OCTOBER 2001 - What is more sordid? The grisly murders Javed and Sajid carried out or their murder at the hands of the infamous Lahore...

OCTOBER 2001 - There was a time in the days of the somewhat benign dictator, Ayub Khan, when a loud and sonorous voice supported by text,...

OCTOBER 2001 - The tragedy in Pakistan which has a wide canvas, is that either the wrong people get appointed for jobs they should not be...

SEPTEMBER 2001 - Most Pakistanis can be forgiven for being unable to identify what or where Saindak is. One can readily understand this...

SEPTEMBER 2001 - At last, a glimmer of hope, a ray of sunshine. BB’s latest announcement following fast on the tracks of the artifacts of...

SEPTEMBER 2001 - A recent report in TIME paints a horrifying picture of the decay that is enveloping the Taj Mahal, perhaps the single...

AUGUST 2001 - What quality of health care would you expect in Pakistan where a royal sum of one percent is allocated from the government...

AUGUST 2001 - Should you chance to visit the airport at Lahore, a marvel of traffic engineering greets you the moment you start to draw...

AUGUST 2001 - The bad news is that after 54 years of non-stop efforts, we have been unable to eliminate Pakistan. The good news is that...

AUGUST 2001 - We grew up on the movies and the cinemas that played them. In those darkened halls we lived out our fantasies, movie after...

AUGUST 2001 - Notwithstanding the passionate announcement by a grim President Pervez Musharraf this week in Islamabad about ‘combating’...

JULY 2001 - The seventh month of the current year will soon be over leaving us just about five months in which to mount elaborate plans...

JULY 2001 - A news item the other day lamenting the sad state of Sir Ganga Ram’s samadhi in the great city of Lahore where live the...

JULY 2001 - One day Pakistani journalists will learn the fine art of asking questions at press conferences. As things stand at the...

JULY 2001 - It would be almost true to assert that deep down, no one really wishes to leave one’s country and live abroad because no...

JUNE 2001 - Although largely irrelevant in the context of Pakistan, where most things are irrelevant in any event, an interesting...

JUNE 2001 - As crowds of Pakistani flag bearing hooligans charged into the grounds at cricket matches that Pakistan played in the Natwest...

JUNE 2001 - It is hard to understand why everyone expresses great shock as soon as the first downpour hits the towns and cities of...

JUNE 2001 - The old Gershwin standard goes, ‘Summertime and the living is easy,’ but, stubbornly, I haven’t had the first mango which...

JUNE 2001 - When the toilet blew open (how appropriate) on PIA Flight PK 305 on May 25th while it was cruising at 28,500 feet causing the...