Cricket’s Sorry Circus
DECEMBER 2004 - Pakistan cricket is now one very tangled, hopeless jumbled mess of a million threads. You can’t even begin to untangle...
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Easy Money
DECEMBER 2004 - Perhaps it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that commercialism is at the heart of everything we do and that in the...
Waiting for Godot
DECEMBER 2004 - In Pakistan the road to anything is a cleverly designed obstacle track. It would seem that those who plan such torture...
Not So Funny
DECEMBER 2004 - These are heady days in Lahore. The city, after a brief shower, has been able to shake off the blanket of smog and dust...
Choking to Death
NOVEMBER 2004 - The Ring Road is the new showpiece and since I am hopeless at reading maps leave alone implementing them, I am unable to...
Falling Heirlooms
NOVEMBER 2004 - Allama Iqbal’s crumbling house in one of the lanes of old Sialkot continues to crumble, propped up more by the few sturdy...
Mr. Jinnah & Friends
NOVEMBER 2004 - In the context of what constitutes public life here, one can find many flattering descriptions that can sum us up, from...
People-Proof
NOVEMBER 2004 - After Shaukat Aziz had a narrow escape during his election campaign that quickly led to him withdrawing to the safer...
Murray College Is Dying
OCTOBER 2004 - When so much that was good about Pakistan is in decline, it should certainly not cause ‘shock and awe’ to learn from a...
In Perpetual Slumber
OCTOBER 2004 - In a country like Pakistan where work ethic dissipated long ago, much like a drop of water would hiss off a hot rock, the...
Dead as a Dodo
OCTOBER 2004 - If there is one more tourism conference, I am personally going in to blow it up. Every farce has a limit and this one ran...
The Rainbow’s End
OCTOBER 2004 - It does not matter whether you are out to buy something for Rs. 20 or Rs.20 million. The bright chances are, that you will...
The Final Nail
OCTOBER 2004 - I suppose we should all be grateful to Ch. Shujaat for driving one of the final nails in the coffin of Mr. Jinnah’s...
Egg on our face
SEPTEMBER 2004 - Nothing should surprise anyone in Pakistan. The most bizarre things find their way into the national archives of famous...
The Ostrich Syndrome
SEPTEMBER 2004 - Either we are praying for rainfall or we are hosing down our homes, shops and cars with millions of gallons of good...
Yes Prime Minister
SEPTEMBER 2004 - The people, not knowing better, are grumbling. The heavy mandate is no longer around. True. Neither is His Heaviness....
Weaving Entangled Webs
SEPTEMBER 2004 - Common people like me with average understanding of what passes for high strategy are truly baffled at the now-hot,...
Erasing The Past
AUGUST 2004 - Now that the Punjab Government has undeservedly inherited the Lahore Fort and the Shalimar Gardens, we should all prepare...
Seductive Dancers
AUGUST 2004 - Now that the good guys have triumphed over the bad guys and Shaukat Aziz has won a landslide victory in Attock and...
Infected Celluloid
AUGUST 2004 - Among the many things we can count as dead, the cinema industry or whatever is the name of the phantom that lurks about in...
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