カテゴリー: Pakistan

Streets and homes flooded with sewage in Karachi as downpours overwhelm outdated waste system in country’s largest cityThree days of monsoon rains have killed at least 90 people and damaged at least a thousand homes across Pakistan, the country’s natio…

Author of Plain Tales from the Raj, and historian concerned with ’relearning’ the role of orientalists in south AsiaCharles Allen, who has died of cancer aged 80, interviewed the last generation of British administrators of India in 1974 for the BBC ra…

The release was a condition for peace talks agreed by the US and the TalibanAfghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hardcore” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for peace talks aimed at ending almost two decades of war.Under election-year pressure …

Pakistan was the first to remove special status from its part of Kashmir, writes Om Prakash Shabbi – and it is time both India and Pakistan accepted the line of control as an international border between the two countriesOne factor largely missing from…