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No flour, no power

17 February 2008

Despite healthy economic growth, two thirds of Pakistanis earn under $2 a day, 60 per cent of adults are illiterate, and the country is in the grip of a food and fuel crisis. No wonder the frivolity of Islamabad’s wedding…

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Box fresh

17 January 2009

Nine years ago, TV in Pakistan was decades behind India, with just two – state-run – channels and output that was mainly government propaganda. Today its mix of drag divas and campaigning reporters is challenging the old…

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Karachi cops

17 May 2009

As the Taliban gains ground in Pakistan, the police can offer little in defence of the nation. Monocle spends a day with Karachi’s police chief as he worries about kit, corruption and crime stats. Then we meet the woman…

Radio

The Foreign Desk - Pakistan’s election: a turning point?

21 July 2018

On Wednesday 100 million registered voters in Pakistan will have the chance to decide their next prime minister. But the military remains a powerful political force and corruption is rife so what chance does the winner have…

Radio

The Foreign Desk - What’s next for Pakistan?

16 April 2022

Shehbaz Sharif has been sworn in as Pakistan’s 23rd prime minister, following the ousting of Imran Khan. How did we get here and what’s next for the politically volatile country? Andrew Mueller speaks to Ian Talbot, Samira…

Radio

The Foreign Desk - Explainer 268: Silencing Pakistan’s journalists

2 June 2021

Hamid Mir, a well-known journalist in Pakistan, has been prevented from broadcasting, following comments he made criticising the country’s authorities. This is just the latest incident in a series of serious attempts by the…

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Asia

14 May 2014

A dispute between India and Pakistan, Nepal gets a new constitution and the latest from Indonesia.

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Diplomacy

19 August 2021

China’s wolf-warrior diplomats, crisis management in Helsinki and a spat in the Middle East.

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Asia

25 April 2013

South Korea's first female president and her motorcade, why pakistan and Turkey are getting together, and who's the favourite in the Philippines polls.

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BHL express

17 March 2009

Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s leading philosopher, is no ivory-tower thinker. This January he went to Gaza (conclusion: the Israelis get a bad press). He says Pakistan is the worst rogue state, and he is also a critic of…

Radio

The Foreign Desk - Explainer 196: Why has Pakistan sentenced a former president to death?

18 December 2019

Many of Pakistan’s leaders, or at least their careers, have met an untimely end – and now a court in Islamabad has sentenced former president Pervez Musharraf to death for high treason. Andrew Mueller looks at what Musha…

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Business

19 September 2013

Mobile banking in Burma, polishing diamonds in Botswana and raising a glass to the whisky industry in Tasmania

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Asia

20 October 2011

Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari and his highly armoured motorcade, green cities in Japan, and an interview with India's chief economic adviser.

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Reach for the spy

18 November 2010

As technology becomes more prevalent in the world of espionage, the idea of an undercover agent in a trench coat might seem old-fashioned. But the human touch is still very much in demand.

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The long view

17 November 2007

Colin Bradford, Simon Anholt, Paula Scher and Ilkka Kanerva on 2008.

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Defence & diplomacy

21 March 2013

The importance of pipelines, crunch time for the US in Afghanistan, and an interview with Pakistan's representative to the UN.