These invisible women, and tens of thousands like them, go about their business quietly and without fuss.

It has to be conceded that there is a quickening of the pulse of that most elusive of giants …The Masses.

The unchallengeable fact that yes, Pakistan has been good to me. And me to it over the years.

Flawed — and probably doomed in their different ways — as both are they are doing a very necessary job of work.

Revolution, Pakistan style, comes pre-packaged, containerised, and is confined to a small area in the national capital

The very last thing that our leaders want is a vibrant and energetic people with ideas above their station.

War is with us in abundance. And 2014 is the hundred-year anniversary of the start of World War 1.

The reality of all this horror is censored and unseen by a world that would rather not look.

The million IDPs, reduced to little more than homeless beggars are there as consequence of failure to impede extremism

The Big Dark, the IDPs and the VBEQ taken together represent a confection of monstrous incompetence.