’s ‘rat children’

An Afghan Moment

Nazes Afroz

A minor football victory over India for news tickers, a major cause of jubilation for Afghans

A Thin ‘Red Line’

Nazes Afroz

One year after he took a stand on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Obama finds himself trapped in his own rhetoric

The End of Silence

Hannah Green

Campus rape at US colleges has for years gone unchecked under negligent administrations. A group of students taking legal action against six leading institutions may finally change that

The Other Side of Brazil

Sergio Mukherjee

What the country’s recent football glories conceal

Perpetual Revolution

Nazes Afroz

With Morsi’s ouster, Egypt’s democracy project is in flux again

The Prodigal Son Returns

Anil Budur Lulla

It’s now Advani vs Modi in Karnataka too, as a section of the BJP wants Yeddyurappa to return to the party to lead the charge in 2014, while another section opposes the move

The War of Words over Blood Diamonds

Shantanu Guha Ray

As India, China and Dubai become the world’s biggest markets for these stones, African countries like Angola are resisting attempts by the West to stigmatise their products as conflict diamonds