Elf Habib

The caption above obviously may ruffle many readers enthused with the bombastic brouhaha about abundant power and fuel supplies. They will certainly think any such ministry as utterly irrelevant as the dreaded days of power cuts are soon going to be left behind like a bad dream. So it would be better to begin with […]

The recent Miss World beauty pageant held in Indonesia, besides its usual glitz, glitter and the ambience of the ‘beauty babes’ from 126 countries, also had some remarkably unusual features. First, the organisers of the event elicited an exceptionally bold initiative to take the contest to the most populous Muslim country known for its marathon […]

The scenes following the spectacle of the guard of honour presented to President Asif Ali Zardari, interestingly, also had another encore that may be described as the pomp and pageant of his pir’s (holy man’s) performance for his protection. Whirling his rosary, the pir almost frantically pirouetted about his car, mumbling and blowing incantations over […]

The valedictory guard of honour, salutes by the smartly starched armed contingents, the feasts, flowers and formalities for Asif Zardari were really unprecedented in Pakistan as the first ever democratically elected civilian president departed after his stipulated tenure. Unprecedented equally was the saga of his success and survival despite the tempest of tirades, turbulence, contempt, […]

The Tipperary and Children International Peace awards have brought a new luster to Malala Yousafzai’s name, the girl exemplar to have defied the harrowing terrorist assault to destroy the dream, drive and the avenues for female education in Pakistan. She has in a way shamed our governments and security shoguns, which despite having lost about […]

The print and social media are currently being riled by a controversy concerning Imran Khan rushing to attend a London event meant to save the elephants and skipping the proposed All Parties Conference purported to save us from the terrorist onslaught and destruction. The Nawaz legions are lambasting him for his obsession with glitz and […]

The ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed president in Egypt, as a result of the protracted, pervasive and paralysing public protests, has almost irreparably shattered the image, stature, competence, credibility and future of the fundamentalist Muslim organisations to grasp, manage and respond to the intricate impulses, aspirations and realities in the emerging pluralistic societies. […]

A fifth grader fielded an innocent yet very ingenious question to his mother: where would this Pakistan go when a New One would be created here soon? The answer to this core question at his tender age evidently defied explanation as the child’s simple, straightforward mind was quite familiar with the fate of old toys […]

The recent elections, besides turning up a new rightist Pakistan reeking with regional tendencies, unfortunately also exposed a pathetic lack of security for its citizens. Terrorism that had already devoured over 50,000 people including 5,000 soldiers and sunk $ 75 billion from the decrepit national economy, drowning the dreams of a welfare state, once again […]

The great Islamic Republic of Pakistan established as the rarest paragon state for the prevalence of Lord’s glory and laws never had it that good as it is passing through its most cherished and stimulating phase for the ultimate purification and cleansing of the candidates contesting for the parliaments. The perfect purity of the parliamentarians […]