Adventurers Club

Last week I was made head of our Lahore office - definitely not a promotion and the company pretty much had to beg me to take on the added ...

Things in Pakistan are not looking particularly good. Islamic fundamentalist youth are storming shopping centers and threatening video stor...

Here's a pic of some kids who trailed after me in a Kabul slum as if I was the Pied Piper. I was there trying to get a story on a carpe...

Save the Children is doing this really simple, amazing, brilliant, obvious thing in Afghanistan, which costs very little so of course no don...

In the development world, aid workers tend to sneer at soldiers to provide humanitarian assistance (that old hearts and minds). I've be...

I haven't been able to access blogspot from Pakistan, hence the lack of recent posts. However, I'm in Afghanistan for the next week...

I'm just wrapping up my three week vacation in California. By US work standards, three weeks vacation is disgustingly hedonistic. Comi...