Pakistan
Comical-tragical-historical
There is farce in Peter Oborne’s history of cricket in Pakistan. An impossible umpire is abducted by drunken English tourists…
Witness to a stoning
Islam knows it is under siege – and the fear makes it more brutal
The perils of partition
John Keay’s excellent new book on the modern history of South Asia plunges the reader head first into some wildly…
Malala’s school wars
It’s not state education but private education she’s fighting for – so why doesn’t the media admit that?
The courage of her convictions
In 2012 a Taleban gunman, infuriated by Malala Yousafzai’s frequent television appearances insisting that girls had a right to education,…
