MAY 1999 - There can’t be many other nations who have achieved the high level of animal-hating that we have. If there are any, I...

MAY 1999 - I should have guessed Sethi was a RAW man years ago, when he presented me with a turnip. When I questioned its whereabouts, he...

MARCH 1999 - As always, the Jamaat has shown the way. It’s another matter no one is able to read the signs, but that is not the Jamaat’s...

MARCH 1999 - The Indians have gone back and it is now possible to meet people without being assaulted by the most popular theory that was...

JUNE 1999 - What we are silently witnessing in Pakistan is disgraceful and that’s putting it mildly. Ever since the Pakistan team...

JUNE 1999 - Hats off or since we are not into hats, whatever else off, to the gentlemen who have exposed Reema and Attiqa Odho (not a bad...

JUNE 1999 - When Sunil Gavaskar exploded the other afternoon at the Oval, it was pretty much the final straw in what has been breaking...

JUNE 1999 - If you wish to lose hope about Pakistan in less than 90 minutes, go and see a film in any movie house. It may not be the best...

JUNE 1999 - The sight of a ground steward retrieving a stump from one of the many unruly spectators who invaded the pitch last week in...

JULY 1999 - There is now a growing belief among those who plan and plot civic affairs that all you require to solve traffic snarls is...

JULY 1999 - On a hot summer day, somewhere between Kharian and Rawalpindi, aboard a bus, a very long time ago, a white Sunbeam Alpine...

JULY 1999 - I have just returned from a dinner hosted for the Pakistan cricket team by a company marketing international calling cards....

JULY 1999 - We are simply unable anymore it seems, to withstand the summer heat. The very large majority of the people still live out...

SEPTEMBER 1999 - It is just as well I don’t quite recognise what is now Karachi. Sometimes it is better to remember cities and people as...

SEPTEMBER 1999 - Khaled Ahmed summed it best years ago. Writing at the start of another cricket season, he observed that PTV cameramen...

SEPTEMBER 1999 - Our public outings are now strictly characterised by gross bad taste, that is when chaos and mismanagement isn’t...

SEPTEMBER 1999 - There is no doubt that wisdom and common sense have been the guiding lights that have helped the army authorities in...

DECEMBER 1999 - Why can’t we leave cricket alone ? Every few months some kind of epileptic fit has the Pakistan Cricket Board in spasms...

DECEMBER 1999 - The great thing about the Lahore police is that they do it in style. Of course they are not the only ones. All across the...

DECEMBER 1999 - It is surely a miracle that Lahore airport has continued to function as one, given the recent news about the state of...