Pakistan

Between Pre-modern and Modern Times

Basharat Peer

The adventures of Musharraf Ali Farooqi, who quit his job as a journalist in Pakistan to work in a packaging factory in Toronto and then at a fast-food joint, and translated and wrote books late into the night

Making Mutual Music

Shailendra Tyagi

For the first time ever, India has okayed foreign direct investment from Pakistan

Unmade in Pakistan

Shaikh Ayaz

Parodies of Indian blockbusters are a rage across the border

What’s Brewing in Pakistan?

Marvi Sirmed

No coup, but covert control by the army and elections by the end of 2012 perhaps

Pakistan’s General Problem

Mohammad Hanif

How Pakistan’s Generals turned the country into an international jihadi tourist resort

The Baggage We Carry

Betwa Sharma

An artist from Pakistan and another from India tell the same story in their works—of women in chains

Besieged, Not Fallen

Mosharraf Zaidi

Questions on Pakistan’s intent to fight terror and fulfil its international obligations are legitimate, but they assume a State in complete control. It is not

Confessions of a South Asian Pacifist

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Basking in the hospitality of Pakistan, remembering the thrill of the liberation of Bangladesh, and trying to be a good guest of Sri Lanka

A Spy in Pakistan

Pallavi Polanki

After 27 years in Pakistan prisons, Gopal Dass got a hero’s welcome when he returned last week to his village in Punjab. He was on a spying mission for India when he was arrested near Sialkot in 1984. Hard as they come, Gopal Dass tells his story.