JULY 2002 - So Jamil Dehalvi triumphs in a London High Court and wins the case he filed quite sometime back to recover what he stated...

JULY 2002 - This is truly a nation of ingratiates. Everyone, other than nazims or naibs are pointing accusing fingers at Islamabad saying...

JULY 2002 - Public apathy – and that means you and me, has reached an all-time high in Pakistan. There is nothing that shocks us and...

JULY 2002 - What ails WAPDA, the big white elephant of Pakistan? Every government that has come into power has ensured periodical and...

JUNE 2002 - The last time I had journeyed to Alfalah Cinema in Lahore, there were fat and fairly jocular rats that outnumbered the...

JUNE 2002 - As in most things, we have some of the best laws available in the books but since there is virtually no implementation, these...

JUNE 2002 - Indians and Pakistanis may not be sharing much in common these days, but surely there is a common bonding between the two...

JUNE 2002 - The Begum Governor of the NWFP – I assume she is addressed as such since her counterpart in Lahore certainly goes by this...

MAY 2002 - The Ministry of Education deserves a pat on the back – it is of course another matter that they can understand what a pat on...

MAY 2002 - All year round, just about everyone who supports a coconut over his two shoulders bleats about the need for democracy. Either...

MAY 2002 - It is good to know that the DIG Multan Range believes it is (the) responsibility of (the) police to protect the life and...

MAY 2002 - What is one to do with Pakistan? It’s a question that sends waves of despondency and despair over us because it seems there is...

MAY 2002 - An anti-climax of sorts hangs like the summer haze over everything. The much-touted referendum is over. We can put up one more...

APRIL 2002 - The good thing about columns such as this one is that they are largely irrelevant. Consider this. By the time this...

APRIL 2002 - I suppose the best advice to give anyone these days, is no advice since people invariably will do exactly as they want to,...

APRIL 2002 - It was somewhere in February 1989 that writing for another newspaper, I had moaned and groaned about the appearance of...

APRIL 2002 - Are people who continue to organize music concerts in Pakistan, demented beings from another planet? This is a question that...

MARCH 2002 - When a brigade of morons from some dim-witted government agency demolished the ancient water supply system to Lahore’s...

MARCH 2002 - Putting together mega events needs mega organizational skills. This commodity, we don’t have. We have never had it and, from...

MARCH 2002 - Haven’t you ever wondered why people who may approach you from the wrong end of a one-way street will glower at you and...