The United States and India, budding economic and political partners, share a common problem. Despite providing aid and repeatedly attempting diplomacy, both nations cannot eradicate what President Barack Obama has called the "cancer" of terrorism in Pakistan.

Speakers at a seminar titled “Cricket Diplomacy Makes a Difference” welcomed people-to-people contact between India and Pakistan on sports and cultural activities to defuse traditional tension between the governments of both the countries.

Sources in the government said that India would most likely send its cricket team first to Pakistan and then Pakistani team could tour India. “As the current season is all full and packed, it is for the BCCI to find a schedule that will suit both the countries..." the sources said.

We have the terrible habit of reducing issues to non-issues or, on the contrary, turning non-issues into issues. With the Facebook ban in May, the constant criticism was this: It’s just a ban on Facebook, get over it. But actually, it wasn’t “just a ban.”

In a $20m (£12m) remake of the classic American children's programme, the setting for the show has moved from the streets of New York to a lively village in Pakistan with a roadside tea and snacks stall, known as a dhaba...

In Pakistan, radical clerics have unleashed a religious fervor that is chilling secular voices and diminishing free speech...We sat down with two flourishing female musicians from Lahore for their insights into making music in the time of extremism. Singer Zeb Bangash and guitarist Haniya Aslam have chosen to write songs that are the antithesis of turmoil.

The return of cricket diplomacy raises an intriguing question: How can India use its considerable soft power—its dominance of South Asian sport, movies, music, television and publishing—to address the rise of Islamist fundamentalism in Pakistan?