No Gray Areas
JUNE 1999 - The sight of a ground steward retrieving a stump from one of the many unruly spectators who invaded the pitch last week in...
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Not rocket science
JULY 1999 - There is now a growing belief among those who plan and plot civic affairs that all you require to solve traffic snarls is...
Ripeness Is All
JULY 1999 - On a hot summer day, somewhere between Kharian and Rawalpindi, aboard a bus, a very long time ago, a white Sunbeam Alpine...
Tilting at Windmills
JULY 1999 - I have just returned from a dinner hosted for the Pakistan cricket team by a company marketing international calling cards....
Summers Past
JULY 1999 - We are simply unable anymore it seems, to withstand the summer heat. The very large majority of the people still live out...
A Karachi Memory
SEPTEMBER 1999 - It is just as well I don’t quite recognise what is now Karachi. Sometimes it is better to remember cities and people as...
The Day of the Rejects
SEPTEMBER 1999 - Khaled Ahmed summed it best years ago. Writing at the start of another cricket season, he observed that PTV cameramen...
The national trademark
SEPTEMBER 1999 - Our public outings are now strictly characterised by gross bad taste, that is when chaos and mismanagement isn’t...
Left Right, Left Right
SEPTEMBER 1999 - There is no doubt that wisdom and common sense have been the guiding lights that have helped the army authorities in...
Stumped Again
DECEMBER 1999 - Why can’t we leave cricket alone ? Every few months some kind of epileptic fit has the Pakistan Cricket Board in spasms...
Serenading the Police
DECEMBER 1999 - The great thing about the Lahore police is that they do it in style. Of course they are not the only ones. All across the...
Airport
DECEMBER 1999 - It is surely a miracle that Lahore airport has continued to function as one, given the recent news about the state of...
Saving Nathiagali
AUGUST 1999 - They are working nights putting in a new, wide and gleaming road that snakes from Abbotabad up into Nathiagali, the last of...
Waving the Flag
AUGUST 1999 - While I am all for waving the flag and holding my right hand solemnly over the ticker as the buglers hit the high notes,...
Happy Times
AUGUST 1999 - There is no doubt that none of us has been able to guess what has led the Punjab government in Lahore to mount one of the...
Pure Relief
APRIL 1999 - What Star Sports has actually done for our cricket coverage must rank as a most unlikely miracle. The funny thing is that...
Curtains at Alhamra
JANUARY 1999 - I think one of the most original shows to take place in Alhamra Hall II was last week when the roof decided it had had...
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