
Their educational system says 'B' for Bandook (gun), ingraining hatred towards India in innocent minds. But India remains insistent on 'B' for Brotherhood, whether Pakistan ...

01:53 PM, Jul 17, 2012

"Let the Judges also remember that Solomon's throne was supported by lions on both sides: let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne." ...

02:11 PM, Jul 14, 2012

Like diabetes, match-fixing and spot-fixing cannot be cured, only controlled. If diet, exercise and medication are the route to keeping the medical condition in check, ...

01:00 PM, Jun 26, 2012

Yousuf Raza Gilani could have broken two records in Pakistan. First, of being the country's longest serving prime minister (with the supreme court disqualifying him ...

09:32 AM, Jun 22, 2012

Ahmad Faraz, the Urdu poet, told me an interesting anecdote. Once, he was very late in catching his flight back home from Delhi. The airport ...

12:03 PM, Jun 15, 2012

The legacy of national reconciliation bequeathed by martyred Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto to the people of Pakistan nourished by her blood has finally become the order ...

01:01 PM, Jun 12, 2012

"It takes our men 27 days to trek from base camp to the highest post in Siachen," the officer with long experience of service on ...

11:49 AM, Jun 11, 2012

May 15th 1999. Must have been just another ordinary day in our lives. I must have gone to school, played with my friends and probably ...

02:15 PM, Jun 09, 2012

Over the years, Karachi has been vulturised and Lyari now is being subjected to the same treatment to make these places pay for them being ...

02:44 PM, Jun 05, 2012

If it happens this will definitely be a first for Pakistan and Russia. The buzz doing the rounds is a visit by President Putin to ...

03:29 PM, Jun 04, 2012

PIA, the carrier that connects India with Pakistan, is often referred to, in jest, as the short form of 'please inform Allah' by domestic flyers. ...

08:58 PM, May 28, 2012

I enjoy being on Twitter. It is a medium of engagement and debate. Celebrities and news-makers of all sorts seem to enjoy the forum too, ...

10:10 AM, May 14, 2012

Nothing compares to the flair that Pakistan players bring to a cricket field. It's not much different to the swagger of a Vivian Richards, the ...

11:49 AM, May 06, 2012

Once upon a time, the region that is now modern day Pakistan was South Asia's prime trading hub. Be it during the time of the ...

12:58 PM, Apr 15, 2012

General Zia ul Haq, General Musharraf and now Asif Ali Zardari - yet another President of Pakistan is all set to visit the 12th century ...

10:52 AM, Apr 03, 2012

Stop, stop right there and come out of the stadium. Switch off that TV. You have messed it all up. Your cricketing viewpoint is suffering ...

01:53 PM, Mar 12, 2012

The series against Pakistan starting in Dubai on Tuesday is England's first since they became the No. 1 Test team in the World, grabbing the ...

08:31 PM, Jan 16, 2012

After Musharraf shot himself in the foot by messing with the Chief Justice, and got ousted, Pakistan lurched back to democracy. Benazir Bhutto returned in ...

01:49 PM, Jan 16, 2012
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Ever since the Memo scandal broke, our media mongers, whose previous almost daily predictions over the past four years about the demise of the democratic ...

01:03 PM, Dec 13, 2011
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As I sit down to write a sort of obituary of Begum Nusrat Bhutto, I find my eyes dried of tears. Before me rolls a ...

12:47 PM, Oct 25, 2011