Live from Pakistan for Thursday, October 3, 2002

"Pakistan key partner in fight against terrorism" declares the outgoing Japanese ambassador to Pakistan Sadaaki Numata. The ambassador is an Oxonian and studied with the same tutor as my husband Suhail at Oxford during the early 1960s. Meeting him has always brought memories of our student days in... Sign in to see full entry.

After having completed the task of judging the competition, we declared a winning design. Since the entries were anonymous, the identity of the winner could not be known. When the envelope was opened, we found that none of us, although all of us were senior architects, knew the winner. The design... Sign in to see full entry.

But do we need to build monuments? Can we afford to build monuments?? These are the questions that are being raised since President Musharraf laid the foundation stone of the National Monument on September 27 at the vantage point of Shakarparian hills in Islamabad. I was asked to act as a jury... Sign in to see full entry.