Andleeb Abbas

How loud and low can you get on the electronic screen? The answer will differ each day as you see new records of shouting, mudslinging and accusations heaped by political parties on each other. The talk shows are verbal sumo wrestling matches where the obscene tongue wagging of the participants is as distasteful as the […]

It is a season of conspiracies. The public and media fascination with the invisible yet visible hand is insatiable. With speculation rife on the government’s sustainability, each implication in the print and electronic media becomes a possible candidate of a juicy scandal to be milked by those in search of cheap sensationalism. As in recent […]

To be loyal is out of fashion. Gone are the days when people stayed in the same organisations, parties and relationships till death do them part. In today’s world, the rules of loyalty have changed. Hard work has been replaced by smart work, being faithful is termed as being wishful and hopping around for greener […]

Everybody in this country is in a state of what next. The political parties are taken aback, stumbling and stuttering for material other than the Lahore jalsa (rally), its after-effects and its impact on not just the political landscape but the way people think and live in this country. The media is clutching and hanging […]

Corruption seems to be a common virus in South Asia. Pakistan, of course, stands tall as far as corruption records are concerned but India and Bangladesh are also countries plagued with this disease yet they seem to be doing much better than us on many fronts. Corruption of some form exists in all parts of […]

Looters bashing shop windows, gangsters burning down buildings, police running around madly to control the chaos, life coming to a standstill; in any given quiz, this scene would get the answer of being in Karachi or Damascus or Benghazi. However, the shocking answer is Tottenham, London and Birmingham. These scenes are reflective of the changing […]

Freedom is a state of mind. A thought process that subjugates its ability to make decisions not under force of circumstance but through free will, and is ready to accept the risks associated with it, is truly independent. However, most people are enslaved to the external factors that may or may not take him or […]

It is a bottomless pit. As the country keeps on piling unbearable debt, load shedding reaches impossible limits, murders become unstoppable, the government breaks all records of embezzlement and fraud. The pilferage started from cutting development expenditures on health and education and since those have been exhausted too, the dig into charity money has shown […]

‘Blame it on Rio’ was the title of a movie where a lot of uncalled for events take place between the major characters of the movie but the blame is always laid on the place called Rio de Janeiro. A similar state of affairs exists in our political corridors; every time something goes out of […]

In this fast forward world we are set to be moving fast backward. Whether it is leadership styles, skills or systems, our country seems to be beating records of adopting methods, processes and techniques long obsolete in most parts of the world. Every new day we hear of things that push our country back in […]