Stories from Chris Cork

More News

  • The Big Eat

    There was an overwhelming diversity of grub at the Karachi Eats festival

  • The evolution of terror

    The Charsadda attack signifies that terrorism isn’t just the New Normal in Pakistan

  • Something in the air

    I found schools & hospitals in Peshawar to be doing splendidly. PTI is getting a grip across a range of issues

  • The quiet struggle

    Tens of thousands of people have better lives, because of the struggle of a few people determined to make a difference

  • Days of future past

    Like many monsters Taliban got a life of their own, independent and evolving in ways undreamed of by their creators

  • An intolerant year

    Extremism is the new normal, the default position for many millions, because it has become so ordinary

  • A lament for letters

    The Age of Letters is past. There will be no more collections of the musings of literary lions or us less exalted

  • Cometh the Barbarian

    The real horror wasn’t Trump’s statement, but what was happening on the other side of the microphone

  • Men and their machines

    I have discovered an entire workshop devoted to the restoration of the VW Beetle and its associated models

  • A surfeit of anger

    Yet again an alleged blasphemy lay at heart of disturbances in Jhelum which were stoked, incited, by local clerics