SEPTEMBER 1997 - Why is everyone after Poor Pinky and Hubby Dear’s blood ? For one thing, they have only well-oiled gold coins flowing in...

SEPTEMBER 1997 - Across the line that divides Pakistan society, urban or rural, poor or rich, there is a growing disenchantment with the...

OCTOBER 1997 - With Mahmud Sipra you never know what’s coming next, but although we had on some occasions discussed the ‘London Return’...

OCTOBER 1997 - It is a welcome sign that successive governments led by visionary bureaucrats have been successful in destroying Mohenjo...

OCTOBER 1997 - By and large, Pakistan has one cricket team of eleven people but hundreds of professional intriguers who run the game,...

NOVEMBER 1997 - The images this week off the idiot box have reflected the confusion and anarchy that is standard feature every time there...

NOVEMBER 1997 - With our morality under perpetual threat, we being the world’s sole custodians in all matters moral and defenders of the...

NOVEMBER 1997 - More mobile than the fastest mobile phone in history, the buck as it is found in Pakistan, is a creature that defies all...

NOVEMBER 1997 - With Ajmal Hussain, Aju to all of us who were constantly drawn to him, there was no telling what he would do next, but of...

JULY 1997 - Why the Mughals had to muck up a perfectly good set up and let the Brits in, we’ll never understand, but just when you...

JANUARY 1997 - If it wasn’t the middle of the day and if it wasn’t a bright winter sun that blazed down at me, I could have sworn that it...

FEBRUARY 1997 - Like last year, the nation observed Solidarity Day on 5th February this year to reaffirm its support for the Kashmir...

DECEMBER 1997 - Trust the Cabinet to be a bunch of spoil sports. Just as we were getting used to nothing really happening, there’s bad...

DECEMBER 1997 - I think few will disagree that among the things that plague us, and there are many that do, discipline or rather the lack...

AUGUST 1997 - Every time one reads stories in newspapers of the plight faced by revenue paying passengers of PIA, (followed invariably by...

AUGUST 1997 - If you want to lose the last remnants of hope for this country, go and see a film at any cinema house anywhere and you will...

FEBRUARY 1997 - The felling of another grotesque plaza in the heart of old Lahore on the orders of the Punjab CM has sent a wave of...

AUGUST 1997 - When was the last time you went to somebody’s house and spent the better part of the evening talking about a book you had...