If you want to get a feel for a Southasian metropolis, you could not do better than land up in Cairo – al-Kahira, capital of al-Misr, or Misradesh. The
Pakistan votes to amend rape laws 15 November 2006: Pakistan's national assembly votes to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery. Until now
The Pakistani intelligentsia is used to bemoaning, in addition to the overdeveloped state structure, the disease of authoritarianism that threatens the future of democracy in Pakistan. This disease is nurtured,
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty … Let us then admit that force does not create
Everyone in Pakistan wants democracy; ironically, this includes the army, which intervenes every now and then to put the country back on the rails and introduce 'true' democracy.
