The ball named Tango on August 29, 2011The first time I travelled out of Pakistan was at the age of 18, when I had not only ‘earned’ a scholarship for my undergraduate degree in the US, but also earned, so to say, my fare to travel overseas! Prior to that, life had revolved between Lahore and Karachi and the odd trip up […]
Whither the Pakistani dream? on June 14, 2011In mid-1993, my fiancé and I burnt our boats on pursuing the American dream of “kids in college, a yacht, a dog, and a house in the ‘burbs’”, and decided to return to our motherland upon graduating college. Like many a Pakistani student, we had also decided mutually to pursue not only our careers, but […]
Not doing so would just not be cricket! on April 4, 2011A few seconds past 10:15 pm on April 2, when M S Dhoni lofted the ball over the bowler’s head and cleared the boundary ‘all the way’, he successfully played the winning captain’s role of sealing permanently the fate of the ICC World Cup 2011 in a befitting and memorable fashion. Bow! Shot! Boundary! Match! […]
Bull in the parliamentary china shop on March 21, 2011Raza Hayat Hiraj, a young and eminent politician and an MNA on a PML-Q ticket, appears to have made waves within the National Assembly. The MNA, a barrister by profession, has moved a bill pursuant to constitutional article 63, proposing compulsory declaration by all members of parliament of all wealth held abroad, or else face […]
Jinnah: the man, the moments, the mission on March 14, 2011It is remarkable that a man of Jinnah’s financial stature could feel deeply for the downtrodden Muslims of United India. As one of the ‘priciest’ London-based barristers, and as a man completely hopeless regarding the calibre of his contemporaries, it must have required shiploads of courage to respond to the thousands of appeals to return […]