A media report said that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s iftar dinners during Ramadan had made an attempt at austerity. So there was less chicken and more Haleem. Report said that, the Chicken Qorma and Pulao was in limited quantity, while the Chicken Haleem was in ample quantity for anybody to eat as much as [...]
What our politicos are failing to realise is that in the new Pakistan being shaped up by the values that fuelled the rule of movement, there is no appetite left for the brazen half-truths that elites have been traditionally dealing in. Once a piece of information is public, denying it is not the end of [...]
Sometimes I really like my self. The reason is my stupid or strange idea. As I wrote in my previous post that some times it’s great to be unaware. Well after reading the headline of every major newspaper I maintain that it’s really cool to be unaware. Avoiding newspaper and never bothering news channels is [...]
Private TV channels are buzzing and humming with the fecilitation messages by different minister and obviously the tab will be paid by the respective ministry. Prime time long musical ads are clamoring and celebrating the one year since Pakistan has been crowned by the international guaranters with Asif Ali Zardari.
We didn’t see such celebrations when [...]
As one leading journalist reports a very insightful look inside the brain of Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani as Gilani outbursted. It was on his way back from Sharm el-Sheikh that Gilani spoke to Hamid Mir of Geo and Jang, saying, in effect, that henceforth he would be his own man, reshuffle his cabinet on the [...]
Published biographies on the book shelves while the writer is still in Political office is a risky strategy. In case of Obama it paid huge dividends financially and politically and in case of Musharraf it caused embarrassment and innuendos. Premier Gillani’s book is like the gossip from an old friend who has attained position of [...]
In 1948, just before the cabinet meeting, the ADC inquired from Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, “Sir what will be served in the meeting…Tea or Coffee?”
Quaid-e-Azam looked up and replied sternl, startling the ADC: “Whichever of the Ministers wish to have tea or coffee should drink it before leaving his home or when he returns home. [...]
In Pakistan history always repeats itself, especially on the political horizon. Every top power grabber in the country tries to install his own Yes-man and then that Yes-man eases that top man off the palace with disgust and then become the power broker only to be ousted by his own hand-picked Yes-man.
General Yahya Khan was [...]
History is rough and in Pakistan it is tough too. History repeats viciously in Pakistan and with every cycle it leaves us some ominous trails and open wounds. With Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz basking in looted power and wealth abroad, we have got a president which is irony unto himself.
Both our respectable President and the [...]
