D Asghar

It is that time of the year again. Oh no, not this year. Not the seven-part miniseries like the one I wrote last year going over the nitty gritty of ‘independence’. It is said and done. The reality is the way it is. It is for everyone to face and accept. As pretty or ugly […]

Some surprises but no major surprise at all. This was all expected and anticipated. I am referring to the recent row between the apex court and our angry former cricket captain-turned-philanthropist-turned-politician Mr Imran Khan. Many gifted analysts and legal gurus have penned their commentaries and opinions about this entire episode. Needless to say that neither […]

It surely seems like the federation has finally found its candidate for a perfect symbol of its unity in the president-elect Mamnoon Hussain. The 12th president of the Promised Land is poised to take the oath of office on September 9 and the incumbent who has been highly criticised in the last five years will […]

Chances are that you may have been to one of those get-togethers in the blessed month of Ramzan commonly known as ‘iftar parties’. First and foremost, who decided to call it a party? It is and should always be termed as an iftar. The moment the word ‘party’ is added to it, the iftar becomes […]

Amazing, isn’t it? This is the same city where not too long ago a weak, nervous, frazzled and mentally burdened and a highly fragile ‘Daughter of the Nation’, made an emotional plea. The venue was a courthouse where she blamed her predicament on the nation of Israel. Though the jury was all American and had […]

So it was just last week when I had made a reference to the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ in passing and that so-called spring sprung again in the land of Pharaohs. Strange isn’t it that democracy good or bad is a stamp of approval from the voters for a certain period of time. If it is […]

For most of us who were the bystanders of the comical ‘Pakistani Spring’, where we were told that today’s youth had finally taken charge of their destiny, it came as no surprise. The social media where the imaginary Tahrir Square was erected by the overzealous, high on emotion and deficient on details, ultra-patriotic youth, has […]

With the world’s fifth largest population and rich natural resources, Brazil is now considered an emerging economic giant, after China and India. Among other achievements, it produces the Embraer aircraft. Nearly 50 airlines around the world operate about a thousand of various models of the aircraft, the largest of which is the 50-seater ERJ-145, launched […]

The ‘prisoner’ in Chak Shahzad perhaps has a few more cups of coffees to gulp and smoke a few more cigars to smoke before his fate is finally sealed. As mentioned right here, the social media has rumors flying high like kites that ‘international friends’ have been trying hard to get him out of the […]

For those of you who do not reside on this side of the hemisphere it may come as a surprise, but people like me are used to it by now. Ever get invited by a group, a cause or even a place of worship to a nice hotel for a programme or a dinner, what […]