Strange Survey
AUGUST 2000 - A news report published recently claims that 14 % Pakistanis are suffering from depression. Obviously, they haven’t been to...
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Hook, Line & Sinker
AUGUST 2000 - Much water has flowed under the bridge, most of it murky since the ‘Jinnah’ saga first reared its head. To this day, no one...
Close Shaves
JULY 2000 - One thing the Youth Football Club of Kandhar have clearly understood is, that should you require a professional head shave,...
Monuments of Folly
JULY 2000 - People discovering what is currently Pakistan, thousands of years later, are bound to arrive at the speedy conclusion that...
Boating in Lahore
JULY 2000 - Why are we pushing people to go to the utterly remote and difficult northern areas when there are unfathomed tourism...
Meltdown
JULY 2000 - Can anyone be more blighted than we are ? Other than chocolate milk shakes, what else can ever prepare any one for the...
Basically Nothing
JUNE 2000 - Whatever else you may do, don’t ever attempt to write a coherent document at six in the morning, a silly exercise that I am...
No past, no future
JUNE 2000 - The Shalimar Gardens at Lahore, are dead. It is not official yet, but does that matter? The years of official neglect, public...
The Black Marker Brigade
JUNE 2000 - Our fundamental rights have always been precariously placed. Most of us are not even quite certain what these are and which...
Shameless
MAY 2000 - Does it surprise any body what happened to five Dutch girls on Sunday after noon n when a mob of sex-starved hooligans...
What a pity
MAY 2000 - It is now clear to everyone I know that when Eric Hollies bowled Donald Bradman for a duck in 1948, the whole thing was fixed....
Not the midnight knock
MAY 2000 - Sometime in the early seventies, a group of army officers were rounded up and arrested on the charge of planning a coup...
Rule of Law ?
MAY 2000 - Sometime in the early seventies, a group of army officers were rounded up and arrested on the charge of planning a coup...
The Mariner’s Country
MAY 2000 - I can just imagine Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, sailing through the Baluchistan wasteland on a makeshift camel-cart, moaning...
Blowing in the Wind
APRIL 2000 - Walking in Regent’s Park on a sharp and sparkling April day with bright sunlight and thousands of flowers in bloom, we came...
Commentary Fixing
APRIL 2000 - Radio Pakistan’s PR Department (didn’t know they had one) has published a long letter in The News on April 2nd, defending...
Horror Airport
APRIL 2000 - Tell me, what will it take to make Islamabad airport an airport and not a fish market ? Will we have to wait till aliens...
For the record.
APRIL 2000 - In a manner of speaking, this is an apology, somewhat belated, but nevertheless straight from the heart. It is true that...
Hi Bill, Bye Bill
MARCH 2000 - Of course it is quite possible that Bill Clinton never came to Pakistan and what we saw, or should it be hardly saw, was...
Over To You
MARCH 2000 - In an imperfect world, why should cricket commentary be the pleasant exception ? Why should cricket commentary even feature...
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