Pakistan: The Taliban takeover
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In Pakistan
Pakistan reborn?
- By William Dalrymple
- 21 February 2008
Confounding all predictions, the Pakistani people have clearly demonstrated that they want to choose their own rulers and decide their own future. There is a consensus from Lahore to Karachi
Nurturing democracy in Pakistan
- By Alex Bigham
- 14 January 2008
The Foreign Policy Centre's Alex Bigham considers how the world should react to a changing Pakistan
Pakistan cannot fail
- By Sohail Mahmood
- 08 January 2008
The murder of Benazir Bhutto has further weakened a fragile Pakistan, and only free elections can begin to strengthen it.
A revenger's tragedy
- By Ziauddin Sardar
- 03 January 2008
The intelligence services and religious extremists were behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, argues Ziauddin Sardar, and politicians have been too preoccupied with settling old scores to fight for real democracy
In Lahore, it's good to talk
- By Lindsey Hilsum
- 15 November 2007
Chinese reporters may be individually brave and determined but each one is on his or her own
Benazir and the General
- By Ziauddin Sardar
- 08 November 2007
Never before has a military-backed government found it necessary to initiate its own military coup
A country at war
- By Ziauddin Sardar
- 25 October 2007
In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto we revisit our October special on Pakistan in which Ziauddin Sardar predicted the country was about to descend deeper into violence. Plus Rageh Omaar on the wild borderlands of Waziristan
We must get it right in Pakistan
- By Rageh Omaar
- 16 August 2007
Pakistani society has never been more divided than today, not just economically, but religiously and socially
Battle for Pakistan's soul
- By Rageh Omaar
- 12 July 2007
The siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad has come to a bloody end - but the struggle between the Pakistani state and the jihadists can now only escalate
Pakistan: The Taliban takeover
- By Ziauddin Sardar
- 30 April 2007
Pakistan is reverberating with the call of jihad. Taliban-style militias are spreading rapidly out from provinces in the far north-west. The danger to the country and to the rest of the world is escalating
Also in Pakistan
"Misguided women"
- By Kamila Shamsie
- 30 April 2007
Disparaging terms for burqa-clad women used to be a joke - but not after female students began a campaign of kidnap, intimidation and issuing fatwas.
Schools of hope
- By William Dalrymple
- 30 April 2007
With the virtual collapse of government schools, many parents have to depend on Wahhabi-funded madrasas. But a new foundation aims to provide quality, secular, subsidised education. It deserves our support
Inside Islam's ''terror schools''
- By William Dalrymple
- 28 March 2005
Madrasas are Islamic colleges accused by the US of incubating terrorism and the attacks of 9/11. From Pakistan, William Dalrymple investigates the threat
