Cross Connections

Qandeel Baloch sometimes looked like Amy Winehouse; her death was as tragic as Amy's. Both were on drugs. Winehouse was on the hard s...

Of Bukhari, politics and politicians "Should we invite him? Say, do you want us to invite the prime minister? If not, what are we d...

Often, the most meaningful things are said in the simplest manner. One must, therefore, appreciate this effort to get Indians and Pakis...

I detest the term 'honour killing'. It assumes that somebody's honour is at stake and therefore the murder has social sanctit...

Fine dining, by definition, is exclusive. Can a foreigner bar Pakistanis from his restaurant in Pakistan, their country? The obvious r...

Milne do. Let us meet. This is how the peace narrative of India-Pakistan relations go. Some of us have expressed reservations, emphasising h...

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...

It is the sort of truth-or-dare query that is good for a game. I have been watching promos and there are special 'Shoaib' moments...

A Mirage called Malala : Another Daughter of the East?  by Farzana Versey, CounterPunch, July 15 Had Edward Snowden exposed the dirt of ...

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...

Why should a former Pakistani cricketer not get a visa to visit India? The obvious reason is that his son is married to underworld don Daw...

Overreactions are the new analyses. So it is that one comment by Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has been described as a ...

Not many in Pakistan would have heard about their cricket team for the blind. Fewer would have known about Zeeshan Abbasi, the captain. ...

Rahul Gandhi, like the rest of the Nehru-Gandhi clan before him, will never contest an election from Kashmir. When he says, “I myself am ...

What do names of places mean? Is it an honour? Is it a sop? Why has Pakistan woken up to name a square in Lahore after Shahid Bhagat S...

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

Himesh-Atif: No war this? May I ask Asha Bhosle ji why are only some Pakistanis allowed to be our guests and others are not? While R...