Born and schooled in Lahore, Pakistan. Attended university in Moscow and Oxford. Have worked as a journalist in Pakistan, Dubai and Australia.
Yeh khoon ki mehk hai ke lab-e-yaar ki khushboo Kis rah ki janib se saba aati hai dekho Gulshan mein bahaar aaee…
FOR a multitude of baby boomers, the assassination of John Lennon 30 years ago [December 8] was akin to the murder of…
“THERE’S no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face,” King Duncan says while reflecting on the treachery of one…
THE extent of the devastation caused by the electoral tsunami that the White House has been bracing for should become clear by…
VETERAN Washington Post correspondent Bob Woodward’s latest book, Obama’s Wars, has, among other things, helped to confirm suspicions of a high level…
IT is not difficult to understand why Suresh Kalmadi attracted a huge cheer at the inauguration of the Commonwealth Games in New…
THE new leader of the British Labour Party was surely correct in pointing out this week that his father would have found…
FIDEL Castro’s remarkable recovery from a near-death experience has been increasingly evident in recent months. Although, contrary to expectations, he failed to…
IT is almost certainly no coincidence that the recent surge in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States has occurred during the presidency…
IT is hardly surprising that the primary victims of what the world knows as the Vietnam War employ a different nomenclature for…
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