The state is now bobbing, barely afloat but not drowning nor toppling sideways.

Pakistan is not entirely populated by a bunch of blood-boltered philistines bent on mayhem.

Last time Qadri was accommodated. This time a bravura performance is going to bequeath us a rather different outcome.

The brotherhood of jihad is universal and is on a roll — a roll to which there appears to be little counter-force.

The crisis is worse than it was in the past, yet the level of public anger is not at the point where tyres are burned

Barbarism that is the precursor to civilisation never goes away — in large part because not enough people want it to.

Despite all-too-obvious perils, Pope, Nawaz-Modi have made an effort to at least envision a bridge's superstructure.

Zahrah Nasir's may be an extreme case, possibly unique even, but this is a place increasingly unsafe for foreigners.

None that I have spoken to — who were in attendance on May 11 — were able to tell me precisely why they were there.

Life as a target sharpens the senses wonderfully and I have developed a powerful sense of self-preservation.