DECEMBER 2001 - As Kandahar falls, crumbling against forces that are far too powerful for those armed inadequately and fired by a warped...

DECEMBER 2001 - In Lahore, the word was out that if you were not in your seat at the Avari Hotel by 1 in the afternoon, you wouldn’t find...

NOVEMBER 2001 - Pakistan runs on hot air. That is easy to believe when you consider the large contingent of crackpots who vent their...

NOVEMBER 2001 - So they are dancing in the streets in Kabul and miraculously there are flowers that have sprung up in a city that wears a...

NOVEMBER 2001 - Whoever said that crime does not pay obviously hadn’t encountered Pakistan, where not only does crime pay, but pays every...

NOVEMBER 2001 - One of the more enduring images I can recall of the four week bombing of Afghanistan is the sight of a Kabul street with...

OCTOBER 2001 - How much longer does the President wish to wait before he really cracks down on the mullahs who have no other purpose than...

OCTOBER 2001 - What is more sordid? The grisly murders Javed and Sajid carried out or their murder at the hands of the infamous Lahore...

OCTOBER 2001 - There was a time in the days of the somewhat benign dictator, Ayub Khan, when a loud and sonorous voice supported by text,...

OCTOBER 2001 - The tragedy in Pakistan which has a wide canvas, is that either the wrong people get appointed for jobs they should not be...

SEPTEMBER 2001 - Most Pakistanis can be forgiven for being unable to identify what or where Saindak is. One can readily understand this...

SEPTEMBER 2001 - At last, a glimmer of hope, a ray of sunshine. BB’s latest announcement following fast on the tracks of the artifacts of...

SEPTEMBER 2001 - A recent report in TIME paints a horrifying picture of the decay that is enveloping the Taj Mahal, perhaps the single...

AUGUST 2001 - What quality of health care would you expect in Pakistan where a royal sum of one percent is allocated from the government...

AUGUST 2001 - Should you chance to visit the airport at Lahore, a marvel of traffic engineering greets you the moment you start to draw...

AUGUST 2001 - The bad news is that after 54 years of non-stop efforts, we have been unable to eliminate Pakistan. The good news is that...

AUGUST 2001 - We grew up on the movies and the cinemas that played them. In those darkened halls we lived out our fantasies, movie after...

AUGUST 2001 - Notwithstanding the passionate announcement by a grim President Pervez Musharraf this week in Islamabad about ‘combating’...

JULY 2001 - The seventh month of the current year will soon be over leaving us just about five months in which to mount elaborate plans...

JULY 2001 - A news item the other day lamenting the sad state of Sir Ganga Ram’s samadhi in the great city of Lahore where live the...