Stories from Chris Cork
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Banned and blocked… not!
Pornography may be unfit for Pakistani consumption, but its fine to advocate killing those of certain sects, faith
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Snap happy
My Suggestion Of the Week is that we all take the time to look out of another window occasionally
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A 70-year-old message
Bedrock of hatred, intolerance that underpinned places like Auschwitz has not gone away, its alive & well in Pakistan
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Paying for freedom
The price of freedom of speech increasingly appears to be paid in units of warfare
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Asleep at the wheel
The government response is a piece of learned behaviour in response to a specific stimulus
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Busy doing nothing
Govt probably had little choice other than to do what it did with NAP because that is what they have always done
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Second-best education
When a state educates its children to second-best standards, they become second-best citizens
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Darkness risen
Mostly, things are as they were before the Peshawar massacre, there is little sign of that changing in the coming year
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Let’s cut the crap, shall we?
The Taliban will come again because they are not broken, and are nowhere near being broken
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Reasons to be cheerful
This was something special. Because being played out in front of me was the Pakistan that I wanted to see