Pakistan eyes nuclear energy as solution to power crisis

This New York Times story and accompanying video on Pakistan’s deepening energy crisis didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know from first-hand experience — each time I visit Karachi, power breakdowns get longer and more frequent, sometimes totaling eight or more hours a day — but it did get me wondering why the government hasn’t seized [...]

So What

I wrote this a few days ago. A Poem on the Flogging of a Young Girl in PakistanA poem for the young girl in Swat Valley whose flogging by the Taliban was captured on video and shared with media outlets around the world.http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1640241/a_poem_on_the_flogging_of_a_young_girl.html

Things that go fatwa in the knight

(Caricature by Riber Hansson) In search of more information on Salman Rushdie’s knighthood and the angry sputtering from Iran and Pakistan, I made a rather interesting discovery. Did you know Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II records Royal podcasts? They are infrequent but available. Her last was on Commonwealth Day, which falls on March 12. [...]