JULY 2001 - One day Pakistani journalists will learn the fine art of asking questions at press conferences. As things stand at the...

JULY 2001 - It would be almost true to assert that deep down, no one really wishes to leave one’s country and live abroad because no...

JUNE 2001 - Although largely irrelevant in the context of Pakistan, where most things are irrelevant in any event, an interesting...

JUNE 2001 - As crowds of Pakistani flag bearing hooligans charged into the grounds at cricket matches that Pakistan played in the Natwest...

JUNE 2001 - It is hard to understand why everyone expresses great shock as soon as the first downpour hits the towns and cities of...

JUNE 2001 - The old Gershwin standard goes, ‘Summertime and the living is easy,’ but, stubbornly, I haven’t had the first mango which...

JUNE 2001 - When the toilet blew open (how appropriate) on PIA Flight PK 305 on May 25th while it was cruising at 28,500 feet causing the...

MAY 2001 - Driving to Islamabad last week, around midday, we saw the beginnings of the Potohar Plateau and an awesome dust storm heading...

MAY 2001 - I have been once to the Lahore Race Club and never to the Karachi Race Club and I know next to nothing about how races are...

MAY 2001 I am all for this IT thing that’s got everyone running for cover and I am all for systems that work wonders and for the new...

MAY 2001 - There is much to find fault with General Musharraf’s recent comment that “politicians have played their innings – they have...

APRIL 2001 - If Don Quixote could be appointed the head of TEPA or Traffic Engineering & Transport Planning Agency if you are not an...

APRIL 2001 - At the giddy speed with which looters of Pakistan’s wealth are fleeing to pastures abroad, there may soon come a time when...

APRIL 2001 - In a transitory world, Pakistan must rank high in transitory value systems. Every day there is more and more evidence that...

APRIL 2001 - To say that we are ever prepared for any crisis would just about be the understatement of the decade where we are concerned....

MARCH 2001 - Yousaf is at the wheel of the yellow, slightly rickety Suzuki Mehran taxi, as we detour past a heavily barricaded, military...

MARCH 2001 - So the two Buddhas have been successfully dynamited, rocketed and bazookad by those fun loving chaps in Afghanistan, the...

MARCH 2001 - It is way past midnight, less than 43 hours to go before show time. In a medium sized rectangular room, deep inside the...

FEBRUARY / MARCH 2001 There is no need to be depressed, no need to knock back pills. There is no need to despair and no need to worry any...

FEBRUARY 2001 - As Lahore braces itself for the festival of festival playing host to thousands of visitors who are converging on the...