Pakistan

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

Blood Portrait

Satyen K Bordoloi

A Pakistani artist drew his own blood, half a litre of it, to paint this portrait. But the wait for a visa is discolouring it

Till Speech Is Free

Mosharraf Zaidi

Pakistan is not about to erupt like Egypt. Fundamentally because Pakistanis have never been gagged

Tenderbox Not Tinderbox

Mani Shankar Aiyar

For all its contemporary woes and tortured history recounted in MJ Akbar’s new book, Pakistan is not about to fall apart

“Pakistan’s Problems Are in Pakistan’s DNA”

Rahul Pandita

Journalist and author MJ Akbar on why the two-nation theory is a spectacularly stupid idea that needs the enmity of ‘the other’ to exist

Big Brother Is Gawking

Huma Imtiaz

Pakistani actress Veena Malik leaves her country’s clergy struck and the Twitterati cheering with a bristling defence of her appearance on Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss