Surviving Mumbai gunman is a Pakistani national
In other news from the chronicles of the obvious, the sun rises in the east. After beating around the bush, under the pretext of not finding his name in a database, “unidentified” Pakistani officials...
View ArticleTerror attack in Pak on the Sri Lankan cricket team
On the third day of the second test match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Lahore, the Sri Lankan team bus was attacked by masked gunmen numbering nearly a dozen. The players escaped with about five...
View ArticleGun Markets of Pakistan
Suroosh Alvi, founder of Vice Magazine and VBS.TV, ventures into an area which recently earned the moniker of the “world’s most dangerous area” – the Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan. Pulling some...
View ArticleWay overdue review: HBO’s Terror in Mumbai
I finally got around to watching HBO’s documentary Terror in Mumbai, which originally aired in November 2009. Narrated by Fareed Zakaria, whose mother and sister apparently still live in Mumbai, this...
View ArticleThe anti-analysis of Osama’s assassination
“When the truth is like a stranger, hits you right between the eyes” Def Leppard certainly did not have Osama bin Laden being offed in mind, when they penned those lyrics but strangely, the lyrics of a...
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