A fiefdom for Altaf on January 5, 2013At the time Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was tweeting the immortal words of General Hosh Mohammad Sheedi or Hoshu Sheedi, as he is commonly known in history, famously proclaimed at the Battle of Dabo while challenging the might of the British invading forces led by General Charles Napier, “Marsoon marsoon, Sindh na desoon” (will die, will […]
The Sindhi Association of North America (SANA) on July 4, 2012The sight was of a few of us sitting outside the Renaissance Hotel in Elizabeth, New Jersey, until the small hours a couple of nights ago, conversing in the Sindhi, Urdu and Punjabi languages. It was in the learned company of the distinguished men of letters — Dr Manzoor Ijaz, Anwar Iqbal, Sardar Shah, Sarfraz […]
Sindh fox guarding the henhouse on June 4, 2012The English language expression of a fox guarding a henhouse could not have been better illustrated than through the Liyari operation and the incidents of May 22 in Karachi. Throughout the 65 years of the country’s existence, Sindh has suffered incessantly but never as severely and as brutally as during the last four years of […]
Imran Khan: tsunami or hot air balloon? on December 27, 2011After wandering in the political desert of Pakistan for 15 years, Imran Khan finally seems to be led to the ‘promised’ land of power. One wonders why all those who used to ridicule and laugh at Mr Khan’s TV talk show sponsored demagoguery for 15 long years have, all of a sudden, during the past […]