DECEMBER 2003 - The sight of Indian actress Urmilla on the rooftops of the old city of Lahore is a sight for sore eyes any time of the...

DECEMBER 2003 - For a country whose most characteristic feature is the burgeoning number of people it has, Pakistan is the most ill...

DECEMBER 2003 - As another year closes somehow creating the illusion of time flying faster than ever before, there is, among the stories...

DECEMBER 2003 - It takes no less than Pakistan’s top man to force the Multan police to register an FIR. It takes no less than the...

NOVEMBER 2003 - In what must rank as one of the all-time greatest pieces of executive legislation, there is a new procedure of obtaining...

NOVEMBER 2003 - Facts should never be allowed to stand in the way of any story - even a report that has to be sent to the Prime Minister...

NOVEMBER 2003 - In a way of course, nothing should ever surprise us anymore. If there are still people who believe that the governments...

NOVEMBER 2003 - Marshalled like cattle at a traffic crossing the other day – one of our many excellencies was on the move and the traffic...

NOVEMBER 2003 - This is not the first time that a controversy about the wanton killing of the Houbara Bustard has broken out in Pakistani...

OCTOBER 2003 - There is no shortage of philosophers it seems. Just about most people are ready to spin out their philosophic life view...

OCTOBER 2003 - It is now difficult to decide what is more vulgar – the debate on vulgarity that seems to occupy a primary place in the...

OCTOBER 2003 - Many summers ago on a tranquil and magical evening, we sat at the edge of the sea, behind us the isle of Capri and watched...

OCTOBER 2003 - There was a time when the advent of a test match, be it a five-day affair or a one-day circus, triggered off an air of...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - There was a time when stories about obtaining a telephone were regarded as a twisted joke in which the losers were the...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - The blackening of women’s faces on billboards has started again. In Lahore, there is virtually no billboard that has...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - While most of us are unable to tell the difference between LFOs and UFOs, both being equally elusive – incidentally what...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - Such is the indifference that rules our hearts that when stories appear in the media which would otherwise make painful...

AUGUST 2003 - It wouldn’t be foolish to assume that even on its best days, the government of Pakistan, has simply no clue what half of it...

AUGUST 2003 - Firstly, we all have to understand that the whole thing is a huge conspiracy hatched by the rest of the world against Ms....

AUGUST 2003 - The sight of Farzand e Rawalpindi inaugurating a train designed to pay tribute to Miss Jinnah must have caused havoc in the...