Losing It
AUGUST 2003 - Why is there such a decline in basic good manners? Is it a sign of the times? Is it the . way things are done now? Is it...
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Plundering Nathiagali
AUGUST 2003 - I am inundated with emails – I suppose inundated is the appropriate word these rain-sodden, city-submerged days, about ‘The...
The Rape of Murree
JULY 2003 - A few summers back, having made the cardinal mistake of stopping at Lintotts Murree for tea and sandwiches, we instead got...
No Rocket Science
JULY 2003 - You cannot blame the people of Pakistan who look up at the heavens in great confusion every time the rains come down. Because...
TrueLies@Pakistan
JULY 2003 - Beginning with ‘the competent authority’ that everyone has known for decades, is anything but competent and ending with ‘the...
Pantomime
JULY 2003 - This year, the budget panorama in Islamabad had an altogether new dimension. How to ensure that the savvy Finance Minister...
Operation Okara
JUNE 2003 - They give us cereals at breakfast, oil for our transportation, cash and credit when we go banking, cement to build our homes,...
A backward story
JUNE 2003 - The MMA has a perfectly valid business plan for running the NWFP. The problem is no one understands it except the MMA. That...
Sliding
JUNE 2003 - When was the last time someone said ‘Sorry,’ to you? When was the last time – or in this case, the first time, the person...
The Prospects of Peace
JUNE 2003 - We walk a very thin line, we the ordinary people of India and Pakistan, when it comes to the idea of peaceful coexistence....
Square Pegs & Round Holes
JUNE 2003 - Is there a parallel between what has been happening in Okara, Cricket, Hockey and Squash or is it just a figment of one’s...
Free for all
JUNE 2003 - We are all into piracy of one kind or another. True we don’t have a parrot, a crutch and a game leg and also true that Long...
Adding Insult to Injury
MAY 2003 - What is the ‘Giddar Singhi’ or Rabbit’s Foot that Shoaib Akhtar has, that continuously lets him off the hook every few weeks?...
SMD – Serious Mental Disorder
MAY 2003 - It is no exaggeration to say that the men folk in Pakistan are disgustingly obsessed with sex. The bane of their lives seem to...
The Mirage of Peace
MAY 2003 - Immigration was a breeze. We were out of New Delhi airport in no time at all, drinking in the scenery and wondering that while...
Mr. Jamali’s 737
MAY 2003 - Obviously those who surround the Prime Minister – and it would be a large circle things being what they are, make sure he gets...
Shock & Awe Indeed
APRIL 2003 - “For almost a thousand years, Baghdad was the cultural capital of the Arab world, the most literate population in the Middle...
Sting Operation
APRIL 2003 - I don’t know about the level of frustration friend George Bush must be undergoing having found no WMDs so far in downtown or...
The Moral Brigade Is Back
APRIL 2003 - A recent circular from the Ministry of Information & Media Development is making the rounds, which carries the crusade...
The War Within
APRIL 2003 - Welcome to the 21st century where black is no longer black. The ghostly eerie images like a telecast from another galaxy...
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