DECEMBER 2000 - Pakistan has more or less been shut down for the last week following a month of fasting, where everything in any event,...

DECEMBER 2000 - The chief explaining the getaway of the Heavy Mandate on TV the other night, made little sense. He might have convinced...

DECEMBER 2000 - April in Paris or Shabdeg in Saudi – it’s the same thing really. The heavy mandate skipped away lightly from the land...

DECEMBER 2000 - Mr. Anwar Saifullah has been slapped with a year’s imprisonment, a Rs.5 million fine and disqualified for 21 years from...

DECEMBER 2000 - In Pakistan, progress is usually confined to the three or four large cities and within those, to a few select areas,...

NOVEMBER 2000 - What’s the moaning and groaning about the closure of Pak Tea House ? For weeks there has been an unending dirge about the...

NOVEMBER 2000 - In a country where good manners are just as rare as dinosaurs jogging in the Race Course Park, mobile phones have simply...

NOVEMBER 2000 - We have willy nilly been pushed into the 21st century and while the world is surging ahead we are still deeply mired in...

OCTOBER 2000 - The NAB disclosure of US $ 1.5 billion worth of assets of the First Couple may have shocked some people in this...

OCTOBER 2000 - Why is everyone into doomsday scenarios ? Firstly, things aren’t bad. They are just terrible, but that’s another issue....

OCTOBER 2000 - A year after he was deposed, Mian Sahib still seems to have seen no light at all. If his letter to the nation is anything...

OCTOBER 2000 - While we are losing out on just about all fronts – we have set a new record in the Sydney Olympics by finishing last in...

OCTOBER 2000 - In a way, the manner in which the Koreans scored the solitary goal at Sydney that snuffed out whatever little hope we had...

SEPTEMBER 2000 - Judging by all accounts and sadly this does not include what the government’s mouthpieces have to say, things are...

SEPTEMBER 2000 - Not that it really matters but we have scored another disaster at the Hanover World Exposition where our stall was the...

SEPTEMBER 2000 - It shouldn’t surprise anyone when government functionaries continue to botch things up. For one thing, if they didn’t,...

SEPTEMBER 2000 - I think the sooner we ban all tourism, the better for our battered image. The rape of a six foot and surely strong...

SEPTEMBER 2000 - The news from the USA is that seven members of the Army band that had flown to New York to perform in the 14th August...

AUGUST 2000 - The green Pakistani passport can shake up any Passport Control anywhere in the world – day or night. This little document,...

AUGUST 2000 - Why is everyone against fun times ? Aren’t there enough problems depressing the daylights of the people without the...