Salman Ahmad has a knack for self-promotion. Though he likes to toot his own horn and even embellish the melody a bit, it seems like he is making new fans outside the South Asian community: many are surprised by his story of a moderate majority in the Muslim world who like things such as music and, heck, even peace.

 

 Salman Ahmad on Q (CBC Radio): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

For the last year, as Islamabad, Lahore and especially Peshawar came under unrelenting attack Karachiites nervously wondered why they had been spared the carnage. This illusion has met a bitter end.

Though it was not exactly like Kafka’s The Trial, there was still something nightmarish about this recent, and now infamous, trial.

Bloomberg News is reporting that Nawaz Sharif has decided not to contest by-elections for the National Assembly.

What exactly ails Pakistan cricket? Aamir Liaquat has the answer.

By the standards of literature and academia, J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn were larger-than-life, known as much for their personalities as their work.

Someone alert the information minister: there is an invention known as the internet which can be a handy reference guide of the statements made by politicians.

The army has ensured that it is the only institution that can make peace with India.

Has any parliamentarian done more than Jamshed Dasti to sour us on democracy?

This one really, really hurt. I was ready to celebrate when play restarted at 4 a.m. Pakistan were on the cusp of their first Test win in Australia in over a decade.