B. J. Sadiq

In all my born days never have I come across a political leader so insanely stubborn. And, so reluctantly honest to the nation; holding his own, even when the writing is vividly clear on the wall. Nawaz Sharif and all his cohorts have gone through a rough patch of late. The JIT verdict has been […]

What an eventful week it has been for Pakistan. Roads, avenues, markets, offices, the rustic rural, and the plushy upscale urban; the entire country and all its ‘galimuhallahs’ are a scatter of celebrations. All major tabloids have been waxing lyrical about the green kits and how they have warmed the cockles of the nation’s heart. […]

I have not been a happy bunny over the past few days. Badly cursing my stars, while testing my pulse at the local sub divisional office of IESCO, where I had been turning up with my nerve busting, artificially inflated electricity bill. ‘I will get to the bottom of this’, I told all the big […]

I remember the scene too vividly. It was Lahore, and I was in one of those huff and puff Gulberg markets packed with an ocean of human limbs. Not a soul laughed, as summer was at its full pelt. Both trees and tongues thirsted for water. I heard women, both young and old, busting their […]

A few years ago, just for the love of Akmal junior and his theatrical stroke play, I sang praises for him in a feature published in The Friday Times. I now confess that I had grossly lost my head. A cricketer is not just a gift of providence; is not only about cover drives that […]

A few suns ago, Nawabzada Shahryar Khan, the hardnosed cricket diplomat who is usually in control of his brain, dropped a clanger. Speaking at an interview, the PCB chief rated Misbahul Haq as a better captain than Imran Khan. Hang up your boots Shahryar sahib, you seem to be hitting that awkward age. With a […]

He may be the guardian of net worth that is nearly a quarter of Pakistan’s total foreign exchange reserves. He may boast of a lovely, middle-aged lanky daughter in Ivanka. He may also have been a cracker of a businessman, multiplying his fortune at a rate of knots. However, Mr Donald Trump is sure to […]

  The West Indian cricket recession seems permanent. Watching a worn out Pakistani squad, laden with a few forty year olds and resisting a hardly ominous Caribbean side in the first test, was not the kind of cricket we traditionally expected from these two hugely talented cricket seminaries. Both sides looked jaded, out of their […]

  Load shedding and Pakistan seem to be inseparable. As the sun blooms in all its splendour, daytime temperatures become unbearable and incessant outages of power cause life to be piping hot yet again. Public criticism seems to have gone up. Energy shortages are once again front page news. In all honesty, the Sharifs don’t […]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan judges are letting the grass grow under their feet and are just gritting their teeth as the nation awaits the Panama Leaks case verdict with bated breath. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seems to have lost his voice, as if he has seen a ghost. The Sharif pavilion, however, never ceases […]