Matters of the moment!on May 27, 2020Thank God, Science and Technology Minister Fawad Choudhry has had his way with the controversial Ruet-I- Hilal muftis and maulvis. He got the proverbial Seven Blind Men at last see the Moon to bury for once the usual controversy over the sighting of the Eid Moon. It made us all proud to celebrate Eid on […]
Pornoghraphy Trader & Lhcon May 20, 2020Notwithstanding the Coronavirus pandemic and its deathly devastations world wide, in Pakistan normal people find their hair standing at their ends when they continue to hear dreadful news about increasing number of children dying or rendered into living corpses by paedophiles, mounting in numbers unabated and undeterred with conniving police and criminally partisan judiciary. The […]
Surrender most foul!on May 13, 2020One must give full credit to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah for having grasped the gravity of the situation at the outbreak of devastating COVID in Sindh. His immediate measures to stem the COVID tide in the best interest of the people got him well deserved plaudits from the WHO that did not […]
Let us develop attitudeson April 29, 2020The other day Prime Minister Imran Khan attended to a Telthon to raise money to fight Coronovirus pandemic. He was witnessed and covered by some of the leading TV anchors. At one stage the Prime Minister commandeered the services of who could at best be described as his Papal authority on Islam-Maulana Tariq Jameel-to add […]
A suicidal course!on April 22, 2020If there ever was such a severe indictment of a sitting government as now by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, its days in power would have been over long time ago. Not a day passes when the Supreme Court judges miss to pass strictures on the failure of the government to deliver. Their latest criticism […]
Need To Fulfill Bhutto’s Missionon April 7, 2020It is now 41 years to the Martyrdom of Pakistan’s first elected prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s judicial murder by General Ziaul Haq. Despite lapse of four our decades there is no lessening of fervour or massive following. He continues to hold sway over the body and soul of the poor. And as manifested in […]
Decline of the Left, Right is not far behindon April 1, 2020One of the last remaining Socialist icons Tariq Ali in his latest interview has predicted that the traditional Left is on the decline. ‘It will die a natural death’ says he conclusively in his interview to News international. Commenting on the present state of affairs as to why is the role of the Left becoming […]
Remember the Silver Linings!on March 24, 2020Shakespeare’s Ides of March seems to be finally visiting us-nay the world-with its multifaceted devastations in death and human misery. By the time and whenever Coronovirus catastrophic spell would be over, its death toll would run into thousands all over the world. As we are about to leave the month behind apprehensions regarding the future, […]
Fighting Corona viruson March 18, 2020I wrote my first article (Feb 5, Daily Times) on the impending threats of a pandemic building up in China and its apprehensive fall out effects on Pakistan and other neighbours in the region.I expressed my great concern as regards miserable paucity in proper healthcare facilities in the country that could hardly meet the challenge […]
From March ’88 to Feb 29on March 4, 2020I remember that it was March 1988 when multi/faceted process was initiated to reversing events of far-reaching consequences that finally culminated in Doha accord of February 29, 2020 to bring to an end one of the most useless wars in human history. Obviously its first casualty was Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo who had with […]