THERE are two flights Pervez Musharraf will never forget. The first was flight PK 805 that brought him from Colombo to Karachi on Oct 12, 1999.
Published11 Apr, 201305:15am
THERE was a time when wars needed to end before historians could begin writing chronicles about them. Today’s wars have become prime time television viewing. History is as immediate as instant coffee.
Published01 Mar, 201312:10am
HAD our politicians been like their Indian counterparts, they would have taken a dip in the waters at Attock (the confluence of the rivers Indus and Kabul) or at Panjnad (where the rivers of the Punjab merge), without having to worry about Swiss
Published13 Feb, 201310:15pm
POLITICIANS will never die of starvation; they can always survive by eating their own words. What causes them indigestion, however, is not having to swallow their own speeches as much as being made to ingest the promises made by their elders.
Published31 Jan, 201304:00am
WHAT do Quaid-i-Azam, Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Dr Tahirul Qadri have in common? Each of them will be remembered for having made a seminal speech to a largely Urdu-speaking populace, in English.
Published16 Jan, 201308:00pm
DEATH can never silence Ravi Shankar. His music will reverberate as long as planets continue to orbit in what the Elizabethans called celestial harmony. To hear him play was to be reminded of the divinity within man.
Published20 Dec, 201209:03pm
THE news that an Indian prime minister will be visiting Pakistan can be capped only by an announcement that he will not be visiting Pakistan.
Published14 Dec, 201203:11am
“KINDLY stay on the line. The prime minister will speak to you.” I waited, and within half a minute, I heard a familiar voice. It was I.K. Gujral.
Published05 Dec, 201210:00pm
THE last time I heard the names of the persons who represent me in the National Assembly (NA 125) and in the Punjab Provincial Assembly (PP 155) was on polling day, Feb 18, 2008. That was almost five years ago.
Published29 Nov, 201212:20am
THE gloves were off. The pugilists entered the ring. The judiciary threw off its wig. The army tossed away its swagger stick. It promised to be a fight with bare knuckles.
Published15 Nov, 201202:49am
CERTAIN anniversaries subside without a trace. The events of Oct 12 1999, 13 years ago, were one such non-occurrence. It was the day, it should be recalled, that the prime minister of our country hijacked the chief of the army staff of our army.
Published01 Nov, 201212:20am
IT says much for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan that they should have used the only weapon they know — a gun — against an unarmed 14-year-old schoolgirl whose only defence against them was her brain.
Published18 Oct, 201212:00am
ANYONE in Pakistan who missed seeing the famous Peter Sellers film — The Mouse that Roared — should have been forced to watch it the day the government ordered a national shutdown on Sept 21.
Published04 Oct, 201212:20am
