It was Sadaf that went first, riding on the back of the bike carrying her baby in Karachi

Most politicians are crooks to a greater or lesser degree, and honesty is a quality that is rarely in their interests

Politics in my youth was a sort of prototypical Fifty Shades of Grey; monochrome and deeply tedious, worthy but dull

Why did the police not do more and quickly? What about the fire engines? Burns units?

The dire consequences of jubilation firing usually go unannounced, the results, however, are horrifying

An election this year is a possibility and Mrs May, to quote a former fellow politician, is a dead woman walking

The conversation came to mind as we endured an almost-30-hour blackout this week

Zinc deficits span the globe

Brick kilns dot the landscape everywhere

Villages are depopulating and efforts to rejuvenate them have come too late