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Pakistan

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

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

The Baggage We Carry

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

Besieged, Not Fallen

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

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

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.

That Day in 1986

How cricket died for me that day 25 years ago

Referendum via Cricket

The gentleman’s game in Kashmir is not quite the gentleman’s game anywhere else in the world. Not when India and Pakistan play

How Srinagar Played the Semis

On Wednesday morning there is good news and bad news in Srinagar. Late evening, you’d think all bad

Trouble at Sheikh Villa

Sheikh Amer Hassan saw his house as his castle, and a lot more besides, and that too in a Pakistan he saw as increasingly permissive. Till he wound up dead

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