Skipper Salman Butt and his two co-accused in spot-fixing have declared their innocence. So before I bash the little Butt (accused of being the ringleader), my beef is towards the big Butt – I mean Ejaz Butt. He’s like a cat with nine lives. S…
Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussian’s call for imposition of martial law by patriotic generals to weed out corrupt politicians has few takers. So much so that, as a result of the adverse reaction to it, the MQM chief had to go on the ba…
As the carnage and destruction, both manmade and nature’s wrath, around us continue, it’s hard to figure out what to do. Or even what to figure out.
Curl up in the foetal position and hope that this too shall pass? Attempt somehow, anyhow …
Slowly, ever so slowly, the ongoing crisis in Kashmir is seeping into the world’s consciousness.
For years, this unfolding tragedy was explained away through Indian charges of Pakistani involvement in the freedom movement. Much of this was t…
Donations are pouring in from internal resources, plus Pakistanis abroad. Credible NGO,s have geared up and Pakistani people are sane enough to know where to donate. I, once in a long while liked what sharifs said about showing reliance on your own re…
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About to head out clicking, I sent a shout out on twitter, asking if people had any suggestions of what I should shoot.
And somebody just shouted out… ‘go geocaching!’. Now many people might have ideas about what this is. I had heard the …
“ In 1931, two years after the biggest financial crisis of the last century, Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said spending cuts were unavoidable to slash the deficit, ease pressure on sterling and satisfy the markets, in the hope of triggerin…
As promised today we take a look at some more confessions from cricket players as well as administrators.
Ata Ur Rehman S/o Talib Hussain (Recorded on 10th December, 1998)
I reiterate that the statement which I made earlier before the commi…
One source and eyewitness says that Lahore police had information about potential attacks against the Shia community before they occurred.
It was horrifying: the beating to death and then the upside down hanging of the two young brothers in Sialkot. Accused of theft, the teenagers were brutally beaten with sticks and kicks by at least four men — an event that was watched in silence by …
I think I’ve finally pulled a Harry Potter.
Not the becoming a Wizard and going off to Hogwarts, but the living in a cupboard and having no friends bit.
Pakistan’s governance is a nightmare for its citizenry. More importantly, it is also an international issue now. The multi-dimensional disaster in Pakistan could lead to unrest and instability in a country where the state writ has eroded and non-sta…
Passengers of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight to London from Islamabad were forced to stay inside the aircraft at London Heathrow Airport on 8 August 2010 as the British Police and officials of the UK Boarder Agency made their gu…
