OCTOBER 1998 - The news that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, or as PTV puts it every night, Wazir-e-Azam Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, has decided...

NOVEMBER 1998 - One of the wisest things I do, and there are not many to grace that list, is giving public functions a big miss. Somehow,...

MARCH 1998 - Pakistanis have long since abandoned any foolish hopes they might have had about law and order ever becoming law and order....

JANUARY 1998 - Reading my friend Irfan Husain’s column this Saturday morning, I have just the thing that will bring a smile to his son in...

JANUARY 1998 - There was a time when newspapers used to publish a useful column called ‘Arrivals & Departures’. It gave you instant...

JANUARY 1998 - Of all the stirring messages that I have read on the 121st birthday of Mr. Jinnah, I have been most inspired by the one...