Pakistan
Malala’s Real Message
As a 15-year-old British schoolgirl, what struck me about this teenager’s life was that she isn’t a victim, but a role model whose every day is a protest.
Books Do Furnish a Little Freedom
‘The cover of my new book was likely to shock Pakistani sensibilities but my local book store owner said he’d keep it under the counter with the Salman Rushdie novels. Not the worst company.’
Educating Pakistan
‘Why is Britain pledging £650 million without ensuring that Islamabad does more to inhibit jihadists of Pakistani origin in our own country?’
ONLINE ONLY: 24 Hours in Peshawar
The historic city in Pakistan’s North West Frontier — home to the Smugglers’ bazaar, Khyber Pass and Grand Trunk Road — is seeing its rich culture eroded by religious fundamentalism
The Man who Drew the Fatal Durand Line
The British official who fixed the frontier that now divides Afghanistan and Pakistan unwittingly unleashed a century of war
We Have to be Ready For Anything
The forthcoming defence review must answer our need to be able to face unpredictable threats
India: Tariq Ali’s Plan for Pakistan
Although previously banned, Tariq Ali’s books can now be read anywhere in Pakistan. In the aftermath of the jihadist attacks in Mumbai and on the Sri Lankan cricket team, will the Brit-Pak’s fluent words offer any solutions to the problems there?
Don’t Write off America
It’s fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline. Don’t bet on it – still less wish for it
Blown Up in Bin Laden Country
Is Pakistani intelligence allowing the country’s tribal areas to become a Taliban stronghold? What can the West do about it?
Four Days of Terror in Mumbai
A city in the grip of rumour and recrimination—an eye-witness account of the jihadi attacks and their aftermath
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts