Friday, June 07, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary Whatever else the recent elections may have achieved, they have made newspapers well-nigh unreadable, headlines screaming about historic this and historic that, and television samurais breathlessly, and mindlessly, ...

Friday, May 31, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary Mystics and divines, poets and singers, men of enterprise and of daring, of quality and base instinct, the best dancing girls in the entire sub-continent, Punjab has given birth to them all. What, through some ...

Friday, May 24, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary Just to show that things can be done, that even the seemingly impossible can come to pass, allow me to say a few words about that astonishing place called the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT). ...

Friday, May 17, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary So most of us got it wrong...I certainly did, expecting an Imran Khan surge that did not come. Just a fortnight before the voting the received wisdom on most pundit lips was hung parliament. Goes to show how ...

Friday, May 10, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary The same food, no matter how rich, day after day...how exciting is that? If monogamy was such a great idea, men’s eyes would not wander. If monotony was such a great idea, the fashion industry would be dead... and ...

Friday, May 03, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary "I see that you haven’t changed a bit in these last four years and more, captain," said Nikolay Vsevolodovich... “It seems in fact as though the second half of a man’s life is usually made up of nothing but the ...

Friday, April 26, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary 2008 was an evenly-spread out affair other provinces as important as Punjab. This time it is different: the amphitheatre Punjab, the other provinces sideshows to what is happening here...or what may happen ...

Friday, April 19, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary As a bag-carrier of the N or Nawaz League, a role forced upon me by Chakwal necessity, I experienced in full measure three things: mediocrity, self-righteousness (amazing amounts of it) and a level of sycophancy on ...

Friday, April 12, 2013
Ayaz Amir
No, the lights are not being switched off and hope is not about to die. The barbarians may be at the gates and fellow-travellers, subscribing to the same school of thought, hiding in Trojan horses within but, and let us all take ...

Friday, April 05, 2013
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary Some architecture becomes beautiful by adding things to it domes and minarets, and quadrangles and outer walls. Some architecture looks good when unnecessary clutter around it is cleared. Some daughters of Venus ...