Unholy Mess
AUGUST 2004 - While waiting along with thousands of other Pakistanis for my Prime Minister to pass some few miles away from where the...
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A Date With You
AUGUST 2004 - What can explain Kamran Lashari’s love affair with date trees? Hardly had he arrived in Islamabad a few months back and...
What Tourism?
JULY 2004 - The Punjab Minister for Tourism, whose name I have immediately forgotten, has declared this week that Pakistan is a heaven...
Big Brother
JULY 2004 - I don’t know about you, but Ch. Shujaat Hussain has won me over within the short time span of a few days. In times where most...
Squeezing Stones
JULY 2004 - Good sense and intellectual discourse coming from the Assemblies is like squeezing stones and expecting water to come gushing...
Power Rides
JULY 2004 - Perhaps few people realize that Wapda has continued to play an important part in the development of our national character....
Class Act
JUNE 2004 - ‘The Gathering’ is what Abbas Khattak called it and a gathering indeed it was. And that too was the large inscription that...
Mountains & Molehills
JUNE 2004 - At least one tourist has been sighted in the Northern Areas this year. That is a 100% improvement over last year. The boys at...
Enjoy The Mangoes
JUNE 2004 - I mean the President is not the only one who’s got problems. I am having one hell of a time myself. Too many people are...
The Fires of Hate
JUNE 2004 - The message from Karachi should be clear to all. If you are a Muslim, don’t pray in a mosque. In ‘Islam-enemy’ India, you...
Bad Karma
MAY 2004 - Skepticism in Pakistan often assumes startling proportions. Some years back, there were widespread reports in the print media...
More Hot Air
MAY 2004 - The heat wave that’s exploded over the country in the last two weeks is not the only catastrophe that has overwhelmed us....
The Soft Side
MAY 2004 - In Pakistan, the argument often advanced for the cruel treatment meted out to animals is that when human beings are made to...
That Obscenity Bug
MAY 2004 - There is a new and utterly useless silly bill travelling up the Punjab government windpipe. Called the Public Performances...
Vilification
MAY 2004 - Should it surprise anyone if ten kanals of land are sliced off Lahore’s cramped zoo and are gobbled up to create an...
Another Folly
APRIL 2004 - It was an idea whose time had not come when it was first announced in 1991. Thirteen years and dozens of meetings and...
The World Is Mobile
APRIL 2004 - I thought I had seen it all and heard it all, but at the funeral of Lt.Gen. Rafi Alam the other day, I was able to attend my...
Their Crimes. Our Punishment
APRIL 2004 - Getting robbed is now a matter of routine. The papers are full of it and so common are the occurrences, that most readers...
The Old Boys
APRIL 2004 - Almost as soon as we crossed the little stream, the famous hill with the white mosque looming on our right side and the...
Cricket Blues
MARCH 2004 - The problem with Pakistan cricket is that it doesn’t belong to the Pakistan Cricket Board. To say that the Board only...
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