SEPTEMBER 1999 - I would advise Wasim Akram to sacrifice a black goat every three days as long as he is playing for Pakistan and when he...

SEPTEMBER 1999 - There is very little good that we can associate with any of the governments we have had over the last fifty years....

OCTOBER 1999 - There is one thing that is not in short supply in Rawalpindi this week. Free advice. Since everyone in Pakistan is...

OCTOBER 1999 - So the heavy mandate has sunk without a trace. It took a little over two hours to polish off the government in Islamabad...

OCTOBER 1999 - Every one who has had the opportunity to guide policy in Pakistan has had to face the great bugbear of all times;...

OCTOBER 1999 - Quite recently, attempts to obtain some professionally taken photographs of Madam Noor Jehan, resulted in the inevitable...

NOVEMBER 1999 - Even as we read this, the debacle in Australia continues. When I last saw, Ponting and Langer had made hundreds and it...

NOVEMBER 1999 - I must say just when I am beginning to write off the Daughter of the East, sorry West, our very own Ms Bhutto, she pops...

NOVEMBER 1999 - The appointment of Mr. Jinnah’s saviour, Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the land of strawberries...

NOVEMBER 1999 - The sight of the Punjab Governor’s Merc mixing with the hoi polloi of the land and that too at a traffic light is a sight...

MAY 1999 - The problem with the police here is that it's just too bloody decent for its own good. Maligned as they are daily by an...

MAY 1999 - Why doesn’t Ms Bhutto give up this pretense of ‘serving’ the people and give us all a well-deserved break ? Of course chances...

MAY 1999 - There can’t be many other nations who have achieved the high level of animal-hating that we have. If there are any, I...

MAY 1999 - I should have guessed Sethi was a RAW man years ago, when he presented me with a turnip. When I questioned its whereabouts, he...

MARCH 1999 - As always, the Jamaat has shown the way. It’s another matter no one is able to read the signs, but that is not the Jamaat’s...

MARCH 1999 - The Indians have gone back and it is now possible to meet people without being assaulted by the most popular theory that was...

JUNE 1999 - What we are silently witnessing in Pakistan is disgraceful and that’s putting it mildly. Ever since the Pakistan team...

JUNE 1999 - Hats off or since we are not into hats, whatever else off, to the gentlemen who have exposed Reema and Attiqa Odho (not a bad...

JUNE 1999 - When Sunil Gavaskar exploded the other afternoon at the Oval, it was pretty much the final straw in what has been breaking...

JUNE 1999 - If you wish to lose hope about Pakistan in less than 90 minutes, go and see a film in any movie house. It may not be the best...