Ramblings from Afar

The reccent swiss vote to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland has once again prodded the issue of the integration of cultural im...

Blackwater (Xe) is coming in for so much flak from various quarters that the founder/CEO Erik Prince has announced that he is stepping down...

Gibran Peshimam has a good peice in the News on the still-unresolved Baluchistan issue and how it is becoming increasingly vital, and incre...

The last few months I've barely had time to follow the news and various blogs I read let alone manage to do any blogging of my own. But ...

Will all the bleak news making the rounds and amidst all the doom and gloom, this little snippet of news made me feel just that little smid...

There is an interesting article in today's 'News' by Mosharraf Zaidi called ' Joe Biden's Massive Pakistan Discount ...

Via Twilight of the Weimar Era , we learn that UT Austin is establishing a chair in Pakistan Studies in their South Asian Studies departmen...