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Pakistan: The Taliban takeover
Everything you need to know
Missing you already
Pakistan is at war with itself, with blackouts, corruption and terror attacks. Now there are calls for the return of the reviled Musharraf
Pilgrimage to nowhere
A year on from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman "without principles"
Musharraf's departure will not bring peace
Pakistan is breathing a sigh of relief - but Musharraf has left the country in a total mess
Pakistan reborn?
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
The Foreign Policy Centre's Alex Bigham considers how the world should react to a changing Pakistan
Pakistan cannot fail
The murder of Benazir Bhutto has further weakened a fragile Pakistan, and only free elections can begin to strengthen it.
A revenger's tragedy
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
Chinese reporters may be individually brave and determined but each one is on his or her own
Benazir and the General
Never before has a military-backed government found it necessary to initiate its own military coup
A country at war
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
Pakistani society has never been more divided than today, not just economically, but religiously and socially
Battle for Pakistan's soul
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
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
Pakistan at a glance
Things you need to know about this fascinating country
"Misguided women"
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
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''
Madrasas are Islamic colleges accused by the US of incubating terrorism and the attacks of 9/11. From Pakistan, William Dalrymple investigates the threat
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