Horner's hollow grumble
Last Sunday, Mercedes’s Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen crashed at the Silverstone Circuit in a very happening F1 weekend, to say the least. In the midst of a fiery British Grand...
View ArticleReading two South Asian poets on Gamal Abdel Nasser’s 50th death anniversary
Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the Arab world’s greatest leader, passed away 50 years ago today. He was the leader of the group of Egyptian military officers who overthrew a hated monarchy in the July 1952...
View ArticleWhat would Haseena Moin’s Tanhaiyan look like today?
Ever since playwright Haseena Moin’s sudden demise, I have been thinking about everything that our nation gained through the world that she created for us on television. Her dramas taught us lifelong...
View ArticleMy mother Pino!
Imagine waking up one fine morning to discover that the couple you always thought to be your birth parents, are in-fact, your adoptive parents. This is how I came to know about my origins it was indeed...
View ArticleTwitter Alert: Jemima Khan back to Jemima Goldsmith
We thought she had left Twitter until we realised she had only changed her Twitter name. Jemima Khan has finally come to terms with the reality and changed her Twitter handle from @JemKhan to...
View ArticleBlood on the dance floor
The debacle at the famed charity ball in Karachi on New Year’s Eve brought about a host of issues as security was breached and many sleazy men entered the venue as well as the dramatic collapse of the...
View ArticleTop trends: Spring/Summer 2011
Head-to-toe White The idea of donning white, head-to-toe, may strike panic into the hearts of many fashionistas. But those fears must be swiftly overcome as all-white looks cropped up in almost every...
View ArticleUnwanted trash?
Recently, I read the following on someone’s Facebook page: “One man asked another, who was Muslim, why their women covered themselves up. The man smiled and got two sweets. He unwrapped the first sweet...
View ArticleMissing Hauritz helped England: Swann
Australia’s decision to overlook top-line spinner Nathan Hauritz in the Ashes series had played into England’s hands, said spinner Graeme Swann. “I honestly don’t understand how Australian selection...
View ArticleMerging Jinnah hospital and SMC: Confused Sindh Medical College students call...
Students of Sindh Medical College (SMC) called off their protest on Saturday against the elevation of their college to the status of a university, saying that they felt as if they “were being played by...
View ArticleSuhrawardy and Jinnah
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892-1963) was prime minister of Pakistan for 13 months. He lies buried today in the old High Court compound of Dhaka, alongside the graves of AK Fazlul Haq and Khwaja...
View Article‘Petrol bomb’ and other unfair labels
The heading is irresistible: “Government drops another petrol bomb”, equating it with the terrorists who kill the common man in Pakistan; or “New Year gift of the government to the people”, etc. This...
View ArticleBlasphemy backtrack
It takes only a miniscule drop of rain to send the government scuttling for cover. The threat by religious parties to protest any change in blasphemy laws has lead to an immediate process of...
View ArticleWrong end of the stick?
Since moving to England, well over two years ago, I continue to find it difficult to explain Pakistan to westerners. They know Pakistan as a volatile nuclear state reeling from the combined impact of...
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