On air: Should the Taliban be paid to quit?

When Barack Obama signs a new defence bill, the US military in Afghanistan will be allowed to pay Taliban fighters who renounce violence. It’s a tactic that’s been used in Iraq, and some would like to see it introduced in Pakistan. It raises several interesting questions…

Can you forgive Andre Agassi?

As the Daily Telegraph puts it, ‘champion, icon, liar and crystal meth user’. Are you shocked? If you are, is it the drug taking, or the many lies he told to get out of trouble? Or does disappointment at his fallibility simply show that we expect too much from sports stars?

What can Hillary Clinton achieve in Pakistan?

So far today, more than 80 people have died in a bomb blast in a market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Reports coming in at the time of suggest there will be many more casualties. In the last few weeks several similar attacks have killed more than 200 people. This comes on the day that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Islamabad for a series of talks about building closer ties with Pakistan and tackling the security problem.