Shoot a teacher: Kill a country – by Rafia Zakaria: Illiteracy they say is Pakistan’s scourge. It is what shackles people in the chains of ignorance, condemns them to begging at corners, to injecting drugs, to selling their daughters and waiting in  vain for birthing sons. Illiteracy, is the

Almost Rwanda? Rafia Zakaria’s column on #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan: “But mass violence too must be organised: it does not occur aimlessly. Even mobs and riots have a design and great sustained destruction requires great ambition.”n -Philip Gourevitch ‘Stories from Rwanda’ In the last few decades, more than 21,000

Dr Aafia’s appeal – By Rafia Zakaria: The explosive mix of appearing to be the obedient Muslim woman clad in burka and a would-be assassin defying the US make Dr Aafia Siddiqui irresistible as a heroine and an icon. But should such defiance be the only