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We must act to save Pakistan for democracy

05.05.11
It is inconceivable that Osama bin Laden lived in a specially fortified villa, possibly for many years, in the Pakistani equivalent of Sandhurst without the authorities knowing about it... more

Paedophiles need help, not blind hatred

18.02.11
Even paedophiles have rights. The Supreme Court has ruled that it is a breach of offenders' human rights to be on the Sex Offenders Register for life with no chance of a review... more

Better to strip tyrants of power than their loot

14.02.11
Nobody wants to be friends with an ex-dictator. Unconcerned, while he was in power, with the possibility that all his financial dealings may not have been on the up-and-up, the Serious Fraud Office is now said to be launching a hunt for Hosni Mubarak's ill-gotten millions... more

Waste Land is the Slumdog Millionaire of documentaries

10.02.11
Lucy Walker braved disease, dogs and drug gangs to make Waste Land; her Oscar-nominated film of the extraordinary characters who live off the largest landfill in the world... more

Marriage keeps us happy - don't let laws erode it

04.02.11
Unmarried couples should enjoy the same legal rights as those who have tied the knot, says the country's most senior family judge, Sir Nicholas Wall (married with four children)... more

General Musharraf accuses UK of Afghan 'blunders'

01.10.10
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf accuses Britain and the US of a “failure of leadership” over pressure to bring troops back from Afghanistan ... more

Met chief defends £128m bill for protecting VIPs

07.09.10
The Metropolitan Police spends more than £350,000 every day protecting royals, VIPs and diplomats, its assistant commissioner says... more

Scotland Yard spends £310,000 every day on gun guard for royals and VIPs

05.08.10
Met ran up a £113,598,687 bill in 2009/10 for armed bodyguards who shadow high-profile individuals and patrol at-risk properties such as embassies and royal residences... more

Met scales back security for the royals and VIPs

13.07.10
Security for VIPs and the royal family is set to be scaled back in a review of protection arrangements amid increasing concerns over spiralling costs... more

Fatima Bhutto: Why I'm a public enemy in Pakistan

28.05.10
Bhutto, who addresses the Hay Festival on Monday, says corruption and assassination have stalked her family and dominate her country's politics. Her crime was to write about it... more

Literary judge Stephen Fry helps find a truly prize tweet

24.05.10
Stephen Fry is to judge a competition to find the most beautiful 'tweet' ever written... more

Benazir Bhutto's boys

07.05.10
Lydia Slater joins two Bhutto princelings on their new Thames-side yacht to hear the latest twists in the family saga... more

President Musharraf accused over Benazir Bhutto death

16.04.10
A new UN report blames Pakistan’s security establishment, under then president Pervez Musharraf, for failing to stop the assassination in 2007 of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto... more

Imran Khan: Why I believe America created the Pakistan Taliban

17.03.10
Imran Khan is more than just a cricketing ladykiller who was married to Goldsmith heiress Jemima Khan. He now dedicates his life to politics and is passionate about Pakistan and the war on terror — so isn’t it time people took him seriously?... more

£25,000 a day for Met police to provide Musharraf gun guard

11.09.09
Former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf is being protected by Scotland Yard at a cost to taxpayers of around £25,000 a day... more

Kelly Brook's place in the limelight is taken by... me

11.09.09
If you are lucky enough to be invited to the GQ Men of the Year Awards - I was - then a word of advice. Make sure your arrival on the red carpet doesn't coincide with that of the beautiful people... more

Pervez Musharraf's London pad surrounded by kebab joints

10.09.09
Former Pakistani dictator has swapped his presidential palace for modest flat near Edgware Road and round the corner from Tony Blair... more

Violence turns to celebration as judge reinstated

16.03.09
The Supreme Court chief justice whose sacking sparked street clashes in Pakistan made his first public appearance after being reinstated... more

Mass arrests ahead of rally in Pakistan

11.03.09
Pakistan arrested hundreds of opposition activists and banned protests in two regions before a planned rally outside parliament in Islamabad... more

My country is bleeding to death

06.03.09
It is heart breaking and it augurs the twilight of a nation... more

Stocks slide as Pakistan gets jitters

26.08.08
Shares drop sharply in Pakistan on worries about political instability after the collapse of the ruling coalition.... more

Musharraf 'to seek refuge in London'

19.08.08
Pervez Musharraf could seek refuge in London after dramatically resigning as president of Pakistan, senior security sources said... more

Pakistan's Musharraf quits

18.08.08
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has finally stepped down in a bid to stop the country from descending into chaos... more

Comment: After Musharraf

18.08.08
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has resigned - thereby saving his country's government the trouble of impeaching him while he was in office for offences against the constitution... more

Kenneth Williams would have loved Divo

26.11.07
The warm hospitality doesn't make up for the fact that Ukrainian restaurant Divo does for partying what President Musharraf does for freedom of speech - makes a mockery of it.... more


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