Cross Connections

A quick weekend roundup of what made news and what it means. The Tehreek-i-Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud has been killed in a drone a...

Beep-beep. Early morning. Text message from a friend in Karachi. So, bleary-eyed, I read that “My party has won. It is 5 am here and I...

  If it is gossip, then the consequences can be damning. It is about two powerful people. Hina Rabbani Khar is Pakistan’s foreign minis...

Following the ruckus former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s statements to an Indian television channel have caused, mainly about D...

Pakistan gave India the honour of being the Most F…. Nation. The F stands for Favoured. When Pakistan does that to us, we are truly f……. O...

Oops, you did it again! Krishna and Khar This is Asif Ali Zardari’s shrewdest move. Sending Hina Rabbani Khar on what amounts to be the...

Here, genie in the bottle? Imran Khan, the young actor, has decided to “take on” the Maharashtra government. Why? Because he does not...

I don’t understand why Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik’s ten commandments to the cricket team should cause a “furore”. All the po...

He has filed a petition under article 184(3) of the Pakistani constitution in the Supreme Court asking it to declare US drone attacks inside...

The Indian Media Discovers a New Pakistan Moderns, Models and Martyrs by Farzana Versey Counterpunch, November 13-15, 2009 (A slightly abrid...

Does it matter whether Imran Khan had a roaring or a purring affair with Benazir Bhutto? Does it say anything about how it affected their ps...

He can say what he wants and I find both sides talking utter rubbish. Those who are taking up for him come up with the same old argument th...

Asif Ali Zardari was supposed to be following Hillary Clinton’s diktat. What happened? Why was Nawaz Sharif put under house arrest? And if h...

I dislike the word author. Not for itself, but when applied to those who use their skill with words. Author is a larger term. Accordin...

"Terrorists rely on support from the masses because that's where they get their recruits, and cricket is a game which is so loved a...

Just when they gave the bootwaala a boot, and everyone was talking about how democracy has finally made it and people have thrown out the ‘...

It is fine to take out protest rallies against dictators. But is public memory so short that people will forget the sheer double standards o...

It’s yet another son-rise on the horizon! Aditya Thackeray, scion of the illustrious political family of the Thackerays, who was known to ...

Imran Khan left his country in these turbulent times to holiday in Mumbai at socialite Parmeshwar Godrej’s bungalow. “ India should ...

Imagining Serfdom in a scarf By Farzana Versey October 24, 2007, Counterpunch She’s back because she never went back. Pakistan was a n...