That's because they've all retreated underground, into the city center's sometimes overlooked system of tunnels.

Demonstrations have been staged in Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi to protest what was the deadliest attack against Christians in Pakistan's history.

??These survey findings are alarming because of the direct impact they have on our students,?? said Alliance-AFT president Rena Honea in a news release. ??When teachers that are responsible for equipping our students for academic success feel discouraged and unable to do their best, the students are aware of their instructors?? behaviors and attitudes.??

Just before you move on I???d like to ask you to reconsider the scale of the challenge and the benefits if we get it right, but also that we???re already a dozen homes behind schedule since you started reading this piece.

The fact that the meme of the Muslim woman who must be saved from Islam and Muslim men ? through the intervention of a benevolent western state ? 11 years after the very real plight of Afghan women was cynically deployed to legitimise a global war, and long after the opportunism of this imperialist feminism was decisively exposed, points to a serious and deep investment in the assumptions that animate these claims. These assumptions come out of a palpable dis-ease with Islam within the liberal mainstream and portions of the Left, a result of the long exposure to Orientalist and Islamophobic discourses.