APRIL 2002 - It was somewhere in February 1989 that writing for another newspaper, I had moaned and groaned about the appearance of...

APRIL 2002 - Are people who continue to organize music concerts in Pakistan, demented beings from another planet? This is a question that...

MARCH 2002 - When a brigade of morons from some dim-witted government agency demolished the ancient water supply system to Lahore’s...

MARCH 2002 - Putting together mega events needs mega organizational skills. This commodity, we don’t have. We have never had it and, from...

MARCH 2002 - Haven’t you ever wondered why people who may approach you from the wrong end of a one-way street will glower at you and...

FEBRUARY 2002 - Imran Khan’s heart is in the right place. While many question the wisdom of his single-minded devotion to fight cancer...

FEBRUARY 2002 - Every time someone wants to have some fun in Pakistan, frowning eyes materialize out of the depressing gloom and eyebrows...

FEBRUARY 2002 - So, we have successfully observed another Kashmir Solidarity Day and undoubtedly this has given the freedom struggle just...

JANUARY 2002 - It is not possible to hold any kind of public meeting without an army – and one uses the word in its widest sense, of...

JANUARY 2002 - There is a firm conviction in the minds of most people that were the Fire Brigade called out in any city where it exists,...

JANUARY 2002 - Lahore has had a four-day winter. There was fog, there was sharpness in the air and there was the unmistakable feeling of...

JANUARY 2002 - The only remission I know makes sense is the one you might be lucky enough to get should you be in the clutches of the Big...

JANUARY 2002 - So after all, the moral brigades didn’t have a ball on the last day of 2001 and were happily absent from whatever passes...

DECEMBER 2001 - As Kandahar falls, crumbling against forces that are far too powerful for those armed inadequately and fired by a warped...

DECEMBER 2001 - In Lahore, the word was out that if you were not in your seat at the Avari Hotel by 1 in the afternoon, you wouldn’t find...

NOVEMBER 2001 - Pakistan runs on hot air. That is easy to believe when you consider the large contingent of crackpots who vent their...

NOVEMBER 2001 - So they are dancing in the streets in Kabul and miraculously there are flowers that have sprung up in a city that wears a...

NOVEMBER 2001 - Whoever said that crime does not pay obviously hadn’t encountered Pakistan, where not only does crime pay, but pays every...

NOVEMBER 2001 - One of the more enduring images I can recall of the four week bombing of Afghanistan is the sight of a Kabul street with...

OCTOBER 2001 - How much longer does the President wish to wait before he really cracks down on the mullahs who have no other purpose than...