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• A Weekend in Dubai

  Broadcast On January 22, 2001

  ... illuminated exteriors and the large fast cars speak of a different aspect of power. The power of money. And then there’s the expatriate community – Indian, Pakistani and British – who have flocked to ...

• My friend Patwant and his hero ‘Pinglepops’

  Broadcast On March 5, 2001

  ... in 1904 in Rajewal, a village in the heartland of Punjab. He was illegitimate and his father largely unhelpful. His mother was forced to find work in far away Montgomery (now in Pakistan) leaving the ...

• The charm of the Generals

  Broadcast On May 28, 2001

  It’s odd but Pakistan’s military dictators tend to be more personable than its civilian heads of government. I never got to meet Ayub Khan but everything I’ve read and heard about him would suggest he ...

• Arun Jaitley, Margaret Thatcher and the oxygen of publicity

  Broadcast On June 18, 2001

  ... not fact.  The process by which this happens is illuminating. It begins with the belief that the two have different views on Pakistan and its military ruler.  Advani is said to be a hawk ...

• Sometimes the unlikeliest of people can open your eyes

  Broadcast On July 2, 2001

  ... and then in deeply tragic conditions.  They fall in love and marry but the marriage is rejected by the girl’s parents who have migrated to Pakistan.  When the daughter visits Lahore ...

• Not quite Breakfast at Tiffany

  Broadcast On July 9, 2001

  ...  Pakistan's military dictator - for that, after all, is what he is - and India's intellectuals - if that is what they are - ought not to have too much in common.  I can guess why the General  ...

• Don’t blame Pervez or Pronnoy

  Broadcast On July 23, 2001

  ... exactly what happened that monday morning. The invitation was to an “informal meeting” with the President of Pakistan.  On the occasion, the General expressed himself candidly, eloquently ...

• On knowing when not to speak

  Broadcast On August 20, 2001

  ... audience that had Nawaz Sharif been Prime Minister of Pakistan and present in that capacity at the Agra summit the outcome would have been very different. Unfortunately that’s only Mr. Vajpayee’s wishful ...

• A farewell to Afghanistan

  Broadcast On October 1, 2001

  ... burnt down last week.  Except at the time it did not exist.  Our house faced a vast open expanse of barren land but visible at the far end was the Pakistan Ambassador’s residence.  ...

• Lessons one may have to learn again

  Broadcast On October 15, 2001

  ... and I assumed there were limits to what could be discussed. “Are you Pakistani?” the driver asked.  We had been chatting for a while before he put the question.  To Afghans, Indians ...

• Benazir Bhutto

  Broadcast On July 6, 2001

  Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto On Hardtalk Pakistan on her forced exile and her future prospects into Pakistani politics. ...

• Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

  Broadcast On December 6, 2011

  Former Pakistan's High Commissioner to India on impasse in Indo-Pak talks. ...

• Karan Thapar

  ... the prime minister onwards. Amongst its remarkable successes were path-breaking interviews with former president R. Venkatraman, former prime ministers of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto and Moin Quereshi, ...

• ITV

  ... of Pakistan, President Karzai of Afghanistan, Chairman Prachanda of Nepal, President Zardari and Prime Minister Gillani of Pakistan, the late Ms. Benazir Bhutto and Mr. Nawaz Sharif as well as all the ...

• About Us

  ... and banning the sale of Pakistani books. Elsewhere, courts are issuing notices to the producer of Slumdog Millionaire on the grounds the name is offensive. Doesn't it seem as if, suddenly, everyone's lost ...