Next Question Please
JULY 2001 - One day Pakistani journalists will learn the fine art of asking questions at press conferences. As things stand at the...
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Exodus
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...
Other People’s Money
JUNE 2001 - Although largely irrelevant in the context of Pakistan, where most things are irrelevant in any event, an interesting...
The ‘Sheeda’ Factor
JUNE 2001 - As crowds of Pakistani flag bearing hooligans charged into the grounds at cricket matches that Pakistan played in the Natwest...
Of This & That - Watery Tales
JUNE 2001 - It is hard to understand why everyone expresses great shock as soon as the first downpour hits the towns and cities of...
Summertime
JUNE 2001 - The old Gershwin standard goes, ‘Summertime and the living is easy,’ but, stubbornly, I haven’t had the first mango which...
Allah Maalik
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...
Going to the Dogs
MAY 2001 - Driving to Islamabad last week, around midday, we saw the beginnings of the Potohar Plateau and an awesome dust storm heading...
They Murder Horses, Don’t They?
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...
So What?
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...
Run Out
MAY 2001 - There is much to find fault with General Musharraf’s recent comment that “politicians have played their innings – they have...
Lahore’s Latest Folly
APRIL 2001 - If Don Quixote could be appointed the head of TEPA or Traffic Engineering & Transport Planning Agency if you are not an...
National Beavers
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...
Transitory World
APRIL 2001 - In a transitory world, Pakistan must rank high in transitory value systems. Every day there is more and more evidence that...
Down the Drain
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....
VIP Movement
MARCH 2001 - Yousaf is at the wheel of the yellow, slightly rickety Suzuki Mehran taxi, as we detour past a heavily barricaded, military...
Buddha Leftovers
MARCH 2001 - So the two Buddhas have been successfully dynamited, rocketed and bazookad by those fun loving chaps in Afghanistan, the...
Battling On
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...
Good Times Are Here - Part 1 & 2
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...
Forgotten River
FEBRUARY 2001 - As Lahore braces itself for the festival of festival playing host to thousands of visitors who are converging on the...
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