Pakistan

Fatima Bhutto: ‘I like women who are not afraid to cut down giants’

Shikha Kumar

The new novel by Fatima Bhutto returns to questions of identity and power. She talks to Shikha Kumar about the politics of imagination

The Longest Night of Mumbai

Lhendup G Bhutia

Embers still burn within the survivors

It’s Not Blasphemous

Mehr Tarar

Extremists in Pakistan fail to see that the acquittal of Asia Bibi is not unIslamic

Into the Forbidden Zone

Verghese Samuel

The cost of conflict across the Line of Control

Mohammed Hanif: ‘There is nothing left to satirise’

Nandini Nair

Mohammed Hanif’s new novel takes flight when a plane crashes. The author tells Nandini Nair why death is the only lover who does not betray her promise

A Convenient Penal Tool

Madhavankutty Pillai

On Sidhu’s hug and sedition in India

Imran With a Magic Bat?

Michael Kugelman

Wait. India can’t afford to accept his olive branch with a Kashmir caveat

Imran: The Inevitable

Mehr Tarar

Pakistan is his passion and he will play it out like a true democrat

The Bloody Biography of Change

TCA Raghavan

By all accounts, India is not a factor in the election. Is this because the consensus on India is so strong across Pakistan’s political divides that no party gets extra mileage by wrapping the flag around itself?