Comparing pictures I took a year ago with those I took last weekend it is visibly crumbling away

There are enough willing donors to make kidnap-for-harvesting an unlikely option for organised criminals

Pakistan as a destination has a huge amount to offer and is depressingly bad at marketing its wares

The paradox at the heart of the tragedy of Macbeth has been parlayed into a gruesome modern manual for the times

Honour killings are not a wholly Muslim phenomenon. They are practiced in the Sicilian Mafia

Black people have been on the wrong end of white hatred on the net almost since its inception

There was no plan to have Taliban shoot her so that she could become famous, win prizes, be honoured around the world

A week ago there were 155 rupees to the pound, today there are 139.63

The Bijli Wallah has featured often enough in these columns to have formal guest status

His first wife left him because he beat her for instance. But nobody has identified him as a ‘radical Islamist’