Friday, November 26, 2010
Salis bin Perwaiz and Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi: As many as 700 activists and sympathisers of the Awami National Party (ANP) were arrested on Thursday from various parts of Karachi and some 75 ward offices ransacked and shut in an “unannounced” Rangers crackdown, ANP-Sindh ...

Thursday, November 25, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi: Despite eight-hour-long marathon deliberations between the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday at the Sindh Governor’s House, the two coalition partners were no closer to an ...

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi Legislators from the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) are abandoning prior traditions set in the Sindh Assembly as well as bulldozing procedural formalities, alleged Leader of the Opposition Jam Madad Ali and National ...

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi Anti-Corruption Minister Abdul Haq Bhurt has a resounding resemblance to Charlie Chaplin. His performance at the Sindh Assembly session on Monday earned him a few rounds of applause from his colleagues. For them, he was ...

Thursday, November 11, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi A spectre is haunting Sindh — the spectre of Punjab. All the powers of old Sindh have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Qaim and Khuhro, Mirza and Durrani, journalists and police-spies. But Finance ...

Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi Children are fidgety. So is Law Minister Ayaz Soomro. Children are also cute. Ayaz Soomro is not. That doesn’t stop Soomro from trying to act adorable, but in reality, our law minister comes off as a man who is more ...

Saturday, November 06, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi Remember the good old school days, where one would cajole the Lala at the gate to let people through whenever they were late? You really had to be in Lala’s good books if you were a habitual offender, and had to be careful ...

Friday, November 05, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi Thursday’s Sindh Assembly session was tedious and uninspiring. Had it not been for the barbs exchanged by the oppressed husbands and the empowered wives, I would have started dozing off much before Labour Minister Ameer ...

Thursday, November 04, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi Female legislators in the Sindh Assembly are like fillers in newspapers. Considered to be material of secondary importance, fillers usually do not make for smashing headlines nor do they get prime space. Their importance ...

Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Ahmed Yusuf
Karachi What does one do if one is a political activist and one’s boss is in town? Flatter him, of course, since the immediate bosses will not always be around and promotions will be up for grabs sooner or later. So kudos to five ...