Being Pashtun does not have to mean being Taliban, a writer finds in faraway Karachi
Have you read Rehman Baba's poetry?" Dr Ibrahim Yusufzai asks us in
The general elections to the Lok Sabha in India are arguably the greatest show on earth. The exercise, involving half-a-billion voters, millions of party cadres, thousands of candidates
Yet again, the situation surrounding the ethnic Rohingya community of Burma has burgeoned from a national disgrace to a regional shame. Despite what had appeared to be a coincidence of
After the war ends in Sri Lanka, it is the Pashtun region of Southasia that will remain the most violent corner on earth. The depredations of the Taliban and al-
India's 15th Lok Sabha election is just around the corner, with Indian voters set to cast their ballots between 16 April and 13 May in polling spread over
Events that take place in the springtime, particularly in April, have generally shaped contemporary Nepali politics. If the People's Movement in 2006 ensured that King Gyanendra had to
With the airways now dominated by firebrand hardline mullahs, the state-owned Radio Pakistan seems to have finally realised that it simply has to buck it up. In a move
Mailing pink chaddis, setting brasseries afire and more, all for the sake of women´s rights.
According to popular myth, women's-libbers of the 1960s burned their brassieres
The legacy of N Chauvin lives on in Southasia.
The odour of ancient edifice,
Fill up the crevices of ancient desires.
Where we have lived,
For several years, holding breath.
