Lost Causes
JANUARY 2003 - Pakistan may well be the capital of lost causes. Rarely will you find support here for ideas and projects other than the...
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Falling Down
JANUARY 2003 - What is it that haunts our people? A death wish? A burning desire to annihilate themselves? What twisted ideology can...
Fogged & Smogged
JANUARY 2003 - Lahoris are going round with doleful faces and puzzled looks watching helplessly as slow, swirling clouds of fog start...
The usual suspects
JANUARY 2003 - There is no doubt that the Prime Minister is an imposing figure. He is larger than life and that may perhaps explain why...
Very Red Tape
JANUARY 2003 - While 2003 will introduce a new airport at Lahore to those who may still like to travel in and out of Pakistan, it will...
Banana Song
DECEMBER 2002 - So as another year dies on us, where are we? That is a question we are used to, asking it almost every day throughout the...
Back to the Pavilion
DECEMBER 2002 - The English Roundabout more or less sums up the attitude ands way of life that governs this little island we all know as...
No tourists please
DECEMBER 2002 - The twelfth month of the current year will soon be over leaving us wondering what we actually did for the year 2002 that...
Confusion Galore
NOVEMBER 2002 - While the non-musical chairs show continues ad nauseum in Islamabad, where obviously two people cannot agree on any one...
The New Vision
NOVEMBER 2002 - Since these are times when new masters of our topsy turvy destiny are taking charge, it might be useful for them to...
Mountain Light
NOVEMBER 2002 - In a sense, the tragic deaths of wildlife photographers Galen Rowell and his wife Barbara while returning home from a...
That Darn Rat-PAC
NOVEMBER 2002 - I must confess that it is people like Mr.Waseem Sajjad who light up my days and sustain my belief that in the end we...
Fiasco in Oslo
NOVEMBER 2002 - The subject of Pakistan’s deteriorating image abroad has been a cause for much anguish for many Pakistanis who genuinely...
Silly Season
OCTOBER 2002 - Speculation, that life-sustaining fluid which galvanizes Pakistanis into frenzy across every drawing room and dinner...
Pass me the henna
OCTOBER 2002 - There is no end to bad luck is there? Just as one was beginning to get used to a life without Lt.Gen. Tauqir Zia and his...
Continuing Cruelty
OCTOBER 2002 - So we have been to another controlled election and more controlled results should have flown out by now so that the...
Monuments to What?
OCTOBER 2002 - Islamabad is not only the capital of Pakistan – although this is often in dispute, the city being reputed to be out of...
Damp Squib
SEPTEMBER 2002 - So is Benazir going to land and get thrown into the slammer? That’s just about the hottest thing that’s going on in the...
Flying About
SEPTEMBER 2002 - The national airline is a sitting duck most of the year round considering that invariably it is open season on...
And Quiet Flows The Indus
SEPTEMBER 2002 - From the wide window of Room 105 at Hotel Midway in D.I.Khan – the back of beyond for most of us, the river Indus...
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