Swat Valley
Pakistan: Putting Buddha back together
Archaeologists work to restore the 1,500-year-old carving blasted by the Taliban
Newsmakers: Moving out
Mansions and castles are up for grabs. Blame it on bad finances, bad arguments and, occasionally, bad blood.
Radicals vs. Buddha
Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage is under attack by the Taliban
Week in Pictures: May 21st – May 27th, 2009
The best pics of the last seven days
Pakistan’s Eden goes to hell
In October 2000, I crossed the soaring and snow-swept Khunjerab Pass connecting China and Pakistan at a height of some 4,600 metres and descended, through numerous stomach-churning switchbacks and around the odd road-blocking rockfall, into the apricot groves of Pakistan’s Hunza Valley and some of the most beautiful landscape in the world.