Lollywood Lotas
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...
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Cricket Anybody?
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...
The Disorder Quotient
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...
Star Light, Star Bright
FEBRUARY 2004 - As his teammates carried him aloft on their shoulders against the backdrop of the legendary Sydney Cricket Ground, their...
Our Culture Vultures
FEBRUARY 2004 - Expecting Lahoris to exhibit cultured behaviour is like asking Hippos to do ballet. It is simply inconceivable. On Friday...
Dead Ducks
FEBRUARY 2004 - As most of Pakistan descends on Lahore this week to celebrate Basant and the city fluctuates between bans on kite...
Feet of Clay
FEBRUARY 2004 - The metallurgy road is paved with good intentions, ‘good faith’ and lots of gold. The bewildering details of the personal...
Money Makes the Mare Go
FEBRUARY 2004 - Poor Minister Shahani. Missing in action for so many days and like Osama and Mullah Omar, lost somewhere in those barren...
Our Second Skin
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...
New Murree? Mercy Lords
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...
Choking to Death
JANUARY 2004 - Summer colds are now commonplace in Pakistan. Obviously it’s not the chill factor that causes people to collapse with high...
The Siege Within
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...
Beyond The Edge
DECEMBER 2003 - The sight of Indian actress Urmilla on the rooftops of the old city of Lahore is a sight for sore eyes any time of the...
Managing Flow
DECEMBER 2003 - For a country whose most characteristic feature is the burgeoning number of people it has, Pakistan is the most ill...
The People’s Airport
DECEMBER 2003 - As another year closes somehow creating the illusion of time flying faster than ever before, there is, among the stories...
Heavy Weather
DECEMBER 2003 - It takes no less than Pakistan’s top man to force the Multan police to register an FIR. It takes no less than the...
Let’s Ban Entertainment
NOVEMBER 2003 - In what must rank as one of the all-time greatest pieces of executive legislation, there is a new procedure of obtaining...
Catwalking in Pakistan
NOVEMBER 2003 - Facts should never be allowed to stand in the way of any story - even a report that has to be sent to the Prime Minister...
Over & Out
NOVEMBER 2003 - In a way of course, nothing should ever surprise us anymore. If there are still people who believe that the governments...
Traffic. Jam or Stew?
NOVEMBER 2003 - Marshalled like cattle at a traffic crossing the other day – one of our many excellencies was on the move and the traffic...
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