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Hope. Graffiti in Karachi.

Mohatta Palace, Karachi. The Rising Tide exhibition continues for another five weeks.

Sara Khan, with two of her 'qaidas' - the Pashto word for alphabet books for children. The Pashto for parrot is pleasing: shandoddi.

Detail of one of the (ironic) qaidas. Emailed to me by the artist. Thank you!

Exhibition curator, Naiza Khan in front of Lahore artist Imran Channa's 'Find the real Jinnah'. The founding president of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, said: 'You may belong to any religion, caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state.'

'Flying Carpet of Drones' (detail) by Abdullah Syed. It's a mobile of sixty-one drones (no significance to that number) made of blades from box-cutter knives, like the knives allowed through security and onto the planes that were flown into the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.

Visiting the exhibition, accountant Abdul Khaled, his wife Tizvana and their children. The drone attacks, he told me, "are not good, because of the civilians who are killed. "The technology is not being used correctly."

Liberal Pakistan. One of numerous multi-language bookshops here.

The audience at a memorial event in Karachi for Salman Taseer.

Security for the event. Two other organisations cancelled the event because of 'threats'. The Pakistan Medical Association refused to be intimidated.

In Islamabad, a tribute to Salman Taseer across the road from where he was murdered.

The Islamabad Greeners, in the nets. One of their bowlers said the extremists would only be defeated by force: "We cannot change their minds".

Education is the key.

And security.

But if the anti-terrorist squad have to go to a public car wash......