It’s beautiful (and expensive), but the new smartphone is simply PR and marketing glitz that doesn’t hide or address the perfect storm that has engulfed RIM.

In Pakistan, we’ve all been held hostage by VIP movements on the road. Here is my rant on the subject.

Rediscover a few of our past interviews with Sherry Rehman to get a sense of the personality and convictions of the woman who is now Pakistan’s top envoy to the US.

Newsline and TeaBreak.pk co-hosted an online chat covering the 2011 Sindh floods on October 19. Get an instant replay of the entire discussion here, featuring doctors, journalists and activists who have been working on the ground in affected areas.

Only 289,243 people have been directly assisted through flood relief camps in Sindh. That’s about 300,000 people out of nearly 9 million affected, or about 3%.

Join us today at 5pm as we examine the human pain and loss in this year’s floods, the government response and compare it all to what happened in 2010.

Gilgit-Baltistan: History, nature and hospitality all intersect here in the most peaceful of collisions.

They betrayed everyone, argued the prosecution: teammates, the PCB and the sport of cricket.

Excitement is high as Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is set to be released this weekend in Pakistan. Newsline has interviews with the author, an excerpt from the novel and an exclusive reading by Hanif available on video.

In the next few days and weeks, who will be in control? Who will maintain law and order? Remember Baghdad and Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein? Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban?