MARCH 2000 - I think one of the earliest statements the Chief Executive made on taking over Pakistan, talked about the need for peace and...

MARCH 2000 - No one knows precisely how many ‘Jinnah’ films have been made. Now we have more mystery to dig into, since no one precisely...

FEBRUARY 2000 - Scams should come as no surprise to any one any more. We all understand that the country is built on scams and runs on...

FEBRUARY 2000 - Whoever designed, though calling it designed would be a gross exaggeration, the Lahore Airport deserves some kind of...

JANUARY 2000 - It is great irony that it should have been Mian Sahib’s government (remember them?) which made sure that wedding feasts...

JANUARY 2000 - Had Mrs. Tony Blair been living in Pakistan, she needn’t have paid a fine for boarding a train without a ticket. The very...

JANUARY 2000 - “Pass me the salt, Gunga Din,” said that rascal from Yorkshire, Fred Trueman to a member of the Indian cricket team that...

JANUARY 2000 - The world’s going ape over the millennium and celebrations have been planned in advance months ago. There is the Y2K bug...

SEPTEMBER 1999 - I would advise Wasim Akram to sacrifice a black goat every three days as long as he is playing for Pakistan and when he...

SEPTEMBER 1999 - There is very little good that we can associate with any of the governments we have had over the last fifty years....

OCTOBER 1999 - There is one thing that is not in short supply in Rawalpindi this week. Free advice. Since everyone in Pakistan is...

OCTOBER 1999 - So the heavy mandate has sunk without a trace. It took a little over two hours to polish off the government in Islamabad...

OCTOBER 1999 - Every one who has had the opportunity to guide policy in Pakistan has had to face the great bugbear of all times;...

OCTOBER 1999 - Quite recently, attempts to obtain some professionally taken photographs of Madam Noor Jehan, resulted in the inevitable...

NOVEMBER 1999 - Even as we read this, the debacle in Australia continues. When I last saw, Ponting and Langer had made hundreds and it...

NOVEMBER 1999 - I must say just when I am beginning to write off the Daughter of the East, sorry West, our very own Ms Bhutto, she pops...

NOVEMBER 1999 - The appointment of Mr. Jinnah’s saviour, Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the land of strawberries...

NOVEMBER 1999 - The sight of the Punjab Governor’s Merc mixing with the hoi polloi of the land and that too at a traffic light is a sight...

MAY 1999 - The problem with the police here is that it's just too bloody decent for its own good. Maligned as they are daily by an...

MAY 1999 - Why doesn’t Ms Bhutto give up this pretense of ‘serving’ the people and give us all a well-deserved break ? Of course chances...