Illegal miners infest Venezuela’s Amazon
From the air, the thick green canopy that covers the Venezuelan Amazon is pocked with ever more frequent small holes. On the ground, at 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) in…
Fear & loathing in Awaran
It was a surreal setting. The ruins of a village in Awaran, Balochistan, bathed in the light of the nearly full moon. A tiny mosque was the only structure, it…
Afghan trade
Afghanistan has evolved to one of Pakistan's top three trade partners. The volume of bilateral trade between the two countries has increased manifold during the last few years and has…
Children get their own space in typhoon-ravaged Philippines
Jennifer Gabot, 10, and her two younger brothers peered into a newly set up white tent at a park in front of a school where hundreds of people were staying…
Greek jobless end up on streets for lack of housing services
Dimitis Drimars had his own business for 30 years. The antiques dealer lost it in Greece's economic crisis and now spends his nights sleeping on a park bench in Syntagma…
Fiddling with the economy
That the bureaucrat lack imagination has been a given with us in the country. If the bureaucracy is weak in the head that is mentally capable of performing for this…
Whose land is this?
MR Abid Hasan Minto, president of the Awami Workers’ Party, has done well to go before the Supreme Court to challenge the 1990 judgement of the Federal Shariat Court’s appellate…
Syria conflict strains US-Saudi ties
US efforts to pursue a peaceful solution to the Syrian civil war have strained relations with Saudi Arabia, which favours military intervention or at least a commitment to arm rebels…
Crackpot visions
The good thing about living in Pakistan is that there is always something ridiculous and amusing happening – that is if you are whacked out completely and find these happenings…
The urban battleground
THE al-Shabab gunmen, who took over the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya and held hundreds of people hostage for 80 hours, used advanced weapons and cellular technology to coordinate and…
