Relevancy of a forgotten document on October 27, 2018Never before has there been a greater need than today to reprint a report commonly known as Munir Enquiry Report of 1954, about which few people must be aware of, and even fewer must have read it. But it is the most fundamental document ever to emerge after the creation of Pakistan. This is the […]
The hope in Imran Khan on October 22, 2018The present regime is passing through a very hard time by inheriting an economy in complete shambles. The opposition’s anti-government propaganda has sent a wave of despondency across the country which has gripped all classes and people. Despite PM’s assurance to steer the country from its present mess, if he is given time to let […]
The dreadful seventies on July 7, 2018I was never so acutely aware of my formative years until I turned 70. Instinctively, I had always tried to conceal my age, and whenever I was forced to tell it, I scrupulously lied about it by posing at least two years younger than my actual age. Retirement from service at the age of 60 […]
Why we need more of Manto’s salacious writing today on June 23, 2018I remember the days when I was just a 13- or 14-year-old boy in Murree. While scanning through my uncle’s book-shelf, I found a book titled Phundnay, a collection of short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto, whose name was not familiar to me at the time. From the very beginning I felt the writer making […]
The pleasures of mediocrity on May 31, 2018One can hold a mirror up to the nature and to the entire world except towards one’s own self. More often, I find it difficult to even look into the mirror with a fixed gaze. Even when I have to perforce look into the mirror, I keep rolling my eyes to the right and left […]
Stray reflections on December 13, 2017Nawaz Sharif maintains the entire world has started throwing implications on him for no fault of his. He claims he is a well-meaning human being. He thinks that if he does good things for everybody including his own self, there should be no problem? Here in Pakistan everybody has the right to look after their […]