Notice the difference on September 28, 2018Recently Asif Zardari, his sister and three of their main henchmen were called before the Banking Court. These fellows are not yet convicted but are accused of laundering astronomical volumes of money through hundreds of fake accounts. So were the Sharifs and they were brought before NAB Courts. Have you noticed the difference between the […]
Bigotry beats merit again on September 10, 2018‘Advised and protested against by certain influential (read nuisance) Ulema’ Prime Minister (PM) Khan has succumbed to pressure and removed Dr Atif Mian from his newly formed Economic Advisory Council. His selection was reportedly based on merit, professional competence and reliability. His removal had nothing to do with these cardinal attributes, his capability or professionalism. […]
US stops military aid to Pakistan on September 4, 2018The US Secretary Defence is reported to have decided to withhold $300 million in aid to Pakistan to ‘change in its behaviour’ towards the US conceived and designed War on Terror. As a Pakistani I could be somewhat indignant but actually there is a seeping sense of relief. Relief from the yoke of an alien […]
Our depleted sense of heritage on March 29, 2018Amidst the chaos of managing busy schedules for meetings, project goals, and deadlines, one tends to underestimate the value of ‘strategic time out’, even if it is only for few days. It is like a relentlessly spinning concrete mixer which disfigures, obliterates and converts into grey puree anything which is poured into it. I, too, […]
A taste of their own medicine on March 19, 2018The latest election of Chairman and Deputy Chairman Senate has made history in many ways.It has been an exception in brilliance in our otherwise dull and devious political landscape; barren and so base that it is impossible to find any instance of honourable conduct or principled stance in its entire history. There is not a […]
Irresponsible guests and intrusive media on February 6, 2018One cannot but admire and be heartily thankful for the immense liberty of expression and vast readership provided by the social media, particularly to those who are suffering from state, corporate, clerical, sectarian or simply social or dogmatic oppression. It undertook the fights for causes that traditional media either failed or shied away from picking […]
Don’t kill the mocking bird on January 16, 2018Little Zainab has needlessly lost her life at the hands of maniac. This is not the first incident of its kind. Thousands of innocent women and children in Pakistan have died just as needlessly. Some, by lusting men. Others, because of neglect and greed. Most have been killed because of because of hubris of power […]
Trump’s dangerous rhetoric on January 6, 2018A ‘trapeze’ is a familiar circus gadget for certain entertaining acrobatics and unusual athletics. It normally is a part of a larger circus where trained animals show their skills and other men and women sing, dance, mimic, play the silly floor clowns and as stuntmen. In short, it is a reasonably wholesome entertainment. But if […]
Hagia Sophia’s pitchers on December 31, 2017The Hagia Sophia was built in 537AD as a grand Orthodox Christian basilica in Istanbul and remained so till the Ottoman conquest in 1453 when it was converted into a mosque. It was secularized to become a museum in 1935 by Kemal Ataturk which it remains so today. The imperial grandeur of this imposing but […]
Vikings of Qilla Abdullah on June 30, 2017On 23rd June, a traffic sergeant on duty at an intersection in a posh locality in Quetta was run over by a speeding Land Cruiser in broad day light. There could be one or three reasons for this wilful murder; the driver was either drunk or he could not care less who he hit, or […]