| Pakistan’s puzzling polls | | Pakistan’s upcoming general election is unlike any in the recent past. With just days to go the outcome is still hard to call. | | Malaysia’s moment | | In Malaysia, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s campaign is on song, sometimes literally so. He does tend to remind his massive rallies that it’s “Now or Never”. | | The mantra of yatra | | What is it with Indian politicians and their yatras (walking tours)? Come election time and there’s a mad scramble amongst them to embark on these pedestrian journeys (literally and metaphorically). | | Rescuing the EU model | | THE EUROZONE crisis has unleashed a string of buzzwords – from rating downgrade to Grexit, referring to Greece’s potential exit from the zone. | | A rocky hill of tranquility | | From the wind-swept desert dunes to the rain-washed mountains, there was silence everywhere. The place was completely deserted as if time had forgotten about it. | | Enslaved by the idiot box | | I’M WATCHING this housewife keep a sharp eye on her grocer to make sure he weighs the potatoes just right. | | America’s most wanted | | Two years ago this week, US special forces shot and killed Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man. | | Tunisia’s extremist leanings | | In 2011, for the first time in my life, I voted in a free democratic Tunisian election. After our momentous revolution, my fellow Tunisians and I elected an assembly to draft a new constitution within a year. | | The migrant math | | Every developed country is importing cheap labour, although much less so during this time of the Great Recession, yet all too rarely are the pro and con arguments discussed with real profundity. | |
