<p>Working as a journalist in this country is a unique experience. Much of the time, local officials follow us around simply because foreign journalists are unfamiliar territory — and what’s unknown can be scary.</p>
I have been using big cumbersome broadcast cameras for 20 years now.
<p>The election has caught the imagination of the country’s people like few have before. There is a discernible excitement; and an apparent national awareness that the race is too close to call.</p>
<p>Colombo has come in for heavy criticism for confining hundreds of thousands of Tamils to camps and the government is wary of how journalists cover the move.</p>
<p>This would have to be one of the more intriguing presidential elections the world has witnessed - pitting the incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa against the retired army General, Sarath Fonseka.</p>
<p>There will be more drone attacks in Pakistan, that's for sure. And the Pakistani Taliban leader remains the number one target.</p>
<p>Asim moved around the streets of Islamabad and Karachi producing political murals. He had so much left to do.</p>
<p>After years of conflict, the people of Swat heave a sigh of relief.</p>
<p>Rather than offering a rational explanation of attempting to limit the use of the word "Allah", diplomats are told that Malaysia is "different from other countries".</p>
<p>Visiting Pakistan, McCain refuses to accept that US drone attacks' civilian toll hands Taliban a propaganda victory.</p>
