Pakistan

Can Pakistan control its extremists? (2017)

The release of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy riled up conservatives and showed just how much power they hold over the country.

Why Malala’s struggle has only begun (2017)

She successfully faced down the Taliban, but in Pakistan ISIS and fundamentalism are on the rise, threatening to undermine her victories.

Once Were Poets (2015)

Lasting peace in Afghanistan won’t just need talks with the Taliban. It will also require rescuing a shattered Pashtun culture.

Why bin Laden’s Killing Ring’s True (2015)

Seymour Hersh’s controversial story about the al Qaeda leader’s killing could be true—and demands our attention.

The new nuclear threat (2014)

India and Pakistan are building up their arsenals, and one terror attack could ignite an all-out war.

Pakistan’s Bloodstones (2014)

Inside one of the world’s oldest gem market in Pakistan, home to terrorist financiers and drug smugglers.

Democracy in Pakistan? (2013)

For the first time in its turbulent 66-year old history, one government passed on power peacefully to another.

The real miracle workers fighting, and healing, Pakistan’s acid attacks (2012)

Saving Face, a documentary on doctors helping Pakistan’s acid attack victims, recently won an Oscar, but it ignored the real heroes.

The fountain of youth in Pakistan’s mountains (2011)

Modern development beset the serenity and well-being of villagers in Pakistan’s Hunza Valley and threaten the survival of a real-life Shangri-La.

Little Britain in Urdu (2010)

Seventy per cent of Pakistani immigrants living in Britain come from one city, Mirpur. M pays a visit and uncovers the cultural strains that exist between those who left and those who remain.