Pakistan

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.

That Day in 1986

Rahul Pandita

How cricket died for me that day 25 years ago

Referendum via Cricket

Avirook Sen

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

Avirook Sen

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

Trouble at Sheikh Villa

Faiza Sultan Khan

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