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September 30, 2010
Flood of Sorrow
The trail of destruction across KP is hard to believe. In part because in some places it sneaks up on you. One village on the banks of the Kabul River in Akora Khattak doesn’t even look devastated at first glance.…
September 30, 2010
Apocalypse Now
The imagery is Biblical. Like the Great Flood, the mighty Indus has swept in its flow life, land, crop, hope. But this time there has been no atonement for sin. That survives. It is embodied in some of the landlords…
March 2, 2009
Breaking Boundaries
Who says it has to be love at first sight to be an abiding love? That is not how my affair with cricket started. Cricket had been there somewhere on the horizon, but was not on my radar screen. In…
March 15, 2018
A Life Less Ordinary
"For the first time in my life, I could actually smell hunger.” This is how Asma Jahangir described her first encounter with a bonded kiln worker who had managed to escape and walked into her office seeking help. This was…
July 24, 2014
The Lost Boys
In December 1999, an unassuming, middle-aged man walked into the Jang newspaper building in Lahore, claiming to be Pakistan’s most notorious serial killer. Javed Iqbal, who had the police on high-alert for over a month in what is known as…