It was a regular evening for me. I left work at the usual time; little did I know that I would be subject to moral policing par excellence – Taliban style – in the day light and that too in Karachi.
On my way back from work, I was waiting at signal of Hotel Crown Plaza. [...]
An article of mine that was published in Dawn Magazine on August 3rd, 2008.
If you look at Rameez now, you would never guess that he has had a long affair with drugs. He wears slick suits, designer eyewear and works for a conservative international bank.
Rameez spent his late teens and early 20s in drug-addled haze. [...]
A lot of my Pakistani brethren have a deep affection for all things Iran in general, and Mr Mahmoud Ahmedinijad in particular. As someone who has traveled extensively in Iran and quite liked the country I have to relent that it is not an egalitarian utopia that a lot of Pakistanis believe it to be. [...]
If there ever was a famous person who would sell his mom, pop, dog, ducks, donkey and 6 children to hog limelight, headlines, television airtime and what not, he could not have done it better than our very own Shoaib Akhtar (or is he looking for an Indian citizenship like the formerly rolly polly Adnan [...]
Mid-day, a Mumbai tabloid, draws up list of Musharraf’s super idiotic comments. Here are some of the “funnier” ones… Although the tabloid’s own editing skills leave a lot to be desired, but I did laugh out loud when I read the first quote which is perhaps the funniest one.
Kaun kehta hai ke [...]
Billary (the Clintons) have always believed that they’re very different than the rest of us. Over their more than 30 years in politics together, they’ve learned one important and consistent lesson: that rules don’t matter. Rules don’t apply to them. Rules are for other people. Rules can be bent, changed, manipulated.
So it’s particularly ironic that [...]
The story of ‘Sufaid Khoon’, Agha Hashar’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is as old as time and still relevant to us all. Like its inspiration, the play opens with a court scene where King Khaqan (superbly played by Talat Hussien) asks his daughters about their affections for their father. The elder daughters Mahpara (Bakhtawar [...]
When Vaneeza Ahmed declared President Pervez Musharraf as the hottest man in Pakistan back in 2004 (in Herald’s Annual issue), Mush, indeed was a hot property, riding the popular wave, with no opposition to speak of. But I was shocked out of my skin (metaphorically of course) when I read that, because I thought Vinnie [...]
I quoted Cowasjee in one of my previous posts where he said that unless a leader who has iman and insaniyat springs up from somewhere, we will remain a failing state.
I came across another gem since then, Peshawar High Court Bar Association’s President Latif Afridi was caught on Geo saying that “If it is demanded [...]
So Shoaib Suddle is back in Karachi, this time, as the Inspector General Police. If Sind’s information minister is to be believed, he is called back to the province to improve the law and order situation. The funny thing is that Sind has been the most peaceful province in the past couple of years. Punjab [...]
