AUGUST 1999 - They are working nights putting in a new, wide and gleaming road that snakes from Abbotabad up into Nathiagali, the last of...

AUGUST 1999 - While I am all for waving the flag and holding my right hand solemnly over the ticker as the buglers hit the high notes,...

AUGUST 1999 - There is no doubt that none of us has been able to guess what has led the Punjab government in Lahore to mount one of the...

AUGUST 1999 - I gave the Tourism Convention last month a wide miss. Tourism is just about as dead as the dodo and we should simply give...

APRIL 1999 - What Star Sports has actually done for our cricket coverage must rank as a most unlikely miracle. The funny thing is that...

JANUARY 1999 - I think one of the most original shows to take place in Alhamra Hall II was last week when the roof decided it had had...

OCTOBER 1998 - The news that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, or as PTV puts it every night, Wazir-e-Azam Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, has decided...

NOVEMBER 1998 - One of the wisest things I do, and there are not many to grace that list, is giving public functions a big miss. Somehow,...

MARCH 1998 - Pakistanis have long since abandoned any foolish hopes they might have had about law and order ever becoming law and order....

JANUARY 1998 - Reading my friend Irfan Husain’s column this Saturday morning, I have just the thing that will bring a smile to his son in...

JANUARY 1998 - There was a time when newspapers used to publish a useful column called ‘Arrivals & Departures’. It gave you instant...

JANUARY 1998 - Some people complain that the column is not entertaining enough, doesn’t make them hold their sides with laughter and...

JANUARY 1998 - Of all the stirring messages that I have read on the 121st birthday of Mr. Jinnah, I have been most inspired by the one...

SEPTEMBER 1997 - Why is everyone after Poor Pinky and Hubby Dear’s blood ? For one thing, they have only well-oiled gold coins flowing in...

SEPTEMBER 1997 - Across the line that divides Pakistan society, urban or rural, poor or rich, there is a growing disenchantment with the...

OCTOBER 1997 - With Mahmud Sipra you never know what’s coming next, but although we had on some occasions discussed the ‘London Return’...

OCTOBER 1997 - It is a welcome sign that successive governments led by visionary bureaucrats have been successful in destroying Mohenjo...

OCTOBER 1997 - By and large, Pakistan has one cricket team of eleven people but hundreds of professional intriguers who run the game,...

NOVEMBER 1997 - The images this week off the idiot box have reflected the confusion and anarchy that is standard feature every time there...

NOVEMBER 1997 - With our morality under perpetual threat, we being the world’s sole custodians in all matters moral and defenders of the...