NOVEMBER 2003 - This is not the first time that a controversy about the wanton killing of the Houbara Bustard has broken out in Pakistani...

OCTOBER 2003 - There is no shortage of philosophers it seems. Just about most people are ready to spin out their philosophic life view...

OCTOBER 2003 - It is now difficult to decide what is more vulgar – the debate on vulgarity that seems to occupy a primary place in the...

OCTOBER 2003 - Many summers ago on a tranquil and magical evening, we sat at the edge of the sea, behind us the isle of Capri and watched...

OCTOBER 2003 - There was a time when the advent of a test match, be it a five-day affair or a one-day circus, triggered off an air of...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - There was a time when stories about obtaining a telephone were regarded as a twisted joke in which the losers were the...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - The blackening of women’s faces on billboards has started again. In Lahore, there is virtually no billboard that has...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - While most of us are unable to tell the difference between LFOs and UFOs, both being equally elusive – incidentally what...

SEPTEMBER 2003 - Such is the indifference that rules our hearts that when stories appear in the media which would otherwise make painful...

AUGUST 2003 - It wouldn’t be foolish to assume that even on its best days, the government of Pakistan, has simply no clue what half of it...

AUGUST 2003 - Firstly, we all have to understand that the whole thing is a huge conspiracy hatched by the rest of the world against Ms....

AUGUST 2003 - The sight of Farzand e Rawalpindi inaugurating a train designed to pay tribute to Miss Jinnah must have caused havoc in the...

AUGUST 2003 - Why is there such a decline in basic good manners? Is it a sign of the times? Is it the . way things are done now? Is it...

AUGUST 2003 - I am inundated with emails – I suppose inundated is the appropriate word these rain-sodden, city-submerged days, about ‘The...

JULY 2003 - A few summers back, having made the cardinal mistake of stopping at Lintotts Murree for tea and sandwiches, we instead got...

JULY 2003 - You cannot blame the people of Pakistan who look up at the heavens in great confusion every time the rains come down. Because...

JULY 2003 - Beginning with ‘the competent authority’ that everyone has known for decades, is anything but competent and ending with ‘the...

JULY 2003 - This year, the budget panorama in Islamabad had an altogether new dimension. How to ensure that the savvy Finance Minister...

JUNE 2003 - They give us cereals at breakfast, oil for our transportation, cash and credit when we go banking, cement to build our homes,...

JUNE 2003 - The MMA has a perfectly valid business plan for running the NWFP. The problem is no one understands it except the MMA. That...