By Reuters

Pakistan’s civilian leaders should capitalise on public anger with the military and try to ease its grip on power, a leading human rights activist and lawyer said last Tuesday. The army’s image has been dented by a number of setbacks starting with the killing of Osama bin Laden last month by US special forces on Pakistani soil. Traditionally seen as untouchable, Pakistan’s generals now face strong public criticism.

By David Willetts

When Labour tripled university tuition fees in the 2004 Education Act, it was one of Tony Blair's bolder reforms. But, although he changed the funding structure of our universities, he missed the chance to make the sector more accountable to its students.

By Matt Gwilliam

“You are an icon in Damascus,” the BBC correspondent Sue Lloyd-Roberts told the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, explaining how a woman in Syria had led demonstrators onto the street in the face of army snipers, using Aung as inspiration.

By Hasan Zaidi

American diplomats were not very hopeful about the long-term prospects of Pakistan and India easily resolving their disagreements about the “emotional issue” of water, especially given “Pakistani anxiety over access to water”, according to a number of previously unpublished secret US diplomatic cables accessed by Dawn through WikiLeaks.