Like nationalist political parties the world over, those in Karachi have come to understand the power that can come from a fear-based agenda. Their bogey: 'Talibanisation'.
Could the
Looking down at the city from a scratched window of the Pakistan Army's Mi-17 transport helicopter, Mingora in early June gave off the air of a ghost town.
Some 35 km from Dera Ghazi Khan on the Punjab-Balochistan border is a shrine for the Sufi saint Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Syed Ahmed. Since mid-March, visitors to the Darbar Hazrat
Amidst the conflict and chaos, one US soldier sees hope in Afghanistan.
Unraveling the Taliban phenomenon has never been easy, but it has undoubtedly become more complex with the rise of the Pakistani Taliban in 2003, making it necessary to differentiate this
Under the terms of the latest 'peace deal' in the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA), the militants have gained everything and the government nothing.
The Swat Valley has
Somewhere in international waters, close to the Pakistani coast, a Predator drone is launched from the USS Abraham Lincoln. The pilotless craft heads up over the beaches of Balochistan, and
