Pakistan

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh lay on a ventilator in a Lahore hospital after a jail attack, with conflicting reports over whether he was brain dead.

A Melbourne reader's diary of an Indian comedy night: Raju Srivastava, Irfan Malik and Ali Hasan had a full house laughing at itself for four hours.

In September 2012 a tabloid rumor linked Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar to Bilawal Bhutto. Both denied it flatly. This is what actually happened.

In September 2012, Pakistani minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour announced a $100,000 bounty from his own pocket for killing the maker of Innocence of Muslims.

Bengaluru police widened a terror-module probe in September 2012, arresting Dr Nayueem Siddique as the 14th suspect — the alleged Kaiga nuclear-plant plot

Pakistan won zero medals at London 2012 — and its own media joked the country could only sweep the medals if corruption were an Olympic sport.

Shabnam, once Shirley Ann Hodges, married Gul Khan in 1997 and was imprisoned in Karachi for 13 years - until Pakistan human rights groups took up her case.

Around 60 Hindu families from Pakistan's Balochistan and Sindh arrived in India in August 2012, fleeing violence, kidnappings and forced conversions.

A Hindu boy named Sunil converted to Islam live on Pakistani TV during Ramazan 2012, sparking outrage and a threatened lawsuit from his employer Ansar Burney.

Mumbai Police released photos of alleged LeT terrorists who had entered the city — but reporters found the men in Lahore, running shops, tied to no plot.

Documents seized from Abbottabad showed bin Laden wanted Obama assassinated but Biden spared — judging the vice president too unready to inherit the presidency.

Days after the US put a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani counter-terrorism official said the JuD chief had been helping de-radicalize militants.

Bin Laden's youngest wife told Pakistani investigators about nine years on the run: at least five safe houses, four children born in Haripur and Abbottabad.

In September 2011, seven Pakistani women reached burn units within two days after acid attacks — as the country had just begun criminalizing the violence.

Forty minutes, one compound, a decade-long manhunt: how SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on the night of May 1-2, 2011.

In a 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, Aatish Taseer — son of assassinated Pakistani governor Salman Taseer — traced Pakistan's obsession with India to its

In July 2011, after the U.S. froze $800 million in aid, Pakistan's defense minister threatened to pull troops from the Afghan border.

Osama bin Laden hid next to Pakistan's top military academy for years. The 2011 jokes wrote themselves — here is our lovingly illogical explanation.

After Punjab governor Salman Taseer's assassination in January 2011, fears grew for Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row for blasphemy.

As 2011 began, Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari looked politically finished — a shaky coalition, a power crisis, and the army watching. A look back.

Pakistani label Uth Oye put Jinnah on a 'Dude, Where's My Car?'-inspired T-shirt: 'Ashton just lost his car. This poor guy lost a whole country.'

Pakistan's own army website listed an ISI operative who died in a Delhi hospital in 2007 - an accidental admission Islamabad never acknowledged.

Pakistani journalist Jawed Naqvi's critique of Indian corruption provoked outrage — and uncomfortable recognition. On the messenger, the message, and 2010's

Asia Bibi, a Christian farmworker, was sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy law in November 2010 — the case that put the law itself on trial.

Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.

Obama told the Indian parliament in November 2010 that a stable Pakistan serves India's interests. Logically sound — and operationally complicated.

In autumn 2010 Kashmir was rocked by street unrest and a Delhi speech that sparked sedition complaints — questions nobody in power wanted to answer.