MAY 2001 - Driving to Islamabad last week, around midday, we saw the beginnings of the Potohar Plateau and an awesome dust storm heading...

MAY 2001 - I have been once to the Lahore Race Club and never to the Karachi Race Club and I know next to nothing about how races are...

MAY 2001 I am all for this IT thing that’s got everyone running for cover and I am all for systems that work wonders and for the new...

MAY 2001 - There is much to find fault with General Musharraf’s recent comment that “politicians have played their innings – they have...

APRIL 2001 - If Don Quixote could be appointed the head of TEPA or Traffic Engineering & Transport Planning Agency if you are not an...

APRIL 2001 - At the giddy speed with which looters of Pakistan’s wealth are fleeing to pastures abroad, there may soon come a time when...

APRIL 2001 - In a transitory world, Pakistan must rank high in transitory value systems. Every day there is more and more evidence that...

APRIL 2001 - To say that we are ever prepared for any crisis would just about be the understatement of the decade where we are concerned....

MARCH 2001 - Yousaf is at the wheel of the yellow, slightly rickety Suzuki Mehran taxi, as we detour past a heavily barricaded, military...

MARCH 2001 - So the two Buddhas have been successfully dynamited, rocketed and bazookad by those fun loving chaps in Afghanistan, the...

MARCH 2001 - It is way past midnight, less than 43 hours to go before show time. In a medium sized rectangular room, deep inside the...

FEBRUARY / MARCH 2001 There is no need to be depressed, no need to knock back pills. There is no need to despair and no need to worry any...

FEBRUARY 2001 - As Lahore braces itself for the festival of festival playing host to thousands of visitors who are converging on the...

FEBRUARY 2001 - So we have successfully spent another Solidarity Day expressing our great support for the Kashmir cause. While most of...

FEBRUARY 2001 - A new report released last week states that the Charing Cross area – God knows what we call it now, is the most polluted...

JANUARY 2001 - Travelling on the Highway of Flashing Lights, for what else can you call the road that connects the Chief Executive’s...

JANUARY 2001 - Although one makes every possible effort to avoid taking visitors to any of our monuments, knowing fully well that such...

JANUARY 2001 - So Madam is gone. Buried in, of all the places, Karachi in some graveyard whose name I cannot recall. What irony that she...

JANUARY 2001 - You can only praise the national commitment of the Corps Commander who recently spearheaded a brilliant operation led by a...

DECEMBER 2000 - Pakistan has more or less been shut down for the last week following a month of fasting, where everything in any event,...