MARCH 2004 - Part of the fallout of the peace process as it gingerly moves forward, is going to be reflected in the severe disparity that...

MARCH 2004 - The Indian cricket team arrived in Lahore just a few hours back as scheduled. There is a media army – excuse the pun, that’s...

MARCH 2004 - Every evening we re-enact the same farce. At the corner where I have to turn off the side road and join the main stream of...

FEBRUARY 2004 - As his teammates carried him aloft on their shoulders against the backdrop of the legendary Sydney Cricket Ground, their...

FEBRUARY 2004 - Expecting Lahoris to exhibit cultured behaviour is like asking Hippos to do ballet. It is simply inconceivable. On Friday...

FEBRUARY 2004 - As most of Pakistan descends on Lahore this week to celebrate Basant and the city fluctuates between bans on kite...

FEBRUARY 2004 - The metallurgy road is paved with good intentions, ‘good faith’ and lots of gold. The bewildering details of the personal...

FEBRUARY 2004 - Poor Minister Shahani. Missing in action for so many days and like Osama and Mullah Omar, lost somewhere in those barren...

JANUARY 2004 - Events here so often remind me of the poor Sardar Jee who couldn’t use the loo on the train and was hardly able to hold...

JANUARY 2004 - I suppose other than the three people who read this column, it can be safely assumed that the rest are not the least bit...

JANUARY 2004 - Summer colds are now commonplace in Pakistan. Obviously it’s not the chill factor that causes people to collapse with high...

JANUARY 2004 - In 1958 when Martial Law arrived in the shape of a Field Marshal who was not really a Field Marshal, we, riding our...